The band's attorneys have indicated that they are seeking an injunction that would force the game to be withdrawn from sale. If true, what on earth could have triggered them to ask their lawyers for such a ridiculous action? Clearly, no one is a winner if "the Romantics" win over Activision in court:
- Activision will lose a lot of cash on all the disks that must be reprinted.
- Fans of the title will be furious if they have to wait for weeks.
- The band will be perceived as greedy and ignorant to their own fans who wait for this title with great anticipation.
If anything, they should ask Activision for money. Maybe I am ignorant or just unaware of some fundamentals here, but at least if I was an artist, I would have allowed this. Maybe I'd had been bothered but I would certainly try not to make an ass out of myself in front of my fans.
So what if the universe is big? I'm not saying that there are only a few places like our planet and the moon. By using the word rare, I obviously meant that it's uncommon and nothing more.
Not only are moons rare, but earth's moon is actually the fifth largest in our solar system. Considering how small our planet is and how big our moon is, I would say it's probably extremely rare to find similarities like this in the universe.
Woe be those who criticize Slashdot editorial practice, but was that about the most pathetic "review" that you've ever seen? For those who haven't read TFA, all of the comments here about boot times are because that the only substantive thing mentioned in the article. I don't know what planet you're from, but there's a huge difference between 20 pages long Anandtech reviews and a news post on a medium-sized PC magazine. I say news post - not "review" as you put it - because it is located in/news/column/. Its purpose is only to bring the news without going in-depth on the topic.
You say that only a few comments were of any substance, which is true. But what do you expect from a news item? And was it not important news to current and future Vista owners? I use it and I certainly found this news item important.
Yes. That's it. Nothing more. I don't know who to complain about, the article submitter or the Slashdot ed that approved it. Obviously, this news is important to a lot of people. There are millions of Vista users out there and I'm sure a large portion of us are fine with just raw numbers from a short news post rather than a 20-page article. Remember, there's a shitload of news on Slashdot that you don't give a fudge about, but what made you think no one else finds it interesting?
This is exactly how the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was introduced and signed. It was buried deep within the Safe Port Act, located at the very end of hundreds of pages of jibberish about how to make America safer.
If they wish to make a stance on online gambling, they first have to decide what is gambling and what's not. Is chess gambling? Is poker gambling? Online snooker? Backgammon? Once they've established this, then we should have a discussion on whether it should be allowed or not.
Personally, I think it's kind of hypocritical to allow land-based casinos, alcohol and cigarettes and not online gambling. Most of the opposition tells us that it's dangerous to allow people to play online because some people tend to play irresponsibly. I'd draw the same line with alcohol - it's fair only to the idiots who cannot control it but unfair to the other part, which is the larger chunk. And if so, why allow land-based casinos at all? Anyone who claims that these will help you from becoming an addict should know that fairly tales like that remain at a theoretical level.
John Nack's ideas are correct. Photoshop still has a lot of problems but the UI is definitely the worst part. Today, this application is where Office 2003 stood a few years ago. Everything was cluttered and Microsoft needed to redesign it badly. They did a great job with Office 2007, and I picture something similar with the next Photoshop.
I sincerely hope they will implement a skinnable UI. Not that I dislike the current theme, but somtimes when I work with really dark pictures, I would prefer a black menu, not grey. In fact, it would make sense if the UI could adapt its colors to the picture you're working on (user's choice function only, of course). Sometimes the menus are incredibly disturbing because they break the pattern.
You are correct about his role at Microsoft. He really is Microsoft's attack dog, but regardless of what you and I think of him, he is correct. Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays. And yes, Google's announcement is sort of a press release at the moment.
To sum things up, competition is good and Microsoft is going to get a taste of a company that can do more to mobile platforms than Symbian can (or so I expect).
Taken from CNN:
Shooting appeared to have been planned in series of YouTube videos What is it with the mainstream media and their strange assumptions regarding technology and violence. I find it peculiar that as soon as some youngster starts shooting people for no reason, the media will investigate what video games he used to play, Facebook profiles, Youtube videos and whatnot.
No one 'plans' an assassination by uploading videos to the public. He was just trying to reach out to people with similar thoughts. The videos told a story of a guy who was greatly influenced by extreme violence inspired by x and y, but that's hardly a shout-out saying "I'm planning to kill 8 people".
I could bet a few bucks on that this guy plays violent games like Counter-Strike and that the gaming business is going to take yet another unfair punch because some retarded guy couldn't differentiate fantasy from reality.
What exactly makes you think we're not heading the same way? EU has stood for a tightened control of its citizens. Not too long ago, they forced telecom operators to store data in order to fight terrorism and such.
Ignorance is bliss. Ever since GWB set his foot in the oval office, Americans have proven that we don't really listen to what's going on with our privacy. I don't know if we are to blame the media. Maybe it's in our nature to ignore it. Or maybe a combination. Either way, we have shown that we don't care enough to make a difference, which is why sites can do this - because, supposedly, no one bothers.
The scary part is that this news is not on any major American news network, or at least with so small printing that I can't even find it. Why does it take a company from the UK to inform us that our own government is bullshitting us again?
I think that the point of the article is that Apple is getting closer to where Microsoft is today with its Windows. More complexity will result in more flaws.
Regardless of how small a bit is on the platter of a hard drive, you are missing the point.
Yes, the Kozicki quote is flawed when put out of context, but we all understand that he is talking about circuitry at nano levels. You are absolutely correct in your remarks, but don't get hung up on the first sentence of the news. Read the whole thing and get a grasp of it instead.
Having said that, I fully agree that hard drives are getting closer to an end. Mechanical components in a computer are not going to survive much longer - and that includes media players (DVD, BR, HDDVD, etc). Eventually, hard drives will be chips and media content will be streams or sources over the air and by wire.
That's not a concrete example. My Windows XP was over 5 GB, Vista is slightly over 6 GB on my machine. You'd think that so many years of development between XP and Vista would make it OK for Vista to require another GB or two.
The only reason you're bitching is because you really want your entire computer to run perfectly fine on a 32 GB flash drive. Let's face it, 32 GB is ridiculously small for a hard drive even if you're running a stripped down dist of Linux. Regardless of how many GB Vista requires, you will still want to fill it with music, videos and such. My archive is well over 200 GB and that excludes all my valuable PSD files and such.
Thankfully, you will be silenced in a couple of years when flash drives have started filling up the missing gaps.
What the hell are you talking about? It's the media and other content you need storage for. You can run any operating system on 16 GB if you wish, but whining about how big Vista is makes you look stupid.
Today's operating systems (OSX, Vista, etc) are not big because the software is bloated with meaninglessness, but because there is not a living soul out there who is considering XP, Vista or OSX but cannot get it because their hard drives are too small. Is it not obvious that developers want to make full use of the current generation of hardware?
I'm sure Microsoft could strip down Vista to something the size of 300 MB or so if only they wanted to remove drivers, icons and other graphics, sounds, media players, web browsers, etc. On the other hand, that would kind of kill the whole purpose of the operating system.
News flash! We all know that cutting-edge hardware is in almost all cases too expensive. It takes time to adopt new hardware regardless of how practical it is. Once vendors acknowledge the need for such disks and once Samsung receives a boat load of orders, things will look different, but until then, it's expensive to produce because it's being done in small quantities.
I guess that the next generation of iPods will completely remove the hard drive capable devices from their line-up.
In other words, swim at your own risk, but don't bitch to us if you get eaten by an alligator; you were told to stay out of the water. I hereby promise that once the alligator has eaten me, I will no longer bitch to you.
Come on, people, there is no way Google will go for EDGE.
As you may have heard, Google is a large search engine which also provides excellent services like YouTube. Search engines also forward users to web sites filled with graphics and some with videos.
So why would Google want to construct a phone? Do they intend to make the best phone experience or do they tout this thing as the ultimate source to information via the World Wide Web? It's clear to me that a company like Google wants to maximize the speed to the site it links to as well as YouTube. EDGE can do that, but it's so painfully slow that it's not gonna be pleasant.
The study found that police are no more likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those with hardly any. What types of crimes are they not able to solve with the cameras? Pocket thieves are probably really difficult to spot. But what about vandalism, sex offenders, robberies and other things where you can point to a specific location and the time of the event?
Or could the cameras simply suck? I remember the London subway bombings and the pictures they released of the men who blew themselves up. Didn't the pictures look like they were taken with a teenager's private web cam? Maybe they should opt for one 1,000 high-def cameras instead then.
I don't understand how Asia can have a few of these incidents and the west has so none. The keyword is a few. You can't start thinking of physiological or social differences and base it on a handful of incidents if you have such a large number of "computer addicts". And frankly, there may be undocumented victims in the U.S. too.
Sometimes the user is to blame, no the operating system. I have a setup looking very much like yours, but a slower clock frequency. Yet, I have absolutely no problems with it. Speed is good, alt-tabbing games works really fast and so on.
Since it works fine for me, maybe it is your software, a virus or even failing hardware.
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- Activision will lose a lot of cash on all the disks that must be reprinted.
- Fans of the title will be furious if they have to wait for weeks.
- The band will be perceived as greedy and ignorant to their own fans who wait for this title with great anticipation.
If anything, they should ask Activision for money. Maybe I am ignorant or just unaware of some fundamentals here, but at least if I was an artist, I would have allowed this. Maybe I'd had been bothered but I would certainly try not to make an ass out of myself in front of my fans.
So what if the universe is big? I'm not saying that there are only a few places like our planet and the moon. By using the word rare, I obviously meant that it's uncommon and nothing more.
Not only are moons rare, but earth's moon is actually the fifth largest in our solar system. Considering how small our planet is and how big our moon is, I would say it's probably extremely rare to find similarities like this in the universe.
You say that only a few comments were of any substance, which is true. But what do you expect from a news item? And was it not important news to current and future Vista owners? I use it and I certainly found this news item important.
Yes. That's it. Nothing more. I don't know who to complain about, the article submitter or the Slashdot ed that approved it. Obviously, this news is important to a lot of people. There are millions of Vista users out there and I'm sure a large portion of us are fine with just raw numbers from a short news post rather than a 20-page article. Remember, there's a shitload of news on Slashdot that you don't give a fudge about, but what made you think no one else finds it interesting?
Yes. It's ancestors have found their way to the Congress/White House.
This is exactly how the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was introduced and signed. It was buried deep within the Safe Port Act, located at the very end of hundreds of pages of jibberish about how to make America safer.
If they wish to make a stance on online gambling, they first have to decide what is gambling and what's not. Is chess gambling? Is poker gambling? Online snooker? Backgammon? Once they've established this, then we should have a discussion on whether it should be allowed or not.
Personally, I think it's kind of hypocritical to allow land-based casinos, alcohol and cigarettes and not online gambling. Most of the opposition tells us that it's dangerous to allow people to play online because some people tend to play irresponsibly. I'd draw the same line with alcohol - it's fair only to the idiots who cannot control it but unfair to the other part, which is the larger chunk. And if so, why allow land-based casinos at all? Anyone who claims that these will help you from becoming an addict should know that fairly tales like that remain at a theoretical level.
John Nack's ideas are correct. Photoshop still has a lot of problems but the UI is definitely the worst part. Today, this application is where Office 2003 stood a few years ago. Everything was cluttered and Microsoft needed to redesign it badly. They did a great job with Office 2007, and I picture something similar with the next Photoshop.
I sincerely hope they will implement a skinnable UI. Not that I dislike the current theme, but somtimes when I work with really dark pictures, I would prefer a black menu, not grey. In fact, it would make sense if the UI could adapt its colors to the picture you're working on (user's choice function only, of course). Sometimes the menus are incredibly disturbing because they break the pattern.
You are correct about his role at Microsoft. He really is Microsoft's attack dog, but regardless of what you and I think of him, he is correct. Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays. And yes, Google's announcement is sort of a press release at the moment.
To sum things up, competition is good and Microsoft is going to get a taste of a company that can do more to mobile platforms than Symbian can (or so I expect).
No one 'plans' an assassination by uploading videos to the public. He was just trying to reach out to people with similar thoughts. The videos told a story of a guy who was greatly influenced by extreme violence inspired by x and y, but that's hardly a shout-out saying "I'm planning to kill 8 people".
I could bet a few bucks on that this guy plays violent games like Counter-Strike and that the gaming business is going to take yet another unfair punch because some retarded guy couldn't differentiate fantasy from reality.
What exactly makes you think we're not heading the same way? EU has stood for a tightened control of its citizens. Not too long ago, they forced telecom operators to store data in order to fight terrorism and such.
Ignorance is bliss. Ever since GWB set his foot in the oval office, Americans have proven that we don't really listen to what's going on with our privacy. I don't know if we are to blame the media. Maybe it's in our nature to ignore it. Or maybe a combination. Either way, we have shown that we don't care enough to make a difference, which is why sites can do this - because, supposedly, no one bothers.
The scary part is that this news is not on any major American news network, or at least with so small printing that I can't even find it. Why does it take a company from the UK to inform us that our own government is bullshitting us again?
So, summing things up, you're saying that you work at the Department of Redundancy Department?
I think that the point of the article is that Apple is getting closer to where Microsoft is today with its Windows. More complexity will result in more flaws.
Regardless of how small a bit is on the platter of a hard drive, you are missing the point.
Yes, the Kozicki quote is flawed when put out of context, but we all understand that he is talking about circuitry at nano levels. You are absolutely correct in your remarks, but don't get hung up on the first sentence of the news. Read the whole thing and get a grasp of it instead.
Having said that, I fully agree that hard drives are getting closer to an end. Mechanical components in a computer are not going to survive much longer - and that includes media players (DVD, BR, HDDVD, etc). Eventually, hard drives will be chips and media content will be streams or sources over the air and by wire.
That's not a concrete example. My Windows XP was over 5 GB, Vista is slightly over 6 GB on my machine. You'd think that so many years of development between XP and Vista would make it OK for Vista to require another GB or two.
The only reason you're bitching is because you really want your entire computer to run perfectly fine on a 32 GB flash drive. Let's face it, 32 GB is ridiculously small for a hard drive even if you're running a stripped down dist of Linux. Regardless of how many GB Vista requires, you will still want to fill it with music, videos and such. My archive is well over 200 GB and that excludes all my valuable PSD files and such.
Thankfully, you will be silenced in a couple of years when flash drives have started filling up the missing gaps.
What the hell are you talking about? It's the media and other content you need storage for. You can run any operating system on 16 GB if you wish, but whining about how big Vista is makes you look stupid.
Today's operating systems (OSX, Vista, etc) are not big because the software is bloated with meaninglessness, but because there is not a living soul out there who is considering XP, Vista or OSX but cannot get it because their hard drives are too small. Is it not obvious that developers want to make full use of the current generation of hardware?
I'm sure Microsoft could strip down Vista to something the size of 300 MB or so if only they wanted to remove drivers, icons and other graphics, sounds, media players, web browsers, etc. On the other hand, that would kind of kill the whole purpose of the operating system.
News flash! We all know that cutting-edge hardware is in almost all cases too expensive. It takes time to adopt new hardware regardless of how practical it is. Once vendors acknowledge the need for such disks and once Samsung receives a boat load of orders, things will look different, but until then, it's expensive to produce because it's being done in small quantities.
I guess that the next generation of iPods will completely remove the hard drive capable devices from their line-up.
According to a friend of mine, who knows someone who knows a person who is a compulsive liar, we might end up seeing Silverlight ads instead.
Come on, people, there is no way Google will go for EDGE.
As you may have heard, Google is a large search engine which also provides excellent services like YouTube. Search engines also forward users to web sites filled with graphics and some with videos.
So why would Google want to construct a phone? Do they intend to make the best phone experience or do they tout this thing as the ultimate source to information via the World Wide Web? It's clear to me that a company like Google wants to maximize the speed to the site it links to as well as YouTube. EDGE can do that, but it's so painfully slow that it's not gonna be pleasant.
Or could the cameras simply suck? I remember the London subway bombings and the pictures they released of the men who blew themselves up. Didn't the pictures look like they were taken with a teenager's private web cam? Maybe they should opt for one 1,000 high-def cameras instead then.
Where do I sign up to read the announcement?
Sometimes the user is to blame, no the operating system. I have a setup looking very much like yours, but a slower clock frequency. Yet, I have absolutely no problems with it. Speed is good, alt-tabbing games works really fast and so on.
Since it works fine for me, maybe it is your software, a virus or even failing hardware.