Yeah, that's great buddy, but some people have to WORK for a living. Or does home schooling produce students who can analyze all the benefits of a particular thing while ignoring entirely the reasons it's not practical for the vast majority of people?
My personal least favorite is Space: 1999. Even the premise of that show is utterly moronic, and the effects are worse. (Ok, the Eagle moon lander is a cool design, but most effects on that show sucked.) Buck Rogers maybe didn't have "thinking man's" plots, but it was fun and the effects were good for the time.
I thought the Sci-Fi Episodes of MST3K were the best of the bunch. Maybe I'm alone here... but it's also not like the show didn't get a good run. It ran, what, 11 seasons? That's a miracle for a 2-hour timeslot show with a unique premise.
The real problem is that sometimes they showed movies that really weren't all that bad at all. If you watch, say, "I Accuse My Parents" in isolation, sure it's no Hitchcock, but it's not a bad movie either. They should have done some more weird Japanese imports.
I think they're hilarious. I swear that those movies are more spoofs than anything. About half of them are just pure ripoffs of something that was in theaters a few years before. (Like "snake king"... same plot as Anaconda, a tenth the budget.) All of them "star" actors who are physically attractive, but have the charisma of a dead fly.
My theory is that they're ramping up to create a new MST3K. At least... one can only hope. But the majority of those Sci-Fi Original Movies fall into the "so bad they're good" catagory.
The problem is that everyone in the game would set up a forum on the web and collectively they'd have each month's mystery solved in like three days. You can't have a dev team keep up with stuff like that.
Just FYI, Xbox already has Syberia and Syberia II, two of the best adventure games made in the last 5 years. It also has some 'psuedo-adventure' games like Beyond Good and Evil.
A lot of the "oh no adventure games are gone!" crap is from people who thing "adventure" = "LucasArts." There are still adventure games being made every year. If you buy them, there will be MORE adventure games made every year... since not a lot of people buy them, there are LESS made every year. See how that works?
Seriously, if everybody who posted "there are no adventure games" on Slashdot actually went out and bought Syberia II, they'd basically be funding Syberia III.
I've seen this argument before, and it's wholly invalid. As you state in your post, Apple has just as much backward compatibility "cruft" in, say, Mac OS X Tiger, as does Microsoft in Windows XP Pro, if not more so. And, more to the point, it works!... kinda. It's better than nothing, but Classic mode in OS X frequently crashes on me. What's worse is that it doesn't pop up a error dialog, or even beep... it just disappears as if I quit it. (Photoshop 5.5 causes this frequently. Anybody want to donate a newer version of Photoshop to me?)
FYI, there are a lot of games with good voice acting other than GTA. Demon Stone, for instance. Or Chronicles of Riddick. Or Halo 1 & 2. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Etc.
I bet probably 50% of games now have at least Simpsons-level voice acting, and 15-20% have Disney-movie voice acting.
And you, what, plug the notebook into your computer with a USB->wire-bound adapter?
The point of the question is that he wants to be able to write things like emails or such that he can later transfer to computer without having to retype. If you have to retype it, you haven't saved any time at all.
When I plug in a piece of hardware, that's generally because I want to use it. If I didn't want to use my sound card, I wouldn't have plugged it in in the first place. I honestly have no idea what your point is... that it's a bad thing for it to be easy to upgrade your computer?
So why did you buy the AMD PC in the first place instead of a Apple computer?
I find your attitude very strange... if you're so dedicated to MacOS X that you'd instantly format all your Windows drives and burn the CDs, why do you buy a computer that is incapable of running MacOS X?
1) Halo 2 isn't the first game to charge for premium content. I think MechAssault was the first, but I may be wrong.
2) As with almost everything people whine about on Slashdot, if you don't like it-- don't buy it! If a lot of people don't like it, it will go away. If a lot of people do like it, it'll stick around and you'll be in the minority. Sorry, that's just how a free market works.
I think Microsoft would prefer that people, you know, actually *pay* for the games they play... helps have good relations with developers and distributers.
Not only should Microsoft not stand in the way of your piracy, they should make piracy easier on the 360! Yes, that makes perfect sense...
How is listening to free music "civil disobedience" and not just "I'm a cheapskate who wants to listen to free music?"
That's my exact point. You're not going to convince people that something needs to change by simply fulfilling your every whim and operating as if the law simply didn't exist. You know, other people who had important issues found sensible non-violent ways of bringing them to attention, and they changed the world!
Martin Luthor King Jr, and Mohatma Ghandi would protest this issue by organizing boycotts of RIAA bands, by starting up letter-writing campaigns, by organizing debates. Not by just CD after CD with free music because "hey, civil disobedience, man!"
Sure, there are SOME people on Slashdot who don't agree with the copyright laws and are willing to DO SOMETHING to fight them. But the vast majority, I think, are simply freeloading the free music and movies and don't give a crap about artist's rights.
(For the record, I personally think that current copyright laws are very sensible, I'm just commenting on this "movement" from an outsider's perspective.)
Those articles compares box office receipts with video game *sales.* That's not a very valid comparison; video game sales should be compared with DVD sales, and my hunch would be that video games are way behind.
I dunno. With an ACL? I'm not a system administrator, and your question has pretty much absolutely NOTHING to do with my post. Go ask a professional how to do it.
Amen, Zoomba. I've been reading your posts in this thread, and finally a little bit of sanity on Slashdot.
If Slashdotters are unhappy with the way copyright law works, they need to work to change copyright law-- NOT simply pirate the products they want anyway which 1) doesn't accomplish anything because the lawmakers will never hear the Slashdotter's side fo the story and 2) changes you from a 'protestor' to a 'criminal.' (And yes, you're a 'criminal' regardless of how immoral you think the law is.)
I'm sick of this (as Snopes.com puts it) SLACKtivism. If you want to change the world, you have to WORK AT IT. You can't sit on your ass, clicking "download now" on Kazaa and expect the copyright laws to miraculously change to the laws you'd prefer, it just won't happen.
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Here's a hanky, might wanna rub the foam off your mouth there.
Yeah, that's great buddy, but some people have to WORK for a living. Or does home schooling produce students who can analyze all the benefits of a particular thing while ignoring entirely the reasons it's not practical for the vast majority of people?
Other Slashdotters, how about a judgement call here:
Is this a really clever troll? Or just some young geek utterly out-of-touch with society? I can see it either way.
Hey now, Buck Rogers is fun as hell.
My personal least favorite is Space: 1999. Even the premise of that show is utterly moronic, and the effects are worse. (Ok, the Eagle moon lander is a cool design, but most effects on that show sucked.) Buck Rogers maybe didn't have "thinking man's" plots, but it was fun and the effects were good for the time.
I thought the Sci-Fi Episodes of MST3K were the best of the bunch. Maybe I'm alone here... but it's also not like the show didn't get a good run. It ran, what, 11 seasons? That's a miracle for a 2-hour timeslot show with a unique premise.
The real problem is that sometimes they showed movies that really weren't all that bad at all. If you watch, say, "I Accuse My Parents" in isolation, sure it's no Hitchcock, but it's not a bad movie either. They should have done some more weird Japanese imports.
I think they're hilarious. I swear that those movies are more spoofs than anything. About half of them are just pure ripoffs of something that was in theaters a few years before. (Like "snake king"... same plot as Anaconda, a tenth the budget.) All of them "star" actors who are physically attractive, but have the charisma of a dead fly.
My theory is that they're ramping up to create a new MST3K. At least... one can only hope. But the majority of those Sci-Fi Original Movies fall into the "so bad they're good" catagory.
The problem is that everyone in the game would set up a forum on the web and collectively they'd have each month's mystery solved in like three days. You can't have a dev team keep up with stuff like that.
Just FYI, Xbox already has Syberia and Syberia II, two of the best adventure games made in the last 5 years. It also has some 'psuedo-adventure' games like Beyond Good and Evil.
A lot of the "oh no adventure games are gone!" crap is from people who thing "adventure" = "LucasArts." There are still adventure games being made every year. If you buy them, there will be MORE adventure games made every year... since not a lot of people buy them, there are LESS made every year. See how that works?
Seriously, if everybody who posted "there are no adventure games" on Slashdot actually went out and bought Syberia II, they'd basically be funding Syberia III.
I've seen this argument before, and it's wholly invalid. As you state in your post, Apple has just as much backward compatibility "cruft" in, say, Mac OS X Tiger, as does Microsoft in Windows XP Pro, if not more so. And, more to the point, it works! ... kinda. It's better than nothing, but Classic mode in OS X frequently crashes on me. What's worse is that it doesn't pop up a error dialog, or even beep... it just disappears as if I quit it. (Photoshop 5.5 causes this frequently. Anybody want to donate a newer version of Photoshop to me?)
FYI, there are a lot of games with good voice acting other than GTA. Demon Stone, for instance. Or Chronicles of Riddick. Or Halo 1 & 2. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Etc.
I bet probably 50% of games now have at least Simpsons-level voice acting, and 15-20% have Disney-movie voice acting.
And you, what, plug the notebook into your computer with a USB->wire-bound adapter?
The point of the question is that he wants to be able to write things like emails or such that he can later transfer to computer without having to retype. If you have to retype it, you haven't saved any time at all.
How do you get data off the eMate and into a modern computer running MacOS X or Windows XP?
It's called a "compiler," smartguy.
Brilliant comprehension skills you're displaying here.
Crazy-ass guess figures here:
Percentage of modders who mod their Xbox to pirate games:
98%
Percentage of modders who mod their Xbox to use Japanese-locale games or a media center:
2%
Percentage of the former who play pirated ROMs or MP3s with the mod chip:
1.5%
Somethings wrong in that model. ... what?
When I plug in a piece of hardware, that's generally because I want to use it. If I didn't want to use my sound card, I wouldn't have plugged it in in the first place. I honestly have no idea what your point is... that it's a bad thing for it to be easy to upgrade your computer?
And it was a lame cliche then.
Could we try to get a little ORIGINAL humor on this site?
So why did you buy the AMD PC in the first place instead of a Apple computer?
I find your attitude very strange... if you're so dedicated to MacOS X that you'd instantly format all your Windows drives and burn the CDs, why do you buy a computer that is incapable of running MacOS X?
Two things:
1) Halo 2 isn't the first game to charge for premium content. I think MechAssault was the first, but I may be wrong.
2) As with almost everything people whine about on Slashdot, if you don't like it-- don't buy it! If a lot of people don't like it, it will go away. If a lot of people do like it, it'll stick around and you'll be in the minority. Sorry, that's just how a free market works.
I think Microsoft would prefer that people, you know, actually *pay* for the games they play... helps have good relations with developers and distributers.
Not only should Microsoft not stand in the way of your piracy, they should make piracy easier on the 360! Yes, that makes perfect sense...
How is listening to free music "civil disobedience" and not just "I'm a cheapskate who wants to listen to free music?"
That's my exact point. You're not going to convince people that something needs to change by simply fulfilling your every whim and operating as if the law simply didn't exist. You know, other people who had important issues found sensible non-violent ways of bringing them to attention, and they changed the world!
Martin Luthor King Jr, and Mohatma Ghandi would protest this issue by organizing boycotts of RIAA bands, by starting up letter-writing campaigns, by organizing debates. Not by just CD after CD with free music because "hey, civil disobedience, man!"
Sure, there are SOME people on Slashdot who don't agree with the copyright laws and are willing to DO SOMETHING to fight them. But the vast majority, I think, are simply freeloading the free music and movies and don't give a crap about artist's rights.
(For the record, I personally think that current copyright laws are very sensible, I'm just commenting on this "movement" from an outsider's perspective.)
Those articles compares box office receipts with video game *sales.* That's not a very valid comparison; video game sales should be compared with DVD sales, and my hunch would be that video games are way behind.
I dunno. With an ACL? I'm not a system administrator, and your question has pretty much absolutely NOTHING to do with my post. Go ask a professional how to do it.
Amen, Zoomba. I've been reading your posts in this thread, and finally a little bit of sanity on Slashdot.
If Slashdotters are unhappy with the way copyright law works, they need to work to change copyright law-- NOT simply pirate the products they want anyway which 1) doesn't accomplish anything because the lawmakers will never hear the Slashdotter's side fo the story and 2) changes you from a 'protestor' to a 'criminal.' (And yes, you're a 'criminal' regardless of how immoral you think the law is.)
I'm sick of this (as Snopes.com puts it) SLACKtivism. If you want to change the world, you have to WORK AT IT. You can't sit on your ass, clicking "download now" on Kazaa and expect the copyright laws to miraculously change to the laws you'd prefer, it just won't happen.
Hell, video games are outselling every other medium out there these days.
Source?