Why would anybody bother coming up with new ideas if anybody else could just copy them the next day?
Money isn't everything. There's also fame, a sense of moral duty, getting a desirable mate, just for fun, to be able to brag, and many other motivations. I am sick and tired of the idea that profit is the only thing that motivates human beings. Open source would not work if that were the case.
The Marijuana Tax Act was passed in 1937. It didn't make it illegal per se, as long as you had the tax stamps. Which you couldn't get without having marijuana. Which was illegal without the stamps, catch-22.
It wasn't until 1971 that it was actually made completely illegal.
Do you have any references that back up the claim that in France, people are guilty until proven innocent? I lookup up Law of France and the Napoleonic Code upon which it was based, from which I quote:
The possibility for justice to endorse lengthy remand periods was one reason why the Napoleonic Code was criticized for de facto presumption of guilt, particularly in common law countries. However, the legal proceedings certainly did not have de jure presumption of guilt; for instance, the juror's oath explicitly recommended that the jury did not betray the interests of the defendants, and took attention of the means of defense.
Now that is the Napoleonic Code, not the present day law of France. It appears that even under the Napoleonic Code, there was no legal presumption of guilt, although it was criticized for what appeared to be a presumption of guilt in practice.
I could find nothing about presumption of guilt or innocence in the present day French legal system on wikipedia, and I don't speak French, so I can't go right to the French sources listed. Do you have anything to back up your claim?
Uhhh, there was, uhh, hehehe, um, this guy. No wait he was a priest, hehehe, and uhhh, wait, was he a priest? No it was a chick priest. Anyway, uhhhh, hehehe, so she lights up a... hey! Don't bogart that just cause I'm tellin' a joke!
Why do you think I respond to you so often? Frankly, I like conversing with smart people who don't agree with me on all points FAR more than I like conversing with dumb people who do.
I used to live in New Haven, CT., home to Yale University. Yale owns most of downtown. They rent out commercial space to hundreds of businesses. They pay no taxes because they are non profit, therefore New Haven has no money for government services. Most of New Haven is a horrible run-down ghetto. The rest is snooty rich Yale alumni. It's surreal. You can walk two blocks from million dollar mansions and find yourself in a running gun battle between rival gangs.
Those profits, which they aren't calling profits, are being distributed to someone, they just aren't calling them shareholders.
Because we know it exists in at least one location, and given the size of the universe, the odds are pretty good that the EXACT same conditions exist in at least one other place. Do you have any idea how many billions of stars are in our galaxy, and how many billions of galaxies are in the observable universe?
Certainly no one knows the exact odds of life beginning, but we know it happened at least once. We know that the structure of our universe seems to favor the development of autocatalytic systems, feedback loops, and homeostasis.
If you are saying, "no one knows for sure. Don't say you're sure the chances are good if you can't prove they are," then that is certainly valid. If you are saying, "I doubt any other life besides us exists," well, that's even more of a reach than my original position.
Yes, but telling your boss you read slashdot for the vulnerability announcements is in no way like telling your wife you read Playboy for the articles. Your boss will probably believe you.
This discovery only reinforces the possibility of life outside our solar system; we've only discovered a few extra-solar planets, and at least one among those we've seen has life. So:
How many people now think that ETs of some form do exist?
It's a big universe. Chances are very good that other life of some sort exists. However, we have found no evidence of life yet, despite the presence of oxygen which would usually be considered a strong indicator of the presence of life.
Let everyone do it, then they ban everyone, where is there revenue? gone, down the toilet, really smart move.
Not everyone wants to do it. More people want other people not to do it than actually want to do it. If they let everyone who wants to cheat, then the much larger group of non-cheaters will leave.
Thats democracy for you.
No, that's the free market for you. Democracy is a political system, the free market is an economic system. If it were a democracy though, I guarantee you the majority would vote to ban cheaters, too.
Who cares what people do, if Blizzard gets a monthly fee.
They want their monthly revenue, and they are in a much better position than you to determine what it's going to take to keep it. Like banning cheaters.
Stop BEING GOD. Enjoy your revenue before you are toast.
I do actually work with AppArmor. It's a mandatory access control system. Of course it is not exactly the same thing, but it is usually used to keep a program from accessing any but a select list of files and services. You could use it to set up a system that works exactly the same as Vista's "protected process" thingy if you wanted to.
I had a TI-99/4A. My dad bought a TRS-80 Model 1 a couple years before, but it was the first computer that was actually mine as a kid. If I remember correctly, I had it for about six months before I got a Commodore 64. Then it went in the closet and never came out again.
17% of 17,725 polled think Bob is the worst tech flop ever, beating out dot-bombs at 13% as of 12:30 MST today. I wonder how many people here have actually tried Bob? I did. Blech.
It was a bad instance of a bad interpretation of some very good research into user interfaces by Brenda Laurel. AFAIK, her research has never been put into production successfully. But then, the whole idea of analyzing computer-human interaction in terms of Aristotelian Poetics is a little over most PHB's heads.
Yeah, I was pointing the factual errors in the book and the movie. Pedantic Man to the rescue! Did they use actual Furys (is that right? Or is it furies like the Erinyes?) in the movie? I really thought they only used the Belvedere and the Savoy.
The car wasn't a Fury. The Fury doesn't have rear doors. The "Hydramatic" transmission was developed by GM for Oldsmobile. The Fury uses a pushbutton transmission, not a shift lever. In the movie, they used two cars, a Belvedere and a Savoy.
He certainly has `the curse of Minter`. He talks and talks and talks, like any waster. He got lucky 20 years ago when you could knock up a game with a bit of assembler, some home made graphics and the odd bleep, but things have moved on a little since then. He hasn't.
For instance, nowadays it's okay to be a total dick, whereas back in the day, geeks didn't generally talk shit about people they've never met.
Because they aren't concerned with whether the casino games conform to Nevada gaming codes, they are concerned that they might be breaking Federal law and getting all their servers seized.
I learned a lot of what you learned, only in high school. I had a humanities teacher who was very avant-garde, went to all the teaching conferences, and tried to pass on what she'd learned to us. We were taught that everyone has a different learning style, and to accomodate everyone, you should present your information orally, visually, and have the audience take notes.
However, this is different, and very specific. When the information coming in visually and orally is exactly the same, it impairs comprehension. It really has nothing to do with what you and I learned and found useful.
Slashdot Mirror
Why would anybody bother coming up with new ideas if anybody else could just copy them the next day?
Money isn't everything. There's also fame, a sense of moral duty, getting a desirable mate, just for fun, to be able to brag, and many other motivations. I am sick and tired of the idea that profit is the only thing that motivates human beings. Open source would not work if that were the case.
The Marijuana Tax Act was passed in 1937. It didn't make it illegal per se, as long as you had the tax stamps. Which you couldn't get without having marijuana. Which was illegal without the stamps, catch-22.
It wasn't until 1971 that it was actually made completely illegal.
Now that is the Napoleonic Code, not the present day law of France. It appears that even under the Napoleonic Code, there was no legal presumption of guilt, although it was criticized for what appeared to be a presumption of guilt in practice.
I could find nothing about presumption of guilt or innocence in the present day French legal system on wikipedia, and I don't speak French, so I can't go right to the French sources listed. Do you have anything to back up your claim?
What, exactly, is slashdotting the school's web server going to do?
Uhhh, there was, uhh, hehehe, um, this guy. No wait he was a priest, hehehe, and uhhh, wait, was he a priest? No it was a chick priest. Anyway, uhhhh, hehehe, so she lights up a... hey! Don't bogart that just cause I'm tellin' a joke!
Ssssssssss.
Wait. What were we talking about?
Why do you think I respond to you so often? Frankly, I like conversing with smart people who don't agree with me on all points FAR more than I like conversing with dumb people who do.
I used to live in New Haven, CT., home to Yale University. Yale owns most of downtown. They rent out commercial space to hundreds of businesses. They pay no taxes because they are non profit, therefore New Haven has no money for government services. Most of New Haven is a horrible run-down ghetto. The rest is snooty rich Yale alumni. It's surreal. You can walk two blocks from million dollar mansions and find yourself in a running gun battle between rival gangs.
Those profits, which they aren't calling profits, are being distributed to someone, they just aren't calling them shareholders.
Because we know it exists in at least one location, and given the size of the universe, the odds are pretty good that the EXACT same conditions exist in at least one other place. Do you have any idea how many billions of stars are in our galaxy, and how many billions of galaxies are in the observable universe?
Certainly no one knows the exact odds of life beginning, but we know it happened at least once. We know that the structure of our universe seems to favor the development of autocatalytic systems, feedback loops, and homeostasis.
If you are saying, "no one knows for sure. Don't say you're sure the chances are good if you can't prove they are," then that is certainly valid. If you are saying, "I doubt any other life besides us exists," well, that's even more of a reach than my original position.
Yes, but telling your boss you read slashdot for the vulnerability announcements is in no way like telling your wife you read Playboy for the articles. Your boss will probably believe you.
It's a big universe. Chances are very good that other life of some sort exists. However, we have found no evidence of life yet, despite the presence of oxygen which would usually be considered a strong indicator of the presence of life.
"Despite the oxygen, the faraway planet is not one that would support life." -- www.space.com
I don't quite know where to start here.
Let everyone do it, then they ban everyone, where is there revenue? gone, down the toilet, really smart move.
Not everyone wants to do it. More people want other people not to do it than actually want to do it. If they let everyone who wants to cheat, then the much larger group of non-cheaters will leave.
Thats democracy for you.
No, that's the free market for you. Democracy is a political system, the free market is an economic system. If it were a democracy though, I guarantee you the majority would vote to ban cheaters, too.
Who cares what people do, if Blizzard gets a monthly fee.
They want their monthly revenue, and they are in a much better position than you to determine what it's going to take to keep it. Like banning cheaters.
Stop BEING GOD. Enjoy your revenue before you are toast.
They aren't BEING GOD. They are BEING OWNERS.
I do actually work with AppArmor. It's a mandatory access control system. Of course it is not exactly the same thing, but it is usually used to keep a program from accessing any but a select list of files and services. You could use it to set up a system that works exactly the same as Vista's "protected process" thingy if you wanted to.
AppArmor does much the same thing as protected processes. It just does it right.
I had a TI-99/4A. My dad bought a TRS-80 Model 1 a couple years before, but it was the first computer that was actually mine as a kid. If I remember correctly, I had it for about six months before I got a Commodore 64. Then it went in the closet and never came out again.
17% of 17,725 polled think Bob is the worst tech flop ever, beating out dot-bombs at 13% as of 12:30 MST today. I wonder how many people here have actually tried Bob? I did. Blech.
It was a bad instance of a bad interpretation of some very good research into user interfaces by Brenda Laurel. AFAIK, her research has never been put into production successfully. But then, the whole idea of analyzing computer-human interaction in terms of Aristotelian Poetics is a little over most PHB's heads.
Yeah, I was pointing the factual errors in the book and the movie. Pedantic Man to the rescue! Did they use actual Furys (is that right? Or is it furies like the Erinyes?) in the movie? I really thought they only used the Belvedere and the Savoy.
I'm guessing that's because their "crack teams" are using actual crack.
The car wasn't a Fury. The Fury doesn't have rear doors. The "Hydramatic" transmission was developed by GM for Oldsmobile. The Fury uses a pushbutton transmission, not a shift lever. In the movie, they used two cars, a Belvedere and a Savoy.
He certainly has `the curse of Minter`. He talks and talks and talks, like any waster. He got lucky 20 years ago when you could knock up a game with a bit of assembler, some home made graphics and the odd bleep, but things have moved on a little since then. He hasn't.
For instance, nowadays it's okay to be a total dick, whereas back in the day, geeks didn't generally talk shit about people they've never met.
Because they aren't concerned with whether the casino games conform to Nevada gaming codes, they are concerned that they might be breaking Federal law and getting all their servers seized.
Bonus points for yelling "Freebird!" Even more bonus points if the track currently playing is not by Skynyrd.
As opposed to conservative groups who earn their money the old fashioned way, by stealing it.
Don't forget the exciting new military advertis... errr, technology stories in every issue. And the "build your own hovercraft" ads in the back.
I learned a lot of what you learned, only in high school. I had a humanities teacher who was very avant-garde, went to all the teaching conferences, and tried to pass on what she'd learned to us. We were taught that everyone has a different learning style, and to accomodate everyone, you should present your information orally, visually, and have the audience take notes.
However, this is different, and very specific. When the information coming in visually and orally is exactly the same, it impairs comprehension. It really has nothing to do with what you and I learned and found useful.
I've found that if they are using PowerPoint at all, it's usually safe to ignore the speaker and the slides.