The real question is why Nintendo hasn't just built a clause into the manual which clearly states, "if you break your tv with your wiimote, it's your fault. Please do not utilize astroglide while playing Wii Sports."
McCain had a hugely positive relationship with the media, allowing him to make gaffes like the "Iraq/Pakistan border" and referring to countries which haven't existed in decades right up until the point he started complaining about the press Obama was getting and denying them access.
And oh yeah. The press are supposed to act like journalists, not stenographers. The job of the press isn't to just put the candidates up on pedestals, it's to investigate their claims. John McCain didn't give them anything positive to say about his own campaign; he ran the entire race about Obama. How on earth, even if they did intend to give equal airtime to both candidates, could they have avoided talking more about Obama? When all of the bogus charges McCain/Palin leveled at the man turned up false, how could they have avoided speaking positively of him?
This is a totally legitimate strategy, and it is exactly the one utilized by many open source projects.
It's an industry. The software is the product. Open-source should be, and with a few notable exceptions generally is, subject to the same rules of competition as proprietary projects.
There's too much blargleblargleproprietarysoftwarebadblargleglargle on/. these days.
An issue of poor prosecuting. They can nail this woman with plenty of other crimes without attempting to bring the medium she used into the issue. If this had been a series of letters she wouldn't have been charged with Postal Fraud and Abuse.
The poster above already nailed you, but I'd love to know what the "alternatives" that India and China have "woken up to" are. I assume you mean people buying one copy of the software, cracking it and distributing it on omnibus DVDs for $5 a pop out of a suitcase?
Well, I used the search function, on the assumption that the handful of unrelated articles (two on urinary tract infection and two on gastrointestinal bleeding, though) listed at the bottom of the home page couldn't possibly be all there was to offer.
No results found for Iraq
No results found for Particle Acceleration
No results found for United States of America
No results found for Liberalism
And possibly most deplorable, No results found for Kevin Bacon
Well. Either I have some writing to do or I can just keep using Wikipedia. This is going to be just like all those other silly little "expert-written" sites. Lots of people coming on and writing very general articles about completely random subjects. People might find these in a web search if Google weights the site really heavily, but no one is going to go there to look for something.
Congressmen cannot be contractually bound to vote in any way, for any reason. You could get someone who promises to vote in alignment with whatever votes are made on the website, but he or she would be exactly like any other Congressman.
Then of course there's the fraud issue. Is the website really invulnerable to malicious attack? Is it really invulnerable to fake registrations? I'd be much happier voting for someone competent and honest than for someone who promises to follow the dictates of a basically anonymous online community. (good luck finding that politician, though)
Rats. Theres no mod "- nonsensical pipe dream of an ideologue."
The most basic definition of a government is an entity that controls a state. The most basic definition of a state is an entity that places a monopoly on the use of force over a particular territory. Governments are not "opt-in," they are not built on consensus. This project is obviously talking about the abolishment of the State; can anyone here seriously imagine a community of people larger than one person willing to come to consensus on matters such as welfare or forest policy for more than a few days? If you want to talk about anarchy, go for it, but don't shroud it in terms like "metagovernment." (Doesn't make sense, by the way, would literally mean "governing or government about government")
And honestly, a world "governed" by/. posters scares me almost as much as Orwell's does.
The computers aren't necessarily better if they cost more. If your definition of "high-end" is that the computer runs only your own personalized Linux OS then you get 100% market share.
You mean for the gamer who wants to customize a system, but not build it from scratch, and is hemorrhaging $20 bills out of their anus, there's the Dell subsidiary Alienware.
I think in this case presenting evidence would probably weaken his position. The more confusing and unrelentingly nonsensical the argument is the more likely he will be to get away with it. "The Terrorists are hacking our webs!"
The real question here is, how could they make any money doing this? Who in the universe pays for pirated software?!?
This SHOULD be irrelevant, however, as everyone has the right to free legal defense from the public defender if they cannot afford it on their own. Plenty of cases are pursued by rich plaintiffs against relatively poor defendants, and the spirit of the Constitution discourages giving special treatment to anyone.
We have a two party system because of the economy of votes and most voters being satisfied with one or the other party mostly; not because the system is built this way.
If I share most views with the Republican party, but I'm farther to the right on certain issues, it doesn't serve my voting interests to vote for a third party unless those are the only issues I really care about. The result of going 3rd party means that the party with whom I share a lot of ideas with is going to lose out against a party that I share nothing with, and my 3rd party won't ever have the votes to get a President in, so it serves my interests more to vote Republican.
Please do not tell us what America "needs" to do if you are not one of us. The going is tough enough as it is without backseat drivers.
A fellow econ major I see... I have another one for you:
As the distance of the trip increases, (and thus the time it takes to complete it) the likelihood that another, faster mode of transport is discovered increases exponentially. What do you do with the goods already en route when you suddenly have the ability to deliver them faster, or even yesterday for that matter?
Hey, someone else who hasn't been bitten by a/. zombie. I also run Vista (P64) with no issues whatsoever. I bought enough RAM. My system runs great. I'll tell you, it was a lot easier to switch from XP to Vista than it was to switch from 2000 to XP.
In other news, please stop pirating software, no matter how big and faceless the corporation that produces it is. You're just hurting legitimate users, because, as others have posted, it sure isn't hurting M$'s bottom line much.
The anti-Vista slashdot zombies have very poor memory, it appears. They do not recall when every single on of their programs failed when they moved into XP.
Just another/. reader who's been running Vista Premium 64 rock solid for two months and getting sick of the pointless bashing.
Slashdot Mirror
The real question is why Nintendo hasn't just built a clause into the manual which clearly states, "if you break your tv with your wiimote, it's your fault. Please do not utilize astroglide while playing Wii Sports."
McCain had a hugely positive relationship with the media, allowing him to make gaffes like the "Iraq/Pakistan border" and referring to countries which haven't existed in decades right up until the point he started complaining about the press Obama was getting and denying them access.
And oh yeah. The press are supposed to act like journalists, not stenographers. The job of the press isn't to just put the candidates up on pedestals, it's to investigate their claims. John McCain didn't give them anything positive to say about his own campaign; he ran the entire race about Obama. How on earth, even if they did intend to give equal airtime to both candidates, could they have avoided talking more about Obama? When all of the bogus charges McCain/Palin leveled at the man turned up false, how could they have avoided speaking positively of him?
Stay for the heart surgery?
This is a totally legitimate strategy, and it is exactly the one utilized by many open source projects.
/. these days.
It's an industry. The software is the product. Open-source should be, and with a few notable exceptions generally is, subject to the same rules of competition as proprietary projects.
There's too much blargleblargleproprietarysoftwarebadblargleglargle on
An issue of poor prosecuting. They can nail this woman with plenty of other crimes without attempting to bring the medium she used into the issue. If this had been a series of letters she wouldn't have been charged with Postal Fraud and Abuse.
Because they're making software into which you manually enter notes, pictures, names, dates...
People do this already. It's called a PDA. This is neither special nor news.
The poster above already nailed you, but I'd love to know what the "alternatives" that India and China have "woken up to" are. I assume you mean people buying one copy of the software, cracking it and distributing it on omnibus DVDs for $5 a pop out of a suitcase?
Well, I used the search function, on the assumption that the handful of unrelated articles (two on urinary tract infection and two on gastrointestinal bleeding, though) listed at the bottom of the home page couldn't possibly be all there was to offer.
No results found for Iraq
No results found for Particle Acceleration
No results found for United States of America
No results found for Liberalism
And possibly most deplorable, No results found for Kevin Bacon
Well. Either I have some writing to do or I can just keep using Wikipedia. This is going to be just like all those other silly little "expert-written" sites. Lots of people coming on and writing very general articles about completely random subjects. People might find these in a web search if Google weights the site really heavily, but no one is going to go there to look for something.
If it's not plastic, just pull out the electronics, stand it up facing straight up. Instant elevated fire pit.
Congressmen cannot be contractually bound to vote in any way, for any reason. You could get someone who promises to vote in alignment with whatever votes are made on the website, but he or she would be exactly like any other Congressman.
Then of course there's the fraud issue. Is the website really invulnerable to malicious attack? Is it really invulnerable to fake registrations? I'd be much happier voting for someone competent and honest than for someone who promises to follow the dictates of a basically anonymous online community. (good luck finding that politician, though)
+5 Bullseye
Now, /. community, use this to justify piracy! go!
Rats. Theres no mod "- nonsensical pipe dream of an ideologue."
/. posters scares me almost as much as Orwell's does.
The most basic definition of a government is an entity that controls a state. The most basic definition of a state is an entity that places a monopoly on the use of force over a particular territory. Governments are not "opt-in," they are not built on consensus. This project is obviously talking about the abolishment of the State; can anyone here seriously imagine a community of people larger than one person willing to come to consensus on matters such as welfare or forest policy for more than a few days? If you want to talk about anarchy, go for it, but don't shroud it in terms like "metagovernment." (Doesn't make sense, by the way, would literally mean "governing or government about government")
And honestly, a world "governed" by
The computers aren't necessarily better if they cost more. If your definition of "high-end" is that the computer runs only your own personalized Linux OS then you get 100% market share.
... people are using the Vista Media Center in the first place.
This is obviously a bad idea which will result in the creation of a master race on a hidden space station.
The other question is:
How are they getting to work? Sail-car? 100% wind powered my left nut.
You mean for the gamer who wants to customize a system, but not build it from scratch, and is hemorrhaging $20 bills out of their anus, there's the Dell subsidiary Alienware.
I think in this case presenting evidence would probably weaken his position. The more confusing and unrelentingly nonsensical the argument is the more likely he will be to get away with it. "The Terrorists are hacking our webs!"
The real question here is, how could they make any money doing this? Who in the universe pays for pirated software?!?
This SHOULD be irrelevant, however, as everyone has the right to free legal defense from the public defender if they cannot afford it on their own. Plenty of cases are pursued by rich plaintiffs against relatively poor defendants, and the spirit of the Constitution discourages giving special treatment to anyone.
God, Imagine playing CS:S with them. Of course, if the answer is "yes" then they'll be landing minutes after you send the message.
We have a two party system because of the economy of votes and most voters being satisfied with one or the other party mostly; not because the system is built this way. If I share most views with the Republican party, but I'm farther to the right on certain issues, it doesn't serve my voting interests to vote for a third party unless those are the only issues I really care about. The result of going 3rd party means that the party with whom I share a lot of ideas with is going to lose out against a party that I share nothing with, and my 3rd party won't ever have the votes to get a President in, so it serves my interests more to vote Republican. Please do not tell us what America "needs" to do if you are not one of us. The going is tough enough as it is without backseat drivers.
A fellow econ major I see... I have another one for you: As the distance of the trip increases, (and thus the time it takes to complete it) the likelihood that another, faster mode of transport is discovered increases exponentially. What do you do with the goods already en route when you suddenly have the ability to deliver them faster, or even yesterday for that matter?
Hey, someone else who hasn't been bitten by a /. zombie. I also run Vista (P64) with no issues whatsoever. I bought enough RAM. My system runs great. I'll tell you, it was a lot easier to switch from XP to Vista than it was to switch from 2000 to XP.
In other news, please stop pirating software, no matter how big and faceless the corporation that produces it is. You're just hurting legitimate users, because, as others have posted, it sure isn't hurting M$'s bottom line much.
The anti-Vista slashdot zombies have very poor memory, it appears. They do not recall when every single on of their programs failed when they moved into XP. Just another /. reader who's been running Vista Premium 64 rock solid for two months and getting sick of the pointless bashing.