This decision comes from the court system, not the presidential administration. Not only is the court a separate entity, but they have a responsibility to question the rest of the government and kill off anything unconstitutional... not to say that I love Bush or anything, but the fault here is clearly not his. If the Supreme Court, and lesser courts, were doing their jobs, Bush's administration wouldn't attempt to pull stuff like this because the courts would obviously stop it and it would be a waste of time and money. The problem is that the courts aren't stopping it.
So the $5 LCD wristwatch should include a manual for every IC inside of it? Even though printing the manual would likely cost more than producing the watch?
What was the point, exactly, of looking up my name? It strikes me as enormously rude to reply by name to a service I've chosen to use a handle for.
In any case, you don't even know what blogs are. If you think the ONLY blogs that exist are the ones on MySpace and LiveJournal, then you're too ignorant to judge.
The more time these knuckleheads spend figuring out how to duct tape a webcam onto their strap-on genitalia without electrocuting themselves, the less likely I am to run into them on the street.
Do you think the percentage of those "knuckleheads" is different than it was in 1965? Do you think the odds of meeting one on the street is different than in 1965?
In any case, you've convinced me of the following: You're a pessimistic asshole. Pessimistic because you immediately assume a phenomenon you're almost entirely ignorant of (blogging) is negative, and an asshole because you went out of your way to very rudely post my name instead of my handle. Why don't you spend some time learning to be a human being and come back?
when the media steps in and declares this drivel substantive enough to affect elections and political trends, it becomes my responsibility to point out that the blogosphere is a narcissistic circle-jerk perpetuated by adolescents struggling with their identities and hormones.
So you basically just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ear, and go "can't hear you, can't hear you" instead of facing the fact that the media is *correct* and blogs *do* affect elections and political trends? Why don't you just becomes a full-on Luddite and leave if its as bad as you say? There's nothing stopping you from living like it's 1965 if you want.
Goddamned, the only thing I hate more than elitist jerks are the people who are SO negative that they can't see anything positive about anything at all.
I think the reason for all this elitism towards places like myspace, livejournal, etc from/.ers is because we once believed that the "democratization" of this medium would lead to a renessaince, would be a life-changing event
It hasn't been? What life do you know of that's unchanged by the Internet? *May*be your grandma, but probably not even hers. (All my grandparents have computers and regularly check their email; I'd wager a good percentage do.)
and would open the floodgates on good content.
1) who made you judge and jury of "good" content? Ok, in your opinion MySpace has no good content. I'd call you an elitist jerk again, but you've already admitted to it.
2) It has. See, for instance, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8 . What are the odds you'd be able to see that without the Internet making it possible? Slim to none, closer to none. And the best part is that YouTube and Google Video are *full* of great content like this.
I think the Serious engine 1.0 (that ran the first Serious Sam game) was probably capable of the portal effects they needed, or very close to it. Some of the Serious engine demo components involved very very similar portals and gravity-bending effects. And that came out in, what, 2001?
I think 3DRealms just finally decided to stop slacking and get some real work done for once.
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The Xbox 360 version requires the DVD in the drive to play.;)
Go back 10 years, when everyone was talking about the Internet revolution. Remember that? It was going to be great! Everyone can publish their thoughts, make their own site, share photos with their friends, instantly contact anybody!
And now that it's happened thanks to sites like MySpace, LiveJournal, blogs, etc... suddenly everyone's saying, "oh those people are all idiots, they shouldn't be allowed to make websites!"
In short; STFU, you elitist assholes. Sites like MySpace are the reason the Internet has grown enough that you can whine about MySpace on Slashdot.
Give them a break, I'm sure they're doing the best they can. In any case, I seriously doubt MySpace owns their own datacenter anyway... blame whoever at the data center who didn't fuel up the generator, not the poor client who's there all night working around the problem.
Flash has all the APIs and tools needed to make its movies entirely 100% accessible. You can't blame Macromedia/Adobe because webmasters don't *use* them.
Guess what? Windows has all the accessibility tools easily available, too, but how many Windows programs can't even cope with changing the default font size? It's not Microsoft's fault; they did their work.
E.g. which do you think Steve Martin is prouder of- "Pink Panther" or "Leap of Faith?"
LA Story.
Uh... sorry to be off-topic, but if any movie can really be considered "his", it's LA Story, and personally I think it's his best film. The idea of a talking roadsign is brilliant.
Blockbuster.com is the same way. Thankfully, they're fixing it and the fix is in beta now... so hopefully changing priorities won't be painful in a few weeks.
I think the sites were designed with the assumption that you wouldn't keep more than 10 movies in queue. I have over 150 movies in there, and for that, changing numbered priority is completely unworkable.
I'm sure he means that the Post Office doesn't come to his house and pick up mail from a mailbox out front. Which is true of a lot of rural areas.
What he *typed*, of course, is that his Post Office doesn't collect outgoing mail, which makes no damned sense at all... if they don't collect outgoing mail, what the hell do they do all day?
I love how every new idea presented on Slashdot is reacted to as if it's the end of civilization as we know it. You wouldn't think that a community of programmers would be luddites. And you wouldn't think that a community full of open-source zealots would be upset at a new service that gives them more choice in how they view movies... isn't "more choice" supposed to be one of the big benefits of open source? And it's not like Apple's holding a gun to your head to install iTunes.
I don't think it's that young, though. Considering the love that Nintendo gets around here, and the fact that the people posting aren't 8 years old, I'd guess the average age is at least in the high 20s. If there were more teens, you'd get more love for the Xbox.
I said that they were a copy of the iPod *style*, not that they compare at all in terms of quality or anything else. You know, they use the same white plastic, and curved corners, and generally look iPod-ish.
It's the Linux community that's absolutely obsessed with Microsoft, not the Macintosh community. For instance, when someone posts a problem with an Apple product (Finder is really slow with network drives) you don't see 40,000 responses saying "yeah, well, Windows is slow with network drives also!!!!one!!!" like you do with Linux users.
What makes you say that the Xbox 360 sucks? You state it as if it's a fact and not an opinion... I happen to own one, and I enjoy it all the time. (I just finished the hard levels in Marble Blast and I'm picking up Prey today.)
You might be right that it's kind of a copy of the iPod style, but, then again, so are Sony laptops and I'm sure those are selling in Japan. My personal take is that the Xbox does poorly in Japan partly because it doesn't have (as much of) the type of game genres that are popular in Japan, and partly because Japanese consumers prefer Japanese brands over western ones. That is, a combination of your viewpoint and the grandparent one.
I think a wider question is, "does it really matter?" The Xbox is an American console made by an American company that plays mostly American-made games... you wouldn't really expect it to do well in Japan, and you wouldn't really expect Microsoft to put a ton of effort in selling such an American-centric product in that market. I mean, that's kind of like Cadillac selling Escalades in Tokyo.
I think the Xbox release was poorly timed. First of all, most gamers who own an Xbox also own a gaming-capable PC (that's not true of PS2 or Gamecube), and so I would wager most Xbox gamers had already played if it they wanted.
I think that anthropomorphic characters have a tougher time in the modern world now that there's a huge online "furry" community of perverts with thousands of websites about screwing them, or at least drawing them nude in porn images.
Twenty years ago, you'd think of Disney characters. Heck, even ten years ago, almost all afternoon cartoons had anthropomorphic animals in them. Now, it's not nearly as common. And it'll only get worse as more people discover the "furry" community online.
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This decision comes from the court system, not the presidential administration. Not only is the court a separate entity, but they have a responsibility to question the rest of the government and kill off anything unconstitutional... not to say that I love Bush or anything, but the fault here is clearly not his. If the Supreme Court, and lesser courts, were doing their jobs, Bush's administration wouldn't attempt to pull stuff like this because the courts would obviously stop it and it would be a waste of time and money. The problem is that the courts aren't stopping it.
I only agree with about half the stuff the EFF does. Not enough to earn my money, sorry.
You could install MacOS this way in 1984. Of course, it relied on a custom BIOS and wouldn't have worked on PCs... but still. The idea's old.
So the $5 LCD wristwatch should include a manual for every IC inside of it? Even though printing the manual would likely cost more than producing the watch?
What was the point, exactly, of looking up my name? It strikes me as enormously rude to reply by name to a service I've chosen to use a handle for.
In any case, you don't even know what blogs are. If you think the ONLY blogs that exist are the ones on MySpace and LiveJournal, then you're too ignorant to judge.
The more time these knuckleheads spend figuring out how to duct tape a webcam onto their strap-on genitalia without electrocuting themselves, the less likely I am to run into them on the street.
Do you think the percentage of those "knuckleheads" is different than it was in 1965? Do you think the odds of meeting one on the street is different than in 1965?
In any case, you've convinced me of the following: You're a pessimistic asshole. Pessimistic because you immediately assume a phenomenon you're almost entirely ignorant of (blogging) is negative, and an asshole because you went out of your way to very rudely post my name instead of my handle. Why don't you spend some time learning to be a human being and come back?
when the media steps in and declares this drivel substantive enough to affect elections and political trends, it becomes my responsibility to point out that the blogosphere is a narcissistic circle-jerk perpetuated by adolescents struggling with their identities and hormones.
So you basically just close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ear, and go "can't hear you, can't hear you" instead of facing the fact that the media is *correct* and blogs *do* affect elections and political trends? Why don't you just becomes a full-on Luddite and leave if its as bad as you say? There's nothing stopping you from living like it's 1965 if you want.
Goddamned, the only thing I hate more than elitist jerks are the people who are SO negative that they can't see anything positive about anything at all.
Let's take your key sentence piece by piece:
/.ers is because we once believed that the "democratization" of this medium would lead to a renessaince, would be a life-changing event
I think the reason for all this elitism towards places like myspace, livejournal, etc from
It hasn't been? What life do you know of that's unchanged by the Internet? *May*be your grandma, but probably not even hers. (All my grandparents have computers and regularly check their email; I'd wager a good percentage do.)
and would open the floodgates on good content.
1) who made you judge and jury of "good" content? Ok, in your opinion MySpace has no good content. I'd call you an elitist jerk again, but you've already admitted to it.
2) It has. See, for instance, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8 . What are the odds you'd be able to see that without the Internet making it possible? Slim to none, closer to none. And the best part is that YouTube and Google Video are *full* of great content like this.
I think the Serious engine 1.0 (that ran the first Serious Sam game) was probably capable of the portal effects they needed, or very close to it. Some of the Serious engine demo components involved very very similar portals and gravity-bending effects. And that came out in, what, 2001?
I think 3DRealms just finally decided to stop slacking and get some real work done for once.
The Xbox 360 version requires the DVD in the drive to play. ;)
You know what pisses me off?
Go back 10 years, when everyone was talking about the Internet revolution. Remember that? It was going to be great! Everyone can publish their thoughts, make their own site, share photos with their friends, instantly contact anybody!
And now that it's happened thanks to sites like MySpace, LiveJournal, blogs, etc... suddenly everyone's saying, "oh those people are all idiots, they shouldn't be allowed to make websites!"
In short; STFU, you elitist assholes. Sites like MySpace are the reason the Internet has grown enough that you can whine about MySpace on Slashdot.
Shit happens.
Give them a break, I'm sure they're doing the best they can. In any case, I seriously doubt MySpace owns their own datacenter anyway... blame whoever at the data center who didn't fuel up the generator, not the poor client who's there all night working around the problem.
Flash has all the APIs and tools needed to make its movies entirely 100% accessible. You can't blame Macromedia/Adobe because webmasters don't *use* them.
Guess what? Windows has all the accessibility tools easily available, too, but how many Windows programs can't even cope with changing the default font size? It's not Microsoft's fault; they did their work.
What the hell does BPM stand for?
Yes, I enjoy my Bleeding Pancreas Monitoring software very much, thank you.
It might not be against the intent of the law, but yes, it is against the specific wording of the law.
E.g. which do you think Steve Martin is prouder of- "Pink Panther" or "Leap of Faith?"
LA Story.
Uh... sorry to be off-topic, but if any movie can really be considered "his", it's LA Story, and personally I think it's his best film. The idea of a talking roadsign is brilliant.
Blockbuster.com is the same way. Thankfully, they're fixing it and the fix is in beta now... so hopefully changing priorities won't be painful in a few weeks.
I think the sites were designed with the assumption that you wouldn't keep more than 10 movies in queue. I have over 150 movies in there, and for that, changing numbered priority is completely unworkable.
I'm sure he means that the Post Office doesn't come to his house and pick up mail from a mailbox out front. Which is true of a lot of rural areas.
What he *typed*, of course, is that his Post Office doesn't collect outgoing mail, which makes no damned sense at all... if they don't collect outgoing mail, what the hell do they do all day?
I love how every new idea presented on Slashdot is reacted to as if it's the end of civilization as we know it. You wouldn't think that a community of programmers would be luddites. And you wouldn't think that a community full of open-source zealots would be upset at a new service that gives them more choice in how they view movies... isn't "more choice" supposed to be one of the big benefits of open source? And it's not like Apple's holding a gun to your head to install iTunes.
I don't think it's that young, though. Considering the love that Nintendo gets around here, and the fact that the people posting aren't 8 years old, I'd guess the average age is at least in the high 20s. If there were more teens, you'd get more love for the Xbox.
Uh, what exactly is Visio's competition? The only one I can think of is OmniGraffle, and as far as I know, that's only available on Macintosh.
I'd like some explanation as to why Visio is a failure.
I said that they were a copy of the iPod *style*, not that they compare at all in terms of quality or anything else. You know, they use the same white plastic, and curved corners, and generally look iPod-ish.
It's the Linux community that's absolutely obsessed with Microsoft, not the Macintosh community. For instance, when someone posts a problem with an Apple product (Finder is really slow with network drives) you don't see 40,000 responses saying "yeah, well, Windows is slow with network drives also!!!!one!!!" like you do with Linux users.
What makes you say that the Xbox 360 sucks? You state it as if it's a fact and not an opinion... I happen to own one, and I enjoy it all the time. (I just finished the hard levels in Marble Blast and I'm picking up Prey today.)
You might be right that it's kind of a copy of the iPod style, but, then again, so are Sony laptops and I'm sure those are selling in Japan. My personal take is that the Xbox does poorly in Japan partly because it doesn't have (as much of) the type of game genres that are popular in Japan, and partly because Japanese consumers prefer Japanese brands over western ones. That is, a combination of your viewpoint and the grandparent one.
I think a wider question is, "does it really matter?" The Xbox is an American console made by an American company that plays mostly American-made games... you wouldn't really expect it to do well in Japan, and you wouldn't really expect Microsoft to put a ton of effort in selling such an American-centric product in that market. I mean, that's kind of like Cadillac selling Escalades in Tokyo.
I think the Xbox release was poorly timed. First of all, most gamers who own an Xbox also own a gaming-capable PC (that's not true of PS2 or Gamecube), and so I would wager most Xbox gamers had already played if it they wanted.
I think that anthropomorphic characters have a tougher time in the modern world now that there's a huge online "furry" community of perverts with thousands of websites about screwing them, or at least drawing them nude in porn images.
Twenty years ago, you'd think of Disney characters. Heck, even ten years ago, almost all afternoon cartoons had anthropomorphic animals in them. Now, it's not nearly as common. And it'll only get worse as more people discover the "furry" community online.