People aren't used to go through EULAs. I've recommended a lot of software, both free and non-free to people, and none of them ever read the EULA while I was looking over their shoulder. I also sincerely doubt that they'd do so at their own discretion when installing software on their own.
It needs to be made clear that you should be able to continue even if you disagree with the license. Disagreeing will still allow you to use it legally, but it simply prevents you from making adjustments to it. It should be possible to disagree and still continue installing.
... anyone who knows what game he actually plays? This is the typical sensationalist news that I loathe, especially when it's about competitive video gaming. They presume that the people reading the article are interested solely in the bizarre fact that people can make money playing video games, and that they probably wouldn't need to know which game we're actually talking about here.
Lack of batch support in Quicktime, of course. Why use Quicktime to manually convert every video when you can use other (better) software to do 'em all with one command?
I don't think that it's really an option to say to the users of WMP that they should switch. Afterall, most people who do are casual users who would simply like things to work without thinking about "better alternatives". The kind that uses Internet Explorer.
If Microsoft can get their DRM in with those people, it won't be long before it'll be used on an even larger scale. Instead of fighting to stop DRM from ever seeing the light of day (already a lost cause), you will be fighting to get its large scale usage abolished. And these people who use WMP: they're not going to switch. Ever. Microsoft should just stop using these tactics.
A more obvious conclusion is that once again, America's population has been lied to by its own leadership. Not just during the polling, but also in the presentation of the results, there is untruth.
Seen as how this is already a million-dollar industry in Korea, with multiple TV channels airing matches 24/7, and a gigantic amount of money being spent on sponsoring and merchandise, don't you think that perhaps the old-fashioned belief that games are "just to be played" is a fallacy?
Not really. It's meant for using the iMac as media center, and it isn't really viable to use a 17" inch computer as media center unless you like watching your shows very close by your computer. In that case, why not just watch them while sitting behind your desk? By removing the remote, they're further defining the 20" inch and 24" inch models as true media center computers.
Just get rid of them. Who needs 'em? You don't solve capchas when sending e-mail either, or do you? What bloggers need is a good spam filter, like SpamAssassin is for e-mail.
Could very well be so. I registered at Wikipedia in order to write an article about speedrunning. I have contributed to many other articles, but like stated, that's just copyediting and generally banging it into one cohesive shape that complies with the rest of the site. Frankly, I'm okay with that. If everybody were to sign up and write an article about the one thing they liked best, imagine how many good articles that would bring. Then all you need is a handful (a few million, perhaps) editors who are able to remove any bias or POV (point of view) the original authors might have added, and that's where it gets interesting.
I don't get it. Isn't everything released on SourceForge supposed to be under a free license? Then how come this is released under no license? Perhaps I'm not looking on the right pages, but I can't seem to find anything besides the "none listed" on the main page of the project.
What's up with these names? They're just beta names thought up by the developers. They are not for the rest of the world to see once the release has been made official.
You get more than just an iPod. Winners get a Macbook as well as royalties over the shareware that will be developed for them. That sounds like a pretty good return for just providing a good idea.
It's bizarre. So now software patents will be possible in Europe as well, allowing the large companies to scoop up that tiny little extra penny while hamstringing open source development. I would genuinely be abhorred if this were to actually happen. All because the people who are to take the decisions are influencial and really not knowledgeable on the subject. When will we be seeing the first major political party to take a stance against this disgusting corporate abuse (or, equally as good, a party that is pro-free software)?
You mean you've never heard of Jack Thompson? He's the guy who was for banning the game during that interview. He's got quite the legal record, if you'll read his Wikipedia article.
Note that, apart from the alternatives that have already been mentioned, there's also an excellent open source implementation of x86 (and more) emulation; QEMU (link leads to a frontend, original can be found here).
And very simple to hack and destroy, too, so no government will ever implement such a thing. As sad as it is, those mines are going to be around for a very long time, too, when planted, and they too will make so incredibly many innocent victims.
The breaking of the "fourth wall" is also, again, in the Psycho Mantis scene, seen when Psycho Mantis reads the contents of your memory card, tells you how you've played the game thus far, and shows "HIDEO" at the top of the screen. The former is actually one of the very few examples of postmodernism in games. Metal Gear Solid 2 was almost entirely postmodern, although it is difficult to understand or appreciate this.
Yes, they probably are. But PLEASE don't! There are billions of design students, but only a few of them will be able to make anything that looks even remotely professional. The team is much better off searching on until they find someone who can provide them with a real design. Afterall, I can attest to the fact that a lot of design students are also just idiots who only learned how to download Adobe Illustrator last month. They usually don't learn what good design is until years of working in their second or third studio.
If a badly designed ad (with bad humor) ends up in any newspaper, it will make sure that a lot of people will NOT get the product. They will just think of the Mt. Rushmore and the horrible tagline ("They'd download it").
No marketing is infinitely better than bad marketing!
As graphic designer, I have to disagree with you on that. Verdana, to me, seems like a better web font than Bitstream Vera. Our favorite free font has just a few kerning issues; Verdana seems to be just a little more fine-tuned for screen display. Fonts on the web should adhere to a couple of design principles that make them more easier to read, such as using a high x-height (the height of the lowercase x letter, and thus the general height of all lowercase letters) and a large punch size (the amount of space in, for example, the middle of an o). Bitstream Vera has a few difficulties in punch size, too, simply using different sizes in different letters.
I'm certain that the DejaVu project will fix these small issues in time, however. In the meantime, I'll personally happily use Lucida Sans as my sans-serif web font rather than Verdana OR Bitstream Vera.:)
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People aren't used to go through EULAs. I've recommended a lot of software, both free and non-free to people, and none of them ever read the EULA while I was looking over their shoulder. I also sincerely doubt that they'd do so at their own discretion when installing software on their own.
It needs to be made clear that you should be able to continue even if you disagree with the license. Disagreeing will still allow you to use it legally, but it simply prevents you from making adjustments to it. It should be possible to disagree and still continue installing.
... anyone who knows what game he actually plays? This is the typical sensationalist news that I loathe, especially when it's about competitive video gaming. They presume that the people reading the article are interested solely in the bizarre fact that people can make money playing video games, and that they probably wouldn't need to know which game we're actually talking about here.
Oh, come on. How many people attend to Sony's board meetings? And not a single one had the guts to say "Sir, that's a terrible name"?
Ah well, perhaps this is their answer to the Nintendo Wii.
Lack of batch support in Quicktime, of course. Why use Quicktime to manually convert every video when you can use other (better) software to do 'em all with one command?
I don't think that it's really an option to say to the users of WMP that they should switch. Afterall, most people who do are casual users who would simply like things to work without thinking about "better alternatives". The kind that uses Internet Explorer.
If Microsoft can get their DRM in with those people, it won't be long before it'll be used on an even larger scale. Instead of fighting to stop DRM from ever seeing the light of day (already a lost cause), you will be fighting to get its large scale usage abolished. And these people who use WMP: they're not going to switch. Ever. Microsoft should just stop using these tactics.
A more obvious conclusion is that once again, America's population has been lied to by its own leadership. Not just during the polling, but also in the presentation of the results, there is untruth.
Seen as how this is already a million-dollar industry in Korea, with multiple TV channels airing matches 24/7, and a gigantic amount of money being spent on sponsoring and merchandise, don't you think that perhaps the old-fashioned belief that games are "just to be played" is a fallacy?
Not really. It's meant for using the iMac as media center, and it isn't really viable to use a 17" inch computer as media center unless you like watching your shows very close by your computer. In that case, why not just watch them while sitting behind your desk? By removing the remote, they're further defining the 20" inch and 24" inch models as true media center computers.
Just get rid of them. Who needs 'em? You don't solve capchas when sending e-mail either, or do you? What bloggers need is a good spam filter, like SpamAssassin is for e-mail.
Could very well be so. I registered at Wikipedia in order to write an article about speedrunning. I have contributed to many other articles, but like stated, that's just copyediting and generally banging it into one cohesive shape that complies with the rest of the site. Frankly, I'm okay with that. If everybody were to sign up and write an article about the one thing they liked best, imagine how many good articles that would bring. Then all you need is a handful (a few million, perhaps) editors who are able to remove any bias or POV (point of view) the original authors might have added, and that's where it gets interesting.
"Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to license the internet!"
I don't get it. Isn't everything released on SourceForge supposed to be under a free license? Then how come this is released under no license? Perhaps I'm not looking on the right pages, but I can't seem to find anything besides the "none listed" on the main page of the project.
What's up with these names? They're just beta names thought up by the developers. They are not for the rest of the world to see once the release has been made official.
... under Linux?
You get more than just an iPod. Winners get a Macbook as well as royalties over the shareware that will be developed for them. That sounds like a pretty good return for just providing a good idea.
They're obviously promoting piracy by not preinstalling Windows XP(TM) on their laptops! Time to pay them a visit...
The first major political party.
It's bizarre. So now software patents will be possible in Europe as well, allowing the large companies to scoop up that tiny little extra penny while hamstringing open source development. I would genuinely be abhorred if this were to actually happen. All because the people who are to take the decisions are influencial and really not knowledgeable on the subject. When will we be seeing the first major political party to take a stance against this disgusting corporate abuse (or, equally as good, a party that is pro-free software)?
You mean you've never heard of Jack Thompson? He's the guy who was for banning the game during that interview. He's got quite the legal record, if you'll read his Wikipedia article.
Note that, apart from the alternatives that have already been mentioned, there's also an excellent open source implementation of x86 (and more) emulation; QEMU (link leads to a frontend, original can be found here).
And very simple to hack and destroy, too, so no government will ever implement such a thing. As sad as it is, those mines are going to be around for a very long time, too, when planted, and they too will make so incredibly many innocent victims.
The breaking of the "fourth wall" is also, again, in the Psycho Mantis scene, seen when Psycho Mantis reads the contents of your memory card, tells you how you've played the game thus far, and shows "HIDEO" at the top of the screen. The former is actually one of the very few examples of postmodernism in games. Metal Gear Solid 2 was almost entirely postmodern, although it is difficult to understand or appreciate this.
Yes, they probably are. But PLEASE don't! There are billions of design students, but only a few of them will be able to make anything that looks even remotely professional. The team is much better off searching on until they find someone who can provide them with a real design. Afterall, I can attest to the fact that a lot of design students are also just idiots who only learned how to download Adobe Illustrator last month. They usually don't learn what good design is until years of working in their second or third studio.
If a badly designed ad (with bad humor) ends up in any newspaper, it will make sure that a lot of people will NOT get the product. They will just think of the Mt. Rushmore and the horrible tagline ("They'd download it").
No marketing is infinitely better than bad marketing!
As graphic designer, I have to disagree with you on that. Verdana, to me, seems like a better web font than Bitstream Vera. Our favorite free font has just a few kerning issues; Verdana seems to be just a little more fine-tuned for screen display. Fonts on the web should adhere to a couple of design principles that make them more easier to read, such as using a high x-height (the height of the lowercase x letter, and thus the general height of all lowercase letters) and a large punch size (the amount of space in, for example, the middle of an o). Bitstream Vera has a few difficulties in punch size, too, simply using different sizes in different letters.
:)
I'm certain that the DejaVu project will fix these small issues in time, however. In the meantime, I'll personally happily use Lucida Sans as my sans-serif web font rather than Verdana OR Bitstream Vera.