Oh yeah, all facetiousness aside, even a small step would be a good thing. I'm particularly interested in the part about subscribing to notices about patents in X fields and the effect on slashdot, blogs, etc. Zero-day "omg! Microsoft patented teh waterz!!!oneone" posts and the like.
Any fix of the patent system that doesn't address all the outstanding issues is a waste of time. I'm specifically looking for a solution involving the phrases "crush the patent office", "see them driven before me", and "hear the lamentation of the women"
I think I speak for all of us when I say that a video game System that can perform a Shocker on customers mid-play will quickly find a very devoted female audience.
This is all assuming the metadata is correct (any um... adult video afficianado knows that's not the case) or even exists. If Joe Grandma uploads something from from camcorder to a personal website, she'll likely skip the ship. I also have a habit of re-encoding most stuff I get from P2P sites, or anything in undesirable formats (.wmv, asf,.mov) which automatically strips the metadata.
Tape is a pain in the ass. Just make copies of your discs every few years, or whenever the technology changes (CDR to DVDR, DVDR to HDVDR, HDVDR to the holographic crystals from Superman, etc)
Hah, remember the Power Pad for the NES? It took me like 5 minutes to realize I can sit my fat ass down on the floor and slap the numbers with my hands. 40mph dashes, 120 meter long jumps, it was pretty cool.
The point was there are virtually no video game movies made now except those by Uwe Boll. People would rather have nothing, because trashing the guy is an internet meme.
More material is always good. If you don't like a particular installment of your favorite sci-fi/fantasy series, nothing lost. If someone else likes it, that's good. What's the problem here?
So your skill in the game will be partly influenced by the player's physical condition? Video games were made for nerds that couldn't play real sports. The circle is now complete.
It's not like banning games, movies, or books will stop teenagers from disobeying authority. They already come equipped with special organs to do that!
You don't solve a technological problem through legislation. You especially don't change standard network behaviors on a case-by-case basis through legislation. And quite frankly you don't voluntarily venture onto a network with certain standard behaviors and then complain to the feds about them.
You forget, though, that these are crazy foreign people. Have you seen Temple of Doom?
Seriously though, they still beleive in a freaking caste system. It's going to take a couple generations before they can grasp the finer points of the internets.
TOKYO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) sold less than half of the estimated 159,000 Xbox 360 video game consoles that were available in stores in Japan in its first weekend of sales, a survey showed on Tuesday. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/tc_nm/japan_x box_dc)
Problem is, broadcasters will never going to use this to replace commercials, but in addition to them. Most likely the same pop-up way they use to showcase their own programs on the bottom of the screen right after a break. More advertising is always unwanted, but as long as you're willing to wait a year or so until the DVD season comes out, you're set.
Even if there is a genre-shaker on the horizon, and some of the gaming mag reviewers have a copy, it won't really start getting notoriety until the thing gets into players' hands. Just think, if you saw some website saying saying X is the next big thing, but you'd never heard of X before, you wouldn't really pay attention.
Despite the fact that the Bill of Rights guarantees your right to say what you think
A popular misconception. The first amendment guarantees your right that the government will not abridge your right to say what you think. Congress specifically by the text, and the state governments as well by later supreme court interpretation.
Private citizens and entities can do it all they want, however. Tell you boss off, you'll be sent packing.
Slashdot Mirror
no pink...
Oh yeah, all facetiousness aside, even a small step would be a good thing. I'm particularly interested in the part about subscribing to notices about patents in X fields and the effect on slashdot, blogs, etc. Zero-day "omg! Microsoft patented teh waterz!!!oneone" posts and the like.
Any fix of the patent system that doesn't address all the outstanding issues is a waste of time. I'm specifically looking for a solution involving the phrases "crush the patent office", "see them driven before me", and "hear the lamentation of the women"
I think I speak for all of us when I say that a video game System that can perform a Shocker on customers mid-play will quickly find a very devoted female audience.
This is all assuming the metadata is correct (any um... adult video afficianado knows that's not the case) or even exists. If Joe Grandma uploads something from from camcorder to a personal website, she'll likely skip the ship. I also have a habit of re-encoding most stuff I get from P2P sites, or anything in undesirable formats (.wmv, asf, .mov) which automatically strips the metadata.
Tape is a pain in the ass. Just make copies of your discs every few years, or whenever the technology changes (CDR to DVDR, DVDR to HDVDR, HDVDR to the holographic crystals from Superman, etc)
Hah, remember the Power Pad for the NES? It took me like 5 minutes to realize I can sit my fat ass down on the floor and slap the numbers with my hands. 40mph dashes, 120 meter long jumps, it was pretty cool.
+1 MadeMeThink
The point was there are virtually no video game movies made now except those by Uwe Boll. People would rather have nothing, because trashing the guy is an internet meme.
Because all the non Uwe-Boll video games movies were astonishing successes, right?
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
Resident Evil
Super Mario Brothers...
More material is always good. If you don't like a particular installment of your favorite sci-fi/fantasy series, nothing lost. If someone else likes it, that's good. What's the problem here?
Did this guy take pointers from the William Shatner School of Websites?
You get like half a...
a sentence and then...
have to click Next Page...
So your skill in the game will be partly influenced by the player's physical condition? Video games were made for nerds that couldn't play real sports. The circle is now complete.
It's not like banning games, movies, or books will stop teenagers from disobeying authority. They already come equipped with special organs to do that!
Never comment your code. That way everyone needs to ask you for a fix when thinks break. Think of it as "employment insurance..."
I'm sure there are back roads in Montana where you could run out of power and die in short order since cars don't pass by very often.
How did the guy carry food/water/extra batteries with him, by the way?
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable and intelligent way to cross the Nevada badlands...
That goes without saying. After all, this is a Linux convention. Sausages abound.
You don't solve a technological problem through legislation. You especially don't change standard network behaviors on a case-by-case basis through legislation. And quite frankly you don't voluntarily venture onto a network with certain standard behaviors and then complain to the feds about them.
You forget, though, that these are crazy foreign people. Have you seen Temple of Doom?
Seriously though, they still beleive in a freaking caste system. It's going to take a couple generations before they can grasp the finer points of the internets.
Why yes. Yes, there would be...
x box_dc)
TOKYO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) sold less than half of the estimated 159,000 Xbox 360 video game consoles that were available in stores in Japan in its first weekend of sales, a survey showed on Tuesday. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/tc_nm/japan_
Google are betting that they can deliver TV episodes for free, with advertising.
Problem: We can already get them for free, with no advertising...
Number One, set a course of Pirate Bay. Maximum warp.
I, for one, welcome our new Monostad 7 ad-serving overlords.
Problem is, broadcasters will never going to use this to replace commercials, but in addition to them. Most likely the same pop-up way they use to showcase their own programs on the bottom of the screen right after a break. More advertising is always unwanted, but as long as you're willing to wait a year or so until the DVD season comes out, you're set.
+5 (Smrt)
Even if there is a genre-shaker on the horizon, and some of the gaming mag reviewers have a copy, it won't really start getting notoriety until the thing gets into players' hands. Just think, if you saw some website saying saying X is the next big thing, but you'd never heard of X before, you wouldn't really pay attention.
Well, at least I wouldn't.
Despite the fact that the Bill of Rights guarantees your right to say what you think
A popular misconception. The first amendment guarantees your right that the government will not abridge your right to say what you think. Congress specifically by the text, and the state governments as well by later supreme court interpretation.
Private citizens and entities can do it all they want, however. Tell you boss off, you'll be sent packing.