I was referring to the stupid EULAs, and the fact that some people think when you buy a music CD or digital book you are bound by some sort of licensing agreement
Oh. Then I suggest not quoting the OP's comment like this:
Support authors who publish their content using Creative Commons style licenses
if you're going to write about a different subject (EULAs). Or you could use the quote as a segway. But right now, your reply to the OP is rather confusing.
Then why did you reply to the OP, who was talking about Creative Commons? The CC licenses are copyright licenses, applied to works by their author(s). They're nothing like a driver's license.
Ya know, I was thinking the other day, and I realized something: nobody on Slashdot reads! They just write comments and think they're super smart. If the average Slashdotter took some time to understand the context in which they he/she was posting, they wouldn't come across as such asses all the time.
Wait, are you being sarcastic? If so, I don't understand the point of your post: you come across more like a troll, as your comments don't have any substance to explain why you're making the ridiculous claim that people need a drivers-style license to read.
Censorship doesn't mean "we choose not to run your piece." Censorship means "you may not run your piece anywhere."
If a government can't do the latter, the job is usually outsourced to those who can do the former. In the US, this is achieved through things like the deregulation of media ownership and weak/unenforced antitrust laws.
It's unfortunate that in societies where this is the case, there are private-ownership-equals-godliness asshats like you that foam at the mouth when anyone cries foul.
If Ballmer says, "to hell with profitability, we must destroy Sony PS3/Nintendo Wii, I don't care what we lose in the process," I don't think that he can do it.
Well, this is obvious. Even if he had an infinite supply of chairs, this method of "inspiration" requires a John Henry level of endurance. For an example, see the "dance monkeyboy" video, etc.
I love the form factor and everything else about the OLPC but why restrict it to 3rd world countries when the appeal is universal? They really should sell a consumer version
Although he's replied to me claiming the EEE has a tiny keyboard too...
bump the storage capacity, flash it with Fedora and maybe ship it in a black / white version but please sell the damned thing
What are you going to do about the kid-sized keyboard? That's the one that appears to be the sticking point. You could buy a small USB keyboard, but that's kind of defeating the purpose of a laptop...
Well, as a Minnesotan, it certainly gives me a good subject for a snarky editorial I can send to the Strib, e.g.: "It's disappointing that Target, one of Minnesota's most visible corporations, feels it must censor the artistic medium of electronic games just to win some 'think of the children' points"...you get the idea;)
Well, the term 'FUD', as defined by Gene Amdahl: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products."
This isn't really what you're talking about, but it's similar, and I'm sure some Googling would turn up cases of copyright/patent shenanigans by IBM during their Empire days.
I didn't realize KOffice 2.0 was out already. Oh wait, it isn't. Stop with the (flamebait-ish) speculation.
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I have little enough time to play games as it is, and the time I have is intermittent and scattered.
This presents a different problem for me: because of the time between plays, I sometimes forget what's going on in the story. It would be really nice if all games gave you the option to replay cutscenes you've already seen.
While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite, KOffice, for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Peanut allergies can be severe, but never that severe. If you were in a peanut processing facility, or the person a few seats over was smashing hundreds of peanuts into peanut butter, maybe. Just eating peanuts is going to produce an infinitesimally small amount of dust. The likelihood of inhaling even a single particle of dust in that scenario approaches zero
Myth. My father has a severe allergy to peanuts, and sitting near someone eating peanuts (e.g. in a plane, at a baseball game) will cause him to react.
Hundreds of people - whether adults or children - should not have to change their eating habits for one person.
Yes, requiring people to refrain from eating peanuts for three hours so that peanut-allergic folk can travel in airplanes is a horrible injustice. Surely, we should just ban anyone with any allergies from flying on planes. While we're at it, we should probably ban wheelchair-bound people too, since they're just such a hassle.
the moral majority tend to get all het-up over the regular kind, and tend to ignore demon and zombie slaying as inexcusably geeky
I don't mean to sound like a jackass, but are you from/do you live in Germany? If not, remember that various countries have different ideas of "acceptable" media.
Well, Sony executives have been using ridiculous angles to spin the bad points of PS3. I think he's just using the "no games" angle as an excuse, which is rather novel: use bad point A to spin bad point B! It's almost like the universe these guys live in is beginning to collapse on itself.
I'm not a "Sony is t3h d00med" guy, either. To me, it seems like most nerds on the Internet have forgotten the PS2 launch. It too had Sony execs boasting about their uber-powerful machine (and spewing FUD about MS), and developers bitching about how hard the thing was to work with.
Obviously, things are different this time. The PS3 costs much more (even when adjusted for inflation) than any Sony console to date. The US economy is much worse compared to '95 or 2000. And so on.
But I have faith that Sony know what they're doing...or at least have some sort of plan. I'm guessing part of it is based on the PS2, as they certainly have a huge margin on that thing by now. I also bet the backward-compatibility team will make damn sure all PS2 games released from here on out work on PS3.
I guess that depends on your definition of "DRM issues". I feel that if a computer only runs code that's been signed by the manufacturer, that's DRM. And that's exactly what consoles do.
A review is a subjective thing that covers the REVIEWER'S experience.
So if somebody had a good experience with a product, but knew it had a 50% chance of exploding, he should leave this out of the review?
I don't see how using motion controls really do anything special in the Massive RPG space. It's not like the Wiimote suddenly changes the formula of "get quest, kill 5 kobolds, pick up trinket, get quest+1", or any other problem in this genre.
Also, the Wii was released less than a year ago. I kind of doubt that console makers are going to go to a 3-year release cycle. Not even Microsoft.
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Ah, Mr. Maud'Dib. How nice of you to join us...
I was referring to the stupid EULAs, and the fact that some people think when you buy a music CD or digital book you are bound by some sort of licensing agreement
Oh. Then I suggest not quoting the OP's comment like this:
Support authors who publish their content using Creative Commons style licenses
if you're going to write about a different subject (EULAs). Or you could use the quote as a segway. But right now, your reply to the OP is rather confusing.
There's actually a really awesome Castlevania remix that incorporates those voice samples...
Then why did you reply to the OP, who was talking about Creative Commons? The CC licenses are copyright licenses, applied to works by their author(s). They're nothing like a driver's license.
Ya know, I was thinking the other day, and I realized something: nobody on Slashdot reads! They just write comments and think they're super smart. If the average Slashdotter took some time to understand the context in which they he/she was posting, they wouldn't come across as such asses all the time.
Wait, are you being sarcastic? If so, I don't understand the point of your post: you come across more like a troll, as your comments don't have any substance to explain why you're making the ridiculous claim that people need a drivers-style license to read.
Censorship doesn't mean "we choose not to run your piece." Censorship means "you may not run your piece anywhere."
If a government can't do the latter, the job is usually outsourced to those who can do the former. In the US, this is achieved through things like the deregulation of media ownership and weak/unenforced antitrust laws.
It's unfortunate that in societies where this is the case, there are private-ownership-equals-godliness asshats like you that foam at the mouth when anyone cries foul.
If Ballmer says, "to hell with profitability, we must destroy Sony PS3/Nintendo Wii, I don't care what we lose in the process," I don't think that he can do it.
Well, this is obvious. Even if he had an infinite supply of chairs, this method of "inspiration" requires a John Henry level of endurance. For an example, see the "dance monkeyboy" video, etc.
RTFOP:
I love the form factor and everything else about the OLPC but why restrict it to 3rd world countries when the appeal is universal? They really should sell a consumer version
Although he's replied to me claiming the EEE has a tiny keyboard too...
bump the storage capacity, flash it with Fedora and maybe ship it in a black / white version but please sell the damned thing
What are you going to do about the kid-sized keyboard? That's the one that appears to be the sticking point. You could buy a small USB keyboard, but that's kind of defeating the purpose of a laptop...
Your post must be true, because semi-anonymous, unverifiable anecdotes posted on the Internet are always true!
Technically they aren't censoring
:)
This is a matter of debate... it depends on your political/economic philosophy.
Well, as a Minnesotan, it certainly gives me a good subject for a snarky editorial I can send to the Strib, e.g.: "It's disappointing that Target, one of Minnesota's most visible corporations, feels it must censor the artistic medium of electronic games just to win some 'think of the children' points" ...you get the idea ;)
Well, the term 'FUD', as defined by Gene Amdahl: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products."
This isn't really what you're talking about, but it's similar, and I'm sure some Googling would turn up cases of copyright/patent shenanigans by IBM during their Empire days.
I didn't realize KOffice 2.0 was out already. Oh wait, it isn't. Stop with the (flamebait-ish) speculation.
I have little enough time to play games as it is, and the time I have is intermittent and scattered.
This presents a different problem for me: because of the time between plays, I sometimes forget what's going on in the story. It would be really nice if all games gave you the option to replay cutscenes you've already seen.
From the first paragraph of TFA:
:)
While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite, KOffice, for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Flame on
Peanut allergies can be severe, but never that severe. If you were in a peanut processing facility, or the person a few seats over was smashing hundreds of peanuts into peanut butter, maybe. Just eating peanuts is going to produce an infinitesimally small amount of dust. The likelihood of inhaling even a single particle of dust in that scenario approaches zero
Myth. My father has a severe allergy to peanuts, and sitting near someone eating peanuts (e.g. in a plane, at a baseball game) will cause him to react.
Hundreds of people - whether adults or children - should not have to change their eating habits for one person.
Yes, requiring people to refrain from eating peanuts for three hours so that peanut-allergic folk can travel in airplanes is a horrible injustice. Surely, we should just ban anyone with any allergies from flying on planes. While we're at it, we should probably ban wheelchair-bound people too, since they're just such a hassle.
the moral majority tend to get all het-up over the regular kind, and tend to ignore demon and zombie slaying as inexcusably geeky
I don't mean to sound like a jackass, but are you from/do you live in Germany? If not, remember that various countries have different ideas of "acceptable" media.
Well, Sony executives have been using ridiculous angles to spin the bad points of PS3. I think he's just using the "no games" angle as an excuse, which is rather novel: use bad point A to spin bad point B! It's almost like the universe these guys live in is beginning to collapse on itself.
I'm not a "Sony is t3h d00med" guy, either. To me, it seems like most nerds on the Internet have forgotten the PS2 launch. It too had Sony execs boasting about their uber-powerful machine (and spewing FUD about MS), and developers bitching about how hard the thing was to work with.
Obviously, things are different this time. The PS3 costs much more (even when adjusted for inflation) than any Sony console to date. The US economy is much worse compared to '95 or 2000. And so on.
But I have faith that Sony know what they're doing...or at least have some sort of plan. I'm guessing part of it is based on the PS2, as they certainly have a huge margin on that thing by now. I also bet the backward-compatibility team will make damn sure all PS2 games released from here on out work on PS3.
This is the same reason the Xbox sold way more than the Cube... /sarcasm
[The 360] has the best games
Yeah, this has nothing to do with the fact that it's been out for a year longer...
But we can't play Zelda and Wii Sports forever
Yeah, and these are the only good games that will ever be put out for the Wii. That sucks.
on the XBox 360, where there are no DRM issues
I guess that depends on your definition of "DRM issues". I feel that if a computer only runs code that's been signed by the manufacturer, that's DRM. And that's exactly what consoles do.
A review is a subjective thing that covers the REVIEWER'S experience.
So if somebody had a good experience with a product, but knew it had a 50% chance of exploding, he should leave this out of the review?
I don't see how using motion controls really do anything special in the Massive RPG space. It's not like the Wiimote suddenly changes the formula of "get quest, kill 5 kobolds, pick up trinket, get quest+1", or any other problem in this genre.
Also, the Wii was released less than a year ago. I kind of doubt that console makers are going to go to a 3-year release cycle. Not even Microsoft.