Is greed really so easily confused for peak production?
Either way, the correct course of action is still strikingly clear. Move away from it. As quickly as possible. Either we escape an artificially-created economic sink, or we reduce our dependence on a an energy source that is in its twilight. Win-Win, if you ask me.
In the case of Jammie Thomas, this was the defense's biggest oversight. They did not fight hard enough to get the cost-per-song down to a reasonable, sane level. Even though she didn't get charged with the full possible amount, the RIAA was still awarded $9,250 per song. At that point, the number was as shocking as it was immutable.
I'm having a hard time thinking of anything I do in a game as being "sensitive" information that I will be ruined if people see. Well, I don't think they logged all those times I tried to shoot Magneson in his big stupid face, so yeah, I'm safe. What in-game activity would you be afraid of Valve knowing about? Naughty sprays in CS?
They're not only using a "limited" form of email, but one with absolutely NO guarantee of privacy or security. They're channeling their communication through intermediary companies that glean and store information for advertising and feature-enhancements. These folks are in for a wake-up call when they start sending messages that actually have some importance or weight to them and don't feel comfortable with Mr. Facebook reading it.
I'm going to go with 0, since Java is open-source and free. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong on this point. How Sun makes money on Java is a very complicated question, but up front, none. Similar questions like how they make money on the open-source Solaris OS are equally difficult to answer. But it all fits into the same business model.
If Ebay isn't cost effective for you, then you can always try Craigslist, if a subnet exists for your area. It's free to post ads, and you get the benefit of dealing locally. I've sold or given away hardware this way before to ensure it doesn't wind up in a landfill. Your contact info is anonymous (until you reply to responses). It's good to be able to make the exchange face-to-face rather than over email only. Of course, the usual "Don't be Stupid" rules apply to scams and jerks, etc. I highly recommend it.
I've got one of these little guys on hand, and I swear by it myself. Much easier than trying to use an amp-clamp to find your AC current usage. Anybody interested in monitoring home energy usages should invest in one.
There are no casinos in the state. Yet. That's the proposition in this rather controversial bill: to allow casinos to be built in MA, and to lay out the plans for the first three.
in almost every case the Facebook user decides how much information to make public, to whom, and which applications to install.
Were you around when they first introduced the Facebook Feed? For those who don't use Facebook, this the system that functioned a lot like an RSS feed, broadcasting changes in all your friends' profiles to you when they happen. And, of course, vice versa. It was rolled out without warning and just started working on day, to many people's surprise.
Despite that fact that all of that information is readily available if people browse each others' profiles. But, the idea that all of their activity was being broadcast, without filter, to everybody on their Friends list horrified a great many people. It became a bit of a debacle, paranoid college kids calling it "Stalkerbook." Shortly after the rollout, the Facebook team added Privacy controls to limit what appears on said Feed, and issued a public apology.
So Facebook actually has a pretty bad track record when it comes to giving the user choice. This latest move is another example of their blatant disregard for their user base; implementing a money-grabbing feature without properly addressing the users' wishes.
Okay, I'd love to read the original article but I don't know if I have the patience to guess-and-check my way through the onslaught of hyperlinks in the summary. Dear god, calm down with the linking already.
Brookline, MA (a smaller town bordering Boston) has it, border-to-border. It's available for free in parks and public areas; from homes it has a subscription fee.
I wish both this could be upmodded past 5. Just because people fail to realize they are operating in a public space does NOT mean their privacy has diminished. Failing to understand the ramifications of being part of a social networking site does not give one the excuse to call it "creepy." The very concept of social networking is to make information about yourself public.
What scares me is that before I graduated I'd overhear people at school saying things like "Facebook is what I use instead of email now." Wow.
"Never blame malice for what can adequately be blamed on stupidity" - R.Feynman
Most people don't seem to see why this number is so special: it's about the cost of an X-Box 360 with all the bells and whistles. Sure, they left out a case, monitor, speakers, and input. But compound to the cost of an X-Box 360 the fact that you have to buy controllers, an HD-TV, and a Live account. The point that should be taken home is that if you put your brain to work, you can build a system that's cheaper, more powerful, and plays better games than the consoles out there right now. This is the first time this has really happened: consoles from a generation or two ago were always rather cheap.
Verily! Most old SPARC cores, up to UltraSPARC, have their RTL source code open for download for exactly that purpose. So throw that on an FPGA and have at it. Toss linux or minix on their, and you're running open software on open hardware. I can think of nothing sexier.
Although I can't deny that a home-wired CPU is badass...that's a lot of free time...
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...and realizing their PC has been "fast enough" to do basic operations like word processing, media management, web browsing, etc. This all, despite the OS makers adding needless feature after needless feature to slow down their product and make upgrading hardware more attractive.
Overall, whether or not the PC market slows down is fairly irrelevant. Personal computers are an integral and ubiquitous part of our everyday lives and won't magically disappear just because of a market fluctuation. The PC manufacturers like Dell and HP will just have to realize they need to provide more effective long-term service and change their marketing model, instead of hammering out system after system.
Absolutely correct. There's some obscure latin phrase that describes that but I was unable to search it out. Basically it translates to something along the lines of "sleeping on one's rights." Can somebody clarify the term for me? Anyways, the sum of it is that it is blatantly illegal to have IP rights and make no moves to leverage them in a reasonable amount of time.
If perhaps it could be "any OS" then why headline this as "Ubuntu" killing laptops? I can't find much in TFA that makes a compelling case that it isn't APCI. I'd read more but that page hurts my eyes.
It comes down to running the numbers. As in, amount A of people would buy OSX for their PC, and of A, subset B would NEVER buy a Mac just to get OSX. Apple's gamble is that B is not the majority of A. It's probably reasonable, and considering how expensive Apple hardware is, they have plenty of room for error.
Can modern virtualization products like VMWare run OSX as a guest OS now that it is x86-compatible? If so it seems like that would be a much easier way to go.
I'm not trying to harangue you about it, but what other solution is there to the problem of intangible ownership? You can theoretically download HL2 onto any number of your friends' machines, take them offline, and then go to town. Fighting piracy becomes a much bigger beast when people can legally download the game already.
Either way, not long ago (sorry I don't know exactly when it was enabled) Steam started allowing Offline Mode. At least, it did the last time I tried to play without an internet connection, although I think it does a check to make sure that your PC was the last one to connect to that steam account.
That, in addition to the class action suit for not being able to use the software they lawfully purchased, of course.
The people who are getting borked are the ones who purchased the software from Thailand second-hand, who were either 1) fully aware they were circumventing the EULA not to do so or 2) were just plain stupid to begin with and didn't know any better. The above comments don't lie; it was clearly stated that Thai versions of the game were not to be used elsewhere.
We gamers simply can't complain about the PC gaming industry going down the toilet if we behave like this. Bending over backwards to, for all intents and purposes, steal a game, and then crying and raising a fuss when the game makers want us to actually pay for their products. Get ready for puddle-deep Halo clones to dominate the market if this is going to be our modus operandi.
So, let me pose a question, what would we all do if we were in Valve's position. Keep in mind, salutary neglect of piracy won't work for a PC gaming company.
Somebody please upmod this because there's your answer right there (beat me to the punch, but I'm not bitter). The government mantra goes as follows... "Old People Vote. Old People Vote. Old People Vote." I'm glad the poll broke the responses up by age brackets. Knowing the aforementioned credo it becomes quite scary to see the correlation between political influence and desire to government intervention / lack of concern for net neutrality. Your representatives know how to stay in office, keep the voters happy.
I'm going to go out on a limb and agree with you. The thing that seems to be getting people down is that this does qualify as a form of DRM. And all DRM == evil right??
Wrong. In this case, Steam has pioneered the concept of intangible ownership: I don't have a physical copy of the discs, but I can redownload them through steam whenever I choose. All the Valve has to go by is the intellectual rights to the media they are hosting. Without some form of protection therein, they would not be able to stay afloat and ANOTHER pc game company would die, thanks to pirating.
The concept of tangible vs intangible ownership is a tradeoff. Once I smudged the serial on my Diablo 2 disc, which was later scratched. Result: I had to buy the fucking game again. Now, I am protected from physical data loss but must trust Valve to host the content when I need it.
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Is greed really so easily confused for peak production?
Either way, the correct course of action is still strikingly clear. Move away from it. As quickly as possible. Either we escape an artificially-created economic sink, or we reduce our dependence on a an energy source that is in its twilight. Win-Win, if you ask me.
In the case of Jammie Thomas, this was the defense's biggest oversight. They did not fight hard enough to get the cost-per-song down to a reasonable, sane level. Even though she didn't get charged with the full possible amount, the RIAA was still awarded $9,250 per song. At that point, the number was as shocking as it was immutable.
I'm having a hard time thinking of anything I do in a game as being "sensitive" information that I will be ruined if people see. Well, I don't think they logged all those times I tried to shoot Magneson in his big stupid face, so yeah, I'm safe. What in-game activity would you be afraid of Valve knowing about? Naughty sprays in CS?
They're not only using a "limited" form of email, but one with absolutely NO guarantee of privacy or security. They're channeling their communication through intermediary companies that glean and store information for advertising and feature-enhancements. These folks are in for a wake-up call when they start sending messages that actually have some importance or weight to them and don't feel comfortable with Mr. Facebook reading it.
I'm going to go with 0, since Java is open-source and free. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong on this point. How Sun makes money on Java is a very complicated question, but up front, none. Similar questions like how they make money on the open-source Solaris OS are equally difficult to answer. But it all fits into the same business model.
If Ebay isn't cost effective for you, then you can always try Craigslist, if a subnet exists for your area. It's free to post ads, and you get the benefit of dealing locally. I've sold or given away hardware this way before to ensure it doesn't wind up in a landfill. Your contact info is anonymous (until you reply to responses). It's good to be able to make the exchange face-to-face rather than over email only. Of course, the usual "Don't be Stupid" rules apply to scams and jerks, etc. I highly recommend it.
I've got one of these little guys on hand, and I swear by it myself. Much easier than trying to use an amp-clamp to find your AC current usage. Anybody interested in monitoring home energy usages should invest in one.
There are no casinos in the state. Yet. That's the proposition in this rather controversial bill: to allow casinos to be built in MA, and to lay out the plans for the first three.
in almost every case the Facebook user decides how much information to make public, to whom, and which applications to install.
Were you around when they first introduced the Facebook Feed? For those who don't use Facebook, this the system that functioned a lot like an RSS feed, broadcasting changes in all your friends' profiles to you when they happen. And, of course, vice versa. It was rolled out without warning and just started working on day, to many people's surprise.
Despite that fact that all of that information is readily available if people browse each others' profiles. But, the idea that all of their activity was being broadcast, without filter, to everybody on their Friends list horrified a great many people. It became a bit of a debacle, paranoid college kids calling it "Stalkerbook." Shortly after the rollout, the Facebook team added Privacy controls to limit what appears on said Feed, and issued a public apology.
So Facebook actually has a pretty bad track record when it comes to giving the user choice. This latest move is another example of their blatant disregard for their user base; implementing a money-grabbing feature without properly addressing the users' wishes.
Okay, I'd love to read the original article but I don't know if I have the patience to guess-and-check my way through the onslaught of hyperlinks in the summary. Dear god, calm down with the linking already.
On behalf of all of Slashdot, let me be the first to say "Good Luck, friend."
Brookline, MA (a smaller town bordering Boston) has it, border-to-border. It's available for free in parks and public areas; from homes it has a subscription fee.
http://www.brooklinewireless.com/
I wish both this could be upmodded past 5. Just because people fail to realize they are operating in a public space does NOT mean their privacy has diminished. Failing to understand the ramifications of being part of a social networking site does not give one the excuse to call it "creepy." The very concept of social networking is to make information about yourself public.
What scares me is that before I graduated I'd overhear people at school saying things like "Facebook is what I use instead of email now." Wow.
"Never blame malice for what can adequately be blamed on stupidity" - R.Feynman
Does that not mean you also grow tired of Slashdot itself, which is a list of links to posts that describe other pages?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Most people don't seem to see why this number is so special: it's about the cost of an X-Box 360 with all the bells and whistles. Sure, they left out a case, monitor, speakers, and input. But compound to the cost of an X-Box 360 the fact that you have to buy controllers, an HD-TV, and a Live account. The point that should be taken home is that if you put your brain to work, you can build a system that's cheaper, more powerful, and plays better games than the consoles out there right now. This is the first time this has really happened: consoles from a generation or two ago were always rather cheap.
Verily! Most old SPARC cores, up to UltraSPARC, have their RTL source code open for download for exactly that purpose. So throw that on an FPGA and have at it. Toss linux or minix on their, and you're running open software on open hardware. I can think of nothing sexier.
Although I can't deny that a home-wired CPU is badass...that's a lot of free time...
...and realizing their PC has been "fast enough" to do basic operations like word processing, media management, web browsing, etc. This all, despite the OS makers adding needless feature after needless feature to slow down their product and make upgrading hardware more attractive.
Overall, whether or not the PC market slows down is fairly irrelevant. Personal computers are an integral and ubiquitous part of our everyday lives and won't magically disappear just because of a market fluctuation. The PC manufacturers like Dell and HP will just have to realize they need to provide more effective long-term service and change their marketing model, instead of hammering out system after system.
Absolutely correct. There's some obscure latin phrase that describes that but I was unable to search it out. Basically it translates to something along the lines of "sleeping on one's rights." Can somebody clarify the term for me? Anyways, the sum of it is that it is blatantly illegal to have IP rights and make no moves to leverage them in a reasonable amount of time.
If perhaps it could be "any OS" then why headline this as "Ubuntu" killing laptops? I can't find much in TFA that makes a compelling case that it isn't APCI. I'd read more but that page hurts my eyes.
It comes down to running the numbers. As in, amount A of people would buy OSX for their PC, and of A, subset B would NEVER buy a Mac just to get OSX. Apple's gamble is that B is not the majority of A. It's probably reasonable, and considering how expensive Apple hardware is, they have plenty of room for error.
Can modern virtualization products like VMWare run OSX as a guest OS now that it is x86-compatible? If so it seems like that would be a much easier way to go.
I'm not trying to harangue you about it, but what other solution is there to the problem of intangible ownership? You can theoretically download HL2 onto any number of your friends' machines, take them offline, and then go to town. Fighting piracy becomes a much bigger beast when people can legally download the game already.
Either way, not long ago (sorry I don't know exactly when it was enabled) Steam started allowing Offline Mode. At least, it did the last time I tried to play without an internet connection, although I think it does a check to make sure that your PC was the last one to connect to that steam account.
That, in addition to the class action suit for not being able to use the software they lawfully purchased, of course.
The people who are getting borked are the ones who purchased the software from Thailand second-hand, who were either 1) fully aware they were circumventing the EULA not to do so or 2) were just plain stupid to begin with and didn't know any better. The above comments don't lie; it was clearly stated that Thai versions of the game were not to be used elsewhere.
We gamers simply can't complain about the PC gaming industry going down the toilet if we behave like this. Bending over backwards to, for all intents and purposes, steal a game, and then crying and raising a fuss when the game makers want us to actually pay for their products. Get ready for puddle-deep Halo clones to dominate the market if this is going to be our modus operandi.
So, let me pose a question, what would we all do if we were in Valve's position. Keep in mind, salutary neglect of piracy won't work for a PC gaming company.
Somebody please upmod this because there's your answer right there (beat me to the punch, but I'm not bitter). The government mantra goes as follows... "Old People Vote. Old People Vote. Old People Vote." I'm glad the poll broke the responses up by age brackets. Knowing the aforementioned credo it becomes quite scary to see the correlation between political influence and desire to government intervention / lack of concern for net neutrality. Your representatives know how to stay in office, keep the voters happy.
I'm going to go out on a limb and agree with you. The thing that seems to be getting people down is that this does qualify as a form of DRM. And all DRM == evil right??
Wrong. In this case, Steam has pioneered the concept of intangible ownership: I don't have a physical copy of the discs, but I can redownload them through steam whenever I choose. All the Valve has to go by is the intellectual rights to the media they are hosting. Without some form of protection therein, they would not be able to stay afloat and ANOTHER pc game company would die, thanks to pirating.
The concept of tangible vs intangible ownership is a tradeoff. Once I smudged the serial on my Diablo 2 disc, which was later scratched. Result: I had to buy the fucking game again. Now, I am protected from physical data loss but must trust Valve to host the content when I need it.