I'm in two minds, because the rumours highlighted in the summary specifically seem orientated toward creating panic and unrest within a large population - how do you deal with that while maintaining free speech?
By having free speech in the first place. These rumors can easily spread in China because a growing number of Chinese people believe that it's plausible that news of this kind of unrest could and would be suppressed by the government. The government's actions here are reinforcing that belief.
I once pointed out to a creationist that an intelligent designer probably could have done a better job with the human sinus cavity, and he attributed the problems with it to the imperfections in creation introduced after Adam and Eve's fall (that is, eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil).
Well, it says "Workprint" on the can, and in one of the blog posts he mentions that in places it's held together with very old tape, so he's not pulling the idea that it's a workprint out of his ass.
When I visited Beijing during the summer six years ago, the Imperial Vault and the Hall of Prayers at the Temple of Heaven weren't visible from each other. According to this site, they're only about 360 meters apart. Smog limited the visibility at ground level to less than a quarter of a mile, and it has gotten worse since then.
No. There were allegations about Mr. Whiting that were made when things were getting rancorous. He's probably referring to those. Even if they were true, the people working for Cheyenne and who went on to form Fresh Start had much better reasons to leave long ago.
I know one engineer on the project who was a devote Christian and expressed some reservations about Stargate's idea of Ascension, but he acted sanely and left soon after they stopped paying him.
I was gone by then, but based on what I know of the people who started it, Fresh Start's goal was to continue supporting a game they believed in. While still at Cheyenne, they completed and released Resistance quickly under terrible circumstances (circumstances that I fled), only to be betrayed by Gary Whiting with a bankruptcy filing the instant they brought the company its first revenue ever. Then they managed to form a company to continue supporting the game. They kept the servers up and even released new maps and improved some of the graphics assets.
This article is 100% Mr. Whiting's side of the story. While at Cheyenne I formed the opinion that he is a very shady individual, but I was pretty low on the totem pole, so I don't know what was really going on.
What I know for sure, however, is that Resistance would never have come out without the people behind Fresh Start, and it probably would have been completely unsupported from the moment of release (possibly unplayable, with the servers down) without the formation of Fresh Start. So I'm going to give them a pretty fucking big benefit of the doubt.
Oh, and based on the financial situation when I left, the people working for Fresh Start were probably getting paid next to nothing, if that much. So obviously "stealing" pays big time.
Yeah, after patching systems for the Y10K, Y100K, Y1M, Y10M, and Y100M problems, I think programmers are going to look at the Y1G problem and just say "fuck it, let's start over."
>> Don't worry, if you get your order in you'll almost certainly be playing >> the fantastic PS3 title currently in development long before the >> 2006 holidays.
>No, that doesn't sound like shilling at all.
Actually it doesn't -- he states that there's only one fantastic PS3 title currently in developement.
I read the introduction. I figured reading the introduction of the guide would give me at least an idea of what the book would cover. I appologize for making that assumption. My bust.
The book is based on the premise that there is no "magic secret" to losing weight. You stated that was incorrect. Then you listed a bunch of things that aren't magic secrets as ways to lose weight.
Also, the online book has some computerized tools like you mentioned available for download, although they might be out of date now.
Well, while it could still be fan exaggeration, I think "they took the jokes out" is a criticism much more damning than "They left out [Tom Bombadil | scouring the Shire | any other single plot event]!"
But what it's famous for is being a nasty dive strip club where you really don't want to look at the strippers, whose acts include things like crushing beer cans between their large floppy breasts.
I've too scared to go there, myself, but I've seen it on TV.
I doubt it was "typical", but when I was in Xian this summer I saw a rent-a-terminal type internet place (there was no bar or food being sold, although there was a KFC next door) on the bottom floor of a large computer market. There were dozens of machines, about half of them were in use, and most of them were playing either Counterstrike or Diablo, and a few were plying Warcraft 3.
It doesn't matter if you can release it under the GPL signed. Release it under two sets of licensing terms, like MySQL. The licences:
unsigned version license: free, straight GPL; anyone can get the source and use it for anything they want, free as in speech and beer.
signed version licence: 5 pound charge, binary only, no redistribution allowed.
This might really fit the "spirit" of the GPL better than releasing a signed binary with GPLed source (but no key) where the user can't reproduce the exact executable from the source.
The system does need better security (like issuing parents a login and password). However, there's pretty much nothing wrong with the idea. Do your homework, punk.
Tech has a strong tradition of trying to cause as many freshman and sophmores in engineering fields to fail out as possible, partially to reduce class size for upperclassmen, but mostly because many of the profs are bastards (some of them would consider that description a compliment). Getting "the shaft" is an old Tech tradition, to the point that the bastards openly acknowledge that their policies aren't fair, and if you don't like it you can transfer to another institute, since most of the colleges (especially the College of Computing) are overcrowded anyway at the underclassman level.
It sounds like a freshman got his first session with the shaft, and went whining to a reporter. He was wise to remain anonynmous, since most of his classmates (male and female) would, upon learning what he did, ask him if his pussy hurts.
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I'm in two minds, because the rumours highlighted in the summary specifically seem orientated toward creating panic and unrest within a large population - how do you deal with that while maintaining free speech?
By having free speech in the first place. These rumors can easily spread in China because a growing number of Chinese people believe that it's plausible that news of this kind of unrest could and would be suppressed by the government. The government's actions here are reinforcing that belief.
I'm sure you get on their list simply by posting in a subversive thread like this.
Yeah. I didn't bother posting anonymously, because I doubt it makes a difference at this point.
Oh, you're so getting on the NSA's list for that.
What could a creationist do with this?
I once pointed out to a creationist that an intelligent designer probably could have done a better job with the human sinus cavity, and he attributed the problems with it to the imperfections in creation introduced after Adam and Eve's fall (that is, eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil).
Well, it says "Workprint" on the can, and in one of the blog posts he mentions that in places it's held together with very old tape, so he's not pulling the idea that it's a workprint out of his ass.
Also, you pick your phone number out of a list, to make sure you don't get an unlucky one.
When I visited Beijing during the summer six years ago, the Imperial Vault and the Hall of Prayers at the Temple of Heaven weren't visible from each other. According to this site, they're only about 360 meters apart. Smog limited the visibility at ground level to less than a quarter of a mile, and it has gotten worse since then.
No. There were allegations about Mr. Whiting that were made when things were getting rancorous. He's probably referring to those. Even if they were true, the people working for Cheyenne and who went on to form Fresh Start had much better reasons to leave long ago.
I know one engineer on the project who was a devote Christian and expressed some reservations about Stargate's idea of Ascension, but he acted sanely and left soon after they stopped paying him.
I was gone by then, but based on what I know of the people who started it, Fresh Start's goal was to continue supporting a game they believed in. While still at Cheyenne, they completed and released Resistance quickly under terrible circumstances (circumstances that I fled), only to be betrayed by Gary Whiting with a bankruptcy filing the instant they brought the company its first revenue ever. Then they managed to form a company to continue supporting the game. They kept the servers up and even released new maps and improved some of the graphics assets.
This article is 100% Mr. Whiting's side of the story. While at Cheyenne I formed the opinion that he is a very shady individual, but I was pretty low on the totem pole, so I don't know what was really going on.
What I know for sure, however, is that Resistance would never have come out without the people behind Fresh Start, and it probably would have been completely unsupported from the moment of release (possibly unplayable, with the servers down) without the formation of Fresh Start. So I'm going to give them a pretty fucking big benefit of the doubt.
Oh, and based on the financial situation when I left, the people working for Fresh Start were probably getting paid next to nothing, if that much. So obviously "stealing" pays big time.
Suspending democracy is a great way to be told, forever, that the climate will be fixed at the end of the current five year plan.
The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari 2600 wasn't bad, for a 2600 game.
nobody will give a damn about our data anyway.
Yeah, after patching systems for the Y10K, Y100K, Y1M, Y10M, and Y100M problems, I think programmers are going to look at the Y1G problem and just say "fuck it, let's start over."
Only build Jewish robots.
>> Don't worry, if you get your order in you'll almost certainly be playing
>> the fantastic PS3 title currently in development long before the
>> 2006 holidays.
>No, that doesn't sound like shilling at all.
Actually it doesn't -- he states that there's only one fantastic PS3 title currently in developement.
Doesn't sound very good to me.
In 2013 they'll put the graphics driver back in... and shake it all about.
I read the introduction. I figured reading the introduction of the guide would give me at least an idea of what the book would cover. I appologize for making that assumption. My bust.
The book is based on the premise that there is no "magic secret" to losing weight. You stated that was incorrect. Then you listed a bunch of things that aren't magic secrets as ways to lose weight.
Also, the online book has some computerized tools like you mentioned available for download, although they might be out of date now.
Congratulations on contradicting TFHD and then restating its basic premise.
The point it's making is that eating fewer calories than you burn isn't "magic," it's physics.
I don't play that game, but I can still laugh at what a bunch of morons they are.
There is also a question of whether they have the right to demand that fee. The answer might affect me, sooner or later.
So, really, it's not simple.
Well, while it could still be fan exaggeration, I think "they took the jokes out" is a criticism much more damning than "They left out [Tom Bombadil | scouring the Shire | any other single plot event]!"
But what it's famous for is being a nasty dive strip club where you really don't want to look at the strippers, whose acts include things like crushing beer cans between their large floppy breasts.
I've too scared to go there, myself, but I've seen it on TV.
I doubt it was "typical", but when I was in Xian this summer I saw a rent-a-terminal type internet place (there was no bar or food being sold, although there was a KFC next door) on the bottom floor of a large computer market. There were dozens of machines, about half of them were in use, and most of them were playing either Counterstrike or Diablo, and a few were plying Warcraft 3.
It's a port, he doesn't own it.
Bleah, I'm an idiot too.
It doesn't matter if you can release it under the GPL signed. Release it under two sets of licensing terms, like MySQL. The licences:
unsigned version license: free, straight GPL; anyone can get the source and use it for anything they want, free as in speech and beer.
signed version licence: 5 pound charge, binary only, no redistribution allowed.
This might really fit the "spirit" of the GPL better than releasing a signed binary with GPLed source (but no key) where the user can't reproduce the exact executable from the source.
The system does need better security (like issuing parents a login and password). However, there's pretty much nothing wrong with the idea. Do your homework, punk.
Tech has a strong tradition of trying to cause as many freshman and sophmores in engineering fields to fail out as possible, partially to reduce class size for upperclassmen, but mostly because many of the profs are bastards (some of them would consider that description a compliment). Getting "the shaft" is an old Tech tradition, to the point that the bastards openly acknowledge that their policies aren't fair, and if you don't like it you can transfer to another institute, since most of the colleges (especially the College of Computing) are overcrowded anyway at the underclassman level.
It sounds like a freshman got his first session with the shaft, and went whining to a reporter. He was wise to remain anonynmous, since most of his classmates (male and female) would, upon learning what he did, ask him if his pussy hurts.