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So who is going to go and collect every computer game that has existed and find out which ones are effected by this law? And is it exicution or intent that counts? IE in nethack you become the 4th rider of the end times and are able to kill anything in sight. But its text bassed. Does that count?
I did this for years when walking accross the San Diego / TJ boarder. I would go down and get some heart medication or antibiotics and put them in my pocket and pick up a carton or four of smokes.
Did you bring anything back with you? Smokes. Please pay your duty over there.
Not only did I get cheap meds but I got cheap smokes as well. They changed the rules on how many cartons you could bring over at some point but by then I wasn't going over once a month any more so the change didn't effect me.
I can't help but notic that the one thing not talked about in the article is technology. Batman and the Underpants Gnomes could join with Yahoo and MSN but if the technology doesn't offer an advantage over Google then they are all wasting their time.
Rubbing a dog's nose in their poop is useless. Dogs use poop as buisness card with a complete medical history on the back of it. The grabing by the neck and being forced down might do some good but dogs and people have two very differnt ideas on poop.
As for the witch hunt: Given the nature of shame in eastern culture I would expect this to the last time that anyone refuses to pick up after their pet, be it on a tram or in a park or anywhere else.
In order for the ISP's to be able to figure out "number of websites with pornographic content" don't they have to have a standard deffinition for pornography? Hasn't this already failed to be defined by the government? Is my site of ascii pr0n art or is it porn? If my 50 year old parents think it is art then it can't be porn right?
If I were a really cynical person I would think that this request was crafted to insure non-compliance. After all if the government hasn't defined porn then no one can tell how much porn is out there.
I use a Palm Zire 72s as my reader. Best thing I ever did. * I can carry as many books as I want on a 1 gig SD card. This is handy when talking with people who want to dissagree with you on the content of the bible, constitution, sagen etc. * one thumb page turning is really nice when it is 30 deg F outside. * via PG I can read all those classics I didn't read in school and it doesn't cost me a dime.
I originally had a Zire 3x and this sucked because the screen was just a little too small, it didn't have a high resolution, it was completely unreadable in bright sunlight. All of these issues were fixed with the 72s. Since I find that sometimes I need more than 4 hours of battery life I made a 9V USB charger for it solving the power problem.
I do not recomend people just go out and burn $300 on a ebook reader. I recomend the barrow someone elses or get something like a palm which will serve them for things non-book related. If Sony or MS can sell a game system at a loss for $300 then some ebook maker can sell a device that isn't nearly as complicated at a loss and make the money back on the back end book buys.
I do not buy ebooks. Thy are often over priced and have DRM issues that make them completely useless if you are not running 'approved' hard/soft-ware.
I just had an idea. If a boycot has any effect or can be made by the acccountants who file things like SEC fileings then a company is required to note that in their quarterly earnings reports.
Does China have the same kind of rule? What happens when google isn't able to put something like that in their chinese reports because the name of the organization mentiones Free Tibet? Will Chinese investores demand that the.cn offer an exemption to the cenorship rules because it effects their bottem lines? This could be fun.
referring to videogames as 'games' is inhibiting their adoption by mainstream society Video games are mainstream. They have been adopted. It has already happend. New video games sell as much or more than opening day for a movie.
Some people just don't like them. Just like some people don't like movies.
I don't play them because I still haven't won my first game of nethack. I refuse to spend ay money on any new game until I do that.
Wow, that was great. You managed to say it didn't matter because the two were differant langauges and as such they can't be comaired for your needs. Using the same logic then the intir OT must be thrown out from this debate. Which means that JC can't be who he claims he is because there is no OT to support the need for a new King.
Ok so that we don't repeat my same error lets try the same laguange. Luke 3:23+ vs Matthew 1:17+
the embryo used to harvest stem cells is just an early version of the human being that will be born nine months later.
s/will be born/has a chance of being born/
Please keep in mind that 50% of all pregnancies result in miscarage during the first trimester. I will leave you to ponder the reasons or ramifications for this but I couldn't let that absolute sit there uncontested.
I am a touch confused here. I was under the impression that State and Fedral bodies could not file patents? Did something change or am I missing something.
I just don't understand why the telemarketing companies fight this so hard. I mean, here's a list of people who don't want to hear your sales pitch, so why waste time calling them?
Because a good number (enough to be profitable) of people who are on the list are there because they can't say "no". They are easy marks.
More than half of registered consumers say they're still getting unwanted calls
I have worked a very long time in call centers.
Seven months or so was spent working for a media ratings company were I went by the name "Chris Johnson" which was supposed to identify the call center I was in but I have since met other Chris Johnsons which showed that it didn't identify crap.
Anyway: I am willing to bet that most of those people who are still getting calls aren't even aware of what the DNCL does for them. They think it stops all solicitations. Trying to explain to them that survey companies and non-profits can still call is an exorcize in responsable LART managment.
So while half of the sampled group may think they are still getting calls that the DNCL is supposed to stop the actual number is much lower than that.
The way the system works, I plop down my $20 deposit for an anonymous
library card. So do 5,000 other people. Thats 100,000 sitting in the bank, collecting interest, and giving the library several
thousand bucks extra every year. and if you think that their funding won't be cut by the same amount they take in then you have never lived in a state the year after it starts a weekly lotery game and promisses that \$$x will go to the underfunded schools.
Thats great, now they just need to make a command line interface for it. I was doing a project a year ago where we would get ms files and need to convert them. And the only way to do that was to manually launch excel and click click click to make it a CSV file text file. Simple functions like this greatly increase the use of applications because when you have to do 15 or 1500 in a day so that the rest of process which is completely automated can take over because you kill the week link in the chain.
This isn't a case of CLI is better than GUI. It is a case of CLI is easier to automate. excle2csv foo.* | automated && echo Done. You just can't do that with a GUI app. There are things that are easier with a GUI. But the basics (Save As file conversion being one of them) that should be available from the command line.
quickly fix any minor problems still plaguing Linux (eg. get rid of all text based config tools).
Excuse me?
Text based configuration tools aren't the problem. More often than not they are the solution. You can build them fast and flexible in a way that no GUI can match. And fixing them does not mean "get rid" of them. If you did that then configuring X after a new video card install might be a bit hard. Don't you think?
The problem isn't text based tools. It is normally people unwilling to learn.
You ever try to admin a mass of systems via your home 150 miles from away from them over a slow network/hardware? Text based tools are the answer. Ever needed to automate something on the fly? Text based tools are the answer.
And if something is wrong with the config tool then you are better able to track what it is if it is a text based tool. Helping you fix the problem instead of just kicking the machine. You may have checked the right boxes but did the GUI do the right thing in response? Unless you open up the config file you may never know. After a while of useing text based tools instead of GUI ones[0] you begin to wonder how you ever lived without them and you learn a lot more about the system so that when something does go wrong you know what/exactly/ the problem is and how to fix it. GUIs hide it all from you.
They aren't broken. They are the salvation for getting real work done, done right, done fast.
They aren't the end all be all but they are most definetly not a "problem"
Please THINK then POST.
[0] and as a an added bonus they don't need to be rewritten every time there is an upgrade to the widgets. They don't require massive library dependancies and they are fast, small, stable and stand alone even years after they are written.
Deciding what goes into a kernel is not the same as making the choices involved in a distribution. A kernel is 30 or so meg of source code with contributions by a small number of people. A distribution like slackware is 700+ meg of source code (not including the extras disk) with contibutions from thousands of people. In a kernel you pick yes or no to a driver or api. In a distribution you have to make the same call (not many distros ship un patched kernels) as well as all of the aplications that will make it usefull. There are lots of OS developers that are a one man show. An OS is small compared to the size of a distribtuion and all the aplications and decisions that go into making the kernel/OS useful.
I would not trust any single person to lead a distribution of this size
I wonder how Patrick Volkerding feels about that comment since slackware comes out way ahead of Gentoo in every poll of how many people are using what distributions.
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On the morning of 9/11 on CNN one of the reports/anchor people said "NSA is reviewing the cellphone calls" of the people from flight 93.
My head spun at that moment. Apparently CNN didn't think it that odd that the NSA would have those records.
So who is going to go and collect every computer game that has existed and find out which ones are effected by this law?
And is it exicution or intent that counts? IE in nethack you become the 4th rider of the end times and are able to kill anything in sight. But its text bassed. Does that count?
I did this for years when walking accross the San Diego / TJ boarder. I would go down and get some heart medication or antibiotics and put them in my pocket and pick up a carton or four of smokes.
Did you bring anything back with you?
Smokes.
Please pay your duty over there.
Not only did I get cheap meds but I got cheap smokes as well. They changed the rules on how many cartons you could bring over at some point but by then I wasn't going over once a month any more so the change didn't effect me.
I can't help but notic that the one thing not talked about in the article is technology.
Batman and the Underpants Gnomes could join with Yahoo and MSN but if the technology doesn't offer an advantage over Google then they are all wasting their time.
Rubbing a dog's nose in their poop is useless. Dogs use poop as buisness card with a complete medical history on the back of it. The grabing by the neck and being forced down might do some good but dogs and people have two very differnt ideas on poop.
As for the witch hunt: Given the nature of shame in eastern culture I would expect this to the last time that anyone refuses to pick up after their pet, be it on a tram or in a park or anywhere else.
In order for the ISP's to be able to figure out "number of websites with pornographic content" don't they have to have a standard deffinition for pornography? Hasn't this already failed to be defined by the government? Is my site of ascii pr0n art or is it porn? If my 50 year old parents think it is art then it can't be porn right?
If I were a really cynical person I would think that this request was crafted to insure non-compliance. After all if the government hasn't defined porn then no one can tell how much porn is out there.
I use a Palm Zire 72s as my reader. Best thing I ever did.
* I can carry as many books as I want on a 1 gig SD card. This is handy when talking with people who want to dissagree with you on the content of the bible, constitution, sagen etc.
* one thumb page turning is really nice when it is 30 deg F outside.
* via PG I can read all those classics I didn't read in school and it doesn't cost me a dime.
I originally had a Zire 3x and this sucked because the screen was just a little too small, it didn't have a high resolution, it was completely unreadable in bright sunlight. All of these issues were fixed with the 72s. Since I find that sometimes I need more than 4 hours of battery life I made a 9V USB charger for it solving the power problem.
I do not recomend people just go out and burn $300 on a ebook reader. I recomend the barrow someone elses or get something like a palm which will serve them for things non-book related.
If Sony or MS can sell a game system at a loss for $300 then some ebook maker can sell a device that isn't nearly as complicated at a loss and make the money back on the back end book buys.
I do not buy ebooks. Thy are often over priced and have DRM issues that make them completely useless if you are not running 'approved' hard/soft-ware.
I just had an idea. If a boycot has any effect or can be made by the acccountants who file things like SEC fileings then a company is required to note that in their quarterly earnings reports.
.cn offer an exemption to the cenorship rules because it effects their bottem lines?
Does China have the same kind of rule? What happens when google isn't able to put something like that in their chinese reports because the name of the organization mentiones Free Tibet?
Will Chinese investores demand that the
This could be fun.
referring to videogames as 'games' is inhibiting their adoption by mainstream society
Video games are mainstream. They have been adopted. It has already happend. New video games sell as much or more than opening day for a movie. Some people just don't like them. Just like some people don't like movies.
I don't play them because I still haven't won my first game of nethack. I refuse to spend ay money on any new game until I do that.
Wow, that was great. You managed to say it didn't matter because the two were differant langauges and as such they can't be comaired for your needs. Using the same logic then the intir OT must be thrown out from this debate. Which means that JC can't be who he claims he is because there is no OT to support the need for a new King.
Ok so that we don't repeat my same error lets try the same laguange. Luke 3:23+ vs Matthew 1:17+
Deut 24:16 vs John 3:16
It sure was nice of them to name the infringing bits of code on this one. Still waiting for the same on the original issue.
the embryo used to harvest stem cells is just an early version of the human being that will be born nine months later.
s/will be born/has a chance of being born/
Please keep in mind that 50% of all pregnancies result in miscarage during the first trimester. I will leave you to ponder the reasons or ramifications for this but I couldn't let that absolute sit there uncontested.
[ mod -1 offtopic && -1 bad_spelling ]
I guess it is time for every person with a blog to update their resume. Journalist has a nice ring to it.
I am a touch confused here. I was under the impression that State and Fedral bodies could not file patents? Did something change or am I missing something.
Because a good number (enough to be profitable) of people who are on the list are there because they can't say "no". They are easy marks.
I have worked a very long time in call centers. Seven months or so was spent working for a media ratings company were I went by the name "Chris Johnson" which was supposed to identify the call center I was in but I have since met other Chris Johnsons which showed that it didn't identify crap.
Anyway: I am willing to bet that most of those people who are still getting calls aren't even aware of what the DNCL does for them. They think it stops all solicitations. Trying to explain to them that survey companies and non-profits can still call is an exorcize in responsable LART managment.
So while half of the sampled group may think they are still getting calls that the DNCL is supposed to stop the actual number is much lower than that.
The way the system works, I plop down my $20 deposit for an anonymous library card. So do 5,000 other people. Thats 100,000 sitting in the bank, collecting interest, and giving the library several thousand bucks extra every year.
and if you think that their funding won't be cut by the same amount they take in then you have never lived in a state the year after it starts a weekly lotery game and promisses that \$$x will go to the underfunded schools.
No it is not true. You can sue the .gov. You may not win. But you can sue. "I faught the law and the law won"
Thats great, now they just need to make a command line interface for it. I was doing a project a year ago where we would get ms files and need to convert them. And the only way to do that was to manually launch excel and click click click to make it a CSV file text file. Simple functions like this greatly increase the use of applications because when you have to do 15 or 1500 in a day so that the rest of process which is completely automated can take over because you kill the week link in the chain.
This isn't a case of CLI is better than GUI. It is a case of CLI is easier to automate.
excle2csv foo.* | automated && echo Done.
You just can't do that with a GUI app. There are things that are easier with a GUI. But the basics (Save As file conversion being one of them) that should be available from the command line.
There once was a slashdot thread on this:
2 59 &mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/06/122
And I once wrote a program to interactively configure a bash prompt. You can grab it at
asciipr0n.com/fp/ibpconf.sh-6.2.tar.gz
It has been a few years since I worked on it but give me an email if you find any bugs.
Excuse me?
Text based configuration tools aren't the problem. More often than not they are the solution. You can build them fast and flexible in a way that no GUI can match. And fixing them does not mean "get rid" of them. If you did that then configuring X after a new video card install might be a bit hard. Don't you think?
The problem isn't text based tools. It is normally people unwilling to learn. You ever try to admin a mass of systems via your home 150 miles from away from them over a slow network/hardware? Text based tools are the answer.
Ever needed to automate something on the fly? Text based tools are the answer.
And if something is wrong with the config tool then you are better able to track what it is if it is a text based tool. Helping you fix the problem instead of just kicking the machine. You may have checked the right boxes but did the GUI do the right thing in response? Unless you open up the config file you may never know. After a while of useing text based tools instead of GUI ones[0] you begin to wonder how you ever lived without them and you learn a lot more about the system so that when something does go wrong you know what /exactly/ the problem is and how to fix it. GUIs hide it all from you.
They aren't broken. They are the salvation for getting real work done, done right, done fast.
They aren't the end all be all but they are most definetly not a "problem" Please THINK then POST.
[0] and as a an added bonus they don't need to be rewritten every time there is an upgrade to the widgets. They don't require massive library dependancies and they are fast, small, stable and stand alone even years after they are written.
Deciding what goes into a kernel is not the same as making the choices involved in a distribution. A kernel is 30 or so meg of source code with contributions by a small number of people. A distribution like slackware is 700+ meg of source code (not including the extras disk) with contibutions from thousands of people. In a kernel you pick yes or no to a driver or api. In a distribution you have to make the same call (not many distros ship un patched kernels) as well as all of the aplications that will make it usefull. There are lots of OS developers that are a one man show. An OS is small compared to the size of a distribtuion and all the aplications and decisions that go into making the kernel/OS useful.
I would not trust any single person to lead a distribution of this size
I wonder how Patrick Volkerding feels about that comment since slackware comes out way ahead of Gentoo in every poll of how many people are using what distributions.