AMD was the better chip in both price and performance. Spiting "Wintel" was just a plus, as evidenced by the fact that most nerds switched from AMD chips to Intel chips as soon as the Intel benchmarks came out with such a significant lead.
There is more than one person posting here. I don't know about you, but I'm just a CmdrTaco shell account that posts random shit from Wikipedia. I thought everyone else was, too, and we were all just trying to make it look like we're on a successful site so that CmdrTaco can earn lots and lots of money from an evil corporate overlord while being able to DOS people and not get blamed/prosecuted.
We all know the equations don't work out well with 4 dimensions. If they're going to start adding more, I think they should go with 10 minimum, maybe 11.
Oh, and do I have to mention the CONSIDERABLE advantage that comes from not relying on the russians? There's a (corrected) statement that I can agree with. Cooperating in our respective space programs is one of the most visible signs that the cold war is behind us (at least for now). While it may be a pain to work with them sometimes, I for one am very glad that our countries have reached the point where we do.
Because going through everything that they've done on the computer is prohibitively hard. The best they can do is skim and maybe do a quick check of the browser history and chat logs to see who the child was talking to. Most of the documents they write (journals, papers, etc) and the bulk of the chat logs and browsing won't be sifted by the parents at all unless the parents feel a special need.
The actual prize is for those who can fake a moon landing the best. What with camera costs, the director, actors and actresses, and the cost of keeping it secret/disposing of all their bodies, it's a real feat to do it for under $30 million.
And the original X-prize wasn't enough to cover the budget for developing the tools for a private venture to get into space either. $30 million should be enough to get to the moon once you have the equipment, and it might even be enough to cover the equipment, but it sure won't cover the development of the equipment. Like the X-prize, this is more of a rebate so that companies can expect to get some money back on a venture that's going to earn them a lot of money from other sources.
$30 million is also a good excuse for rich people to compete.
the level-scaling of the enemies was just dumb and made the game boring. Yeah, I completely agree. One of the reasons that I play RPGs is because if I'm wanting a challenge, I can run to a higher-level area and knock out a few monsters (with a lot of extra effort) and get some killer gold. Or avoid monsters altogether and get some awesome loot from the land. And sometimes it's nice to go knock out some lower level quests to get experience easy. And sometimes it's fun to get a challenge, to see how long you can go without potions or resting. Personally, I think that Might and Magic 6 and 7 were the best for that; I would love to see another game with the wide-open-world-yet-awesome-story flavor. If you've played those games and can suggest some that are similar, I would be open to them.
To bring my post back on-topic, I feel that this is really missing from all MMOs today, and I'm looking specifically at WoW and City of Heroes here. I want a lot of control over my character, their skills and their development. I want to be able to compete with monsters that are much higher levels than I am, even if it means whacking them a few times and having to run away. Too many times the level difference is compounded by other factors, so that instead of it being a linear progression, it's an exponential one, and that's not right.
Yes, but there's a difference. The value of decorating your horse on a single-player only game is different than the value of decorating your horse in a multi-player-only game. Oblivion then came out with more mods that added value to the game and the community's received them much better.
It's not a slippery slope at all. The parents could easily just tell the child that any attempt to hide what they're doing on their computer will get it confiscated, end of story. Then the parents tell the child that they'll only use automated checking unless they have some reason to look further. Since the parents have the root password, it becomes hard for the child to install programs that the parents don't approve of. If the parents notice something suspicious, they can dig deeper, but unless they notice something suspicious, they can give the child the privacy that the child probably deserves. This is no different than having their own room: the parents should monitor what goes on in the room, but this doesn't mean that you should remove the doors and not allow the child to have some secrets.
The ISP has no responsibility whatsoever to ensure that copyright infringement isn't happening on their tubes. You might as well say that car manufacturers have the responsibility to make sure that cocaine's not being smuggled in them. Everything on the internet has some copyright, and to expect the ISP's to distinguish between something you're licensed to receive and something you're not is ridiculous. If they try to put some automatic filters on their servers, they'll get a lot of false positives, which isn't fair to the law abiding citizens.
That leaves us with a situation where the distributor should be getting smacked with a lawsuit for infringing on copyright, and I honestly believe that they should be. However, they should also get due process in the courts, and the RIAA and MPAA have been trying to make sure that doesn't happen. They file ex parte motions that, if they're not illegal, they should be. They railroad people and, by the time someone gets a chance to fight back, there's often nothing they can do.
Finally, when an infringer is brought to justice, there's a ridiculous punishment of thousands of dollars per song. The RIAA doesn't even have to prove that someone downloaded the song from that person, just that someone *could* have, and they win money. This is like a teenage who owns a paintball gun getting slapped with a fine for shooting out windows because he has a gun that could have shot out the windows and most of the people who own paintball guns shoot out windows. In addition, while the windows cost $50 to replace at any hardware store, the kid's being slapped with a $20,000 fine.
So, should the content producers be able to protect their copyright? Yes. Should people infringe on that copyright? No. Do the content producers deserve any sympathy whatsoever? No. There's widespread abuse going on from both sides of this argument, and getting the ISPs involved is just going to hurt innocent people without doing significant damage to the problem.
Honestly, everything that we see on the internet is copyrighted. Everything. It's not the ISP's responsibility to make sure that the content that's being downloaded doesn't have a copyright, because everything has one when it's created. It's the responsibility of the person doing the distributing to make sure that they aren't distributing goods illegally. This is insanity and it needs to end.
This can be solved by giving the parents the root password and letting the girl keep a secret password. That makes it so that she gets the feeling of privacy and, for the most part, the reality of privacy while still allowing the parents to do and see whatever they want on the computer.
Teach her to use passphrases, something like 'My favorite food is steak'. This is something that's easy for her to remember and also hard to break just from the sheer size of the password. When she's old enough, she'll figure out how to make hard passwords on her own; just give her a few suggestions about capitalization, numbers and symbols.
They're already doing this with multiple services. Between those services and iTunes, iTunes is clearly winning. Some people like a la carte, some like flat rate (compare renting one movie at a time and having a club where you can rent as much as you want).
Actually it's very similar. He points out the arguments on both ends and comes to a middle ground by concluding that it's like stealing cable, which is much closer to the same thing. And as we all, they both happen a lot and only cost the companies in lost revenue that they may or may not have lost otherwise.
Who's going to buy the Macbook air except for those predisposed to love it? It's a niche product from a company that makes very good products if you're in their customer base. The lack of an optical drive and most of the standard ports are going to sow enough doubt that those who aren't already in love with the company are going to walk away. That's especially true for how new the product is; give it some time to mature and for word of mouth to get out, and you'll get more balanced views.
If there's any site on the internet where people should realize that early teens are vulnerable to being manipulated, it should be slashdot. A cute older boy supposedly started talking to her and liked her for a while, then he turned against her, insulted her, and generally tormented her. If it was really a 16 year old boy, his cruelty could be forgiven, but for an adult woman to do this requires foresight and malice that's unbelievable. She should be hit with every possible fraud or harassment law that they can make stick.
I know it's generally not good to reply to your own comment, but I thought I'd add a little perspective to my comment. The GP seems to be calling for some form of eugenics, which is ridiculous. If you run the numbers, you find that it'll take multiple generations to effect even a small impact on the gene pool; it's an endeavor that doesn't have a good payoff compared to the loss in human life and the effort put into it. In addition, there are environmental and cultural factors to consider that could be changed without stopping reproduction. Also, we've got to remember that eugenics was one of the primary justifications for the holocaust; I know about Godwin's law, but dammit, eugenics is one of the places that Nazi Germany should be remembered.
how about we find a way to weed sociopaths like this out of the genetic pool, and certainly prevent them from having kids We could put them all into the same place, you know, have these camps where we send them to concentrate them into one area. That would do it, right?
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AMD was the better chip in both price and performance. Spiting "Wintel" was just a plus, as evidenced by the fact that most nerds switched from AMD chips to Intel chips as soon as the Intel benchmarks came out with such a significant lead.
We all know the equations don't work out well with 4 dimensions. If they're going to start adding more, I think they should go with 10 minimum, maybe 11.
Because going through everything that they've done on the computer is prohibitively hard. The best they can do is skim and maybe do a quick check of the browser history and chat logs to see who the child was talking to. Most of the documents they write (journals, papers, etc) and the bulk of the chat logs and browsing won't be sifted by the parents at all unless the parents feel a special need.
The actual prize is for those who can fake a moon landing the best. What with camera costs, the director, actors and actresses, and the cost of keeping it secret/disposing of all their bodies, it's a real feat to do it for under $30 million.
And the original X-prize wasn't enough to cover the budget for developing the tools for a private venture to get into space either. $30 million should be enough to get to the moon once you have the equipment, and it might even be enough to cover the equipment, but it sure won't cover the development of the equipment. Like the X-prize, this is more of a rebate so that companies can expect to get some money back on a venture that's going to earn them a lot of money from other sources.
$30 million is also a good excuse for rich people to compete.
To bring my post back on-topic, I feel that this is really missing from all MMOs today, and I'm looking specifically at WoW and City of Heroes here. I want a lot of control over my character, their skills and their development. I want to be able to compete with monsters that are much higher levels than I am, even if it means whacking them a few times and having to run away. Too many times the level difference is compounded by other factors, so that instead of it being a linear progression, it's an exponential one, and that's not right.
Yes, but there's a difference. The value of decorating your horse on a single-player only game is different than the value of decorating your horse in a multi-player-only game. Oblivion then came out with more mods that added value to the game and the community's received them much better.
It's not a slippery slope at all. The parents could easily just tell the child that any attempt to hide what they're doing on their computer will get it confiscated, end of story. Then the parents tell the child that they'll only use automated checking unless they have some reason to look further. Since the parents have the root password, it becomes hard for the child to install programs that the parents don't approve of. If the parents notice something suspicious, they can dig deeper, but unless they notice something suspicious, they can give the child the privacy that the child probably deserves. This is no different than having their own room: the parents should monitor what goes on in the room, but this doesn't mean that you should remove the doors and not allow the child to have some secrets.
The ISP has no responsibility whatsoever to ensure that copyright infringement isn't happening on their tubes. You might as well say that car manufacturers have the responsibility to make sure that cocaine's not being smuggled in them. Everything on the internet has some copyright, and to expect the ISP's to distinguish between something you're licensed to receive and something you're not is ridiculous. If they try to put some automatic filters on their servers, they'll get a lot of false positives, which isn't fair to the law abiding citizens.
That leaves us with a situation where the distributor should be getting smacked with a lawsuit for infringing on copyright, and I honestly believe that they should be. However, they should also get due process in the courts, and the RIAA and MPAA have been trying to make sure that doesn't happen. They file ex parte motions that, if they're not illegal, they should be. They railroad people and, by the time someone gets a chance to fight back, there's often nothing they can do.
Finally, when an infringer is brought to justice, there's a ridiculous punishment of thousands of dollars per song. The RIAA doesn't even have to prove that someone downloaded the song from that person, just that someone *could* have, and they win money. This is like a teenage who owns a paintball gun getting slapped with a fine for shooting out windows because he has a gun that could have shot out the windows and most of the people who own paintball guns shoot out windows. In addition, while the windows cost $50 to replace at any hardware store, the kid's being slapped with a $20,000 fine.
So, should the content producers be able to protect their copyright? Yes. Should people infringe on that copyright? No. Do the content producers deserve any sympathy whatsoever? No. There's widespread abuse going on from both sides of this argument, and getting the ISPs involved is just going to hurt innocent people without doing significant damage to the problem.
Honestly, everything that we see on the internet is copyrighted. Everything. It's not the ISP's responsibility to make sure that the content that's being downloaded doesn't have a copyright, because everything has one when it's created. It's the responsibility of the person doing the distributing to make sure that they aren't distributing goods illegally. This is insanity and it needs to end.
Careful. We don't want people to start arguing over which ISP it was that got killed and what its specific policies were.
This can be solved by giving the parents the root password and letting the girl keep a secret password. That makes it so that she gets the feeling of privacy and, for the most part, the reality of privacy while still allowing the parents to do and see whatever they want on the computer.
Teach her to use passphrases, something like 'My favorite food is steak'. This is something that's easy for her to remember and also hard to break just from the sheer size of the password. When she's old enough, she'll figure out how to make hard passwords on her own; just give her a few suggestions about capitalization, numbers and symbols.
They're already doing this with multiple services. Between those services and iTunes, iTunes is clearly winning. Some people like a la carte, some like flat rate (compare renting one movie at a time and having a club where you can rent as much as you want).
Actually it's very similar. He points out the arguments on both ends and comes to a middle ground by concluding that it's like stealing cable, which is much closer to the same thing. And as we all, they both happen a lot and only cost the companies in lost revenue that they may or may not have lost otherwise.
To be fair, Macintosh did name the notebook after the most insubstantial and least solid thing they could.
Who's going to buy the Macbook air except for those predisposed to love it? It's a niche product from a company that makes very good products if you're in their customer base. The lack of an optical drive and most of the standard ports are going to sow enough doubt that those who aren't already in love with the company are going to walk away. That's especially true for how new the product is; give it some time to mature and for word of mouth to get out, and you'll get more balanced views.
If there's any site on the internet where people should realize that early teens are vulnerable to being manipulated, it should be slashdot. A cute older boy supposedly started talking to her and liked her for a while, then he turned against her, insulted her, and generally tormented her. If it was really a 16 year old boy, his cruelty could be forgiven, but for an adult woman to do this requires foresight and malice that's unbelievable. She should be hit with every possible fraud or harassment law that they can make stick.
I know it's generally not good to reply to your own comment, but I thought I'd add a little perspective to my comment. The GP seems to be calling for some form of eugenics, which is ridiculous. If you run the numbers, you find that it'll take multiple generations to effect even a small impact on the gene pool; it's an endeavor that doesn't have a good payoff compared to the loss in human life and the effort put into it. In addition, there are environmental and cultural factors to consider that could be changed without stopping reproduction. Also, we've got to remember that eugenics was one of the primary justifications for the holocaust; I know about Godwin's law, but dammit, eugenics is one of the places that Nazi Germany should be remembered.
Feel free to mod me down now.
So you're saying they would literally die before providing better service?