If you were surrounded by hundred of police in full riot gear who were arresting peaceful protesters left and right for just BEING there, wouldn't you fight back a little?
Not to mention: Police ignoring criminal activities in order to arrest demonstrators and "keeping the peace", according to some reports.
Why don't they just include binaries for all OS's on the CD
IIRC, it was because they wanted to track the Linux sales separately, and the "registration form questionaire" is too unreliable.
Some companies already ship multiple binaries for Windows and Mac with their games (Myth II, Imperialism II). There shouldn't be a reason (other than the aforementioned tracking) not to ship a Linux binary as well, if it's simultaneously developed/finished. (In fact, were'nt the Q3 "tests" for Linux and Mac released before the Windows versions?)
Let's face it -- the people most likely to be affected by this kind of surveillance are the people who are doing bad stuff to begin with.
You risk that "bad stuff" includes criticizing the Government, being black or promoting extramarital sex. In America parents can be arrested on child porn charges just for taking pictures of their own children in the nude. So there are a lot of "child pornographers" who would not be called so in Europe.
After all, if you really trust your government only to do good things you would not be opposed to a China-style national proxy and control of domestic websites, would you? Would you be able to access a site like Slashdot? Doubtful.
Some of the most outraged comments in this discussion are the equivalent of no one will invent without IP. They forget that for a long time there WAS no IP, and people still invented, and wrote, and painted.
Correct. They either created under contract to some rich aristocrat (who became owner of the work), were dilettantes or otherwise rich themselves, or lived in a time less dominated with money.
Does not work in a non-feudalistic economy as the current. If I could spend two months writing a novel or two months flipping burgers, which would enable me to pay rent and food if the monetary comensation for the novel would be $0?
Should Einstein have patented relativity? Or copyrighted it?
Ridiculous: you cannot copyright an idea, but Einstein had the copyright to his papers on relativity. Nor can you patent ideas as such, just physical expressions of them.
As another poster noted, as long as we have an economy based on profit and income, you need IP in order to have "intangibles" (IP) produced in some quantity, otherwise only those who gain money "automatically" (interest on large fortunes, automated stock trading) will have the time necessary.
The alternative is for the "State" to provide everyone with what they need to live, aka. communism. (However, as history shows, communism mutates in few months into a feudalistic system where the politicans and administrators become the upper class. Everyone else lose.)
I keep asking myself how the mac, with its limited install base, keeps developers?
Do the math: 20% of a huge market is a large market. Get it? There is more installed base on MacOS than on Linux, so you could just as well ask how Linux keeps developers. Why do you think there are few Macs in total just because the environments you know of have few?
Does Microsoft guarantee (or even imply) that Outlook (or Windows, for that matter) is secure?
No. Standard Windows EULA usually says the software is delivered as-is, and that Microsoft are not responsible for problems related to use of the software. For NT, there is also a clause that is you actually should be able to prove Microsoft are responsible, the maximum compensation is $5.
Despite this, there are IS managers who choose Windows over Linux because they naïvely believe that since they paid money they are entitled to some sort of protection against mishaps.
And how long would it take for someone to produce a hacked CRC program that returns the correct CRC whether you have a hacked game executable or not?
I believe "how long does it take crackers to remove an undesired feature (like CD-in-drive requirements and server-authenticated CRCs) from a program" is the scientific definition of "zero time".
Also, how do you differentiate between CRCs which differ because of patches and those that differ because of hacks?
So, how can the game makers prevent this sort of abuse in network play?
By writing games using isometric 2D sprites, like Diablo 2 and 99% of the RTSes out there use. No 3D engine support -> no 3D engine cheating. Probably would not go over well with the 3D card manufacturers (since people would choose the best 2D support - aka. Matrox cards - instead of fancy-schmancy 3D stuff they hardly ever use).
If you stay at a store for three or four hours run around, bother the salesmen, knock over displays (and most importantly) with no intention of buying anything, you will be asked to leave. Once that's been done you are trespassing.
What you are saying is that the site should set a cookie, then check whether the user actually uses their "real" services, and if not, deny them access after some predetermined time?
If I write a script to strain through all of the content on your site, and you have a huge site like ebay, I would think that it would hog a significant percentage of your cpu.
That used to be a good argument back when Veronica mapped Gopher-space, and lots of Gopher servers were on mainframes and the like where people paid (in blood) for CPU time - including the people running the Gopher servers.
But is that really an argument these days? What is the difference between a robot and a visitor who hust browses everything without using the services you gain income from (including ads)? If your site cannot handle the occasional crawler robot, how can it scale to, say, five extra users?
Read the insigtful (really) article again: He means post-Columbian, because nerds and goths have been looked down on since way before the Columbine incident, though perhaps not going back as far as 1492.
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... was ostracized, ridiculed, feared etc. in the early years, partly because of Jonah J. Jameson's insane campaigns against him. So it's not entirely easy for the "normals" either.
Anyway, for a really excellent treatment of the early Marvel Universe (Human Torch, Namor, FF vs. Galactus, Spiderman, a few others) as seen from the eyes of a newspaper reporter, get yourself the tresure known as the Marvels mini-series. Beutifully painted, excellent story, etc.
Now what's strange about the Marvel Universe is that people subjected to radiation don't get incredibly sick and die, but get superpowers (Spiderman, the Hulk). This could be because of the more positive outlook on "atomics" in the era the heroes were created.
Will someone please explain to me how some manga series fits into the "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." definition?
It's not manga, it's anime. Manga are comic books - usually in black and white - but anime are the animated "version" of them, in a way.
And watching Japanese animation - with or without tentacled aliens raping schoolgirls, of which Tenchi as none - is definitely nerdy. Unless the anime happens to be called Pokémon the Movie, in which case it's for kids. ^_^
Now that you've had to recategorize yourself as "someone who is open to experimentation with drugs", you don't have anything to lose by trying another drug...
More likely: Since anti-marijuana arguments are lumped together with the arguments against heavier drugs, and the user finds that the scare propaganda against marijuana is false, they may conclude that the stuff about the harder drugs is also false, though some of it actually may be true.
Nope never had that... but I have been sold weed laced with dust. As for the other lacings, I've seen dealers who would do lots of things that don't make sense because they were too messed up.
But that is a consequence of an unregulated market, and the problem will only increase if access to information is further restricted. Are you likely to buy liquor from a proper liquor store, or buy some unspecified moonshine from a dirty redneck pig farmer? The former, because you can. As long as drugs other than those used by the establishment (nicotine, alcohol, caffeine et al) are prohibited, you will have problems with "unclean" product.
How many of those three-letter titles does the business world need? I am just waiting for CIYFRHE, or Chief Insert-Your-Favourite-Role-Here Executive, shortened to CXE.
are at the bottom of the gravity well employed in the book, not at the top, and
just as in the book, it would probably be used as a weapon.
However, you aren't the first to think so - nor was Heinlein. Read Jules Verne's works, I think he wrote two books where they used/tried to use a cannon to escape the gravity well.
Dude - you forgot Dune. Where it RAINS at the end.
I thought that was Paul using his powers to bring water from the Atreides homeworld to Arrakis - perfectly logical in the movie's "reality". Note that the stern look on his face is intermixed with the ocean scenes from the early parts of the film (Paul and his father talking by the shore).
Now, the skies clearing in seconds when the probe leaves at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, that's something else...
I was right, but it's still not much fun to have the mystery gone like that
If you want mystery, read the novel it's based on: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by the late weird genius Philip K. Dick. Then try to figure out who are replicants or not there...:-)
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Unless you really like Sierra's "take a wrong step and die" approach to adventures... :-)
Not to mention: Police ignoring criminal activities in order to arrest demonstrators and "keeping the peace", according to some reports.
IIRC, it was because they wanted to track the Linux sales separately, and the "registration form questionaire" is too unreliable.
Some companies already ship multiple binaries for Windows and Mac with their games (Myth II, Imperialism II). There shouldn't be a reason (other than the aforementioned tracking) not to ship a Linux binary as well, if it's simultaneously developed/finished. (In fact, were'nt the Q3 "tests" for Linux and Mac released before the Windows versions?)
You risk that "bad stuff" includes criticizing the Government, being black or promoting extramarital sex. In America parents can be arrested on child porn charges just for taking pictures of their own children in the nude. So there are a lot of "child pornographers" who would not be called so in Europe.
After all, if you really trust your government only to do good things you would not be opposed to a China-style national proxy and control of domestic websites, would you? Would you be able to access a site like Slashdot? Doubtful.
Correct. They either created under contract to some rich aristocrat (who became owner of the work), were dilettantes or otherwise rich themselves, or lived in a time less dominated with money.
Does not work in a non-feudalistic economy as the current. If I could spend two months writing a novel or two months flipping burgers, which would enable me to pay rent and food if the monetary comensation for the novel would be $0?
Should Einstein have patented relativity? Or copyrighted it?
Ridiculous: you cannot copyright an idea, but Einstein had the copyright to his papers on relativity. Nor can you patent ideas as such, just physical expressions of them.
As another poster noted, as long as we have an economy based on profit and income, you need IP in order to have "intangibles" (IP) produced in some quantity, otherwise only those who gain money "automatically" (interest on large fortunes, automated stock trading) will have the time necessary.
The alternative is for the "State" to provide everyone with what they need to live, aka. communism. (However, as history shows, communism mutates in few months into a feudalistic system where the politicans and administrators become the upper class. Everyone else lose.)
Do the math: 20% of a huge market is a large market. Get it? There is more installed base on MacOS than on Linux, so you could just as well ask how Linux keeps developers. Why do you think there are few Macs in total just because the environments you know of have few?
- Well, at least my model isn't on the cover of "Crack VRML Magazine".
No. Standard Windows EULA usually says the software is delivered as-is, and that Microsoft are not responsible for problems related to use of the software. For NT, there is also a clause that is you actually should be able to prove Microsoft are responsible, the maximum compensation is $5.
Despite this, there are IS managers who choose Windows over Linux because they naïvely believe that since they paid money they are entitled to some sort of protection against mishaps.
I believe "how long does it take crackers to remove an undesired feature (like CD-in-drive requirements and server-authenticated CRCs) from a program" is the scientific definition of "zero time".
Also, how do you differentiate between CRCs which differ because of patches and those that differ because of hacks?
By writing games using isometric 2D sprites, like Diablo 2 and 99% of the RTSes out there use. No 3D engine support -> no 3D engine cheating. Probably would not go over well with the 3D card manufacturers (since people would choose the best 2D support - aka. Matrox cards - instead of fancy-schmancy 3D stuff they hardly ever use).
What you are saying is that the site should set a cookie, then check whether the user actually uses their "real" services, and if not, deny them access after some predetermined time?
Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
That used to be a good argument back when Veronica mapped Gopher-space, and lots of Gopher servers were on mainframes and the like where people paid (in blood) for CPU time - including the people running the Gopher servers.
But is that really an argument these days? What is the difference between a robot and a visitor who hust browses everything without using the services you gain income from (including ads)? If your site cannot handle the occasional crawler robot, how can it scale to, say, five extra users?
My guess is he does not/did not play such games, hence the removal of the right/option to choose does not bother him.
Of course, if they remove a right he does enjoy, he should not be surprised to be met with the same "does not bother me" acceptance from other people.
Right on! It really can fuck up their minds and hence their lives and that of those who associate with them.
Oh, wait: I thought you wrote "religion", not "violence". Never mind.
Read the insigtful (really) article again: He means post-Columbian, because nerds and goths have been looked down on since way before the Columbine incident, though perhaps not going back as far as 1492.
... was ostracized, ridiculed, feared etc. in the early years, partly because of Jonah J. Jameson's insane campaigns against him. So it's not entirely easy for the "normals" either.
Anyway, for a really excellent treatment of the early Marvel Universe (Human Torch, Namor, FF vs. Galactus, Spiderman, a few others) as seen from the eyes of a newspaper reporter, get yourself the tresure known as the Marvels mini-series. Beutifully painted, excellent story, etc.
Now what's strange about the Marvel Universe is that people subjected to radiation don't get incredibly sick and die, but get superpowers (Spiderman, the Hulk). This could be because of the more positive outlook on "atomics" in the era the heroes were created.
It's not manga, it's anime. Manga are comic books - usually in black and white - but anime are the animated "version" of them, in a way.
And watching Japanese animation - with or without tentacled aliens raping schoolgirls, of which Tenchi as none - is definitely nerdy. Unless the anime happens to be called Pokémon the Movie, in which case it's for kids. ^_^
I'm waiting for the Australians to make XXXX-Men, about beer-drinking misogynists... :-)
More likely: Since anti-marijuana arguments are lumped together with the arguments against heavier drugs, and the user finds that the scare propaganda against marijuana is false, they may conclude that the stuff about the harder drugs is also false, though some of it actually may be true.
But that is a consequence of an unregulated market, and the problem will only increase if access to information is further restricted. Are you likely to buy liquor from a proper liquor store, or buy some unspecified moonshine from a dirty redneck pig farmer? The former, because you can. As long as drugs other than those used by the establishment (nicotine, alcohol, caffeine et al) are prohibited, you will have problems with "unclean" product.
How many of those three-letter titles does the business world need? I am just waiting for CIYFRHE, or Chief Insert-Your-Favourite-Role-Here Executive, shortened to CXE.
However, you aren't the first to think so - nor was Heinlein. Read Jules Verne's works, I think he wrote two books where they used/tried to use a cannon to escape the gravity well.
No, they were invented by Al Gore using Microsoft Innovation ®.
I thought that was Paul using his powers to bring water from the Atreides homeworld to Arrakis - perfectly logical in the movie's "reality". Note that the stern look on his face is intermixed with the ocean scenes from the early parts of the film (Paul and his father talking by the shore).
Now, the skies clearing in seconds when the probe leaves at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, that's something else...
If you want mystery, read the novel it's based on: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by the late weird genius Philip K. Dick. Then try to figure out who are replicants or not there... :-)