Sorry, I meant that the majority ( 90%+ ) of the episode is on Earth. I'm not purposely watching SG-1 ( my other half is ) so I am only getting bits of the stories but I do recall a distinct period where a long line of episodes take place nearly exclusively on Earth. One that comes to mind is when Baal first creates his clones.
Apologies if I got that wrong, as I said, I'm not really watching the seasons properly.
I'm re-watching the Lexx series and I have to agree with this. Once it gets to the "Fire & Water" season, I find it almost painful to watch.
Perhaps in part that I find Prince ( and Zev's attraction to him ) damn annoying. And 790's "switch" to loving Kai bizarre.. wouldn't his brain matter be unaffected by being powered off and therefore not reset to falling in love with the first thing he saw?
Anyways, the first time I saw them on Earth I thought "What a cop-out". Same with Stargate SG-1 actually..
The subscriber is responsible for what happens on their connection.
Personally, I find that odd considering a significant number ( most? ) of those subscribers probably barely know what is happening on their computer ( being part of a botnet, for example ), let alone their connection.
Also if your argument were true then corporations would use it when their employees got the company in trouble "He doesn't own the company so we have no responsibility for what he did while working for us".
I can see your point, but the company made a conscious decision (to hire that person) whereas a subscriber with a hijacked system did not.
informing a subscriber that their IP address has been detected infringing copyright; warning the subscriber that if they do not stop they will be disconnected; and finally disconnecting the user if they fail to heed the warning.
There seems to be a distinct lack of understanding of this simple concept:
The person paying the subscription is not always the one infringing copyright.
I'm guessing your using a quad core machine, perhaps the behaviour is different on dual cores ( maybe an important Windows process/thread was on core 2 as well as notepad ).
My experience is that if you set a programs ( notepad for example ) affinity to the second core and then set it to 'realtime', Windows slows to an agonising crawl with the first core usage at 0% and the second at 100%.
As far as I am concerned, SMP doesn't work ( at least, not on WinXP SP2/SP3 ).
And what if people chose the opposite rationale? Cut down their spending to mere necessities for example. Wouldn't that just make the entire thing worse?
Maybe video games induce some sort of adrenaline rush which he doesn't know how to control ( hence why he realises it was wrong later ) that other toys do not?
I'm not saying I'm right and I'm definately not saying that that is a reason why we should stop children playing video games. After all, if he doesn't learn how to control his aggression now, he will find it harder to control when he is older.
Oh, and thank you for not reading my initial reply as a personal slating, I know how easy it is to misinterpret the "tone" of text.
Do you think these 'serious attempts to keep games out of hands of minors' should restrict a parents ability to buy games for their children? After all, age does not denote maturity ( which is also why I think the 'age of consent' is ridiculous' but that's another topic )
He would have probably had a paddy when you told him to stop playing with his toys regardless of what they were.
Hasn't anyone considered the possibility that the reason why children become aggressive when told to stop doing something they are enjoying, is because they were enjoying it?
Only the full desktop installation does and you can replace it with another if you wanted ( or omit it with a preseed perhaps? ). I think that is ( one of ) the key difference(s) here.. you can't replace Internet Explorer, only install alongside.
I went into an electronics store recently and the staff let me try out wireless adapters to find out if it would work on my laptop ( running Ubuntu 8.04 at the time ). The first one we tried was a Belkin USB adapter and it worked fine. I brought it and haven't regretted my purchase in the slightest, in fact, I'd purchase more. The signal strength was way better than other adapters I'd used and it's never dropped the connection ( to a Linksys WRT54G ).
I'd probably recommend them for their hardware but it seems their ethics need to catch up.
They're ordinary people with an extraordinary mental flaw.
While I do not condone such things ( I hope the use of condone is correct ) I do have a theory of why people with such.. desires(?) exist.
Basically, for many hundreds ( if not thousands ) of years, the lifespan of our ancestors was a lot shorter than ours and I would say it is reasonable to expect that reproduction would start at the earliest possible opportunity.
Essentially, they are not extraordinary mental flaws, just old instincts that are still active ( or can be active ).
Of course, that does not excuse the abuse of a child ( or anyone for that matter! )
By the way, I came up with this theory before playing Assassin's Creed, where the doctor makes a similar observation ( instincts are genetic ).
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Sorry, I meant that the majority ( 90%+ ) of the episode is on Earth. I'm not purposely watching SG-1 ( my other half is ) so I am only getting bits of the stories but I do recall a distinct period where a long line of episodes take place nearly exclusively on Earth. One that comes to mind is when Baal first creates his clones.
Apologies if I got that wrong, as I said, I'm not really watching the seasons properly.
I'm re-watching the Lexx series and I have to agree with this. Once it gets to the "Fire & Water" season, I find it almost painful to watch.
Perhaps in part that I find Prince ( and Zev's attraction to him ) damn annoying. And 790's "switch" to loving Kai bizarre.. wouldn't his brain matter be unaffected by being powered off and therefore not reset to falling in love with the first thing he saw?
Anyways, the first time I saw them on Earth I thought "What a cop-out". Same with Stargate SG-1 actually..
Which is why it is odd that ISPs are taking part..
If they start disconnecting innocent subscribers, they are going to lose business/money. The RIAA would have to be paying well, I guess.
The subscriber is responsible for what happens on their connection.
Personally, I find that odd considering a significant number ( most? ) of those subscribers probably barely know what is happening on their computer ( being part of a botnet, for example ), let alone their connection.
Also if your argument were true then corporations would use it when their employees got the company in trouble "He doesn't own the company so we have no responsibility for what he did while working for us".
I can see your point, but the company made a conscious decision (to hire that person) whereas a subscriber with a hijacked system did not.
Darn those thieving IP addresses *shakes fist*
informing a subscriber that their IP address has been detected infringing copyright; warning the subscriber that if they do not stop they will be disconnected; and finally disconnecting the user if they fail to heed the warning.
There seems to be a distinct lack of understanding of this simple concept:
The person paying the subscription is not always the one infringing copyright.
Also selling well: eyepatches, wooden legs and stuffed parrots. Arrrrr!
I'd add a +1 Informative if I hadn't made the opening post.
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Sorry, I thought the ".org" domain was for organisations from around the globe, not specifically america. I stand corrected.
two of the nation's largest Internet service providers
What nation would that be exactly?
- British Citizen
Which of those apply to either post-XP systems?
I don't see how that excuses the behaviour. Multi-core == doing >1 thing at the same time, right?
I'm guessing your using a quad core machine, perhaps the behaviour is different on dual cores ( maybe an important Windows process/thread was on core 2 as well as notepad ).
My experience is that if you set a programs ( notepad for example ) affinity to the second core and then set it to 'realtime', Windows slows to an agonising crawl with the first core usage at 0% and the second at 100%. As far as I am concerned, SMP doesn't work ( at least, not on WinXP SP2/SP3 ).
And what if people chose the opposite rationale? Cut down their spending to mere necessities for example.
Wouldn't that just make the entire thing worse?
Maybe video games induce some sort of adrenaline rush which he doesn't know how to control ( hence why he realises it was wrong later ) that other toys do not?
I'm not saying I'm right and I'm definately not saying that that is a reason why we should stop children playing video games. After all, if he doesn't learn how to control his aggression now, he will find it harder to control when he is older.
Oh, and thank you for not reading my initial reply as a personal slating, I know how easy it is to misinterpret the "tone" of text.
I guess parent used the wrong 'Reply' button.
Do you think these 'serious attempts to keep games out of hands of minors' should restrict a parents ability to buy games for their children? After all, age does not denote maturity ( which is also why I think the 'age of consent' is ridiculous' but that's another topic )
He would have probably had a paddy when you told him to stop playing with his toys regardless of what they were.
Hasn't anyone considered the possibility that the reason why children become aggressive when told to stop doing something they are enjoying, is because they were enjoying it?
I don't want to know what orifice you take it out of before the nasal invasion..
Especially when someone downloads ( part of ) that song from you, listens to it, loves the band and proceeds to buy several singles/albums.
Ubuntu comes with a browser preinstalled
Only the full desktop installation does and you can replace it with another if you wanted ( or omit it with a preseed perhaps? ).
I think that is ( one of ) the key difference(s) here.. you can't replace Internet Explorer, only install alongside.
Funny way of saying "murder"..
I went into an electronics store recently and the staff let me try out wireless adapters to find out if it would work on my laptop ( running Ubuntu 8.04 at the time ). The first one we tried was a Belkin USB adapter and it worked fine. I brought it and haven't regretted my purchase in the slightest, in fact, I'd purchase more. The signal strength was way better than other adapters I'd used and it's never dropped the connection ( to a Linksys WRT54G ).
I'd probably recommend them for their hardware but it seems their ethics need to catch up.
They're ordinary people with an extraordinary mental flaw.
While I do not condone such things ( I hope the use of condone is correct ) I do have a theory of why people with such.. desires(?) exist.
Basically, for many hundreds ( if not thousands ) of years, the lifespan of our ancestors was a lot shorter than ours and I would say it is reasonable to expect that reproduction would start at the earliest possible opportunity.
Essentially, they are not extraordinary mental flaws, just old instincts that are still active ( or can be active ).
Of course, that does not excuse the abuse of a child ( or anyone for that matter! )
By the way, I came up with this theory before playing Assassin's Creed, where the doctor makes a similar observation ( instincts are genetic ).
I'll agree it's dumb, but we've seen plenty of other dumb things find their way into consumers lives *cough*DRM*cough*
Apologies if it looked like FUD, wasn't my intention.