The Velour Fog - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Yes... (Score 2) 85

by The Velour Fog on Friday April 30, 2010 @09:03AM (#32043126) Attached to: Bungie Signs 10-Year Deal With Activision

Well, here we go. One more good game out of Bungie, followed by layoffs, firings, and an endless line of crapass worthless "sequels" from ripoff studios like Neversoft.

Activision didn't buy out Bungie, it's just a publishing deal for one franchise, they have no control over them so they can't fire anyone.

As for rip off sequels from Neversoft, Bungie still own the IP

Comment Re:Yes... (Score 5, Informative) 85

by The Velour Fog on Friday April 30, 2010 @04:19AM (#32041866) Attached to: Bungie Signs 10-Year Deal With Activision

The summary is wrong, they've only signed away the publishing rights to their new franchise, not all games. If things with activision go sour they can still go to another publisher and not continue whatever the new franchise is.

Comment Re:Get a 2560x1600 monitor and run at 1280x800 (Score 1) 549

by The Velour Fog on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @12:54PM (#30130508) Attached to: Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors?

I have that model and run it at 1280x800 due to terrible eyesight. It does scale it.

Comment Forgot formatting (Score 1) 231

by The Velour Fog on Friday January 25, 2008 @08:22AM (#22180000) Attached to: Teen Takes On Donor's Immune System

>True to a certain extent. AB could probably handle O, but AB couldn't handle A or B

Sorry but your totally wrong on this one, a person with AB blood can definitely get an organ of AB, A, B and O. A quick google will confirm that

Submission + - Asus corrects Eee PC source code issue. (blue-gnu.biz)

Submitted by

ozmanjusri

on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @02:12AM

ozmanjusri writes: "Asus has corrected the availability of source code for its Eee PC, and reaffirmed its commitment to meeting the requirements of open source licenses, including the GPL.

They also announced the upcoming release of a new SDK to assist the Open Source community development on the Eee PC."

Submission + - Google and Microsoft Defend Fair Use (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward 11 on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @04:35PM

Anonymous Coward 11 writes: Earlier this month, the Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a complaint with the FTC alleging that professional sports leagues, Hollywood studios, and book publishers were all using copyright notices that misrepresented the law. Now, the group has launched a web site called Defend Fair Use that shows they are serious about making the complaint stick.

Submission + - Taking anti-evolution candidates to task

Submitted by hmccabe on Friday August 17, 2007 @03:54AM

hmccabe writes: Youtube is currently taking submissions for their next debate, in which the Republican candidates will answer the questions. This seems like a good opportunity to challenge those candidates who say they do not believe in evolution, but as I am not an expert in the subject, I would be interested in how the you all feel the question should be presented. For my own part, I think it is important to present the overwhelming body of evidence on the subject as incontrovertible fact, much the same way DNA evidence is during a criminal trial, and ask why the candidate feels they can pick-and-choose what facts they believe in. (Besides the fossil record and the entire study of genetics, I believe there were some experiments in forced speciation in lab environments, but IANA geneticist.) Moreover, I am wary of coming across like Christopher Hitchins, so vitriolic the candidate will defend themselves rather than answer the question. Perhaps the most important aspect of posing the question is to inform the viewers who watch the debate that this is really not a matter of opinion, but of science.

Maybe the question I'm asking is, "Hey geneticists, have you considered addressing evolution in the youtube debates? Can you do it in 30 seconds?"

Submission + - A campaign to block Firefox users (whyfirefoxisblocked.com) 5

Submitted by rarwes on Friday August 17, 2007 @03:32AM

rarwes writes: A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and thus stealing money from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.

Submission + - Tanya Andersen Brings Class Action Against RIAA

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @05:29PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Ever since the RIAA's litigation campaign began in 2003, many people have been suggesting a class action against the RIAA. Tanya Andersen, in Oregon, has taken them up on it. The RIAA's case against this disabled single mother, Atlantic v. Andersen, has received attention in the past, for her counterclaims against the RIAA including claims under Oregon's RICO statute, the RIAA's hounding of her young daughter for a face to face deposition, the RIAA's eventual dropping of the case "with prejudice", and her lawsuit against the RIAA for malicious prosecution, captioned Andersen v. Atlantic. Now she's turned that lawsuit into a class action. The amended complaint seeking class action status (pdf) sues for negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and civil conspiracy."

Submission + - Fair Use for YouTube & MySpace Users

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Friday August 10, 2007 @08:39AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "A few years back, documentary filmmakers didn't know what copyrighted clips they could safely include in their films as a "fair use". Now there's a well-accepted set of "best practices" that establishes rational, predictable rules. Well the same folks who brought rationality to the world of documentary filmmaking are about to work their magic in the user-generated online content space, including user-created videos on YouTube and user-created music on My Space. They said : "Nonprofessional, online video now accounts for a sizeable portion of all broadband traffic, with much of the work weaving in copyrighted material....A new culture is emerging — remix culture, an unpredictable mix of the witty, the vulgar, the politically and culturally critical, and the just plain improbable..... What's fair in online-video use of copyrighted material? The healthy growth of this new mode of expression is at risk of becoming a casualty of the efforts of copyright owners to limit wholesale redistribution of their content on sites like YouTube, and of videomakers' own uncertainties about the law.""

Submission + - Austalia to force ISP filtering

Submitted by Phurge on Friday August 10, 2007 @06:51AM

Phurge writes: http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/veto-for-parents-on -web/2007/08/09/1186530535350.html "Internet service providers will be forced to filter web content at the request of parents, under a $189 million Federal Government crackdown on online bad language, pornography and child sex predators" "Today Mr Howard will hail the ISP filtering measure as a world first by any Government, and is expected to offer funding to help cover the cost. Parents will be able to request the ISP filter option when they sign up with an ISP. It will be compulsory to provide it."

Submission + - Linux Foundation Calls for 'Respect for Microsoft' (vnu.co.uk)

Submitted by

kripkenstein

on Friday August 10, 2007 @05:54AM

kripkenstein writes: "Jim Zemlin (executive director for the Linux Foundation) has said at LinuxWorld that the open source community should stop poking fun at Microsoft:

Open source vendors have to recognise that Windows is here to stay and that together with Microsoft it will form a duopoly in the market for operating systems. This also requires that the Linux community respects Microsoft rather than ridicule it.

"There are some things that Windows does pretty well," Zemlin said. Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition.

An interesting perspective, but saying Microsoft has "a good track record in fending off competition" is like saying Muhammad Ali was "good at hitting his opponents in the ring"."

Submission + - Paper trail and open source software vote imminent (lawbean.com)

Submitted by

Spamicles

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @01:47AM

Spamicles writes: "A vote is imminent for the bill that is a direct response to problems that occurred during the 2006 elections. This legislation would create a paper trail for elections, require a manual audit of every federal election, and open the source code of voting software in certain circumstances. The bill currently has 216 co-sponsors and is expected to be brought to the floor of the House and passed any day."

Submission + - Microsoft votes to add ODF to ANSI standards list

Submitted by

RzUpAnmsCwrds

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @09:32AM

RzUpAnmsCwrds writes: "In a puzzling move, Microsoft today voted to support the addition of the OpenDocument file formats to the American National Standards List. OpenDocument is used by many free-software office suites, including OpenOffice.org. Microsoft is still pushing its own Office Open XML format, which it hopes will also become an ANSI standard. Is Microsoft serious about supporting ODF, or is this a merely a PR stunt to make Office Open XML look more like a legitimate standard?"

Submission + - New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned

Submitted by

Ant

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @04:15AM

Ant writes: "Dark Horizons report after much talk and posturing over the future of "The Terminator" franchise/series in recent years, something surprising has happened... The Halcyon Company has acquired the franchise rights to the popular "The Terminator" movie series and intend to make a new trilogy that would anchor their movie company..."

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