Stage lights flashing,
The feeling's smashing.
My heart and soul belong to you.
And I'm here now, singing.
All bells are ringing.
My dream has finally come true.
Stage fright, go away,
This is my big day.
This is my time to be a star!
And the thrill that I feel
Is really unreal.
I can't believe I've come this far!
This is my time to be a star!
Actually (AFAIK), the last major toy company involved in producing Robotech toys was Playmates Toys, who ran a fairly complete series of Robotech figures at reasonable prices under the Exosquad label in the 1990s. So says the VF-1S Veritech and Male Zentraedi Power Armor standing on my desk.
Now the problem is game play, Doom 3 game play was pretty much non-existent, it was a simple shooter with awesome graphics, no real story or plot to help carry it.
I wouldn't say that's entirely true. You're spot on about the gameplay, but Doom 3 actually had quite a lot of plot and story. Unfortunately, nearly all of it was presented on PDAs scattered throughout the game that took too long to read and completely drew the player out of the situation, rather than having a plot that was integral to and intertwined with the gameplay. They were using System Shock's style of story telling in a world that had already played Half-Life 2. Then they hammered the final nail into the coffin with those hair brained monster closets.
...but Doom 3 had a story. It really did. Maybe not a great one, but it was there.
Can't believe this hasn't been pointed out yet but neither iD nor Valve are exactly garage enterprises. These are pretty big companies and you know, I find it really hard to believe that this never went past a lawyer. Programmers don't have to know anything at all about licenses and stuff like that because that's what the rest of the company is for.
I'd hardly call id or Valve pretty big companies. Valve currently lists 104 employees, and id only 34.
I'm not a lawyer, and I technically don't know jack about anything, but it sounds to me like Microsoft is inadvertantly laying the grounds for Linux's eventual Laches defense. If I'm right, this apparently wouldn't completely protect Linux et al from lawsuit, but it would certainly mitigate the potential damages.
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm honestly just sick and tired of companies using threats of litigation as a weapon in the press, rather than using the courts to solve their problems. If Microsoft feels that Linux and other F/OSS projects are infringing on their patents, they should either tell the projects so they can work around them, or if they feel they've suffered damages, bloody well sue and be done with it. Shit or get off the pot, as I believe the saying goes.
(Cue half a dozen posts telling me that I'm misusing the word "irony". Come on, don't disappoint me here!)
Sorry to disappoint, but I've come to begrudgingly accept the modern usage of Irony. Any attempt to fight it would be like standing on the beach, beating the tides back with a stick.
However, I would like to say this... I'm all out of points, but I implore any mods out there to please mod the parent up. I can't describe how sick I am of seeing people utterly fail to recognize or understand "passive" constructions while chastising others for using them. Thanks bunches.
I tried to run Heroes of Might and Magic 3: it runs, but it's dog slow. With Windows it worked out of the box and I didn't even need to install it.
Once upon a time, I used to work phone support for that game (amongst others), and for just one glimmering moment, I thought my experience might come in handy on Slashdot. Then I quickly realized that your problem falls completely outside the bounds of anything we ever would've bothered to support. In fact, most of the tech support department would've been left scratching their heads, asking "WTF is a linux?"
So yeah... Wish I could offer you any advice. If it's any consolation, there were actually plenty of windows systems that the game had difficulty running on as well. Also, I don't know why you'd try dosbox. HOMM3 was Windows native. I wonder if might be relying on some quirky, outdated parts of DirectX 5/6 that haven't been reverse engineered by the WINE folks yet. After all, the New World Computing guys were, IMO, some fairly quirky programmers.
Perhaps alleged wife killer would work better. Or maybe something entirely different -- Wired is running a story about Nina Reiser's ex-lover, who has confessed to killing eight people in a case unrelated to Ms. Reiser's. Nina Reiser, readers might recall, is the missing and presumed dead wife of Hans Reiser, a prominant open source filesystem developer who is currently on trial for her murder.
Crappy, I know... but at least it's a little less ambiguous. Of course, we can't expect professional editing out of Wired's editors. After all, they're just professional freaking editors.
What I'm honestly curious about is this: Is this numeric string code copyrighted? Where is the copyright filed, if so?
Standard Disclaimer: IANAL -- By United States Copyright law, and I believe the laws of all signees of the Berne Convention (163 nations), a work is "copyrighted" the instant it is recorded in some tangible form. There is no need for it to be registered with any legal body. The United States Copyright Office does offer a registration service, but it's more a matter of convenience than of necessity.
Now, a sixteen digit hexidecimal number almost certainly fails to meet the minimum requirements for novelty and authorship (whatever the hell such qualities are referred to legally) and thus is not under the protection of copyright. However, the distribution of encryption codes undoubtedly falls afoul of the draconion terms of the DMCA, which has basically nothing to do with copyright.
The US Copyright Office runs a fairly informative website that's well worth the 10 or so minutes it takes to skim --> http://www.copyright.gov/
You dare interrupt the self-congratulatory propaganda!? Simply touching Linux transforms all users into geniuses, technical wizards and just plain sexy bastards, damn it. GENIUSES says I!
Well, at least Slackware does. I dunno about the other distros.;)
This paragraph proves that you do not know what we are talking about.
Well, I think that's self-evident, since he's asking a question about it.
The PowerPC in the "Cell" processor in the PS3 is not, repeat NOT a "Cell". It is known as the PPE, or Primary Processing Element (IIRC.) The actual Cell processors in the PS3 are known as the SPEs. I forget what the S stands for, maybe synergistic or something like that. I honestly cannot remember and the information is out there so YOU can look it up:)
The chip in the PS3 has one PPE (a PowerPC with VERY roughly the processing power of a late-model pentium III) and eight SPEs or Cell cores. One of those cores is disabled, probably in order to improve yields. The Linux kernel runs on both the PPE, and ONE of the SPEs. The other six available SPEs are available to the user. Note that all of this information appears in the comment to which you replied, but I am now being more redundant and overusing emphasis in an attempt to get you to actually read it.
If I could offer a couple clarifications (although I'm surely no expert):
The PPE stands for Power Processing Element (IIRC).
The S in SPE does in fact stand for Synergistic.
I've never heard anyone, in any article or any of the whitepapers I've read, refer to the SPEs as Cell processors, Cell cores or Cells. The Cell Broadband Engine is the entire chip, while the SPEs are precisely that... SPEs. The root of the confusion in this thread stems from A) Referring to processing elements as Cells (etc.) and B) Arbitrarily deciding that the term applies to the SPEs and not the PPE.
I can't really blame the fellow for being confused at your reply. I suppose this is a fine example of why people should do their own research instead of asking around on/.
I usually really enjoy your posts, drinkypoo, but, with all respect, in this case, I think you could stand to fling around a little less attitude.
How about punishing those who commit the offenses in such a way as to eliminate the desire of those, who would follow them, to commit the offense?
Although I agree with your sentiment, I wonder how exactly one punishes someone willing to die for their cause. Nothing frightens the establishment more than a suicidal attacker, since there's no way to deter them. Imprisonment? Torture? Death? For a suicidal attacker, these are already accepted as the price of their act.
This is why I tend to think that there can be no effective solution for terrorism. An attacker who plans to die while attacking you is prepared to surmount any hurdle, no matter how high. Sometimes I'm idealistic enough to think that we might be able to prevent terrorism, but that would require not pissing people off so badly that they're willing to die just to hurt us. So far, that's not an option that our society's been willing to consider.
I might be wrong, but I think it helps to start with Article I: Section 8, which layed out Congress' powers, and which Amendment XVI was written to refine (I think).
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
I was just thinking about this the other day -- Lightsabre on the wii-mote, force powers on the nunchuck. Imagine yanking the nunchuck to force-pull an enemy towards you, and then slashing them with your sabre in mid-air. I can dream...
Slashdot Mirror
Oops. Missed the part about producing a show. Mea culpa.
By the way, Rosebud was the name of his sled.
Come on, everyone... You know you want to.
Stage lights flashing,The feeling's smashing.
My heart and soul belong to you.
And I'm here now, singing.
All bells are ringing.
My dream has finally come true.
Stage fright, go away,
This is my big day.
This is my time to be a star!
And the thrill that I feel
Is really unreal.
I can't believe I've come this far!
This is my time to be a star!
Actually (AFAIK), the last major toy company involved in producing Robotech toys was Playmates Toys, who ran a fairly complete series of Robotech figures at reasonable prices under the Exosquad label in the 1990s. So says the VF-1S Veritech and Male Zentraedi Power Armor standing on my desk.
Come on mods... this was clearly tongue in cheek. Except the part about Celine Dion, of course. Nuclear annihilation just isn't enough in some cases.
I wouldn't say that's entirely true. You're spot on about the gameplay, but Doom 3 actually had quite a lot of plot and story. Unfortunately, nearly all of it was presented on PDAs scattered throughout the game that took too long to read and completely drew the player out of the situation, rather than having a plot that was integral to and intertwined with the gameplay. They were using System Shock's style of story telling in a world that had already played Half-Life 2. Then they hammered the final nail into the coffin with those hair brained monster closets.
...but Doom 3 had a story. It really did. Maybe not a great one, but it was there.
I'd hardly call id or Valve pretty big companies. Valve currently lists 104 employees, and id only 34.
I'm not a lawyer, and I technically don't know jack about anything, but it sounds to me like Microsoft is inadvertantly laying the grounds for Linux's eventual Laches defense. If I'm right, this apparently wouldn't completely protect Linux et al from lawsuit, but it would certainly mitigate the potential damages.
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm honestly just sick and tired of companies using threats of litigation as a weapon in the press, rather than using the courts to solve their problems. If Microsoft feels that Linux and other F/OSS projects are infringing on their patents, they should either tell the projects so they can work around them, or if they feel they've suffered damages, bloody well sue and be done with it. Shit or get off the pot, as I believe the saying goes.
Sorry to disappoint, but I've come to begrudgingly accept the modern usage of Irony. Any attempt to fight it would be like standing on the beach, beating the tides back with a stick.
However, I would like to say this... I'm all out of points, but I implore any mods out there to please mod the parent up. I can't describe how sick I am of seeing people utterly fail to recognize or understand "passive" constructions while chastising others for using them. Thanks bunches.
Once upon a time, I used to work phone support for that game (amongst others), and for just one glimmering moment, I thought my experience might come in handy on Slashdot. Then I quickly realized that your problem falls completely outside the bounds of anything we ever would've bothered to support. In fact, most of the tech support department would've been left scratching their heads, asking "WTF is a linux?"
So yeah... Wish I could offer you any advice. If it's any consolation, there were actually plenty of windows systems that the game had difficulty running on as well. Also, I don't know why you'd try dosbox. HOMM3 was Windows native. I wonder if might be relying on some quirky, outdated parts of DirectX 5/6 that haven't been reverse engineered by the WINE folks yet. After all, the New World Computing guys were, IMO, some fairly quirky programmers.
I believe the Backstroke of the West version is a little more appropriate.
Do not want!
Perhaps alleged wife killer would work better. Or maybe something entirely different -- Wired is running a story about Nina Reiser's ex-lover, who has confessed to killing eight people in a case unrelated to Ms. Reiser's. Nina Reiser, readers might recall, is the missing and presumed dead wife of Hans Reiser, a prominant open source filesystem developer who is currently on trial for her murder.
Crappy, I know... but at least it's a little less ambiguous. Of course, we can't expect professional editing out of Wired's editors. After all, they're just professional freaking editors.
Nope, then it'd just be a 1 word prepositional phrase that's 10 words long. ;)
Whoops. Nix that bit about the DMCA having nothing to do with copyright. See endx7 above. :D
Standard Disclaimer: IANAL -- By United States Copyright law, and I believe the laws of all signees of the Berne Convention (163 nations), a work is "copyrighted" the instant it is recorded in some tangible form. There is no need for it to be registered with any legal body. The United States Copyright Office does offer a registration service, but it's more a matter of convenience than of necessity.
Now, a sixteen digit hexidecimal number almost certainly fails to meet the minimum requirements for novelty and authorship (whatever the hell such qualities are referred to legally) and thus is not under the protection of copyright. However, the distribution of encryption codes undoubtedly falls afoul of the draconion terms of the DMCA, which has basically nothing to do with copyright.
The US Copyright Office runs a fairly informative website that's well worth the 10 or so minutes it takes to skim --> http://www.copyright.gov/
Have you considered the possibility that you're the type of artificial intelligence the CAPTCHA was designed to foil?
You dare interrupt the self-congratulatory propaganda!? Simply touching Linux transforms all users into geniuses, technical wizards and just plain sexy bastards, damn it. GENIUSES says I!
;)
Well, at least Slackware does. I dunno about the other distros.
Cape salesman? ;)
I take it you're not a Unix user.
| is a pipe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar
Well, I think that's self-evident, since he's asking a question about it.
The PowerPC in the "Cell" processor in the PS3 is not, repeat NOT a "Cell". It is known as the PPE, or Primary Processing Element (IIRC.) The actual Cell processors in the PS3 are known as the SPEs. I forget what the S stands for, maybe synergistic or something like that. I honestly cannot remember and the information is out there so YOU can look it upThe chip in the PS3 has one PPE (a PowerPC with VERY roughly the processing power of a late-model pentium III) and eight SPEs or Cell cores. One of those cores is disabled, probably in order to improve yields. The Linux kernel runs on both the PPE, and ONE of the SPEs. The other six available SPEs are available to the user. Note that all of this information appears in the comment to which you replied, but I am now being more redundant and overusing emphasis in an attempt to get you to actually read it.
If I could offer a couple clarifications (although I'm surely no expert):
I can't really blame the fellow for being confused at your reply. I suppose this is a fine example of why people should do their own research instead of asking around on /.
I usually really enjoy your posts, drinkypoo, but, with all respect, in this case, I think you could stand to fling around a little less attitude.
Down fido. None of them do. I was agreeing with you and adding more information.
How about punishing those who commit the offenses in such a way as to eliminate the desire of those, who would follow them, to commit the offense?
Although I agree with your sentiment, I wonder how exactly one punishes someone willing to die for their cause. Nothing frightens the establishment more than a suicidal attacker, since there's no way to deter them. Imprisonment? Torture? Death? For a suicidal attacker, these are already accepted as the price of their act.
This is why I tend to think that there can be no effective solution for terrorism. An attacker who plans to die while attacking you is prepared to surmount any hurdle, no matter how high. Sometimes I'm idealistic enough to think that we might be able to prevent terrorism, but that would require not pissing people off so badly that they're willing to die just to hurt us. So far, that's not an option that our society's been willing to consider.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
I was just thinking about this the other day -- Lightsabre on the wii-mote, force powers on the nunchuck. Imagine yanking the nunchuck to force-pull an enemy towards you, and then slashing them with your sabre in mid-air. I can dream...