Thompson also just got kicked off the videogame violence case going on in Alabama because of his frequent press releases. His response? Accuse the judge of being unfit and biased. Gamepolitics said that the letter Thompson wrote was so inflamitory they were afraid that if they posted it they might get sued for libel. While that seems unlikely, that gives you an indication of how outrageous his claims are.
I've written a lot about Thompson on my blog and, because I find it funny, I've put an Amazon affiliate link for his book on the front page. I'm just waiting for Thompson to send a threatening letter to Amazon because they let people put ads for his book on sites that disagree with him.
I typically plug most of my stuff into powerstrips and with the exception of the cable box which takes forever to restart, I turn the powerstrips off every night before I go to bed. Most of these components I've had for at least 5 years and none of them have any problems working as soon as I turn the powerstrip back on. Even my reciever remembers all of its settings and I've left the powerstrip turned off on it for weeks while on vacation.
Of course this raises the question, "if they work fine after having no power sent to them, then why are they made to draw power even when they are off???" Can anyone answer that?
I got in the habit when I lived in the dorms in college and could hear the stuff humming while I was trying to sleep and just kept doing it ever since. I suppose it is like these electronic thermostats that seem so popular. My family always just turned it down before the last person went to sleep at night...
Realistically, there are tons of other places that waste much more electricity than appliances. Basically all the buildings at all the universities I've either studies or worked at leave lots of lights on 24/7. During holiday breaks, I've even tried to turn off the lights in the hallway of our dept. office only to come back the next day to find that someone has turned them back on and left them on. Of course that isn't even mentioning the fact that the heat in our building can't be adjusted and so during the winter it is so hot we open the windows in the hall and turn the AC on in our offices (and I do just turn the "Fan" part of the AC unit on since it is winter and cold out, but many of others do actually put the AC on high)... or the fact that we are told not to turn off our office computers, or the people who live four blocks away but still seem to need to drive to the office...
While I haven't done any calculations on it, I would imagine that fixing the heating in our department building would save more energy than all of the department members unplugging their electonics while not in use...
I think the most effective thing to do would be for everyone to try to return their broken cds to Wal-Mart. They are the largest music retailer in America. Even if they don't take them back, if enough people do it, you will piss off Wal-Mart and Sony doesn't want to piss off Wal-Mart.
Probably the same reason why people keep asking "Did they know they were breaking the law when they released Plame's name?" and why I get a speeding ticket even if I didn't know I was speeding...
I'm no expert, but I've read that the "dirtyness" of modern diesel engines, like those in the VW, is debatable. They produce different kinds of emmisions, but the overall volume of pollutants isn't all that different. Again, or so I've read. If anyone actually has some numbers, I would be interested in reading them.
As the beginning of the video notes, the book, Masters of Doom, has the details. According to the book, Microsoft was trying to get people to write games for Win95 and not DOS so they tried to get id to write a version of Doom for Win95 and they wouldn't. They did let Microsoft write rewrite it though.
I'm pretty amazed this video has finally surfaced. It was yanked by Microsoft immediately after it was shown, so many assumed that the original copy had been destroyed. Ever since I read about this in Masters of Doom I've wanted to see this. Awesome find.
Most of my components say not to stack anything on top of them anyway. They have vents in the top and are a bit warm on top. Of course that doesn't stop me from stacking them, but most manuals do say you shouldn't. See, by making them hard to stack, the game manufacturers are trying to help!
Someone on here suggested the Nightly Tester Tools Extension to force old extensions to work. I found it to be a lifesaver and works with just about every extension I've tried.
It seems to me that if companies like Google need to hire programmers to work on the "less glamorous" aspects of FOSS applications, that points out a significant weakness in the FOSS development model.
Except they aren't hiring people to work on FOSS applications. The are hiring people to work on ONE FOSS application: openoffice.org. Because they haven't, at least to my knowledge, hired people to work on lots of FOSS applications, we can't generalize. Perhaps this points to a signifigant weakness of openoffice.org, but I don't think that we can make any statements about FOSS applications in general.
I can download Microsoft Office 2003 form my university and the university website says Office is 400mb. Also available from my school is WordPerfect Office12 which is 325mb. 80mb doesn't sound so bad to me...
I screwed up I meant to imply that it was infinitly times more expensive since zero time infinity is still zero. To say it is infinitly times more expensive probably isn't mathmatically accurate either...
I don't know about anyone else, but I've found google print and amazon's look inside to be very useful. If I'm reading a scholarly book that is indexed by either service, it is a great resource to be able to search for a single word. It's much more complete than any index in the back of a book. You can see if the author ever uses a certain word, or when. Even if it is a word or phrase in the index in the back of the book, the search gives you a sentence or two of context so you can see if the use of the word is relevent to what you're looking for. If every book was searchable I would be thrilled.
Where ar ethese games that let you commit sexual assault? I don't want to play them, but we hear so much about them they must be in every Wal-Mart and Best Buy, right?
Let's see, even in GTA3, where there are prostitutes, that sex is consentual. Sure you can run them over, but you can do that to anyone in the game and that isn't sexual. Even with the Hot Coffee mod, it is also consentual.
Aside from old Atari 2600 games like Custer's Revenge, where are these sexually deviant games???
It couldn't be that the people who are saying these things are horribly uninformed or ill-informed???
Apparently "OpenOffice" is trademarked by someone else. Therefore, legally they have to call it "OpenOffice.org" or risk getting sued. Since Sun still uses StarOffice as a seperate non-free version, what else can it be called?
What's so anti-Christian about evolution? The Catholic church has accepted it nearly since Darwin wrote about it. Of course those who beleive in creationism tend to beleive that Catholicism isn't Christian anyway...
I wonder what will happen when the new Microsoft Office 12 comes out and it has the radically different menu system? If OpenOffice.org can get some publicity out by then it might make people look twice at a program that looks kind of like the old office rather than the new office which looks so different.
I think the fact that the picture they used for Dr. Who was from the failed Millenium movie and not any of the other doctors says a lot about how much they know about Dr. Who. That was probably the first press picture they found and didn't bother looking for one a little more representative of the series.
As a college student in grad school who is writing lots and lots of papers, I would love it if all the books I have to buy for class were available as ebooks. That way I could cut and paste a quote without having to figure out a way to hold the book open and in a place I can see it while I type it in. Moreover, the ability to keyword search for a word of phrase in a book is invaluable whenever you remember the phrase and can't find it and it isn't listed in the index. I can't tell you how much time I've spent searching for something in a paper bookbecause whoever mad ethe index didn't feel like indexing the term that I just happen to remember. (google print and amazin's look inside the book are helpful in this area, but not every book is in those yet).
I'm no expert, but it would seem that it would be possible to write a greasemonkey script that turns all slashdot links into coralized links. Is there a reason why this can't be done?
Slashdot Mirror
When I saw commenting classes in five minutes, I got excited because I thought it would tell me how to grade my student's papers more efficiently...
Thompson also just got kicked off the videogame violence case going on in Alabama because of his frequent press releases. His response? Accuse the judge of being unfit and biased. Gamepolitics said that the letter Thompson wrote was so inflamitory they were afraid that if they posted it they might get sued for libel. While that seems unlikely, that gives you an indication of how outrageous his claims are.
I've written a lot about Thompson on my blog and, because I find it funny, I've put an Amazon affiliate link for his book on the front page. I'm just waiting for Thompson to send a threatening letter to Amazon because they let people put ads for his book on sites that disagree with him.
I typically plug most of my stuff into powerstrips and with the exception of the cable box which takes forever to restart, I turn the powerstrips off every night before I go to bed. Most of these components I've had for at least 5 years and none of them have any problems working as soon as I turn the powerstrip back on. Even my reciever remembers all of its settings and I've left the powerstrip turned off on it for weeks while on vacation.
Of course this raises the question, "if they work fine after having no power sent to them, then why are they made to draw power even when they are off???" Can anyone answer that?
I got in the habit when I lived in the dorms in college and could hear the stuff humming while I was trying to sleep and just kept doing it ever since. I suppose it is like these electronic thermostats that seem so popular. My family always just turned it down before the last person went to sleep at night...
Realistically, there are tons of other places that waste much more electricity than appliances. Basically all the buildings at all the universities I've either studies or worked at leave lots of lights on 24/7. During holiday breaks, I've even tried to turn off the lights in the hallway of our dept. office only to come back the next day to find that someone has turned them back on and left them on. Of course that isn't even mentioning the fact that the heat in our building can't be adjusted and so during the winter it is so hot we open the windows in the hall and turn the AC on in our offices (and I do just turn the "Fan" part of the AC unit on since it is winter and cold out, but many of others do actually put the AC on high)...
or the fact that we are told not to turn off our office computers, or the people who live four blocks away but still seem to need to drive to the office...
While I haven't done any calculations on it, I would imagine that fixing the heating in our department building would save more energy than all of the department members unplugging their electonics while not in use...
If only there some reviews for videogames than these kinds of stupid articles would be pointless. ...oh wait...
I think the most effective thing to do would be for everyone to try to return their broken cds to Wal-Mart. They are the largest music retailer in America. Even if they don't take them back, if enough people do it, you will piss off Wal-Mart and Sony doesn't want to piss off Wal-Mart.
Probably the same reason why people keep asking "Did they know they were breaking the law when they released Plame's name?" and why I get a speeding ticket even if I didn't know I was speeding...
I'm no expert, but I've read that the "dirtyness" of modern diesel engines, like those in the VW, is debatable. They produce different kinds of emmisions, but the overall volume of pollutants isn't all that different. Again, or so I've read. If anyone actually has some numbers, I would be interested in reading them.
As the beginning of the video notes, the book, Masters of Doom, has the details. According to the book, Microsoft was trying to get people to write games for Win95 and not DOS so they tried to get id to write a version of Doom for Win95 and they wouldn't. They did let Microsoft write rewrite it though.
I'm pretty amazed this video has finally surfaced. It was yanked by Microsoft immediately after it was shown, so many assumed that the original copy had been destroyed. Ever since I read about this in Masters of Doom I've wanted to see this. Awesome find.
Most of my components say not to stack anything on top of them anyway. They have vents in the top and are a bit warm on top. Of course that doesn't stop me from stacking them, but most manuals do say you shouldn't. See, by making them hard to stack, the game manufacturers are trying to help!
Someone on here suggested the Nightly Tester Tools Extension to force old extensions to work. I found it to be a lifesaver and works with just about every extension I've tried.
It seems to me that if companies like Google need to hire programmers to work on the "less glamorous" aspects of FOSS applications, that points out a significant weakness in the FOSS development model.
Except they aren't hiring people to work on FOSS applications. The are hiring people to work on ONE FOSS application: openoffice.org. Because they haven't, at least to my knowledge, hired people to work on lots of FOSS applications, we can't generalize. Perhaps this points to a signifigant weakness of openoffice.org, but I don't think that we can make any statements about FOSS applications in general.
I can download Microsoft Office 2003 form my university and the university website says Office is 400mb. Also available from my school is WordPerfect Office12 which is 325mb. 80mb doesn't sound so bad to me...
I screwed up I meant to imply that it was infinitly times more expensive since zero time infinity is still zero. To say it is infinitly times more expensive probably isn't mathmatically accurate either...
Microsoft office costs infinitly more to purchase than OpenOffice.org.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've found google print and amazon's look inside to be very useful. If I'm reading a scholarly book that is indexed by either service, it is a great resource to be able to search for a single word. It's much more complete than any index in the back of a book. You can see if the author ever uses a certain word, or when. Even if it is a word or phrase in the index in the back of the book, the search gives you a sentence or two of context so you can see if the use of the word is relevent to what you're looking for. If every book was searchable I would be thrilled.
WHile this looks legitimate, I would like to know the source of this. Where did you get this?
Where ar ethese games that let you commit sexual assault? I don't want to play them, but we hear so much about them they must be in every Wal-Mart and Best Buy, right?
Let's see, even in GTA3, where there are prostitutes, that sex is consentual. Sure you can run them over, but you can do that to anyone in the game and that isn't sexual. Even with the Hot Coffee mod, it is also consentual.
Aside from old Atari 2600 games like Custer's Revenge, where are these sexually deviant games???
It couldn't be that the people who are saying these things are horribly uninformed or ill-informed???
WHat if you just think CNN is overly sensationalistic, vapid and incompetent?
Apparently "OpenOffice" is trademarked by someone else. Therefore, legally they have to call it "OpenOffice.org" or risk getting sued. Since Sun still uses StarOffice as a seperate non-free version, what else can it be called?
That's not totally unheard of...
What's so anti-Christian about evolution? The Catholic church has accepted it nearly since Darwin wrote about it. Of course those who beleive in creationism tend to beleive that Catholicism isn't Christian anyway...
I wonder what will happen when the new Microsoft Office 12 comes out and it has the radically different menu system? If OpenOffice.org can get some publicity out by then it might make people look twice at a program that looks kind of like the old office rather than the new office which looks so different.
I think the fact that the picture they used for Dr. Who was from the failed Millenium movie and not any of the other doctors says a lot about how much they know about Dr. Who. That was probably the first press picture they found and didn't bother looking for one a little more representative of the series.
As a college student in grad school who is writing lots and lots of papers, I would love it if all the books I have to buy for class were available as ebooks. That way I could cut and paste a quote without having to figure out a way to hold the book open and in a place I can see it while I type it in. Moreover, the ability to keyword search for a word of phrase in a book is invaluable whenever you remember the phrase and can't find it and it isn't listed in the index. I can't tell you how much time I've spent searching for something in a paper bookbecause whoever mad ethe index didn't feel like indexing the term that I just happen to remember. (google print and amazin's look inside the book are helpful in this area, but not every book is in those yet).
I'm no expert, but it would seem that it would be possible to write a greasemonkey script that turns all slashdot links into coralized links. Is there a reason why this can't be done?