why should any company buy equipment from the US, Europe, or Australia these days? These governments have *repeatedly* proven themselves to snoop on all traffic and impose some significant back doors of their own.
Comments provide transformative value. Recontectualising video clips in groups to infer and collate new meaning is transformative value. The broadcasters could set up an initiative to do this, but they haven't. I say power to youtube for providing this functionality, amongst everything else it provides, for free.
in windows (and for decades) alt-tab switches apps, with the last used at the start of the list. pressing shift whilst doing this reverses the direction of focus. pressing ctrl will abort the focus change.
ctrl-tab switches between tabbed and sub-windows of the current app. again, shift reverses the selection.
tab alone switches between interface elements of the current window. shift reverses the selection. this is one nice bit of standardisation no-other OS has got to the same extent.
it's a shame that windows doesn't ship with a manual explaining these things, but who would read it anyway?
Reminds me of SGI when they made expensive hardware with a custom BSD based OS. And a nice 'just-works' camera. And special keyboards and mice and monitor interfaces. And a huge engineering division to support the tiny marketshare of OSes they had. And niche software that ran on only their hardware.
>No, the USA is a target for 'terrorists' because it has the power to make major changes in the world
And I ask... how is this?
Nothing to do with the vast amount of weapons it has, is it?
The UN has power to make real change, and that's where it should happen. However, the 'powerful' US chooses to ignore the UN as it sees fit, and lie to it when it is expedient.
There's your power for you. Foreign debt, and weapons. There's nothing inherently superior in the American experiment; in fact, right now its looking pretty flawed.
Your response deals entirely in how you see one tabloid word parallel a 100 year old work of fiction. Somehow, this is enough for you not to need to consider the core arguments.
Hello? Do you know how stupid you *are*?
You will find that nearly all non-corporate funded scientific studies have urged caution over the release of genetically modified organisms. you will also find that most of them not only urge caution, but recommend against releasing them at all. and you will further find that the only reason GM products are developed are for intellectual property issues, and that any argument about reduced pesticide use, the starving millions in africa it will feed, etc, are bunkum.
I recognise your.sig from kuro5hin. you are an ignorant, thoughless buffoon of the highest order. and congratulations, I responded to your troll. i hope that brings you closer to feeling adequacy.
Hmmm... oh and a really expensive universal modem.
and...
'S a shame, the Psion has the best agenda system I've ever used. The whole OS and bundled applications were absolutely superb. I've never used a machine I've loved and got as much out of as my Psion. Gone the same was as the Agenda, the chord-input british PDA of the 80s. That had some kickass features too.
Did you add an "s" to "asinine" to make a point about me, or your post?:)
No. You Are Wrong. 80% of games sales *do* happen at xmas, but a lot of companies are very cynically dependant on the granny buys. There are (or have been) many second-rate me-toos released that are hugely dependant on buyers who don't know games but know it's called something like... oh... what's the name... uhh... oh, this one looks right, I'll buy that.
I have first hand experience of several dump projects, games that were so dire, but could be flogged at xmas.
And partly, yes, they do release games at christmas because people tend to buy them then. And they can also slip their turds in and do well for them by association.
It's not just games, every company see christmas as a fantastic shitfest, where they can hawk any old trash.
True enough, but I don't think needlessly obfuscated fine print really holds up.
for heck's sake, cigarettes carry a HUGE "this will kill you" warning, but that geezer managed to sue Philip Morris for his terminal cancer. If a defence that you can't understand five words holds up in court, then the EULA does not stand a chance.
Boy, do they *need* that microsoft tax on new PCs to keep this scam running! if *all* users knew they could copy the software, and *not* chew an extra hundred on the cost of their machine, I think we'd be looking at a very different playing field. We'd all bitch about Be or someone else... naaaaah.
I do remember hearing a long time ago that that MSDOS was bought in. They paid for one license, and whoever sold it did not plan it too well, missing the redistribution terms of contract. Hence MS buys *one* piece of software, then cleans up reselling it verbatim to everyone else.
mod me down if you know better.
mod me up if you've heard this too.
mod off if you don't know what the hell I'm on about.:)
oh dear. maybe all this 2d gaming talk has ruined your sense of perspective.
yes, you should do more homework before lashing out usd30k than usd30.
yes, both ford and video game producers manufacture shoddy products and try to heist them on consumers, and wheedle their way out. one important difference to remember about 'suitability for purpose' and 'merchantable' is that if the product does not match up to these claims, you are entitled to your cash back, although obviously dodgier retailers and outfits will try to claim otherwise. Taking payment for (product) is a legally binding contract.
The main issue the original poster missed was that if the video game I buy is buggy and rotten, at least it won't spontaneously reverse into fast moving vehicles or blow up, killing me. So yes, it's fair*er* to rip people off with games than with cars, after a fashion. (I'm informed that on the detection of a critical flaw in a car, the manufacture asseses whether it's cheaper to pay out-of-court settlements and keep quiet, or recall and fix the vehicle; obviously less suffering the latter route, but costs more, and in the long run hurts the manufacturer/models image. I watched a documentary recently about Ford, where this is common practice, and has indeed happened in recent history.)
BTW, did you never notice that most game releases happen at christmas? This is done *deliberately* so that the games industry can flog their most rotten products to non-gamers looking for gifts for gamers; think granny buying a game for her grandson. I've seen flop games increase tenfold their original sale by a cynical christmas release.
with pointlessly obscure puzzles and the use of "mystery" to hide the barren slideshow nature of the game, anyone who buys this deserves everything they get.
they should have stopped after 'cosmic ozmo' which shipped on it's own harddisk. their idea of 'gaming' or even 'entertainment' has always been waaaay far of the mark. maybe you have to buy special 'iCyan' cdroms to read the disks?
nonsense. it's only really in the last decade this rift has appeared. Nintendo were planning modems and home banking with the original NES. What was your commodore 64, your spectrum, your amiga? Games machines? Computers? Consoles?
"computer" is going to mean server very soon. most people will be using 'appliances' under which category games machines will fall.
man you're so wrong! Like when I'm driving down the motorway I see plenty of roadside advertising ('banners' they're called) which I can't click on, yet work!
I usually complete my journey with a new car, having seen a stack of car adverts, smelling great having bought some new CKone ads and pulling up to buy at a local perfumers, and completely shitfaced having seen a bunch of alcohol adverts.
you're underestimating offline advertising my friend. it's costing me a fortune though, but at least i've made some new friends at the police station.
>They lack this ability to fiddle with things - a crucial ingredient for a baby learning how to think. Apes are way smarter than whales and dolphins, because they actually have hands with which to learn things about the world around them
this is true, as long as your definition of intelligence is based around human criteria. It's like the old joke about horses being smarter than people - when did you last see thousands of horses turn up to watch people running around in circles?
I really really do hope we meet smarter aliens than us, so we are *forced* to have a less self-obsessed view of the world as ours, because we are the 'smartest' species.
>>the only animals we have ever empathised with, as a species, are apes and monkeys
>Methinks you have forgotten about DOGS
unlike apes and dolphins, I don't think anyone has ever done serious research into teaching dogs to communicate. apes have been able to formulate new grammar structures, and it has been proven recently that whales learn and develop songs from each other. I get your point, but there are 'animals' on this planet that are showing signs of intelligence that we had previously considered uniquely and definingly human.
was waiting for a gag... but it drags down others!
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the problem with april fool pranks like this is it makes more serious similar efforts seem like jokes too.
we've been working to bring the speed of old skool assembler to java, by removing the wasteful compilation layer, enabling developers to work on fast, pedal-to-the-metal, work out your own offset jumps, while still having object orientation, and run-anywhereness as key. it also incorporates a jini layer for increased ubiquity.
if anyone is interested, the java-jini-asm effort is hosted at http://jism.sourceforge.net/
we cannot appreciate sentient life as a species; "man shall have dominion over animals" as some bible tells us. We slaughter whales; dolphin death is a fall out from tuna farming.
so basically, we'll kill them and eat them, maybe entering them into a forced breeding or cloning programme so we have plenty of tasty novelty alien flesh.
the only animals we have ever empathised with, as a species, are apes and monkeys, because they look like us. if they don't look like us, we got no respect for them; they're food. we've essentially *got* alien culture on earth already and we treat it like shit.
I wanted to set up a company called this but could never truly validate the acronymical nature of it. maybe it would work better as a zeitgeistical sms:
QQQQ
I'd love to pick up the phone and answer "hello, four queue!"
Any fule can see that it's the medium that is innocent; the net is a dumb medium, and it's only the messages that are conveyed that carry any intent, malicious or otherwise.
Surely, what we need to do in the UK is organise shutdowns of *other* media. Get your phone company to call you, and when they do, get someone sat next to you to verbally call you a thief/liar/rapist, loudly enough for the message to be conveyed to the phone. Then insist that the phone company have it's lines removed for carrying defamatory material. Do this with all media. Ring in to TV and radio shows, getting people in the same room as you to carry the same message. Get everything shut down! When there's nothing left to carry commercials and adverts, all media will be reinstated.
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when the front door is wide, wide open?
why should any company buy equipment from the US, Europe, or Australia these days? These governments have *repeatedly* proven themselves to snoop on all traffic and impose some significant back doors of their own.
Pot, Kettle.
While I agree with much of what you say, singling out 'Islamic terrorists' does not benefit anybody.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Douglas_Wells
Comments provide transformative value. Recontectualising video clips in groups to infer and collate new meaning is transformative value. The broadcasters could set up an initiative to do this, but they haven't. I say power to youtube for providing this functionality, amongst everything else it provides, for free.
in windows (and for decades) alt-tab switches apps, with the last used at the start of the list.
pressing shift whilst doing this reverses the direction of focus.
pressing ctrl will abort the focus change.
ctrl-tab switches between tabbed and sub-windows of the current app.
again, shift reverses the selection.
tab alone switches between interface elements of the current window.
shift reverses the selection. this is one nice bit of standardisation no-other OS has got to the same extent.
it's a shame that windows doesn't ship with a manual explaining these things, but who would read it anyway?
Reminds me of SGI when they made expensive hardware with a custom BSD based OS. And a nice 'just-works' camera. And special keyboards and mice and monitor interfaces. And a huge engineering division to support the tiny marketshare of OSes they had. And niche software that ran on only their hardware.
Wonder where they are now?
>No, the USA is a target for 'terrorists' because it has the power to make major changes in the world
And I ask... how is this?
Nothing to do with the vast amount of weapons it has, is it?
The UN has power to make real change, and that's where it should happen. However, the 'powerful' US chooses to ignore the UN as it sees fit, and lie to it when it is expedient.
There's your power for you. Foreign debt, and weapons. There's nothing inherently superior in the American experiment; in fact, right now its looking pretty flawed.
Your response deals entirely in how you see one tabloid word parallel a 100 year old work of fiction. Somehow, this is enough for you not to need to consider the core arguments.
.sig from kuro5hin. you are an ignorant, thoughless buffoon of the highest order. and congratulations, I responded to your troll. i hope that brings you closer to feeling adequacy.
Hello? Do you know how stupid you *are*?
You will find that nearly all non-corporate funded scientific studies have urged caution over the release of genetically modified organisms. you will also find that most of them not only urge caution, but recommend against releasing them at all. and you will further find that the only reason GM products are developed are for intellectual property issues, and that any argument about reduced pesticide use, the starving millions in africa it will feed, etc, are bunkum.
I recognise your
>My problem with the movie was that there was the *name* Final Fantasy, but had none of the elements of a typical Final Fantasy game.
it did! certainly with the later games:
* tiresome characters
* tedious, long, non-interactive plot sections
* confusing battles
* too many 'save' points
* astonishingly predictable plot
* no relation to anyone else in the FF universe
it was spot on for another final fantasy title!
bungatron
you can compile the kernel with -ac? "Allow anonymous coward posts"? Reckless!
yes... PC based wacky digital radios for £200+.
Hmmm... oh and a really expensive universal modem.
and...
'S a shame, the Psion has the best agenda system I've ever used. The whole OS and bundled applications were absolutely superb. I've never used a machine I've loved and got as much out of as my Psion. Gone the same was as the Agenda, the chord-input british PDA of the 80s. That had some kickass features too.
Did you add an "s" to "asinine" to make a point about me, or your post? :)
No. You Are Wrong. 80% of games sales *do* happen at xmas, but a lot of companies are very cynically dependant on the granny buys. There are (or have been) many second-rate me-toos released that are hugely dependant on buyers who don't know games but know it's called something like... oh... what's the name... uhh... oh, this one looks right, I'll buy that.
I have first hand experience of several dump projects, games that were so dire, but could be flogged at xmas.
And partly, yes, they do release games at christmas because people tend to buy them then. And they can also slip their turds in and do well for them by association.
It's not just games, every company see christmas as a fantastic shitfest, where they can hawk any old trash.
True enough, but I don't think needlessly obfuscated fine print really holds up.
for heck's sake, cigarettes carry a HUGE "this will kill you" warning, but that geezer managed to sue Philip Morris for his terminal cancer. If a defence that you can't understand five words holds up in court, then the EULA does not stand a chance.
Boy, do they *need* that microsoft tax on new PCs to keep this scam running! if *all* users knew they could copy the software, and *not* chew an extra hundred on the cost of their machine, I think we'd be looking at a very different playing field. We'd all bitch about Be or someone else... naaaaah.
I do remember hearing a long time ago that that MSDOS was bought in. They paid for one license, and whoever sold it did not plan it too well, missing the redistribution terms of contract. Hence MS buys *one* piece of software, then cleans up reselling it verbatim to everyone else.
:)
mod me down if you know better.
mod me up if you've heard this too.
mod off if you don't know what the hell I'm on about.
oh dear. maybe all this 2d gaming talk has ruined your sense of perspective.
yes, you should do more homework before lashing out usd30k than usd30.
yes, both ford and video game producers manufacture shoddy products and try to heist them on consumers, and wheedle their way out. one important difference to remember about 'suitability for purpose' and 'merchantable' is that if the product does not match up to these claims, you are entitled to your cash back, although obviously dodgier retailers and outfits will try to claim otherwise. Taking payment for (product) is a legally binding contract.
The main issue the original poster missed was that if the video game I buy is buggy and rotten, at least it won't spontaneously reverse into fast moving vehicles or blow up, killing me. So yes, it's fair*er* to rip people off with games than with cars, after a fashion. (I'm informed that on the detection of a critical flaw in a car, the manufacture asseses whether it's cheaper to pay out-of-court settlements and keep quiet, or recall and fix the vehicle; obviously less suffering the latter route, but costs more, and in the long run hurts the manufacturer/models image. I watched a documentary recently about Ford, where this is common practice, and has indeed happened in recent history.)
BTW, did you never notice that most game releases happen at christmas? This is done *deliberately* so that the games industry can flog their most rotten products to non-gamers looking for gifts for gamers; think granny buying a game for her grandson. I've seen flop games increase tenfold their original sale by a cynical christmas release.
Lots of baking soda eh...? Is this taco's first concession that he's a crackhead?
I think we should be told.
with pointlessly obscure puzzles and the use of "mystery" to hide the barren slideshow nature of the game, anyone who buys this deserves everything they get.
they should have stopped after 'cosmic ozmo' which shipped on it's own harddisk. their idea of 'gaming' or even 'entertainment' has always been waaaay far of the mark. maybe you have to buy special 'iCyan' cdroms to read the disks?
idiots.
slashdot at +1 is *nothing* compared to the whiners, idiots, zealots and misinformed numbskulls on zdnet.
*thanks* mr. Taco for letting me get half the crap out of slashdot!
nonsense. it's only really in the last decade this rift has appeared. Nintendo were planning modems and home banking with the original NES. What was your commodore 64, your spectrum, your amiga? Games machines? Computers? Consoles?
"computer" is going to mean server very soon. most people will be using 'appliances' under which category games machines will fall.
man you're so wrong! Like when I'm driving down the motorway I see plenty of roadside advertising ('banners' they're called) which I can't click on, yet work!
:)
I usually complete my journey with a new car, having seen a stack of car adverts, smelling great having bought some new CKone ads and pulling up to buy at a local perfumers, and completely shitfaced having seen a bunch of alcohol adverts.
you're underestimating offline advertising my friend. it's costing me a fortune though, but at least i've made some new friends at the police station.
lt-bs-joke-gt
>They lack this ability to fiddle with things - a crucial ingredient for a baby learning how to think. Apes are way smarter than whales and dolphins, because they actually have hands with which to learn things about the world around them
this is true, as long as your definition of intelligence is based around human criteria. It's like the old joke about horses being smarter than people - when did you last see thousands of horses turn up to watch people running around in circles?
I really really do hope we meet smarter aliens than us, so we are *forced* to have a less self-obsessed view of the world as ours, because we are the 'smartest' species.
>>the only animals we have ever empathised with, as a species, are apes and monkeys
>Methinks you have forgotten about DOGS
unlike apes and dolphins, I don't think anyone has ever done serious research into teaching dogs to communicate. apes have been able to formulate new grammar structures, and it has been proven recently that whales learn and develop songs from each other. I get your point, but there are 'animals' on this planet that are showing signs of intelligence that we had previously considered uniquely and definingly human.
the problem with april fool pranks like this is it makes more serious similar efforts seem like jokes too.
we've been working to bring the speed of old skool assembler to java, by removing the wasteful compilation layer, enabling developers to work on fast, pedal-to-the-metal, work out your own offset jumps, while still having object orientation, and run-anywhereness as key. it also incorporates a jini layer for increased ubiquity.
if anyone is interested, the java-jini-asm effort is hosted at http://jism.sourceforge.net/
we cannot appreciate sentient life as a species; "man shall have dominion over animals" as some bible tells us. We slaughter whales; dolphin death is a fall out from tuna farming.
:-)
so basically, we'll kill them and eat them, maybe entering them into a forced breeding or cloning programme so we have plenty of tasty novelty alien flesh.
the only animals we have ever empathised with, as a species, are apes and monkeys, because they look like us. if they don't look like us, we got no respect for them; they're food. we've essentially *got* alien culture on earth already and we treat it like shit.
just a vegetarian's tuppence, anyway.
I wanted to set up a company called this but could never truly validate the acronymical nature of it. maybe it would work better as a zeitgeistical sms:
QQQQ
I'd love to pick up the phone and answer "hello, four queue!"
i want 1% if that goes anywhere.
Any fule can see that it's the medium that is innocent; the net is a dumb medium, and it's only the messages that are conveyed that carry any intent, malicious or otherwise.
Surely, what we need to do in the UK is organise shutdowns of *other* media. Get your phone company to call you, and when they do, get someone sat next to you to verbally call you a thief/liar/rapist, loudly enough for the message to be conveyed to the phone. Then insist that the phone company have it's lines removed for carrying defamatory material. Do this with all media. Ring in to TV and radio shows, getting people in the same room as you to carry the same message. Get everything shut down! When there's nothing left to carry commercials and adverts, all media will be reinstated.
It's worth a try, surely!