Yes some of the designers were fired for smoking weed. Coicidentally enough, they had designer bio's on the back of blister packs. One of the designers listed his among his hobbies... you guessed it "growing plants".
I'm not sure that the warzone stuff was higher quality, it was cheaper though. Unfortunately the games sucked balls. I have the "Siege of the Citadel" board game. the rules are atrocious. We played through it for a while until we realized at some point, scenario seven I think, it was mathematically impossible for the one side to win. Not difficult, impossible. It was a very poor quality game.
GW did the same thing back in the early nineties. Dropped all non-GW merchandise. Apparently, the assholes form England came over to visit, and were shocked that they were selling TSR books in a GW store. Having apparently no business sense, they banned that activity. Consequently, many gamers that were potential GW conscripts stopped going to their store.
As far as staying in business... look at the pricing. It was getting bad when I was into it, not it's just outrageous. All for a game(s) that get re-written on two year cycles (except for the gmaes that come out and are only supported for 6 months then dropped ahem *Necromunda*) so that you have to buy new miniatures, or a new $75 box set and $35 supplements. Not to mention that the rules are SO cartoon like, they're only fit for children.
Hmmm, I gave up on GW ten years ago when they started catering to children, and the ridiculous pricing schemes and the hard sell in stores. They've always been a bunch of assholes, and they always will be a bunch of assholes.
Wonder how long before they go after people on ebay.
Hell that's not a bad idea as far as I'm concerned. These people are under quarrantine for a reason. I see no problem with shooting them if they refuse to comply. We know that people who have it can spread it. These 9 people are putting the lives of too many at risk.
icky tape heads wandering around on an infinite tape - or a finite tape if you knew in advance what algorithm you were about to run
An implementation of a Turing machine doesn't have to be tape, ect. It's mathmatical abstraction, the tape description is just a metaphor for visualization.
But maybe I'm misign something. In the case of a perpetual license, you only pay once. So this isn't an issue. If it's a recurring license, then you renew when the time comes due. If you no longer have the machines then you don't renew. What's the big deal?
Does it make a difference. No. You can't take the attitude "Oh well, they'll never actually use it. Because one day one company will, and we'll start to get screwed royally.
Sounds like the Aussies have it right though, good job those of you who abandoned ship when you read that TOS.
To be honest, I don't think that's legal. Well number one could be, but I find it hard to believe that entering the contest basically gives your patent or copyright to MS. I just don't think it works that way, I could be wrong though. Besides even if it doesn't who has the money to fight MS on it?
Yes his logic is flawed, mainly because he didn't say what he meant because it would really highlight his agenda. What he meant to say was "projects that I don't like may draw developers away from the ones I do".
Well at $10 a ticket (for arguments sake) and a 40% cut of the door (also for arguments sake) that would be $4000, split among an average of four members, hmmm $1000 for three hours of work? Wow that really sucks, especially when you take into consideration that these "smaller-bands" have more free time to do whatever they want than I do. Of course this is assuming that the entire theatre is full.
I find it very difficult to find sympathy for bands complaining that they can't make a living playing music. I've got new for them...: The world doesn't owe you a living.
Actually I did contradict your argument, then posed one of my own... that being that you have no idea what you're talking about.
At no point did I say no one knows for sure, I believe my words were along the lines of: we don't have a complete picture yet. Your opinion is useless simply because it makes claims that can't even form a strong inductive argument for your claims. Your right though, everything doesn't need to as perfect as in a journal, you are free to post what you wish, and I am free to show others why you're talking nonsense.
You apparently have no understanding systems if you can't see the isomorphisms between the symbol manipulation that occurs in a human brain on biological hardware and a computer on silicon (or any other medium for that matter).
Someone else beat me to replying again to show that your arguments are misguided, so thankfully I don't have to do it... again.
Computers move bits around. That's it. It's humans who interpret their actions as doing something.
Computers move bits of electricity around... just as brains do.
A computer is incapable and will always be incapable of doing so, just like humans are incapable of changing or analyzing much of how their own brain works.
Wow. Two completely unfounded statements in one sentence. for starters humans are capable analyzing how their brains work, changing is nonsense and is not relevant to the discussion at all. However, humans do change how their brains work, every second of every day. Just because we haven't YET developed a full understanding of the operations of a human brain doesn't mean we won't and there is sufficient evidence to believe that we will.
A computer is not provably incapable of becoming self aware, and it is certainly not incapable of changing itself.
Not only were your statements unsupported, they were patenly false. Here's some free advice, keep your mouth shut and let everyone believe your a fool, rather than opening your mouth and proving it. It takes a fool, full of arrogance to make blanket statements about will or will not be discovered in the future. Suprises will come, and we may or may not create self aware software, time will tell... you, certainly, will not.
Funny, Bill G doesn't seem to have wiped the floor with Unix from my perspective. I haven't used Windows for anything but games since at least 1995. Why? Because *nicies (*nixes) are musch more usable.
... it's nice to see Taco has a sense of humor about the things he (and/. in general) get's flamed for. Especially considering/. is free (if you want it that way) and no one has much right to complain. Next year, the editors should all get FP's and mod themselves way down;)
It doesn't matter who it's directed AT. What matters is that it can be used against anyone that it covers. Which include people doing the things the poster suggested. Things that should not be legislatable (matbe I just made that word up). I contantly ssh from box to box in what may be a long chain of ssh sessions. This bill is ridiculous and has no business even being up for a vote. It's nother example of how current lawmakers get involved in things they have absolutely no comprehension of.
Yes, which is also a short step away from... he's a better player than me, so I HAD to cheat to be the best.
One of the problems arising from the cheating scene online is that players who are legitimately really really good at a game are often accused by those who aren't as cheating. Usually due to misplaced faith in their abilities and unsupported egos... i.e. Now one could beat me that bad so he MUST be cheating.
The point of a patent is to make money off of it. Including licensing it to another company... say for instance AMD at a cost. Which then the consumer bears, in this case paying more for something that does less.
Ok then what does overclocking mean to the corporate market... absolutely nothing. Corporate environments don't overclock cpu's. So they are targetting this action at the hackers who do. Why? If their target market is corporate?
I notcied the sig vs. name thing as well and attribute it to two factors. 1) It's the last thing you read usually. 2) It's much easier to read than the username, given the text and background colors for the comment header.
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I'm not sure that the warzone stuff was higher quality, it was cheaper though. Unfortunately the games sucked balls. I have the "Siege of the Citadel" board game. the rules are atrocious. We played through it for a while until we realized at some point, scenario seven I think, it was mathematically impossible for the one side to win. Not difficult, impossible. It was a very poor quality game.
As far as staying in business... look at the pricing. It was getting bad when I was into it, not it's just outrageous. All for a game(s) that get re-written on two year cycles (except for the gmaes that come out and are only supported for 6 months then dropped ahem *Necromunda*) so that you have to buy new miniatures, or a new $75 box set and $35 supplements. Not to mention that the rules are SO cartoon like, they're only fit for children.
Wonder how long before they go after people on ebay.
Hell that's not a bad idea as far as I'm concerned. These people are under quarrantine for a reason. I see no problem with shooting them if they refuse to comply. We know that people who have it can spread it. These 9 people are putting the lives of too many at risk.
icky tape heads wandering around on an infinite tape - or a finite tape if you knew in advance what algorithm you were about to run
An implementation of a Turing machine doesn't have to be tape, ect. It's mathmatical abstraction, the tape description is just a metaphor for visualization.
That is how it's pronounced (noy-man) which is still close enough to make it funny. Actually it's funnier with the slightly different pronuciations.
Not only did I spell what wrong, I did it in response to my initial mispelling of "missing". That's usually the way it works though.
Apparently part of waht I'm missing is the ability to type "missing".
But maybe I'm misign something. In the case of a perpetual license, you only pay once. So this isn't an issue. If it's a recurring license, then you renew when the time comes due. If you no longer have the machines then you don't renew. What's the big deal?
Sounds like the Aussies have it right though, good job those of you who abandoned ship when you read that TOS.
said "buy-buy" to RH last ye
Which means you liked it so much you bought it twice, I gather?
To be honest, I don't think that's legal. Well number one could be, but I find it hard to believe that entering the contest basically gives your patent or copyright to MS. I just don't think it works that way, I could be wrong though. Besides even if it doesn't who has the money to fight MS on it?
Hmmm, good point but my first thought was: Apache, VI, EMACS, The Gimp ... and many more.
Yes his logic is flawed, mainly because he didn't say what he meant because it would really highlight his agenda. What he meant to say was "projects that I don't like may draw developers away from the ones I do".
Who said anything about music for free. Not me. You must be talking about some other scumbag, doofus.
I find it very difficult to find sympathy for bands complaining that they can't make a living playing music. I've got new for them...: The world doesn't owe you a living.
At no point did I say no one knows for sure, I believe my words were along the lines of: we don't have a complete picture yet. Your opinion is useless simply because it makes claims that can't even form a strong inductive argument for your claims. Your right though, everything doesn't need to as perfect as in a journal, you are free to post what you wish, and I am free to show others why you're talking nonsense.
You apparently have no understanding systems if you can't see the isomorphisms between the symbol manipulation that occurs in a human brain on biological hardware and a computer on silicon (or any other medium for that matter).
Someone else beat me to replying again to show that your arguments are misguided, so thankfully I don't have to do it... again.
Computers move bits around. That's it. It's humans who interpret their actions as doing something.
Computers move bits of electricity around... just as brains do.
A computer is incapable and will always be incapable of doing so, just like humans are incapable of changing or analyzing much of how their own brain works.
Wow. Two completely unfounded statements in one sentence. for starters humans are capable analyzing how their brains work, changing is nonsense and is not relevant to the discussion at all. However, humans do change how their brains work, every second of every day. Just because we haven't YET developed a full understanding of the operations of a human brain doesn't mean we won't and there is sufficient evidence to believe that we will.
A computer is not provably incapable of becoming self aware, and it is certainly not incapable of changing itself.
Not only were your statements unsupported, they were patenly false. Here's some free advice, keep your mouth shut and let everyone believe your a fool, rather than opening your mouth and proving it. It takes a fool, full of arrogance to make blanket statements about will or will not be discovered in the future. Suprises will come, and we may or may not create self aware software, time will tell... you, certainly, will not.
Funny, Bill G doesn't seem to have wiped the floor with Unix from my perspective. I haven't used Windows for anything but games since at least 1995. Why? Because *nicies (*nixes) are musch more usable.
... it's nice to see Taco has a sense of humor about the things he (and /. in general) get's flamed for. Especially considering /. is free (if you want it that way) and no one has much right to complain. Next year, the editors should all get FP's and mod themselves way down ;)
It doesn't matter who it's directed AT. What matters is that it can be used against anyone that it covers. Which include people doing the things the poster suggested. Things that should not be legislatable (matbe I just made that word up). I contantly ssh from box to box in what may be a long chain of ssh sessions. This bill is ridiculous and has no business even being up for a vote. It's nother example of how current lawmakers get involved in things they have absolutely no comprehension of.
One of the problems arising from the cheating scene online is that players who are legitimately really really good at a game are often accused by those who aren't as cheating. Usually due to misplaced faith in their abilities and unsupported egos... i.e. Now one could beat me that bad so he MUST be cheating.
The point of a patent is to make money off of it. Including licensing it to another company... say for instance AMD at a cost. Which then the consumer bears, in this case paying more for something that does less.
Ok then what does overclocking mean to the corporate market... absolutely nothing. Corporate environments don't overclock cpu's. So they are targetting this action at the hackers who do. Why? If their target market is corporate?
I notcied the sig vs. name thing as well and attribute it to two factors. 1) It's the last thing you read usually. 2) It's much easier to read than the username, given the text and background colors for the comment header.