26 November 07 - 08:01R4: The Napster of Nintendo's business model.
According to The Times, you can purchase an "R4 chip" and then get
all manner of games for free! Nevermind that there's a burgeoning homebrew scene around the little device and that it's technically legal in the UK to make personal backups of game cartridges.
Naturally, they pull allusions to Napster (because they're thick) and then illogically start talking about other famous piracy devices (like
the iTrip... I'm confused, too).
Oh, and don't forget the now-requisite China bashing:
The R4 is not the first time that China has exported the means of games piracy to the outside world. Games software is heavily pirated and available throughout Asia. However, the R4, said one industry analyst, takes games piracy into a new level.
Yes, the R4, unlike every other flash cart/mod chip ever made for any other console, brings piracy to a
whole new level. It's massive now! Piracy on the deluxe! It can't be stopped! Nintendo's business model is doomed! Doomed, I say! So says this unnamed analyst.
The sinophobia is getting old, idiots -- China is lapping our asses at pretty much every educational, industrial, and technological opportunity. If the hardest we can compete is to get journalists to write about how they develop piracy devices, then holy shit we are
fucked. Let's just learn Cantonese right now.
Seriously, if you're a journalist and you're a bit thick, don't bother writing anything about the games industry, piracy, computers, or really anything more advanced than a paper notebook and typewriter.
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20 November 07 - 07:43America Fuck Yeah
Hey guys, what's more important than ending the unlawful liberation of a foreign country, an endlessly sliding economy, an increasing gulf between the rich and poor, pathetic private healthcare ruled by megacorporations and the routine erosion of civil liberties by the state?
Why,
Manhunt 2, of course!
Seriously -- did anyone here actually
play it?
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17 November 07 - 08:46Slashdot Wins Again, Again, Again.
And now for the new guide to doing well on Slashdot:
- Pay people who can't write code to write an advertisement about your awesome C# profiler.
- Submit it with a misleading headline and summary -- remember, the more it bashes Microsoft, the better!
- Slashdot posts it anyway. Profit!
More solid gold. I don't think they even got
paid for it.
Here's a hint, those of you who are A. programming in C#, and B. retarded:
events are strong references.
Maybe Slashdot can post an advertorial about how
removing the anal gland from Microsoft products is difficult.
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12 November 07 - 20:14Hey, look!
Sun
got introduced to Google.
It should be nice to see what happens when
smart people work on the JVM for once. I suspect in five or six years, Java will again be popular with developers and people will imagine that Google invented it.
It's unfortunate that the Google engineers aren't touching the onerous syntax or atrocious native-managed interop, but I guess it's only a matter of time.
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12 November 07 - 18:56Web 2.0
Hopefully
this story brings around the start of the end of the insane overvaluation of worthless Web 2.0 companies.
You guys wanna start making business plans now? No? That's okay, too.
Uncov is
a bit less kind:
I think I've been pretty clear so far that the quality of engineering in Web 2.0 is, uh, sub par. Maybe, some of the people who develop these things shouldn't be writing software. It could be that the best career path for many "JavaScript engineers" is suicide.
Free cookie to the first person who can tell me a creative revenge for spammers who add me as their friend on Digg just because I rated up a completely unrelated article ("Hey, person with avatar rated up an article on functional programming. They'll surely
love to rate up my articles on Ron Paul and real estate spam!"). Right now I'm just voting them down, but I really wish the service had some sort of tool to flag friend requestors as spammers or lepers.
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06 November 07 - 17:45Moron Tax
I want to shake the hand of whoever invented the concept of a state lottery.
This woman is ripe for the plucking.
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