This is not some new thought or idea. Its survivalism and hasn't changed since... ever. Horde it up 'cause you may not have it tomorrow, and you still gotta eat. This trend in games is now obvious probably because of the popularity of WoW et. al. and how our "selves" are so easily transferred to an abstract, digital realm where we can horde and collect as long as there's stuff to horde and collect. For fuck's sake, people have been collecting and playing card games for decades. This is incredibly un-newsworthy.
No, 6 Mbps is 6 Mbps. I pay for 10 from ATT and get an average of 3, and peak at around 7 at 3am on Christmas eve. This is unacceptable, and I should be able to prosecute ATT for this if it wasn't for their EULA which basically states, "Nothing we advertise is actually true and by signing up for the service you agree to be fucked in the anus."
This is the same story as every other telecomm. You don't have to do shit to get/keep customers if you're a virtual monopoly.
Neigh everyone mentioned either vi or emacs (I know they can run on Windows, but they are not acceptable as an IDE and all ya'll need to get with the times), a few said Eclipse (wtf Java?? yeah it has plugins, but it isn't a C++ IDE dammit!), and DevC++ is just dead.
I recently tried out the Qt Creator and I love it. It feels new and snappy, works well, and emulates Visual Studio's dialog creator (in my opinion, being Qt and not MFC, kicks Visual Studio's bug-laden ass). I haven't been able to really squeeze the useful juices out of Qt yet, but the potential is evident.
Visual Studio Express is great, and if you want to do MFC than thats definitely the way to go, but if you're just programming as a hobby or for personal projects then I suggest giving Qt Creator a try
You're right, but the gray area seems incredibly advantageous for legal team of the RIAA and gang. Their able to use holes in law like the one you described to render grandmas and children guilty, probably because the judge and jury just don't know any better.
I do like the s.107 text and wish more laws were constructed in this way: do whatever you want in private, but in public you must give compensation on par with the value you received from using the copyrighted product. It seems much more reasonable to enforce, also.
Win or lose, its another story in the news about how flawed the music, movie, and print industry is and how unwilling the players are to modify their business model. They do seem to have a decent legal base, so lets hope for a win!
From the article,
So, supported by two Dutch copyright lawyers and IT experts, FTD have filed a lawsuit against BREIN in which they request the court clarifies these points;
That downloading is legal in the Netherlands, even if the uploader committed copyright infringement when he uploaded the material.
That directing users to content on Usenet via FTD is legal, even if the material was put there without permission of the copyright holders.
That FTD is acting within the law, considering the above.
That there is no need for FTD to filter any of the reports its users create which refer to the location of content on the Internet
That FTD does not have to remove any of these reports, unless BREIN makes a correct and formal complaint.
Government agencies must go through a series of checks before they prosecute a citizen--the whole "innocent first, prove guilty" thing. For some reason these rules no longer apply when the agency is backed by large, private corporations...
If you're writing textbooks, you can rot in hell. I know you're not the publisher, but you let them publish your books, and they in turn buy exclusive rights to universities like Pepsi and Coke do with their vending machines. It doesn't matter if the book is quality, only if it makes the university a buck on kickbacks and thats a terrible bastardization of education. As a college student (mostly) paying his own way, I hate you and you're damn right I'm gonna try to pirate your book (if I even need it).
If you aren't, then its pretty obvious. Supply your books for free or for very cheap online, and advertise a printed copy for sale. People value material objects... don't think that the interwebs will engulf your work and render it profitless.
IMO, this is a terrible idea. Microsoft has tried to "interpret" what the user wants for decades and that didn't only fail, it made Windows one of the most annoying products on the planet. The last thing I want is my PC to constantly "interpret" me to figure out how slow it can run, more than likely keeping me at a constant level of aggravation in order to save a few mW. I'd rather my computer amaze at how fast it started up Firefox for once, not that it shaved $0.05 off my monthly power bill by throttling itself while I pull my hair out and smash my peripherals. This is not about going green, this is about a group of PhD's (or PhD students) trying to save their previously hip project (or thesis) by farming some hype off of/.
...and the successful treasonous behavior of every administration after Kennedy is a useful demonstration of how it can go wrong very quickly.
(And yes this includes Obama!) I do agree with you in principal. What can be corrupt, will be corrupt and we need less legislation that has the potential to become corrupt. Due to this, no Czar is a good thing, and I don't think I need to explain the connection with absolute power and corruption.
P.S. "Czar" is the dumbest buzzword that the interwebs has given birth to in a long time and I for one am sick of hearing it. But I guess its not really birth... its more like stealing someone's kid, calling it your own, then beating the shit out of him until he's a she.
Should publishers and developers be able to release whatever they want?
Yes. When did videogames become something so other-worldly that the first amendment no longer applies? And seriously, if you do not like the games, do not play them (and do not let your kids play them).
The various interest groups out to get the violent video games pulled are wrong. No group of people (the players and producers of these games) should be singled out and legislated against because they choose to partake in a certain activity. In no way are the acts of playing and creating these games negatively effecting the lives of anyone but the players and creators. A game about Somalia does have the potential to offend a large number of people, but those people should be able to avoid the game as though it were a food allergy. Everyone else can still eat shellfish even though eating it would kill you. Also, just because you realize that it may be offensive doesn't mean that it is your sacred duty is to save the rest of the world from the madness.
Say the rating system is faulty. Require psychological side effects be printed on the boxes. Just don't you dare take away our freedom to express what we wish to express and how we wish to do so.
P.S. US = nanny state, and my bottle's been empty for too long.
Scientific Journals cannot be compared to TV documentaries. I'm not familiar with many other fields, but the IEEE Spectrum and ACM publish journals that are widely used as technical resources in engineering. Journals are not primarily a form of entertainment.
I don't care if they use Windows, Linux, or OSX. This could actually motivate students to learn on their own, a concept rarely taught in grade school.
When I was in Jr. High I was fortunate enough to take a keyboarding class. The final project was to make web page summarizing what you learned in the class. I didn't learn much until I began making the web page. A few of us in the class were enthralled by how it works and instead of using FrontPage, we used the internet to learn basic HTML and designed our pages from scratch.
Many kids, like me, continued to expand our new found ability to create on the computer. We all individually learned JavaScript, C, Perl, and other languages all on our own and without each other's knowledge. I ended up learning about this come senior year in high school when we were all talking about the CSC, EE, and CPE degrees we were going to get in the next four years.
Four years later we all have degrees and all attribute our affinity for learning with that first, open-ended project in Jr. High. Its something like a laptop that can open a kids mind to how easy it is to learn, and how rewarding it can be. I am happy for the small handful of kids these laptops will inspire and hope that parents and teachers let their kids learn.
Speed enforcement does need to be reformed. Officers seem to only give tickets as an incentive to keep their jobs. Its not about safety, its about making the quota to satisfy "the higher ups."
Drug prohibition is as dumb as alcohol prohibition (its the same thing, alcohol is a drug). All it does is make criminals out of ordinary citizens and promote organized crime by creating its largest market.
You may understand the concept of "law," but you have no understanding of "justice."
Now we'll all start pirating our news because they'll probably set the price too high, then they'll blame the pirates (or anyone but themselves) for their new business model failing, and insist the News Printers Association of America be instated to protect them. And by protect, I mean bash down doors, arrest innocents, and harass the population as a whole, all to protect their profit margin.
And only the lawyers will really benefit from it all.
NO! They already teach us enough superfluous crap to make me wish I was a business major.
What colleges need to do is stop teaching history lessons and begin teaching students how to learn on their own. Face it, your job will not mimic what you learned in college no matter how good the school was, or how good of a student you were. Real life != school life.
Don't give a man a fish. Don't teach a man to fish. Teach a man to learn how to fish.
My best code is produced when the pressure is on. Just last weekend I was participating in a robotics contest and coded a crude OS for a micro-controller in the 5 hours leading up to the competition. It was very simple, but worked well and I was even able to provide simulation outputs when run on a normal PC.
Why not just be ecstatic that billions of people have access to your art? There are still ways to make money (book signings, tv/radio appearances, hell, maybe even keep an ongoing fiction blog with a subscription fee). I dream of a day when our entertainment is free, as in beer, and people finally start thinking of new ways to making money other than charging for the right to view the media. Your model is flawed, not broken, so stop trying to fix it and just change.
Drugs actually do lead to death and millions of dollars worth of advertising hasn't stopped kids from doing them. I'm not talking about drug enforcement, just simply kids starting to use. Think D.A.R.E. or a similar, keep-kids-off-drugs type of program. Obviously the youth of the world doesn't heed the lessons the government supplies, yet our methods haven't changed.
Governments, or any large body of people, have no idea what individual's need or want and they never will. People, including children, will keep on doing what they want to do regardless of how unhealthy the government says it is. They should be spending that money on parks, sport complexes, school sport programs, community centers, etc. so that there is an actual reason to get outside and active instead of zealously condemning lifestyle choices. But I guess talking is what politicians do best, and creating change doesn't bode well for reelection. No surprise here.
One final thought: I wish governments would stop trying to save us from ourselves and just do their jobs.
I'm an atheist and it seems as though the Bible tells me to go to Hell all the time. I haven't been to church since I was a child, so I am unsure of this, but wouldn't preachers be "hating" on atheists for their non-beliefs on a consistent basis? This could depend on the particular church, preacher, etc. and is not meant to be offensive--just food for thought.
Also, I'm not defending Dawkin's alleged "hate speach," but a little zealotry is sometimes needed to get people's attention...
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This is not some new thought or idea. Its survivalism and hasn't changed since... ever. Horde it up 'cause you may not have it tomorrow, and you still gotta eat. This trend in games is now obvious probably because of the popularity of WoW et. al. and how our "selves" are so easily transferred to an abstract, digital realm where we can horde and collect as long as there's stuff to horde and collect. For fuck's sake, people have been collecting and playing card games for decades. This is incredibly un-newsworthy.
There is nothing wrong with lobbyist because they allow single representation of groups of people with no political clout
How is that a good thing? The richest get to buy political clout and change the gov and the masses still have no say.
No, 6 Mbps is 6 Mbps. I pay for 10 from ATT and get an average of 3, and peak at around 7 at 3am on Christmas eve. This is unacceptable, and I should be able to prosecute ATT for this if it wasn't for their EULA which basically states, "Nothing we advertise is actually true and by signing up for the service you agree to be fucked in the anus."
This is the same story as every other telecomm. You don't have to do shit to get/keep customers if you're a virtual monopoly.
Neigh everyone mentioned either vi or emacs (I know they can run on Windows, but they are not acceptable as an IDE and all ya'll need to get with the times), a few said Eclipse (wtf Java?? yeah it has plugins, but it isn't a C++ IDE dammit!), and DevC++ is just dead.
I recently tried out the Qt Creator and I love it. It feels new and snappy, works well, and emulates Visual Studio's dialog creator (in my opinion, being Qt and not MFC, kicks Visual Studio's bug-laden ass). I haven't been able to really squeeze the useful juices out of Qt yet, but the potential is evident.
Visual Studio Express is great, and if you want to do MFC than thats definitely the way to go, but if you're just programming as a hobby or for personal projects then I suggest giving Qt Creator a try
You're right, but the gray area seems incredibly advantageous for legal team of the RIAA and gang. Their able to use holes in law like the one you described to render grandmas and children guilty, probably because the judge and jury just don't know any better.
I do like the s.107 text and wish more laws were constructed in this way: do whatever you want in private, but in public you must give compensation on par with the value you received from using the copyrighted product. It seems much more reasonable to enforce, also.
But here we are discussing it, hating it, and wishing for change. Eventually the straw will break the camel's back.
Win or lose, its another story in the news about how flawed the music, movie, and print industry is and how unwilling the players are to modify their business model. They do seem to have a decent legal base, so lets hope for a win!
From the article,
So, supported by two Dutch copyright lawyers and IT experts, FTD have filed a lawsuit against BREIN in which they request the court clarifies these points;
Government agencies must go through a series of checks before they prosecute a citizen--the whole "innocent first, prove guilty" thing. For some reason these rules no longer apply when the agency is backed by large, private corporations...
If you're writing textbooks, you can rot in hell. I know you're not the publisher, but you let them publish your books, and they in turn buy exclusive rights to universities like Pepsi and Coke do with their vending machines. It doesn't matter if the book is quality, only if it makes the university a buck on kickbacks and thats a terrible bastardization of education. As a college student (mostly) paying his own way, I hate you and you're damn right I'm gonna try to pirate your book (if I even need it).
If you aren't, then its pretty obvious. Supply your books for free or for very cheap online, and advertise a printed copy for sale. People value material objects... don't think that the interwebs will engulf your work and render it profitless.
IMO, this is a terrible idea. Microsoft has tried to "interpret" what the user wants for decades and that didn't only fail, it made Windows one of the most annoying products on the planet. The last thing I want is my PC to constantly "interpret" me to figure out how slow it can run, more than likely keeping me at a constant level of aggravation in order to save a few mW. I'd rather my computer amaze at how fast it started up Firefox for once, not that it shaved $0.05 off my monthly power bill by throttling itself while I pull my hair out and smash my peripherals. This is not about going green, this is about a group of PhD's (or PhD students) trying to save their previously hip project (or thesis) by farming some hype off of /.
...and the successful treasonous behavior of every administration after Kennedy is a useful demonstration of how it can go wrong very quickly.
(And yes this includes Obama!) I do agree with you in principal. What can be corrupt, will be corrupt and we need less legislation that has the potential to become corrupt. Due to this, no Czar is a good thing, and I don't think I need to explain the connection with absolute power and corruption.
P.S. "Czar" is the dumbest buzzword that the interwebs has given birth to in a long time and I for one am sick of hearing it. But I guess its not really birth... its more like stealing someone's kid, calling it your own, then beating the shit out of him until he's a she.
Should publishers and developers be able to release whatever they want?
Yes. When did videogames become something so other-worldly that the first amendment no longer applies? And seriously, if you do not like the games, do not play them (and do not let your kids play them).
The various interest groups out to get the violent video games pulled are wrong. No group of people (the players and producers of these games) should be singled out and legislated against because they choose to partake in a certain activity. In no way are the acts of playing and creating these games negatively effecting the lives of anyone but the players and creators. A game about Somalia does have the potential to offend a large number of people, but those people should be able to avoid the game as though it were a food allergy. Everyone else can still eat shellfish even though eating it would kill you. Also, just because you realize that it may be offensive doesn't mean that it is your sacred duty is to save the rest of the world from the madness.
Say the rating system is faulty. Require psychological side effects be printed on the boxes. Just don't you dare take away our freedom to express what we wish to express and how we wish to do so.
P.S. US = nanny state, and my bottle's been empty for too long.
Scientific Journals cannot be compared to TV documentaries. I'm not familiar with many other fields, but the IEEE Spectrum and ACM publish journals that are widely used as technical resources in engineering. Journals are not primarily a form of entertainment.
I don't care if they use Windows, Linux, or OSX. This could actually motivate students to learn on their own, a concept rarely taught in grade school.
When I was in Jr. High I was fortunate enough to take a keyboarding class. The final project was to make web page summarizing what you learned in the class. I didn't learn much until I began making the web page. A few of us in the class were enthralled by how it works and instead of using FrontPage, we used the internet to learn basic HTML and designed our pages from scratch.
Many kids, like me, continued to expand our new found ability to create on the computer. We all individually learned JavaScript, C, Perl, and other languages all on our own and without each other's knowledge. I ended up learning about this come senior year in high school when we were all talking about the CSC, EE, and CPE degrees we were going to get in the next four years.
Four years later we all have degrees and all attribute our affinity for learning with that first, open-ended project in Jr. High. Its something like a laptop that can open a kids mind to how easy it is to learn, and how rewarding it can be. I am happy for the small handful of kids these laptops will inspire and hope that parents and teachers let their kids learn.
Speed enforcement does need to be reformed. Officers seem to only give tickets as an incentive to keep their jobs. Its not about safety, its about making the quota to satisfy "the higher ups."
Drug prohibition is as dumb as alcohol prohibition (its the same thing, alcohol is a drug). All it does is make criminals out of ordinary citizens and promote organized crime by creating its largest market.
You may understand the concept of "law," but you have no understanding of "justice."
Now we'll all start pirating our news because they'll probably set the price too high, then they'll blame the pirates (or anyone but themselves) for their new business model failing, and insist the News Printers Association of America be instated to protect them. And by protect, I mean bash down doors, arrest innocents, and harass the population as a whole, all to protect their profit margin.
And only the lawyers will really benefit from it all.
The US Dollar is backed by the world's largest prison system, the IRS, and nuclear weapons.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahaaaaaa.... HAAAAAaahhahahahahhaa.
[wipes eyes] Ha. Well, I thought long and hard and its all still a joke to me. God we (the US) are so far behind...
Anyone wanna join a startup? I kid. But it doesn't seem like NoScript will be getting much advertising revenue anymore...
$1000 of blister-healing goodness! And at 5000 fps!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Skin
NO! They already teach us enough superfluous crap to make me wish I was a business major.
What colleges need to do is stop teaching history lessons and begin teaching students how to learn on their own. Face it, your job will not mimic what you learned in college no matter how good the school was, or how good of a student you were. Real life != school life.
Don't give a man a fish. Don't teach a man to fish. Teach a man to learn how to fish.
Hey! How did you find my [completely fictional] hit list?
My best code is produced when the pressure is on. Just last weekend I was participating in a robotics contest and coded a crude OS for a micro-controller in the 5 hours leading up to the competition. It was very simple, but worked well and I was even able to provide simulation outputs when run on a normal PC.
I thought it said "Autonomous Network" and promptly put on my tinfoil hat.
Why not just be ecstatic that billions of people have access to your art? There are still ways to make money (book signings, tv/radio appearances, hell, maybe even keep an ongoing fiction blog with a subscription fee). I dream of a day when our entertainment is free, as in beer, and people finally start thinking of new ways to making money other than charging for the right to view the media. Your model is flawed, not broken, so stop trying to fix it and just change.
Drugs actually do lead to death and millions of dollars worth of advertising hasn't stopped kids from doing them. I'm not talking about drug enforcement, just simply kids starting to use. Think D.A.R.E. or a similar, keep-kids-off-drugs type of program. Obviously the youth of the world doesn't heed the lessons the government supplies, yet our methods haven't changed.
Governments, or any large body of people, have no idea what individual's need or want and they never will. People, including children, will keep on doing what they want to do regardless of how unhealthy the government says it is. They should be spending that money on parks, sport complexes, school sport programs, community centers, etc. so that there is an actual reason to get outside and active instead of zealously condemning lifestyle choices. But I guess talking is what politicians do best, and creating change doesn't bode well for reelection. No surprise here.
One final thought: I wish governments would stop trying to save us from ourselves and just do their jobs.
I'm an atheist and it seems as though the Bible tells me to go to Hell all the time. I haven't been to church since I was a child, so I am unsure of this, but wouldn't preachers be "hating" on atheists for their non-beliefs on a consistent basis? This could depend on the particular church, preacher, etc. and is not meant to be offensive--just food for thought.
Also, I'm not defending Dawkin's alleged "hate speach," but a little zealotry is sometimes needed to get people's attention...