This lawsuit helped start the tech slide and what you propose would drive us evn lower.
Would you care to back up your little rant with some evidence? I would think that the only company harmed at all by the suit is Microsoft. If anything, it gave other companies some much needed breathing room. I don't see the connection between the tech slide and the anti-trust case. Care to enlighten me?
A real miscarriage of justice is the murders and such that walk free every day - why don't we spend more time and effort punishing those injustices?
Not sure exactly who you're referring to here, it seems to be wide open to interpretation. I would have to ask why we should have to choose just one injustice to protest? The outcome of this case could have a profound effect, either negative or positive depending on how it plays out, on the entire country, and even the rest of the world in the coming years.
So what remedy would you like? You want Bill to just promise not to do it again? Yeah.. that worked real well last time. Fact is, this is the second major case against them. They lost the first time and ignored the consent decree. They lost the second time, and now we're going to slap them with another consent decree which they will proceed to ignore? How does that make sense?
The market didn't correct anything with IBM. A 13 year long anti-trust case probably helped a bit. While it didn't end with a win for the government, it did force IBM to stop most of its more egregious abuses.
See the links I posted in response to the other reply, they explain it pretty well. Short answer: The balls are too light, and since they have a liquid center, only the shell gets any real spin. Once it leaves the barrel, you lose a lot of speed and spin.
Slashdot messed that one up. Seems there is a bit of a bug with inserting the link descriptors after links. I just repasted my message into notepad and I can see that I closed the anchor tag before that last paragraph. Something is whacked.
I couldn't find any links to article with pictures. I saw an article in a paintball magazine that had pictures of their tests, but I don't remember which mag, and it was a while back. I did find a few sites with article on the subject though. It's not the same, but it might help a bit.
Here's a link that talks about the Flatline that puts backspin on the ball. I got shot with this damn thing the last time I played a couple months ago. I thought I was safely out of range. I saw balls dropping 10 yards away from me all over the place. Then all of the sudden a bunch of them start whizzing past me and then 4 of them nailed me. The guy was standing way back with the others that were shooting at me. I couldn't have hit him at that range even if I had the world's best aim. The thing actually works.
As has been noted already, rifled barrels don't seem to help. There are barrels that are bent in a certain way in order to put backspin on the ball, which gives it increased range, and doesn't seem to effect accuracy. And there are electric loaders that have spinning paddles inside to keep the balls flowing quickly so they don't jam up.
PS - I will admit that the MS optical mouse is the best mouse I've ever used.
That's strange. Everyone I know of that uses them reports some of the same problems. Namely that they just whack out sometimes, especially in games. I'll be playing Q3 and just running along, and them BAM.. i'm staring straight up at the ceiling. No idea why this happens (could be driver.. could be hardware), but it was annoying enough that I went back to my trusty Logitech ball mouse. That combined with the Ratpadz surface is almost ideal for gaming. I'm starting to eye the Logitech optical mice now tho. I may give it a try.
and now look -- the adults have settled things without any of your crazy adolescent ideas.
And now we get to sit back and watch Microsoft prove to everyone that this decree will make absolutely no difference whatsoever and that the "adults" were fucking morons who accomplished jack shit when it comes to remedying Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior. Moron.
The problem arises when people wrap themselves in the comfort of believing that "we're still better off than those other poor bastards," instead of standing up to the government when it tries to take away our rights little by little. If people don't wake up and do something (it takes a lot more than the pitiful few that seem to give a damn right now) soon, they'll realize that it doesn't really matter who's better than those other poor bastards. We're all screwed now.
Shouldn't matter. There are some pretty well obfuscated english texts too. They still get first amendment protection though, regardless of whether most people can figure out what the hell they're saying.
What in fucking hell actually qualifies the shrub to be fucking el presidente anyway? What the fuck has he ever done right? He's an idiot and it's all he can do to get up in front of the cameras and get the fucking words that they write for him to come out of his mouth in something resembling the proper order! He isn't running a damn thing! He does what his advisors and constituents (by this I mean the corps that fund his sorry ass) tell him to do. There must be several million people more qualified than he is to be president. Unfortunately they aren't a former president's son, nor do they have strong ties to oil interests and other powerful lobbies, nor do they have the distinct lack of ethics and conscience that seems to be a requirement for the upper levels of our government. FUCK BUSH. HE ISN'T THE BEST FOR ANY JOB! (with the possible exception of human minesweeper)
there ya go, C:\Program Files is actually your new hard drive.
I think you skipped something there. Does it automatically move the contents of the folder to the new drive? Does it screw up any of the registry entries for your apps?
Most people that think copyright is a good idea in principle also understand that in current practice it's horrible. The term is effectively unlimited, and now the DMCA severely curtails fair use and reverse engineering rights. Not to mention the SSSCA that I'm sure we haven't seen the last of. Copyright in theory is a good idea. But when the greedy bastards of this world get ahold of the government, things go downhill fast.
TA was based on the ability to control the resources on the map. If you could control more resources you could build more and better units. Resource starvation campaigns were one of the most used tactics from what I saw when playing with friends. You would try take over a pass or high ground near the resources and then dig in and deny your opponent access to them. Once you'd been able to do this successfully a couple of times, you would generally be able to start cranking out the big guns that would let you finish the guy off.
From what I understand of the game so far, it sounds like Master of Orion III will use some of your suggestions. Instead of building up enormous fleets and hurling them at your enemy, you'll build much smaller fleets and they'll only be indirectly controllable. Each fleet will have an admiral in charge of it. You give the orders and the admirals carry them out as they see fit. It certainly sounds interesting.
Then I'd weed them out in the first week by firing anyone who *didn't* re-install their system.
Of course you'd have to be sure that by doing so they weren't violating some existing company policy (and at most companies that would be a virtual certainty).
Currently mail directed to Congress and other parts of the government is being shipped away from DC. They are planning to irradiate the mail before returning it to DC. I understand that quite a bit of it is headed for Ohio. Not sure where else it might be going, or how long the process will take. It's quite possible that it could take weeks for mail to get to DC.
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This lawsuit helped start the tech slide and what you propose would drive us evn lower.
Would you care to back up your little rant with some evidence? I would think that the only company harmed at all by the suit is Microsoft. If anything, it gave other companies some much needed breathing room. I don't see the connection between the tech slide and the anti-trust case. Care to enlighten me?
A real miscarriage of justice is the murders and such that walk free every day - why don't we spend more time and effort punishing those injustices?
Not sure exactly who you're referring to here, it seems to be wide open to interpretation. I would have to ask why we should have to choose just one injustice to protest? The outcome of this case could have a profound effect, either negative or positive depending on how it plays out, on the entire country, and even the rest of the world in the coming years.
I disagree - only because EVERY company does this.
And if every company was a convicted abusive monopoly, then I would hope that it would apply to them as well.
Fine Microsoft for every undocumented API that should be disclosed under the agreement.
Under the current wording of the agreement, Microsoft would have a good argument that virtually none of their APIs and Protocols should be disclosed.
So what remedy would you like? You want Bill to just promise not to do it again? Yeah.. that worked real well last time. Fact is, this is the second major case against them. They lost the first time and ignored the consent decree. They lost the second time, and now we're going to slap them with another consent decree which they will proceed to ignore? How does that make sense?
The market didn't correct anything with IBM. A 13 year long anti-trust case probably helped a bit. While it didn't end with a win for the government, it did force IBM to stop most of its more egregious abuses.
See the links I posted in response to the other reply, they explain it pretty well. Short answer: The balls are too light, and since they have a liquid center, only the shell gets any real spin. Once it leaves the barrel, you lose a lot of speed and spin.
Slashdot messed that one up. Seems there is a bit of a bug with inserting the link descriptors after links. I just repasted my message into notepad and I can see that I closed the anchor tag before that last paragraph. Something is whacked.
I couldn't find any links to article with pictures. I saw an article in a paintball magazine that had pictures of their tests, but I don't remember which mag, and it was a while back. I did find a few sites with article on the subject though. It's not the same, but it might help a bit.
http://www.tecinfo.com/~jayhawk/pbvsfa.html
http://www.automags.org/resource/tech/tomstech/03_ spinning.shtml
Here's a link that talks about the Flatline that puts backspin on the ball. I got shot with this damn thing the last time I played a couple months ago. I thought I was safely out of range. I saw balls dropping 10 yards away from me all over the place. Then all of the sudden a bunch of them start whizzing past me and then 4 of them nailed me. The guy was standing way back with the others that were shooting at me. I couldn't have hit him at that range even if I had the world's best aim. The thing actually works.
http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/flatshot /index.shtml
As has been noted already, rifled barrels don't seem to help. There are barrels that are bent in a certain way in order to put backspin on the ball, which gives it increased range, and doesn't seem to effect accuracy. And there are electric loaders that have spinning paddles inside to keep the balls flowing quickly so they don't jam up.
You're right... I missed that.
PS - I will admit that the MS optical mouse is the best mouse I've ever used.
That's strange. Everyone I know of that uses them reports some of the same problems. Namely that they just whack out sometimes, especially in games. I'll be playing Q3 and just running along, and them BAM.. i'm staring straight up at the ceiling. No idea why this happens (could be driver.. could be hardware), but it was annoying enough that I went back to my trusty Logitech ball mouse. That combined with the Ratpadz surface is almost ideal for gaming. I'm starting to eye the Logitech optical mice now tho. I may give it a try.
and now look -- the adults have settled things without any of your crazy adolescent ideas.
And now we get to sit back and watch Microsoft prove to everyone that this decree will make absolutely no difference whatsoever and that the "adults" were fucking morons who accomplished jack shit when it comes to remedying Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior. Moron.
I think those last three bullets should be considered logical ORs. All three don't have to apply.
Actually she's the same judge who is now looking to nail the RIAA to another wall.
Will it be made public? I would LOVE to see Hillary tacked up and made available for public derision, and perhaps tomatoes ;)
The problem arises when people wrap themselves in the comfort of believing that "we're still better off than those other poor bastards," instead of standing up to the government when it tries to take away our rights little by little. If people don't wake up and do something (it takes a lot more than the pitiful few that seem to give a damn right now) soon, they'll realize that it doesn't really matter who's better than those other poor bastards. We're all screwed now.
Shouldn't matter. There are some pretty well obfuscated english texts too. They still get first amendment protection though, regardless of whether most people can figure out what the hell they're saying.
Not a great idea. Those require combat. Not something we want to be involved in if it can be avoided.
What in fucking hell actually qualifies the shrub to be fucking el presidente anyway? What the fuck has he ever done right? He's an idiot and it's all he can do to get up in front of the cameras and get the fucking words that they write for him to come out of his mouth in something resembling the proper order! He isn't running a damn thing! He does what his advisors and constituents (by this I mean the corps that fund his sorry ass) tell him to do. There must be several million people more qualified than he is to be president. Unfortunately they aren't a former president's son, nor do they have strong ties to oil interests and other powerful lobbies, nor do they have the distinct lack of ethics and conscience that seems to be a requirement for the upper levels of our government. FUCK BUSH. HE ISN'T THE BEST FOR ANY JOB! (with the possible exception of human minesweeper)
there ya go, C:\Program Files is actually your new hard drive.
I think you skipped something there. Does it automatically move the contents of the folder to the new drive? Does it screw up any of the registry entries for your apps?
Most people that think copyright is a good idea in principle also understand that in current practice it's horrible. The term is effectively unlimited, and now the DMCA severely curtails fair use and reverse engineering rights. Not to mention the SSSCA that I'm sure we haven't seen the last of. Copyright in theory is a good idea. But when the greedy bastards of this world get ahold of the government, things go downhill fast.
TA was based on the ability to control the resources on the map. If you could control more resources you could build more and better units. Resource starvation campaigns were one of the most used tactics from what I saw when playing with friends. You would try take over a pass or high ground near the resources and then dig in and deny your opponent access to them. Once you'd been able to do this successfully a couple of times, you would generally be able to start cranking out the big guns that would let you finish the guy off.
From what I understand of the game so far, it sounds like Master of Orion III will use some of your suggestions. Instead of building up enormous fleets and hurling them at your enemy, you'll build much smaller fleets and they'll only be indirectly controllable. Each fleet will have an admiral in charge of it. You give the orders and the admirals carry them out as they see fit. It certainly sounds interesting.
Then I'd weed them out in the first week by firing anyone who *didn't* re-install their system.
Of course you'd have to be sure that by doing so they weren't violating some existing company policy (and at most companies that would be a virtual certainty).
Currently mail directed to Congress and other parts of the government is being shipped away from DC. They are planning to irradiate the mail before returning it to DC. I understand that quite a bit of it is headed for Ohio. Not sure where else it might be going, or how long the process will take. It's quite possible that it could take weeks for mail to get to DC.