I don't know the details but I'm pretty certain your statement is false. I believe it is a federal offense to destroy US currency. What you said is certainly more inuitive, so I dunno.
that makes me sad to hear that. You may think that the GTA3 engine had dated graphics when it was released on the PC, but I just finished playing it last month, probably 2 years after its release, and my 1ghz Athlon with Geforce2 could barely run it at 640x480. 640x480 is the minimum resolution you can possibly run the game at.
Meanwhile my roommate who has a 1.4ghz Athlon and Geforce3(?) also had terrible framerates.
You may think that GTA3 has dated graphics, but there's not much sense in releasing a game that people won't be able to run on $3k PCs for another 3-5 years...
But yes, the innovation part is a good point to think about. Even though I loved GTA3, it spent a LOT of time playing it, and don't intend to get Vice City if it's the same routine in a new city.
If they were successfully sued, then they really would pay fines, and would not be able to continue doing breaking the law.
But instead people say "ooh settlement gimme gimme!", and settle the lawsuit for chump change. Not only taking a small fraction of what has been taken from the consumers, but also allowing the companies to continue what they got sued for in the first place.
Bullshit man, that's just bullshit. MANY active members of open source have repeatedly disagreed with ESR and RMS and said that their rants do more harm than good.
One person in a HUGE group of people says something, and you pretend like the whole group said it. Well guess what, there is no open source board of directors that agreed to publish ESR's statement as representative of the group. He speaks for himself alone, and beyond that unless you hear someone say "i agree", you have no right to assume that they agree OR disagree. And you definitely will come off as a jackass by attributing one person's comments to an entire group, especially one as fragmented and decentralized as open source.
I see no insight or even validity in your idea that if someone EVER agrees with someone, or likes something they did, that they are then stuck agreeing with everything that person does, forever. That's just plain stupid.
DRM takes away just about all of your fair use rights to use and manipulate the media.
For instance? Re-encoding to another format, space-shifting to a non-DRM portable player, copying to other computers you own, making backup copies, sharing with friends, playing on other OSes, and of course playing on ANY OS in the future once MS stops supporting the format.
yeah, this game is great. my roommates and I have been playing this for a few weeks. first i played it fresh and beat the game in 28 days without any help. then my friend played it after watching me and being told everything to do, and he still took 25 or 26 days. so now he's going for the 7-day challenge..you can find a guide for it on gamefaqs.com Pretty crazy stuff, getting 3-5 ship pieces every day. It's driving him crazy but he's on day 5 now I believe, and on schedule.
I also think the "bad" ending is great. finish the game without even the necessary ship parts, and Olimar's dead body gets planted and becomes a Captain Olimar Pikmin. yey! that should have been the good ending:)
I wouldn't really consider GTA3 a sequel as it was so revolutionary when it came out, and a hugely different game over GTA2. Meanwhile many other 2d games got me-too 3d sequels that were uninspired crap.
I would really like to see Nintendo doing more original games. This is where I've come to love sega more than nintendo, despite both companies' awesome software teams. Sega makes amazing new games like Jet Grind Radio and Crazy Taxi, while Nintendo sits there churning out Super Mario, Mario 64, Mario Cube, Zelda Cube, Metroid Cube, etc.
(i know those arent the names but same difference)
Did you even RTFA? This "ancient piece of hardware" is obviously quite useful, and the reason it's so cheap? WINDOWS XP DOESNT SUPPORT IT! So linux actually has better device support in this case, as in many others.
And btw, afaik all modern video cards (ie: radeon and nvidia) are very well supported in linux, and DVD+-RW drives should work flawlessly as well. I've heard RAID does too, but have never used it myself.
it used to be "gays are evil people who have sex in parks at night"
and now it's "we refuse to allow gays to live in normal monogamous relationships with children"
Remarkably, i heard one conservative on talk radio saying he doesn't care what sexual orientation, that kids are better off under the custody of *any* parents than in orphanages.
a conservative thinking rationally about gay marriage? yey!
yeah, well Nullsoft had an alpha version of winamp3 for linux, as well as for mac. But considering how bad it was for Windows no wonder it never got further than alpha on other operating systems. They were quite mute all along about their progress on the other versions, so who knows if they're making ports of winamp5
a) unlike iTunes, winamp does not have any other means to profit. Of course they're backed by AOL, but how long is AOL going to keep telling them to make a 100% free product?
b) if 15$ is too much for you, why not go get CDex and whatever burning software came with your cd writer? I had been ripping and burning CDs for years before iTunes came along, and personally I think iTunes sucks for those things as it's very restrictive naming convention SUCKS ASS, and it insists on burning files to CD with the same SHITTY naming convention. Come on, who the fuck wants to try to pick songs off a CD that are named "01-Songname.mp3"? Give us some damn information in the file name for heaven's sake! It's not like we're stuck in 8.3 DOS anymore.
(and yes, if anyone knows a way to tell itunes to use a better naming scheme, I'd love to hear it)
I'm pretty sure the cd-key is (or at least was) stored unencrypted in a file named cd-key or something like that in your quake3 folder. And you can run the linux executable from the same quake3 folder as your windows install of q3, meaning no need to reinstall OR get your cd-key anyway. I think. It should be possible, check it out.
OK, so with a sample of 40,000 where do they get data saying "millions" delete all music files? Sounds like a flat-out lie to me. I don't think any real scientific study would go and say FUD like "we studied 4 humans, and 3 were women, therefor 75% of humans are women". you have to qualify by saying stuff like "3/4 of the humans surveyed were humans". extrapolating the data to the entire population is rarely accurate i'm sure, especially in a survey where there's a good chance people are behaving differently because they're being watched.
I don't think anyone knows exactly why, but vegetarians in America have a 50% lower rate of cancer than the general population. I don't remember the exact number for heart attacks, but as long as a vegetarian doesn't o.d. on cheese, heart attacks should be close to 0%.
The heart attack one is fairly obvious - no bad saturated fats and lots of the good kind of fats means no clogged arteries.
As for cancer, there are a few guesses. One is that the vitamins and things in fruits prevent cancer. Another you could say is that most vegetarians eat more organic foods than the general population, meaning less exposure to pesticides and things the human body isn't used to.
Personally I think the reason for the cancer decrease is all the CRAP that you get in meat and dairy milk. Milk and meat are both filled with hormones that are known to effect the human body. My mom knew a boy who started showing female characteristics (ie: boobs), and they figured out it was because of the hormones in milk or chicken (i forget which).
Along the same line, veggies may eat less "processed" food. Most of that pre-made stuff has all kinds of chemical preservatives in them that the human body was never exposed to in such large quanitites. It seems somewhat obvious that ingestion of these chemicals would have some effect - it's a little surprising how little of an effect they have.
But in regards to this reovirus existing in unclean environments, organic foods are not at all related to the cleanliness of the foods. organic and inorganic foods still grow in dirt, and still got rinsed off before being eaten.
As for bottled water versus drinking from a dirty puddle, I suspect the increase in life span from avoiding all sorts of diseases outdoes the increase in cancer. More likely if the reovirus does prevent cancer when ingested naturally, they'll start washing off produce and then spraying it with reovirus before selling it.
I am far too sick of companies going so far in their "retention" programs that they simply keep charging you even after you tell them to cancel the service. AOL did this to my mom at least 3 times before she finally got rid of the service. They claimed things like "oh, well someone get online with the account again after you called so we figured you still wanted it" (oh no, someone uses the service for as long as they've already paid for it??). But they literally just kept charging for the service month after month after repeated calls demanding that they cancel the service. If I hadn't been like 15 at the time, I would have called them myself and demanded refunds and maybe even looked into suing them. So far all the services like Reservation Rewards that have attacked my girlfriend's and parents' bank accounts have gotten quite a bitching from me, and all agreed pretty quickly to refund the money they stole instead of facing a lawsuit. It's unfortunate though that these companies can probably get away with what they're doing as long as people like me stop pursuing legal action once we get our money back.
I was just discussing this sort of thing the other day. They can look at the black box in your car right? Well how is this data any different from data in your mind, or on your computer? As you have control over creation and modification of this data, should the courts be able to use it without your permission?
Let me approach this in the way that I started thinking about it: if your car's black box wrote its data to a memory chip implanted under your skin, should the courts be able to forcably retrieve that data stored in your body?
What about once we have memory chips which interface directly with the brain? I think this is inevitable, even if it may be quite a while. Once we're using technology to expand our brain's storage capacity, will the government be able to subpoena the data in your brain's RAM?
Shouldn't all of this be considered unreliable and inadmissable anyway because the owner can falsify the data? What happens when people start modifying their car's black box to never record speeds greater than 55mph? If they can convict you with data you created, will they also let it free you? Even though you were the one who (indirectly) recorded the data?
Obviously the government shouldn't force kids to recite atheistic phrases any more than they should theistic ones. As the circuit court judge said, having kids recite "one nation under god" is comparable to having kids recite "one nation under no god". Both would be wrong. The good thing to do is not say either way. By not saying anything about God the government isn't promoting atheism - to do so the government would have to promote the idea that there is no god.
As I said before, I dont mind the Declaration of Independence being taught in school, as it is a very relevant historical document. However I don't see any value in posting it in every classroom, and so I would oppose it as an attempt by theists to promote their religious ideas.
Likewise I would oppose the posting of the many government documents such as treaties which state the United States is not founded on Christianity. The only reason to post either is to promote a religious (or non-religious, as it may be) point of view.
If you honestly think that all moral positions require religion, then you've got some serious thinking to do on your morals and where they come from.
Also, the 2nd amendment (right to arm bears) is not very relevant to this discussion. I think you mean the 1st amendment.
holy shit dude, most gamers wont play below 1280x1024? What kind of freakin CPU and graphics card do you have to be able to play anything after Quake2 at 1280x1024 with 32-bit color at a playable framerate?
I've got a 1ghz+geforce2 (i know, old stuff) and I can't even play counter-strike higher than 800x600!
That sure sucks for google, especially considering the practice has already been upheld as legal in America. Playboy sued Netscape over the exact same thing and Netscape won.
Thanks for the link. While those are interesting, the price is still $1200+. Maybe what I'm dreaming of just isn't possible, and that's why no one has made it.
"Changing it isn't the issue. The issue is the teaching and display of the contents."
Changing IS the issue. The pledge of allegiance
a) isn't being taught every morning as a history lesson, it's being monotonically recited
b) if you want historical accuracy, the pledge includes neither "under god" NOR "indivisible"
As for 3), I said that's my opinion and that I don't really care. The declaration of independence isn't law in America, the first amendment is. And for very good reasons. Anyone who would be opposed to the pledge saying "one nation under NO god" should be just as opposed to it saying "one nation under god". After all, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, right? Don't force your religion on other peoples' kids and they shouldn't force theirs on you? I guess I forgot, most modern Christians don't care much for actually following Jesus' teachings...
I've been interested in getting a laptop for a while, but nothing i've seen in the market interests me. I don't need something fast - it's not like i'm going to be playing Doom 3 on it, just web browsing and text files and MP3s and maybe DivX at the most. So it can be pretty slow, 500mhz-1ghz at the very most. But I want the battery life to actually last a significant amount of time. Not this 2-3 hours crap. I'd also like it to be small and portable...not as small as a PDA, but just something with a maybe 10-12" screen at the most (which would also help keep battery consumption low). And of course lastly, I want this thing cheap, like 200-400$. When I was looking at laptops recently the cheapest was 1000+$ for a laptop including a CDRW drive.
Of course I could get an old laptop on ebay for fairly cheap and slow, but the battery life will suck just as much as new laptops - what I want is a new laptop running slower processors using modern technology to reduce power consumption.
I'd think a lot of people would be interested in a low-cost laptop that isn't meant to be a desktop replacement and doesn't need to be constantly plugged into a wall to use .
This doesn't matter nearly as much for a number of reasons:
1) it's dead history - we can't change the declaration of independence now no matter how hard we try.
2) the pledge CAN be changed, just as it was once in the past to ADD the "under god" part to it. we can just as easily remove it. this is much different than pretending to alter a historical document.
2) kids aren't forced to recite the declaration of independence every single morning
3) the phrase itself isn't focusing on religion, but on the concept that our rights are not given by the government in england, but inherent in every living soul (oops, did i say soul?). This is a lot more abstract and flexible than "one nation under GOD"
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I don't know the details but I'm pretty certain your statement is false. I believe it is a federal offense to destroy US currency. What you said is certainly more inuitive, so I dunno.
that makes me sad to hear that. You may think that the GTA3 engine had dated graphics when it was released on the PC, but I just finished playing it last month, probably 2 years after its release, and my 1ghz Athlon with Geforce2 could barely run it at 640x480. 640x480 is the minimum resolution you can possibly run the game at.
Meanwhile my roommate who has a 1.4ghz Athlon and Geforce3(?) also had terrible framerates.
You may think that GTA3 has dated graphics, but there's not much sense in releasing a game that people won't be able to run on $3k PCs for another 3-5 years...
But yes, the innovation part is a good point to think about. Even though I loved GTA3, it spent a LOT of time playing it, and don't intend to get Vice City if it's the same routine in a new city.
If they were successfully sued, then they really would pay fines, and would not be able to continue doing breaking the law.
But instead people say "ooh settlement gimme gimme!", and settle the lawsuit for chump change. Not only taking a small fraction of what has been taken from the consumers, but also allowing the companies to continue what they got sued for in the first place.
Bullshit man, that's just bullshit. MANY active members of open source have repeatedly disagreed with ESR and RMS and said that their rants do more harm than good.
One person in a HUGE group of people says something, and you pretend like the whole group said it. Well guess what, there is no open source board of directors that agreed to publish ESR's statement as representative of the group. He speaks for himself alone, and beyond that unless you hear someone say "i agree", you have no right to assume that they agree OR disagree. And you definitely will come off as a jackass by attributing one person's comments to an entire group, especially one as fragmented and decentralized as open source.
I see no insight or even validity in your idea that if someone EVER agrees with someone, or likes something they did, that they are then stuck agreeing with everything that person does, forever. That's just plain stupid.
WRONG.
DRM takes away just about all of your fair use rights to use and manipulate the media.
For instance? Re-encoding to another format, space-shifting to a non-DRM portable player, copying to other computers you own, making backup copies, sharing with friends, playing on other OSes, and of course playing on ANY OS in the future once MS stops supporting the format.
yeah, this game is great. my roommates and I have been playing this for a few weeks. first i played it fresh and beat the game in 28 days without any help. then my friend played it after watching me and being told everything to do, and he still took 25 or 26 days. so now he's going for the 7-day challenge..you can find a guide for it on gamefaqs.com Pretty crazy stuff, getting 3-5 ship pieces every day. It's driving him crazy but he's on day 5 now I believe, and on schedule.
:)
I also think the "bad" ending is great. finish the game without even the necessary ship parts, and Olimar's dead body gets planted and becomes a Captain Olimar Pikmin. yey! that should have been the good ending
I wouldn't really consider GTA3 a sequel as it was so revolutionary when it came out, and a hugely different game over GTA2. Meanwhile many other 2d games got me-too 3d sequels that were uninspired crap.
I would really like to see Nintendo doing more original games. This is where I've come to love sega more than nintendo, despite both companies' awesome software teams. Sega makes amazing new games like Jet Grind Radio and Crazy Taxi, while Nintendo sits there churning out Super Mario, Mario 64, Mario Cube, Zelda Cube, Metroid Cube, etc.
(i know those arent the names but same difference)
Did you even RTFA? This "ancient piece of hardware" is obviously quite useful, and the reason it's so cheap? WINDOWS XP DOESNT SUPPORT IT! So linux actually has better device support in this case, as in many others.
And btw, afaik all modern video cards (ie: radeon and nvidia) are very well supported in linux, and DVD+-RW drives should work flawlessly as well. I've heard RAID does too, but have never used it myself.
yeah, no shit!
it used to be "gays are evil people who have sex in parks at night"
and now it's "we refuse to allow gays to live in normal monogamous relationships with children"
Remarkably, i heard one conservative on talk radio saying he doesn't care what sexual orientation, that kids are better off under the custody of *any* parents than in orphanages.
a conservative thinking rationally about gay marriage? yey!
yeah, well Nullsoft had an alpha version of winamp3 for linux, as well as for mac. But considering how bad it was for Windows no wonder it never got further than alpha on other operating systems. They were quite mute all along about their progress on the other versions, so who knows if they're making ports of winamp5
a) unlike iTunes, winamp does not have any other means to profit. Of course they're backed by AOL, but how long is AOL going to keep telling them to make a 100% free product?
b) if 15$ is too much for you, why not go get CDex and whatever burning software came with your cd writer? I had been ripping and burning CDs for years before iTunes came along, and personally I think iTunes sucks for those things as it's very restrictive naming convention SUCKS ASS, and it insists on burning files to CD with the same SHITTY naming convention. Come on, who the fuck wants to try to pick songs off a CD that are named "01-Songname.mp3"? Give us some damn information in the file name for heaven's sake! It's not like we're stuck in 8.3 DOS anymore.
(and yes, if anyone knows a way to tell itunes to use a better naming scheme, I'd love to hear it)
I'm pretty sure the cd-key is (or at least was) stored unencrypted in a file named cd-key or something like that in your quake3 folder. And you can run the linux executable from the same quake3 folder as your windows install of q3, meaning no need to reinstall OR get your cd-key anyway. I think. It should be possible, check it out.
200$? Could you post us a link?
OK, so with a sample of 40,000 where do they get data saying "millions" delete all music files? Sounds like a flat-out lie to me. I don't think any real scientific study would go and say FUD like "we studied 4 humans, and 3 were women, therefor 75% of humans are women". you have to qualify by saying stuff like "3/4 of the humans surveyed were humans". extrapolating the data to the entire population is rarely accurate i'm sure, especially in a survey where there's a good chance people are behaving differently because they're being watched.
I don't think anyone knows exactly why, but vegetarians in America have a 50% lower rate of cancer than the general population. I don't remember the exact number for heart attacks, but as long as a vegetarian doesn't o.d. on cheese, heart attacks should be close to 0%.
The heart attack one is fairly obvious - no bad saturated fats and lots of the good kind of fats means no clogged arteries.
As for cancer, there are a few guesses. One is that the vitamins and things in fruits prevent cancer. Another you could say is that most vegetarians eat more organic foods than the general population, meaning less exposure to pesticides and things the human body isn't used to.
Personally I think the reason for the cancer decrease is all the CRAP that you get in meat and dairy milk. Milk and meat are both filled with hormones that are known to effect the human body. My mom knew a boy who started showing female characteristics (ie: boobs), and they figured out it was because of the hormones in milk or chicken (i forget which).
Along the same line, veggies may eat less "processed" food. Most of that pre-made stuff has all kinds of chemical preservatives in them that the human body was never exposed to in such large quanitites. It seems somewhat obvious that ingestion of these chemicals would have some effect - it's a little surprising how little of an effect they have.
But in regards to this reovirus existing in unclean environments, organic foods are not at all related to the cleanliness of the foods. organic and inorganic foods still grow in dirt, and still got rinsed off before being eaten.
As for bottled water versus drinking from a dirty puddle, I suspect the increase in life span from avoiding all sorts of diseases outdoes the increase in cancer. More likely if the reovirus does prevent cancer when ingested naturally, they'll start washing off produce and then spraying it with reovirus before selling it.
I am far too sick of companies going so far in their "retention" programs that they simply keep charging you even after you tell them to cancel the service. AOL did this to my mom at least 3 times before she finally got rid of the service. They claimed things like "oh, well someone get online with the account again after you called so we figured you still wanted it" (oh no, someone uses the service for as long as they've already paid for it??). But they literally just kept charging for the service month after month after repeated calls demanding that they cancel the service. If I hadn't been like 15 at the time, I would have called them myself and demanded refunds and maybe even looked into suing them. So far all the services like Reservation Rewards that have attacked my girlfriend's and parents' bank accounts have gotten quite a bitching from me, and all agreed pretty quickly to refund the money they stole instead of facing a lawsuit. It's unfortunate though that these companies can probably get away with what they're doing as long as people like me stop pursuing legal action once we get our money back.
I was just discussing this sort of thing the other day. They can look at the black box in your car right? Well how is this data any different from data in your mind, or on your computer? As you have control over creation and modification of this data, should the courts be able to use it without your permission?
Let me approach this in the way that I started thinking about it: if your car's black box wrote its data to a memory chip implanted under your skin, should the courts be able to forcably retrieve that data stored in your body?
What about once we have memory chips which interface directly with the brain? I think this is inevitable, even if it may be quite a while. Once we're using technology to expand our brain's storage capacity, will the government be able to subpoena the data in your brain's RAM?
Shouldn't all of this be considered unreliable and inadmissable anyway because the owner can falsify the data? What happens when people start modifying their car's black box to never record speeds greater than 55mph? If they can convict you with data you created, will they also let it free you? Even though you were the one who (indirectly) recorded the data?
Obviously the government shouldn't force kids to recite atheistic phrases any more than they should theistic ones. As the circuit court judge said, having kids recite "one nation under god" is comparable to having kids recite "one nation under no god". Both would be wrong. The good thing to do is not say either way. By not saying anything about God the government isn't promoting atheism - to do so the government would have to promote the idea that there is no god.
As I said before, I dont mind the Declaration of Independence being taught in school, as it is a very relevant historical document. However I don't see any value in posting it in every classroom, and so I would oppose it as an attempt by theists to promote their religious ideas.
Likewise I would oppose the posting of the many government documents such as treaties which state the United States is not founded on Christianity. The only reason to post either is to promote a religious (or non-religious, as it may be) point of view.
If you honestly think that all moral positions require religion, then you've got some serious thinking to do on your morals and where they come from.
Also, the 2nd amendment (right to arm bears) is not very relevant to this discussion. I think you mean the 1st amendment.
holy shit dude, most gamers wont play below 1280x1024? What kind of freakin CPU and graphics card do you have to be able to play anything after Quake2 at 1280x1024 with 32-bit color at a playable framerate?
I've got a 1ghz+geforce2 (i know, old stuff) and I can't even play counter-strike higher than 800x600!
That sure sucks for google, especially considering the practice has already been upheld as legal in America. Playboy sued Netscape over the exact same thing and Netscape won.
b oy-netscape.doc
I hope my computer law teacher doesn't mind me posting this link on slashdot...heh:
http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs4984/computerlaw/play
Thanks for the link. While those are interesting, the price is still $1200+. Maybe what I'm dreaming of just isn't possible, and that's why no one has made it.
"Changing it isn't the issue. The issue is the teaching and display of the contents."
Changing IS the issue. The pledge of allegiance
a) isn't being taught every morning as a history lesson, it's being monotonically recited
b) if you want historical accuracy, the pledge includes neither "under god" NOR "indivisible"
As for 3), I said that's my opinion and that I don't really care. The declaration of independence isn't law in America, the first amendment is. And for very good reasons. Anyone who would be opposed to the pledge saying "one nation under NO god" should be just as opposed to it saying "one nation under god". After all, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, right? Don't force your religion on other peoples' kids and they shouldn't force theirs on you? I guess I forgot, most modern Christians don't care much for actually following Jesus' teachings...
I've been interested in getting a laptop for a while, but nothing i've seen in the market interests me. I don't need something fast - it's not like i'm going to be playing Doom 3 on it, just web browsing and text files and MP3s and maybe DivX at the most. So it can be pretty slow, 500mhz-1ghz at the very most. But I want the battery life to actually last a significant amount of time. Not this 2-3 hours crap. I'd also like it to be small and portable...not as small as a PDA, but just something with a maybe 10-12" screen at the most (which would also help keep battery consumption low). And of course lastly, I want this thing cheap, like 200-400$. When I was looking at laptops recently the cheapest was 1000+$ for a laptop including a CDRW drive.
Of course I could get an old laptop on ebay for fairly cheap and slow, but the battery life will suck just as much as new laptops - what I want is a new laptop running slower processors using modern technology to reduce power consumption.
I'd think a lot of people would be interested in a low-cost laptop that isn't meant to be a desktop replacement and doesn't need to be constantly plugged into a wall to use .
This doesn't matter nearly as much for a number of reasons:
1) it's dead history - we can't change the declaration of independence now no matter how hard we try.
2) the pledge CAN be changed, just as it was once in the past to ADD the "under god" part to it. we can just as easily remove it. this is much different than pretending to alter a historical document.
2) kids aren't forced to recite the declaration of independence every single morning
3) the phrase itself isn't focusing on religion, but on the concept that our rights are not given by the government in england, but inherent in every living soul (oops, did i say soul?). This is a lot more abstract and flexible than "one nation under GOD"
hey, want to start a club of atheist Erics?