1% of one million is $10,000. I spent more than that on college but I'm sure you could get an education for less than that. But let's say that a million-dollar-bonus earner was forced to give it away in 1% increments. He would be able to give $10,000 to exactly 100 people (all before taxes of course). After taxes, he could give approximately $6000 to 100 people, who in turn would only receive $4000 each (after taxes again). Could you go to college on $4k?
What about 1% of $53 million, which was the bonus of one man. Now, take that and extrapolate it to the excessive incomes (does anyone need >1 million per year?) of everyone in America. I guarantee that if you distributed anything over $1 million per year to the lower / middle class, a lot more people would go to college and live better lives.
I'm not saying that the government should do such a drastic income redistribution, but don't talk about a $53M bonus as if it were a $1M income.
Playing VC games online would be a concern, but I don't feel it's a grave one. I'm not sure if you'll be able to use add-ons (nunchuck, classic controller) on the web browser. Given that, it'd be hard (impossible?) to play VC games with just the Wiimote. It would work with some games (NES), just like in the VC, but the vast majority would still be unavailable. I'd pay the $10 to play with the classic controller.
What I do think will happen (especially since the Wii is becoming more popular than even the optimists thought) are made-for-Wii flash games. It could give an extra boost to the Wii's intuitiveness. Depending on how they do the mouse clicks, you could make some simple, yet addictive, web browser games.
And yes, $5 would be nothing for Opera. If I find a reason to use it over my laptop, I'd pay for it in a heartbeat.
No, Nintendo needs to do nothing else to change anything. I got my Wii a while ago, and there is not one instance in any game that requires you to get even close to letting go of the remote. I've played with different people, and sometimes we'll even go crazy with the remotes. It's fun to swing your "sword" like a complete nutjob in Zelda, or run back and forth hitting the ball in Tennis (although neither is necessary at all). You don't throw a sword in real-life, you don't let go of a tennis racket, you shouldn't be letting go of the remote. Even the sports where you would let go (bowling), you have to let go of a button, and I (nor anyone I've played with) have never once had a problem trying to let go of the remote itself.
The strap gives you a lot of slack between the remote and your wrist. There is never any stress on it while it's lax and just hanging there. The only time you'd stress the strap enough (even on the original) is if you've not only let go of the remote, but if it's going crazy fast.
It's definitely a user error, far from a design flaw. This is all complete nonsense.
The OSS motto is "more eyes makes all bugs shallow", I look forward to that same principle working well here.
Yes, but this isn't what Microsoft is doing. If they're even getting close to that philosophy, they would make it truly open. The Linux equivalent of that would be if Canonical (of Ubuntu) invited Novell to come check out their source code.
There's been a lot of discussion about this over at www.epizenter.net - Creative never forced the firmware "upgrade," and they list the removal of FM recording openly on their site. Thus, it will be really hard to get a successful lawsuit out of it.
Besides, I think that all the software that ships with the Ubuntu is free (in all senses of the word), much like Debian. That's why you must enable the non-free repos to get some stuff.
Come on...don't be mean to the folks over at the Commerce Department. They were just in the process of transferring some money from a Chinese-Nigerian bank account to help out a buddy. Lay off of 'em.
Yes, but Stewart himself said that the goal of TDS isn't supposed to be content. He said (paraphrased), "I come on after a show about puppets making prank phone calls!"
I'm hoping that this proves to be 100% successful. I hope that it is impossible to find a cracked copy of Windows Vista. Why?
1) It's not just h4xx0r5 using illegal Windows anymore. I know tons of non-nerds that are currently using hacked XP. If they don't buy Vista, and M$ stops support for XP, it could open their minds to alternatives (a Slashdotter's dream), and (most importantly)
2) I bet over 90% of computer nerds haven't paid for their XP (I'm excluding OEM). If Vista can't be hacked, they won't pay for it. Why would Microsoft care? After all, they aren't making money off of them now, why would it matter with Vista? Because nerds are a majority of Microsoft's customer service staff. When someone's having computer problems, they don't call up Microsoft - they call the guy down the road that works at Best Buy. If he doesn't use Vista, it could "convert" more people.
Of course, lots of people will still use OEMd Vista. But if this works, it could turn out being very bad for Microsoft.
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I'm not saying that the government should do such a drastic income redistribution, but don't talk about a $53M bonus as if it were a $1M income.
Playing VC games online would be a concern, but I don't feel it's a grave one. I'm not sure if you'll be able to use add-ons (nunchuck, classic controller) on the web browser. Given that, it'd be hard (impossible?) to play VC games with just the Wiimote. It would work with some games (NES), just like in the VC, but the vast majority would still be unavailable. I'd pay the $10 to play with the classic controller.
What I do think will happen (especially since the Wii is becoming more popular than even the optimists thought) are made-for-Wii flash games. It could give an extra boost to the Wii's intuitiveness. Depending on how they do the mouse clicks, you could make some simple, yet addictive, web browser games.
And yes, $5 would be nothing for Opera. If I find a reason to use it over my laptop, I'd pay for it in a heartbeat.
No, Nintendo needs to do nothing else to change anything. I got my Wii a while ago, and there is not one instance in any game that requires you to get even close to letting go of the remote. I've played with different people, and sometimes we'll even go crazy with the remotes. It's fun to swing your "sword" like a complete nutjob in Zelda, or run back and forth hitting the ball in Tennis (although neither is necessary at all). You don't throw a sword in real-life, you don't let go of a tennis racket, you shouldn't be letting go of the remote. Even the sports where you would let go (bowling), you have to let go of a button, and I (nor anyone I've played with) have never once had a problem trying to let go of the remote itself.
The strap gives you a lot of slack between the remote and your wrist. There is never any stress on it while it's lax and just hanging there. The only time you'd stress the strap enough (even on the original) is if you've not only let go of the remote, but if it's going crazy fast.
It's definitely a user error, far from a design flaw. This is all complete nonsense.
As a hard-working college student, plagiarism really makes me sick. You know what else ticks me off?
Not only that Google made their own IE, but...so did Yahoo!, but that never gets mentioned on Slashdot.
And of course, the fact that Google's IE download page was a direct ripoff of Yahoo! also somehow doesn't seem be mentioned anywhere.
Not even in the same realm as OSS.
Screw Meta-Moderating. I just Meta-Storied.
Slashdot just got owned by Linux fanboyism. Oh wait...
Nope, I did. Immediately denied. Why else would I be whining about it?
How come this is on Slashdot before news about Flash Player 9 for Linux?
Go ahead and mod me down for Flamebait, but honestly - the very few people here that care about IE7 had it during beta, so this isn't huge news.
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Isn't anything ending in IE immoral?
They're not the first
Ah man, I feel retarded now. So much for making fun of him for missing a number. Jerk.
But does she run Linux?
Nintendo and their price gouging...
There's been a lot of discussion about this over at www.epizenter.net - Creative never forced the firmware "upgrade," and they list the removal of FM recording openly on their site. Thus, it will be really hard to get a successful lawsuit out of it.
Besides, I think that all the software that ships with the Ubuntu is free (in all senses of the word), much like Debian. That's why you must enable the non-free repos to get some stuff.
Come on...don't be mean to the folks over at the Commerce Department. They were just in the process of transferring some money from a Chinese-Nigerian bank account to help out a buddy. Lay off of 'em.
Yes, but Stewart himself said that the goal of TDS isn't supposed to be content. He said (paraphrased), "I come on after a show about puppets making prank phone calls!"
I'm hoping that this proves to be 100% successful. I hope that it is impossible to find a cracked copy of Windows Vista. Why? 1) It's not just h4xx0r5 using illegal Windows anymore. I know tons of non-nerds that are currently using hacked XP. If they don't buy Vista, and M$ stops support for XP, it could open their minds to alternatives (a Slashdotter's dream), and (most importantly) 2) I bet over 90% of computer nerds haven't paid for their XP (I'm excluding OEM). If Vista can't be hacked, they won't pay for it. Why would Microsoft care? After all, they aren't making money off of them now, why would it matter with Vista? Because nerds are a majority of Microsoft's customer service staff. When someone's having computer problems, they don't call up Microsoft - they call the guy down the road that works at Best Buy. If he doesn't use Vista, it could "convert" more people. Of course, lots of people will still use OEMd Vista. But if this works, it could turn out being very bad for Microsoft.