Yeah, but if you were doing enough interdictions, you had tons and tons of it.
What was it... plasma cannons were huge profit? Build em and sell em and you were rolling in it.
Somebody should take the Freedom Force engine and turn it into a sweet remake of X-Com: Enemy Unknown.
Elerium is also VERY profitable when you need one more base to interdict those nasty harvesters and what not. Nothing cuts into your funding faster than failing to stop a terror mission.
MUCH cooler than zbrite.
A-freakin-man, my friend. What the RIAA needs to realize is that the concept of 'an album' is passe; stop treating a band as something that puts out a single product every few months or year.
Try subscription purposes. I'd pay fifty bucks a year to 'subscribe' to me favourite bands, getting songs as they're finished, concert tracks, and that's that.
Hell, couldn't we sue them under software bundling laws? "Your honor, I'd like to buy track 5, entitled 'Ode to something,' but the defendant is also forcing me to buy 9 other 'bundled' tracks that sound nothing like track 5.'
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You don't compress your imagery when you're trying to read the rank insignia on the shoulder-boards of a military officer from orbit.
Like it or not, Star Wars does draw some of its themes from mythology. It does fit with certain archetypes, and that's probably why it was so broadly popular instead of just being popular with sci-fi geeks.
Yes, but the article is trying to say that George went 'Ummm....I meant to do that!' when, in fact, he probably didn't.
George's stories had certain archetypes and themes, in so much as pretty much ANY story has certain archetypes and themes.
Simple; treat them like people, not like children. Kids will act how they're taught to act, and if you teach them that they're prototypical snot-nosed children, they'll act like prototypical snot-nosed children. If you teach them that they're really short adults who need to learn a LOT of things, they'll generally act more along that line. Sure, my four year old still has the attention span of a four year old, but where other kids in her JK(!) class are just starting to learn shapes and colours, she's reading those 'young reader' novels.
She's going to be SO fucked when she gets on in school, and bored out of her skull....
Don't get me started on how the school system rewards slavish adherence to mediocrity, and punishes native intelligence. "Given these two equasions, solve for X." "Sure. X is 12." "Great, show your work." "What work? Look at it! It's 12. It's like you're asking me to 'show my work' when I say "the chalk is white." "Ok, 2 out of 10 marks. But little Johnny, who 'showed his work' but got an incorrect answer, got 8 out of 10 marks."
My kids are very computer literate. My four year old surfs her Arthur and Clifford websites, and blasts through the educational software aimed at 'Grade 1.' The above mentioned child, now two, is just mastering the mouse. Both also play educational Playstation games.
When I was at the hospital with my wife giving birth to the younger, the older was, obviously, 2 herself. She was able to properly and competently step my mother, who was babysitting, through the complex procedure of powering up and setting the home theater to play her Disney DVDs.
Another year or so, and I'll start her on Mindstorms....or maybe just skip directly to Mind Rover; it's so hard to decide.:-)
What else can they do?
An analogy might be that I don't care that you keep a sword over the mantle of the fireplace in our house, until you take it down and swing it at me.
Blizzard didn't care about bnetd, UNTIL it was specifically used to play the closed beta of Warcraft 3.
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One day, I went to watch one of my DVDs,and it was missing from it's case. I asked the kids if one of them had taken it, and they said no. So I looked around, couldn't find it.
Over the next few days, I found various DVDs missing from their cases; wierd ones, too. No pattern. Stuff like the second disc from a two disc set, a Disney movie, Ghost Dog, random discs. Couldn't find them.
Then, a few days later, my wife calls me at work, having solved the mystery. She'd come out of the kitchen, and watched my (then) youngest daughter, about a year old, take a DVD out of it's case, put the case back on the rack, toddle over to the computer, and slide the disc into the crack between the top of the DVD-ROM and the computer chassis. Told her to open the chassis and check, and sure enough, there's about five discs crammed into the drive bay. Fortunately, none were damaged.
If MS doesn't like SBC's attitude, let them develop the service on their own. Let them negotiate with another telco if they need the phone lines.
But they're under the microscope. Nobody bats an eye when you (legitimately) scold your child in public, but if you were recently accused of child abuse, even if it was dismissed as the drug-induced fantasy on the part of the accusor, people are going to take a different line with you.
Getting the bugs out and making the software secure prior to first sale means that they can't run as fast, getting out ahead of competitors the way they used to. It also deprives them of the point-fix revenue stream.
It also means that they have a wonderful gauntlet to throw at their competitors.
Interviewer: Mr. Gates, we note that Product X is late, yet your competitor has released their version. Care to comment?
Bill: Yes, we're still doing our final security checks, in line with our Trusted Computing campagin. I wonder what they missed, rushing it out...
In other words, quite a few of the arguments now used against them.
As for "point releases" lets take a look at IE3 vs IE4. IE3 was, rightly so, the laughing stock of the Internet. IE4 singlehandedly destroyed Netscape.
In a memo in January, Bill Gates, the chairman and co-founder, instructed Microsoft to shift its top priority from adding new features to ensuring that software is secure. Executives said that the memo was the most significant strategy paper from Mr. Gates since one in December 1995, "Internet Tidal Wave."
In 1995, Microsoft couldn't care less about the Internet. Gates had said, publicly and repeatedly, that he didn't think it was going anywhere.
Then he realized he was wrong.
Within a year, the entire product line had Internet features. Now, 7 years later, people publicly lament that Microsoft has virtually taken the Internet over.
Microsoft's greatest strengths have always been the ability to see which way the ship is headed, and when it turns out they're going in the wrong direction, to turn on a dime.
Obviously, I'll nod politely at their words, and watch their actions. But the last time they made this big a deal about something, they delivered.
Really? I'm DROOLING with anticpation for full blown tablet PCs (this will do nicely) for when I'm doing the rounds. Need to reset somebody's password? Go for it! Talking to the manager of customer service, when one of the CSRs pops their head up over the cube walls and complains that the CRM system is really really slow? Check the database server load! No need to kick somebody off their keyboard for a minute, or sit down and pop open a laptop, or run to your desk, or server room.
Wireless tablet quite nicely bridges desktop and laptop. Hell, I damn near tried to find an ePod and load up the WinCE terminal service client on it.
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is in a datacenter where you may have loads of servers (be it Windows or Unix-based that supports either RDP or Citrix, or even VNC)
Or even one of those useful 'hydra' systems for headless servers; you know..a shitload of serial ports in the back, and a telnet server in the middle, and ethernet in the front.
You know what might just be extra cool?
Create an LCD monitor, much like MIRA; it's actually an RDP/X/VNC/Whatever thin client + the hardware.
On the back, along the edges, and oriented properly, put the two halves of the keyboard. So, you're holding it two handed, by the edges, and you can type type type away. Put a pencil-eraser 'nubby' mouse on the bottom of one side, beside or amoung the keys, the space key and mouse buttons on the front, for a thumb, and off you go.:-)
Latency, schmatency. Build it into the hardware.
You get an video card with your standard VGA out, and a transmitter. The card also has some image compression software built in; say, just for arugment sake, PNG.
Your wireless reciever, with an LCD screen, has a hardware PNG decoder. Boom. So long as you're not doing full scream video or motion graphics, you're MORE than covered.
But even that's overkill. Use something like X, or RDP, where you're not transmitting the screen, you're transmitting the drawing instructions, and the HID coords and actions. Suddenly, instead of transmitting several thousand grey pixels to make your task bar, you're sending 'draw a grey rectangle from here to here.' and being done with it.
One reason the police wanted the records was to get additional evidence as to which of the four people living in the trailer house were sleeping in that bed.
Why would the police expect the person who bought the book to automagically be the person reading the book?
Given what you're saying, it looks like the police were trying to set a precident, stacking everything in their favour.
Yes, that is legitimate. But asking what books the defendant has bought recently, on the grounds that if any of said books involve criminal activity, the defendant must have been planning a similar crime, is stupid. And that's the case here.
Just another case of someone crying about "big brother" when the worst thing that could happen is that they know some guy buys hustler now and then. What an affront to privacy!
You DO realize that use of pornography is generally listed as a 'profile indicator' of quite a few criminal archetypes. Others include the fact that arsonists, apparently, tend to wet the bed as children.
But buying a book, let alone reading a book, about running a drug lab is not a criminal act, and should have no bearing.
Unless, possibly, said books were found open, and highlighted, on the table of said drug lab, surrounded with the equipment and chemicals required to make drugs.
Because I think freedom of speech and freedom of the press is supposed to extend to the listener as well; if one cannot be persecuted for saying or printing a given thing, then people who listen to/read the same thing shouldn't face any sort of persecution.
Otherwise, Senator McCarthy would probably be VERY interested to know why you're reading Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book..what's that, political science major? Sure, I'll bet you're even going to graduate COMMIE cum laude.
> What we need, not just to defend ourselves, but to enrich ourselves, to enhance our prestige and enrich our increasingly-international culture, is international good will.
You show me a person/country/culture/whatever that you think everybody else on the planet will like, and I'll show you a person/country/culture/whatever that everybody else on the planet will hate.
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Yeah, but if you were doing enough interdictions, you had tons and tons of it. What was it... plasma cannons were huge profit? Build em and sell em and you were rolling in it. Somebody should take the Freedom Force engine and turn it into a sweet remake of X-Com: Enemy Unknown.
Elerium is also VERY profitable when you need one more base to interdict those nasty harvesters and what not. Nothing cuts into your funding faster than failing to stop a terror mission. MUCH cooler than zbrite.
A-freakin-man, my friend. What the RIAA needs to realize is that the concept of 'an album' is passe; stop treating a band as something that puts out a single product every few months or year. Try subscription purposes. I'd pay fifty bucks a year to 'subscribe' to me favourite bands, getting songs as they're finished, concert tracks, and that's that. Hell, couldn't we sue them under software bundling laws? "Your honor, I'd like to buy track 5, entitled 'Ode to something,' but the defendant is also forcing me to buy 9 other 'bundled' tracks that sound nothing like track 5.'
You don't compress your imagery when you're trying to read the rank insignia on the shoulder-boards of a military officer from orbit.
MGS and GTA3 are both headed for the Xbox, and I think virtua fighter 4 will wind up there eventually.
Simple; treat them like people, not like children. Kids will act how they're taught to act, and if you teach them that they're prototypical snot-nosed children, they'll act like prototypical snot-nosed children. If you teach them that they're really short adults who need to learn a LOT of things, they'll generally act more along that line. Sure, my four year old still has the attention span of a four year old, but where other kids in her JK(!) class are just starting to learn shapes and colours, she's reading those 'young reader' novels. She's going to be SO fucked when she gets on in school, and bored out of her skull.... Don't get me started on how the school system rewards slavish adherence to mediocrity, and punishes native intelligence. "Given these two equasions, solve for X." "Sure. X is 12." "Great, show your work." "What work? Look at it! It's 12. It's like you're asking me to 'show my work' when I say "the chalk is white." "Ok, 2 out of 10 marks. But little Johnny, who 'showed his work' but got an incorrect answer, got 8 out of 10 marks."
My kids are very computer literate. My four year old surfs her Arthur and Clifford websites, and blasts through the educational software aimed at 'Grade 1.' The above mentioned child, now two, is just mastering the mouse. Both also play educational Playstation games. When I was at the hospital with my wife giving birth to the younger, the older was, obviously, 2 herself. She was able to properly and competently step my mother, who was babysitting, through the complex procedure of powering up and setting the home theater to play her Disney DVDs. Another year or so, and I'll start her on Mindstorms....or maybe just skip directly to Mind Rover; it's so hard to decide. :-)
What else can they do? An analogy might be that I don't care that you keep a sword over the mantle of the fireplace in our house, until you take it down and swing it at me. Blizzard didn't care about bnetd, UNTIL it was specifically used to play the closed beta of Warcraft 3.
Steve Gibson is an idiot.
One day, I went to watch one of my DVDs,and it was missing from it's case. I asked the kids if one of them had taken it, and they said no. So I looked around, couldn't find it. Over the next few days, I found various DVDs missing from their cases; wierd ones, too. No pattern. Stuff like the second disc from a two disc set, a Disney movie, Ghost Dog, random discs. Couldn't find them. Then, a few days later, my wife calls me at work, having solved the mystery. She'd come out of the kitchen, and watched my (then) youngest daughter, about a year old, take a DVD out of it's case, put the case back on the rack, toddle over to the computer, and slide the disc into the crack between the top of the DVD-ROM and the computer chassis. Told her to open the chassis and check, and sure enough, there's about five discs crammed into the drive bay. Fortunately, none were damaged.
Your arguement also works against any UNIX varient; the OS that was designed from the getgo to be a less secure version of MULTICS.
Bill: Yes, we're still doing our final security checks, in line with our Trusted Computing campagin. I wonder what they missed, rushing it out... In other words, quite a few of the arguments now used against them. As for "point releases" lets take a look at IE3 vs IE4. IE3 was, rightly so, the laughing stock of the Internet. IE4 singlehandedly destroyed Netscape.
Really? I'm DROOLING with anticpation for full blown tablet PCs (this will do nicely) for when I'm doing the rounds. Need to reset somebody's password? Go for it! Talking to the manager of customer service, when one of the CSRs pops their head up over the cube walls and complains that the CRM system is really really slow? Check the database server load! No need to kick somebody off their keyboard for a minute, or sit down and pop open a laptop, or run to your desk, or server room. Wireless tablet quite nicely bridges desktop and laptop. Hell, I damn near tried to find an ePod and load up the WinCE terminal service client on it.
You know what might just be extra cool? Create an LCD monitor, much like MIRA; it's actually an RDP/X/VNC/Whatever thin client + the hardware. On the back, along the edges, and oriented properly, put the two halves of the keyboard. So, you're holding it two handed, by the edges, and you can type type type away. Put a pencil-eraser 'nubby' mouse on the bottom of one side, beside or amoung the keys, the space key and mouse buttons on the front, for a thumb, and off you go. :-)
Latency, schmatency. Build it into the hardware. You get an video card with your standard VGA out, and a transmitter. The card also has some image compression software built in; say, just for arugment sake, PNG. Your wireless reciever, with an LCD screen, has a hardware PNG decoder. Boom. So long as you're not doing full scream video or motion graphics, you're MORE than covered. But even that's overkill. Use something like X, or RDP, where you're not transmitting the screen, you're transmitting the drawing instructions, and the HID coords and actions. Suddenly, instead of transmitting several thousand grey pixels to make your task bar, you're sending 'draw a grey rectangle from here to here.' and being done with it.
Yes, that is legitimate. But asking what books the defendant has bought recently, on the grounds that if any of said books involve criminal activity, the defendant must have been planning a similar crime, is stupid. And that's the case here.
But buying a book, let alone reading a book, about running a drug lab is not a criminal act, and should have no bearing. Unless, possibly, said books were found open, and highlighted, on the table of said drug lab, surrounded with the equipment and chemicals required to make drugs.
Because I think freedom of speech and freedom of the press is supposed to extend to the listener as well; if one cannot be persecuted for saying or printing a given thing, then people who listen to/read the same thing shouldn't face any sort of persecution. Otherwise, Senator McCarthy would probably be VERY interested to know why you're reading Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book..what's that, political science major? Sure, I'll bet you're even going to graduate COMMIE cum laude.