Why weren't you out bombing Churches and Bethlehem when pro-life radicals were shooting doctors?
Get a grip and realize that Islam is not about terrorism, only certain radicals who claim to be "the real Islam" are. Just like similar radicals of other religions.
Sorry bud, but all a paroxym of destruction will bring is more of the same. If decisive but massive killing actually stopped the other side, Israel would be as peaceful as Omaha by now.
Sounds to me like Scott is reflecting his own career onto the industry, rather than vice versa. If you analyze his games (which I don't mean to imply are cookie cutter), he basically wrote an adventure game engine, and then cranked out games using that engine. That was the basis of his success. Up to that point, Zork and the original adventure game were all custom done jobs, which would have been prohibitive to do commercially (when Zork was adapted for the wider audience it was "ported" to Infocom or whoever's engine).
Can you say "goodbye privacy"? Can you believe any of the wacko right isn't going to claim this is your beast number, signifying the last days are here? And given how much influence they have over our current leaders, you think this is really going to happen?
While I agree that Pullman definitely would have been a better/more serious choice for something as big as the Hugo award, you have to be JOKING if you think JK Rowling is "Hot" or "Young". Unless you yourself are over 60. Look at the photo of the author here and tell me again how "hot" and "young" she is: http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/ To my eyes she looks like a decent looking over 35 woman, but hot, young, curvaceous? You're insane.
How could anyone POSSIBLY confuse Harry Potter with Science Fiction? Yes, some forms of Fantasy and some forms of Science Fiction are closer to each other today than they traditionally have been. But Harry Potter simply doesn't fit that mold.
It's ridiculous; obviously the Hugo is becoming a popularity meter like the Oscar.
Please note any raving Potter fans that I also like the books, I have all four and bought the last two as soon as they hit the stands. But that doesn't mean that an award for something completely different ought to be given to Ms. Rowling. Give her the Caldecott medal and whatever Fantasy awards you like....
BEEP. Fallacy of authority detected. Just because current laws and the supreme court say something is "wrong", doesn't mean it actually _is_ wrong. In this instance, I would say the law is wrong. Law is a human construct. If sufficient numbers of people find a law wrong, it'll be changed.
So....if I publish something digitally, that means any l33t script kiddie should be allowed to copy it to everyone who has an internet feed then?
While I think the current industry claims to need absolute control of every fleeting byte of their "content" are bullshit, there is some merit to the idea that if nobody gets compensated for creating content, a significant portion of the best quality content is going to dry up. If you're a programmer, even if you work on Open Source, I don't suppose you're working without a paycheck...you do something to make ends meet. Some people are lucky enough to work for corporations who want to and can donate your time to The Cause, others simply hack in their free time. Some people feel that the recognition of the community is enough, I suppose. But none of these people work for absolutely nothing.
The alt.binaries.* groups are for the most part all about taking other people's work in one form or another, and spreading it far and wide without compensating the author(s) with minimal accountability for doing so.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to decide not to carry them, and the real shame is that I'd bet the main reason for the decision is not that the copyright violations are occurring, but that suddenly the ISP's might be held accountable for them. In case you missed it, I am against the part of the law that says the latter.
So it's censorship to decide that it's no longer worth the risk of carrying Gigs of copyright violations? Or does your freedom of speech include the right to rip off software and redistribute photographs you don't own? Last time I checked, the Supreme Court didn't agree with that.
Personally, I think it's wrong that the DMCA makes the ISP's liable for the violations that get transferred through their systems, but I can hardly see how the vast majority of the alt.binaries.* heirarchy is defensable in any legal or moral sense (and by that I don't meant to judge the CONTENT of any photographs, but rather the fact that the distribution rights belong to someone else).
Why would anyone be surprised by this, given the language in the DMCA that makes any copy in RAM of a protected work actionable? It only makes sense that big ISP's are going to want to avoid the liability of putting the alt.binaries.* stuff, very much of which is illegal copies of copyrighted material, into the memory of their servers. You'd think most ISP's would be doing this actually.
I suspect that laptops with wireless cards are filling the role that web appliances were supposed to fill.
Which is fine for me, but it doesn't work for my mother-in-law. I'd really like to get her email, but the appliances available either 1) go out of business in nothing flat, 2) charge too much for internet access, or 3) don't have access in her area (fairly rural downstate IL).
I am still waiting for one that's stable long enough to be comfortable with....
I'm already doing remote Windoze administration for my dad (don't even suggest Linux, that's like suggesting I get him an indy car to drive to the store in), and I don't want to be doing it for my in-laws too....
Since the US Copyright Office is pretty much a rubber stamp for industry negotiations over what the next copyright law will look like, allowing congress to abdicate their responsibility to protect the interests of the people, it should be no surprise to anyone that the report basically upholds the DMCA provisions. It's interesting how they claim that backup copies are exempt, but the law ought to be modified to explicitly prohibit sharing of these copies. Hell, at this point, it's prohibited to share the originals, so why bother?
I'm supposed to be impressed that someone's written a browser that's specific not only to a particular OS, but a particular DESKTOP for that OS?
Call me when I can run Galeon on whatever desktop *I* want to run, and lives up to all the "individual choice" rhetoric of the Linux community at large.
Not only that, but he's raising issues that aren't even remotely like the one that the article raised. The article slams slashdot for being Linux cheerleaders. Honestly, if that's all slashdot was, I don't think most of us would bother reading it. There's a strong Linux cheerleader bent to many of the readers, and when OS specific issues come up Linux is sure to head the list, but there's a lot more here than that.
And none of those other issues was even raised, despite their relevance.
I can't say I recall what version of GNOME or KDE I was working with, but they were both the "current" versions at the time. Of course it's based on my own personal experience, I didn't say otherwise did I?
I say a typical CDE user will prefer KDE because it has a very similar look & feel, as opposed to GNOME which is a brand new things that doesn't bear much if any resemblance to the environment they're used to.
That doesn't mean that GNOME isn't more configurable, it just means that KDE will be more familiar.
Whaddaya mean "Gnome on Solaris"?? I tried running Gnome on my P2-266 Linux box two years ago and it was not even remotely usable. I've been a KDE convert ever since. I work for Sun, and even with the explanations in the article, I'm still mystified as to why the conclusion was that Gnome is better....KDE is going to be much more familiar to the typical Solaris CDE user.
The Silmarillion is definitely *not* chronologically after the trilogy. It was *written and published* after the trilogy, but the events it describes are mythological foundations for the world of the Rings.
Since LOTR is the archetype for the majority of today's quest based fantasy (which is not to say ALL of today's fantasy is quest based), it's hard to be sure whether to recommend it to you or not. On one hand, I've seen people who have read and decided they don't like current quest fantasy and had exactly the same reaction to LOTR; on the other hand, Tolkien did go into a LOT more detail and I never got the feeling that he was "trying too hard"--Middle Earth was just real as he described it. Silmarillion reads more like history books, but LOTR still stands above the vast majority of its imitators.
So then allowing gay student groups on school property is state support of gays? I don't think such things are wrong, but it's ridiculous to say that any student organization is implicitly state sponsored. Bible clubs and gay clubs should all be allowed, as long as they aren't beating each other up.
I have yet to see a site that I have to have CSS working to view well enough to suit my needs. I can use netscape on any platform I run (and I don't run just one) and have the same look, feel, etc. Yes, there are times when Netscape 4 has problems, but none of them are so extremely severe as to make me use the products of a monopoly trying to force them out of the market. (and did we mention all M$'s bugs and security holes?)
Perhaps an empty gesture at this point, but one I want to make nonetheless.
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Get a grip and realize that Islam is not about terrorism, only certain radicals who claim to be "the real Islam" are. Just like similar radicals of other religions.
And tomorrow was to be the sentencing for one of the original WTC bombers from 1993.
Sorry bud, but all a paroxym of destruction will bring is more of the same. If decisive but massive killing actually stopped the other side, Israel would be as peaceful as Omaha by now.
Sounds to me like Scott is reflecting his own career onto the industry, rather than vice versa. If you analyze his games (which I don't mean to imply are cookie cutter), he basically wrote an adventure game engine, and then cranked out games using that engine. That was the basis of his success. Up to that point, Zork and the original adventure game were all custom done jobs, which would have been prohibitive to do commercially (when Zork was adapted for the wider audience it was "ported" to Infocom or whoever's engine).
Can you say "goodbye privacy"? Can you believe any of the wacko right isn't going to claim this is your beast number, signifying the last days are here? And given how much influence they have over our current leaders, you think this is really going to happen?
While I agree that Pullman definitely would have been a better/more serious choice for something as big as the Hugo award, you have to be JOKING if you think JK Rowling is "Hot" or "Young". Unless you yourself are over 60. Look at the photo of the author here and tell me again how "hot" and "young" she is: http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/ To my eyes she looks like a decent looking over 35 woman, but hot, young, curvaceous? You're insane.
It's ridiculous; obviously the Hugo is becoming a popularity meter like the Oscar.
Please note any raving Potter fans that I also like the books, I have all four and bought the last two as soon as they hit the stands. But that doesn't mean that an award for something completely different ought to be given to Ms. Rowling. Give her the Caldecott medal and whatever Fantasy awards you like....
So....if I publish something digitally, that means any l33t script kiddie should be allowed to copy it to everyone who has an internet feed then?
While I think the current industry claims to need absolute control of every fleeting byte of their "content" are bullshit, there is some merit to the idea that if nobody gets compensated for creating content, a significant portion of the best quality content is going to dry up. If you're a programmer, even if you work on Open Source, I don't suppose you're working without a paycheck...you do something to make ends meet. Some people are lucky enough to work for corporations who want to and can donate your time to The Cause, others simply hack in their free time. Some people feel that the recognition of the community is enough, I suppose. But none of these people work for absolutely nothing.
The alt.binaries.* groups are for the most part all about taking other people's work in one form or another, and spreading it far and wide without compensating the author(s) with minimal accountability for doing so.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to decide not to carry them, and the real shame is that I'd bet the main reason for the decision is not that the copyright violations are occurring, but that suddenly the ISP's might be held accountable for them. In case you missed it, I am against the part of the law that says the latter.
Personally, I think it's wrong that the DMCA makes the ISP's liable for the violations that get transferred through their systems, but I can hardly see how the vast majority of the alt.binaries.* heirarchy is defensable in any legal or moral sense (and by that I don't meant to judge the CONTENT of any photographs, but rather the fact that the distribution rights belong to someone else).
Why would anyone be surprised by this, given the language in the DMCA that makes any copy in RAM of a protected work actionable? It only makes sense that big ISP's are going to want to avoid the liability of putting the alt.binaries.* stuff, very much of which is illegal copies of copyrighted material, into the memory of their servers. You'd think most ISP's would be doing this actually.
Which is fine for me, but it doesn't work for my mother-in-law. I'd really like to get her email, but the appliances available either 1) go out of business in nothing flat, 2) charge too much for internet access, or 3) don't have access in her area (fairly rural downstate IL).
I am still waiting for one that's stable long enough to be comfortable with....
I'm already doing remote Windoze administration for my dad (don't even suggest Linux, that's like suggesting I get him an indy car to drive to the store in), and I don't want to be doing it for my in-laws too....
What's the point of saying "I switched to GNOME so I could run Galeon" if you don't have to switch to GNOME to run Galeon then?
Obviously you haven't read the bits about "derivative works".
Since the US Copyright Office is pretty much a rubber stamp for industry negotiations over what the next copyright law will look like, allowing congress to abdicate their responsibility to protect the interests of the people, it should be no surprise to anyone that the report basically upholds the DMCA provisions. It's interesting how they claim that backup copies are exempt, but the law ought to be modified to explicitly prohibit sharing of these copies. Hell, at this point, it's prohibited to share the originals, so why bother?
Call me when I can run Galeon on whatever desktop *I* want to run, and lives up to all the "individual choice" rhetoric of the Linux community at large.
Not only that, but he's raising issues that aren't even remotely like the one that the article raised. The article slams slashdot for being Linux cheerleaders. Honestly, if that's all slashdot was, I don't think most of us would bother reading it. There's a strong Linux cheerleader bent to many of the readers, and when OS specific issues come up Linux is sure to head the list, but there's a lot more here than that.
And none of those other issues was even raised, despite their relevance.
I say a typical CDE user will prefer KDE because it has a very similar look & feel, as opposed to GNOME which is a brand new things that doesn't bear much if any resemblance to the environment they're used to.
That doesn't mean that GNOME isn't more configurable, it just means that KDE will be more familiar.
Whaddaya mean "Gnome on Solaris"?? I tried running Gnome on my P2-266 Linux box two years ago and it was not even remotely usable. I've been a KDE convert ever since. I work for Sun, and even with the explanations in the article, I'm still mystified as to why the conclusion was that Gnome is better....KDE is going to be much more familiar to the typical Solaris CDE user.
Well there's the obvious problem then. By making them indestructable, they have saturated their market.
The Silmarillion is definitely *not* chronologically after the trilogy. It was *written and published* after the trilogy, but the events it describes are mythological foundations for the world of the Rings.
"Duh"
Since LOTR is the archetype for the majority of today's quest based fantasy (which is not to say ALL of today's fantasy is quest based), it's hard to be sure whether to recommend it to you or not. On one hand, I've seen people who have read and decided they don't like current quest fantasy and had exactly the same reaction to LOTR; on the other hand, Tolkien did go into a LOT more detail and I never got the feeling that he was "trying too hard"--Middle Earth was just real as he described it. Silmarillion reads more like history books, but LOTR still stands above the vast majority of its imitators.
statutory rape is statutory rape. I've heard of people threatening boyfriends with being charged....even as teenagers themselves.
So then allowing gay student groups on school property is state support of gays? I don't think such things are wrong, but it's ridiculous to say that any student organization is implicitly state sponsored. Bible clubs and gay clubs should all be allowed, as long as they aren't beating each other up.
Perhaps an empty gesture at this point, but one I want to make nonetheless.