I can't remember seeing a classic Tom & Jerry cartoon -- meaning the really, really violent ones that inspired Itchy & Scratchy -- since I was a kid. I've seen the lame 60s (I think) ones where T&J are buddies searching for gold or something stupid, but those oh-so ultraviolent classics from the 40s are nowhere to be found. I've always assumed they're not shown anymore because of the violence. Can anyone confirm this? Maybe they're on in the States, but they sure aren't up here in Canada.
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The game company could charge a "tax"... Make XP worth money, so you could buy XP...
Isn't Microsoft already charging a tax? You know, the whole "you gotta buy windows with a new PC" thing. And as for XP being worth money. I mean, I heard it's okay and all, and I guess MS is hoping it's worth money so people will buy it... Wait, I thought we were talking about EverQuest? I'm so confused...
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At one point, Tucker punches Chan and says, "sorry, you guys all look alike." Hey, why not let Jackie Chan make some watermelon-eating jokes while we're at it?
Yeah, I think that was the point. Tucker's using a joke that's usually directed at black people. It's irony
On a semi-related topic, why aren't black people (can I say that? or do I have to say African-American?) furious that they keep being represented as these shrill-voiced, jive-talkin' caricatures?
It's not a "jive-talkin' characture", it's Chris Tucker. That's what he does. I don't think blacks are usually represented that way. If you want a black actor acting seriously as an intelligent person, go see a movie with Denzel Washington or Morgan Freeman. Chris Tucker acts the way he does because he's a clown - that's his schtick.
MS isn't doing this because they see mp3 sharing as an injustice, their doing it because it's a popular format. There's lots of money to be made in digital music (if they can get rid of the mp3 and move people to proprietary formats), and MS wants a piece of the action.
It'll work, too, since the Windows Audio format will probably be good quality, and people won't even notice the subtle effort to move them from mp3s.
3)Get some bloody normal people to use the OS. Just now its all Bearded GNU types and warezing kiddies, at least when it is being used in the home. Linux is a business OS, not a home OS. Normal people=market.
Here we've got the chicken and the egg problem. You need to get people to use the OS to get companies to make apps/games, but you need apps/games to get people to use the OS. Loki's really sticking their neck out (I would think - don't really know what sales are like) by selling Linux versions of games that are already available on Windows. Nevertheless, it's a good thing they are, because if Tribes2 sells well other companies will start to look at Linux as a potential platform as well.
I'd definetly consider buying Tribes2 for Linux - if I could get it at Electronics Boutique, so I could return it in the event that it doesn't work on my machine. euroderf's right on the DirectX thing. I've only tried installing demos on Linux because the risk of going out and buying it is too great at the moment.
It alkso needs new games, not 12 month old crap like what is being touted here.
Didn't Tribes2 just come out like a week or two ago? I think Loki's done a pretty good job on that one! Alpha Centauri may be a different story, but I choose to look at it as glass-half-full.
True, good ol' Dubya is going to be more of a hawk than Clinton was, but he's only been in office for about a week, so I would guess this war games scenario is something the Air Force did for internal reasons, not as something to be widely publicized for propaganda purposes. Still, I think we're likely to see China-as-an-enemy posturing under Bush rather than the China-as-a-market stance we had under Clinton.
At the very least, Heckler is being truthful about the real intentions of the music(or movie, or publishing) industry. It has nothing to do with the compensation of Lars or Dr Dre, but everything to do with the slow degredation of a billion-dollar empire. Hell, if only all corporate executives were this honest: "Damn right we expect Dubya to do some big favours for us in the White House - you think we're donating $250,000 to his campaign because we like his education plan?"
Does anyone know of any websites that summarize the big alien conspiracy that's been the focus of the X-Files since the beginning? I got sick of it a couple of years ago and stopped watching the show. Maybe(hopefully) this will be the last season and we'll get some final, definite answers.
What we need to do is make sure that commercial organizations get the.coms and non-profit ones get the.orgs. And when that happens, I'll meet you all over at slashdot.com That's right! Slashdot's a sham! Impostors!
What MS might not know is that British Columbia has a New Democratic Party(read: socialist) government. If they think the DOJ is bad, just wait until the BC government makes MS a government-owned corporation. Their products were crappy as a private company - just wait 'til MS is run by the same people as the Post Office!
As a big fan of his music, I'm glad to see John Cash is leaving the game scene. I just hope he'll hit the road and tour for a while. I can't wait to hear A Boy Named Sue live.
A problem of this magnitude calls for more than just a man - it calls for a Man of Steel! Faster than a speeding packet! More Powerful than a linux server! This looks like a job for... Oh. Wait, forget it. AOL owns Time-Warner, Time-Warner owns DC Comics, DC Comics owns Superman. Hmm... Any open-source superheroes out there?
I think the generally accepted idea of "monopoly" is taken too literally. True monopolies only exist in economics textbooks. In the real world there are varying degrees of market control, but when a company gets to a point that it has "monopolistic" power, it means that it controls enough of the market to effectively shut out competition and effectively control that market. It's sort of like why the Sherman Anti-Trust Act came about in the first place. Nobody had to use oil - they could always live in caves, gather berries and hunt wild animals to eat. Still, oil was an important input for industry, etc, and thus Standard Oil represented a threat to competition and the overall health of the American economy. It's similar with the AOL or MS monopolies. More importantly, in cases like MS and AOL, I think this has negative ramifications for democracy. We, as decision making voters, are meant to have various sources of information from which we can make opinions. Sure, there will be other information sources available to consumers, they don't have to use AOL or Microsoft, but they most likely will because they're too busy to surf the web for hours on end like many/. readers. AOL will have the ability to control (too) much of the content and news that people recieve. The result could be an even more poorly informed public in the future than the one now (the one that gets its news from shallow, 2 minute news stories).
Now here's a novel punishment - Judge Jackson could send Bill Gates to Iran as part of his punishment. The Iranian authorities could cut off one of his hands for stealing market share from other companies!
"I have taken a bunch of purity tests that score, equally, "have you ever kissed a person of the opposite sex" and "have you ever had oral sex with a mammal of the same gender in a vehicle weighing over 5000 lbs." Surely the latter should be weighed more severely."
Well, yes it should, but dammit don't call me Shirley!
Napster's been banned here at the University of Guelph in Canada, which is out of the juristiction of the DMCA. Without the threat of the DMCA it leaves us with just the bandwidth issue - so maybe it really is about the traffic, eh Jon?
Java is supposedly slow. Is this a matter of the speed of the computer? Will Java's ponderous pace become irrelevant as processors become faster? Is it something more inherent in the language???
I live in Toronto so I compared the streaming CityTV to the real thing on the TV across the room from my comp. Besides a delay of about a minute, and the fact that it's 1/8 the size of my TV, the quality isn't too bad(on ADSL connection). It'll be nice to have when I'm living in residence again in January and no longer have access to a TV. And remember - ST:TNG reruns every day at 11:00AM! It's just what we've always dreamed of - Star Trek available wherever you are!
What they really ought to do is take the finished product from this, then really get a million monkeys monkeys with a million keyboards and compare the finished products.
My bet is the monkey book will be a better read:).
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I can't remember seeing a classic Tom & Jerry cartoon -- meaning the really, really violent ones that inspired Itchy & Scratchy -- since I was a kid. I've seen the lame 60s (I think) ones where T&J are buddies searching for gold or something stupid, but those oh-so ultraviolent classics from the 40s are nowhere to be found. I've always assumed they're not shown anymore because of the violence. Can anyone confirm this? Maybe they're on in the States, but they sure aren't up here in Canada.
The game company could charge a "tax"... Make XP worth money, so you could buy XP...
Isn't Microsoft already charging a tax? You know, the whole "you gotta buy windows with a new PC" thing. And as for XP being worth money. I mean, I heard it's okay and all, and I guess MS is hoping it's worth money so people will buy it... Wait, I thought we were talking about EverQuest? I'm so confused...
At one point, Tucker punches Chan and says, "sorry, you guys all look alike." Hey, why not let Jackie Chan make some watermelon-eating jokes while we're at it?
Yeah, I think that was the point. Tucker's using a joke that's usually directed at black people. It's irony
On a semi-related topic, why aren't black people (can I say that? or do I have to say African-American?) furious that they keep being represented as these shrill-voiced, jive-talkin' caricatures?
It's not a "jive-talkin' characture", it's Chris Tucker. That's what he does. I don't think blacks are usually represented that way. If you want a black actor acting seriously as an intelligent person, go see a movie with Denzel Washington or Morgan Freeman. Chris Tucker acts the way he does because he's a clown - that's his schtick.
MS isn't doing this because they see mp3 sharing as an injustice, their doing it because it's a popular format. There's lots of money to be made in digital music (if they can get rid of the mp3 and move people to proprietary formats), and MS wants a piece of the action.
It'll work, too, since the Windows Audio format will probably be good quality, and people won't even notice the subtle effort to move them from mp3s.
3)Get some bloody normal people to use the OS. Just now its all Bearded GNU types and warezing kiddies, at least when it is being used in the home. Linux is a business OS, not a home OS. Normal people=market.
Here we've got the chicken and the egg problem. You need to get people to use the OS to get companies to make apps/games, but you need apps/games to get people to use the OS. Loki's really sticking their neck out (I would think - don't really know what sales are like) by selling Linux versions of games that are already available on Windows. Nevertheless, it's a good thing they are, because if Tribes2 sells well other companies will start to look at Linux as a potential platform as well.
I'd definetly consider buying Tribes2 for Linux - if I could get it at Electronics Boutique, so I could return it in the event that it doesn't work on my machine. euroderf's right on the DirectX thing. I've only tried installing demos on Linux because the risk of going out and buying it is too great at the moment.
It alkso needs new games, not 12 month old crap like what is being touted here.
Didn't Tribes2 just come out like a week or two ago? I think Loki's done a pretty good job on that one! Alpha Centauri may be a different story, but I choose to look at it as glass-half-full.
True, good ol' Dubya is going to be more of a hawk than Clinton was, but he's only been in office for about a week, so I would guess this war games scenario is something the Air Force did for internal reasons, not as something to be widely publicized for propaganda purposes.
Still, I think we're likely to see China-as-an-enemy posturing under Bush rather than the China-as-a-market stance we had under Clinton.
... but ARPANet sure has peaked. Hell, there's a Netscape Now! 3.0 button on their page!
How about compliance with Microsofts' .NET architecture?
KIDDING! Just kidding! Relax, put the baseball bat down!
At the very least, Heckler is being truthful about the real intentions of the music(or movie, or publishing) industry. It has nothing to do with the compensation of Lars or Dr Dre, but everything to do with the slow degredation of a billion-dollar empire.
Hell, if only all corporate executives were this honest: "Damn right we expect Dubya to do some big favours for us in the White House - you think we're donating $250,000 to his campaign because we like his education plan?"
Does anyone know of any websites that summarize the big alien conspiracy that's been the focus of the X-Files since the beginning? I got sick of it a couple of years ago and stopped watching the show. Maybe(hopefully) this will be the last season and we'll get some final, definite answers.
What we need to do is make sure that commercial organizations get the .coms and non-profit ones get the .orgs.
And when that happens, I'll meet you all over at slashdot.com
That's right! Slashdot's a sham! Impostors!
Wow. Everybody's so shocked by the whole story being on the front page there's no First Post. Good job, Hemos, you got rid of them!
What MS might not know is that British Columbia has a New Democratic Party(read: socialist) government. If they think the DOJ is bad, just wait until the BC government makes MS a government-owned corporation.
Their products were crappy as a private company - just wait 'til MS is run by the same people as the Post Office!
As a big fan of his music, I'm glad to see John Cash is leaving the game scene. I just hope he'll hit the road and tour for a while. I can't wait to hear A Boy Named Sue live.
Never mind the curvature of the universe. Check out the curvature on Miss Universe. Awooooooga!
A problem of this magnitude calls for more than just a man - it calls for a Man of Steel!
Faster than a speeding packet!
More Powerful than a linux server!
This looks like a job for...
Oh. Wait, forget it. AOL owns Time-Warner, Time-Warner owns DC Comics, DC Comics owns Superman.
Hmm... Any open-source superheroes out there?
I think the generally accepted idea of "monopoly" is taken too literally. True monopolies only exist in economics textbooks. In the real world there are varying degrees of market control, but when a company gets to a point that it has "monopolistic" power, it means that it controls enough of the market to effectively shut out competition and effectively control that market. It's sort of like why the Sherman Anti-Trust Act came about in the first place. Nobody had to use oil - they could always live in caves, gather berries and hunt wild animals to eat. Still, oil was an important input for industry, etc, and thus Standard Oil represented a threat to competition and the overall health of the American economy. It's similar with the AOL or MS monopolies. More importantly, in cases like MS and AOL, I think this has negative ramifications for democracy. We, as decision making voters, are meant to have various sources of information from which we can make opinions. Sure, there will be other information sources available to consumers, they don't have to use AOL or Microsoft, but they most likely will because they're too busy to surf the web for hours on end like many /. readers. AOL will have the ability to control (too) much of the content and news that people recieve. The result could be an even more poorly informed public in the future than the one now (the one that gets its news from shallow, 2 minute news stories).
Now here's a novel punishment - Judge Jackson could send Bill Gates to Iran as part of his punishment. The Iranian authorities could cut off one of his hands for stealing market share from other companies!
"I have taken a bunch of purity tests that score, equally, "have you ever kissed a person of the opposite sex" and "have you ever had oral sex with a mammal of the same gender in a vehicle weighing over 5000 lbs." Surely the latter should be weighed more severely."
Well, yes it should, but dammit don't call me Shirley!
Napster's been banned here at the University of Guelph in Canada, which is out of the juristiction of the DMCA. Without the threat of the DMCA it leaves us with just the bandwidth issue - so maybe it really is about the traffic, eh Jon?
My question is this:
Java is supposedly slow. Is this a matter of the speed of the computer? Will Java's ponderous pace become irrelevant as processors become faster? Is it something more inherent in the language???
I live in Toronto so I compared the streaming CityTV to the real thing on the TV across the room from my comp. Besides a delay of about a minute, and the fact that it's 1/8 the size of my TV, the quality isn't too bad(on ADSL connection). It'll be nice to have when I'm living in residence again in January and no longer have access to a TV. And remember - ST:TNG reruns every day at 11:00AM! It's just what we've always dreamed of - Star Trek available wherever you are!
What they really ought to do is take the finished product from this, then really get a million monkeys monkeys with a million keyboards and compare the finished products.
:).
My bet is the monkey book will be a better read