Anonymous Karma Coward wrote: Good thing that macs have been using intel chips for years now.
So Mac users should throw-away their PPC machines, even if they are still like new and working perfectly? How un-green of you. Filling-up landfills with perfectly good hardware.
>>>Until the companies that control exclusive rights in these games start attacking emulator maintainers under theories of circumvention and/or contributory infringement.
Yeah because it's really worked so far. They've really been successful in stopping me from copying everything under the sun. Oh wait. They haven't. (Holds up copies of X360 games.) ----- BTW this is why copyright was supposed to have a sunset. 14 years or 28 years and then it becomes public domain. That means tons of copies would be made, so even if the original company dies (Atari), there will still be clones in the wild. Emulators and ROMs. Maybe even hardware clones.
As for Star Raiders, I don't think there's any need to preserve it "forever". I have my doubts the next generation will want to play it. That particular product only has meaning to those of us who owned Atari 800s or Atari VCS/2600 consoles..... approximately ages 35 to 50. Once we pass away the game will have about as much relevance to the future culture as wagon wheels have in ours (i.e. virtually none).
>>>there are remnants of past administrations that stick around for a long time
True but then why did Obama do this? - sign the Patriot Renewal Act instead of letting it expire - allow his employees in the White House say it's okay to revoke Miranda Rights and interrogate US citizens immediately?
I don't think you can blame George Duh Bush for these items.
I've been reading all kinds of complaints from PowerPC Mac users, even those with speedy 2 or 2.5 gigahertz Dual processors, that Flash 10 plays movies like a snail through molasses. Most of them had to downgrade to Flash 9 just to watch youtube.com. Apparently F10 was optimized for Intel CPUs and doesn't work right on PPCs.
That's pretty devious of Corporate. Tell people they have the right to stop unsafe procedures, which also means they have the right to take the blame if they remained silent (either voluntarily, or because the boss threatened them with firing).
>>>>>Or deliberately ignoring your own engineers saying, "This is a bad idea. The wellhead will blow out." >> >>Nobody said that
I've heard the Emails read-out over the radio. I could probably find the actual emails with a google search. The engineers DID warn management, but management refused to listen. They ignored the safety concerns and pushed forward anyway.
>>>Every employee has the authority to stop a job - any job.
Wow you're a naive' fuck. About the same as I was when I was fresh out of college, said I refuse to do something because it will cost 10 times more than my solution, and the boss said if I don't do it, then he'll find someone else who WILL do it.
I spent about a day running that through my head, and then decided to keep my job. The circuit card cost 10 times more than it should have, and was eventually thrown-out, but at least I still had an income to pay my bills.
NO employee has an authority to stop a job. He merely has the authority to be employed. Or fired. That's it.
Revoke all corporate licenses. That would weaken the ability of the rich to consolidate wealth, and eliminate "limited liability" so that CEOs are directly responsible for any deaths/harm they cause.
I don't know. I see nothing wrong with the first and I've never used the second, so I guess you'll have to enlighten me. Or you can continue acting like a clown. Whichever.
>>>eMachines desktop
I've had a couple of these. They work just fine, especially since Gateway bought them. They are merely Gateway machines with a lower price point..... like Hondas and Toyotas are lower-priced variants of Acuras and Lexuses.
>>>being told that they can't have internet access because they don't have Windows.
My AOL Dialup ISP is like that. They don't support anything but 98, XP, Vista, and Se7en. Mac, Amiga, and Linux OS users are told by the sign-up website that they can not join.
I assume you are using this word in the European sense (conservative==centralized power), not the American sense (conservative==constitutionalist). In any case it does appear Australia is turning more-and-more towards a totalitarian state, step by step, and away from individual liberty.
>>>does that mean that any website with ads should be, by this law, taken offline?
Or return to the simple GIF and PNG ads of yesteryear. That sounds like a positive outcome to me, since I'd rather download a 20k banner than a 500k movie banner.
Antiviral software and firewalls slow-down computers. Perhaps if you have 4 gigabytes and a dual 3000 megahertz CPU you don't notice, but for my 2000 MHz P4 and 1/3 gig machine these programs make the system run slow. So I don't run them (except the occasional cleaning which always turns-up nothing).
In their defense, AOL is still an okay company. They aren't as big as they used to be in the 90s, but then neither is Sega and I still like them.
- I used AOL back in the 80s when they were called Quantum Link. It was the only service that provided full-color graphics, like a primitive website: http://toastytech.com/guis/c64gquantumlink.gif - http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/files/Habitat%20scene.gif - I continued using them for my first ISP to serve web pages to my Commodore Amiga. - I dropped them after the whole "busy signal" debacle. - But then went back to them when they provided Accelerated Dialup under the name "netscape isp". It's great for travel, or backup when the Broadband fails, and only costs $7.
So basically I've been a customer of theirs, minus a brief break, for nearly 25 years.
"Fuck." was my response too. I listen to shoutcast almost nonstop, because I like their high-quality ACCplus (HE-AAC) streams. Only difference is I use WinAmp instead of VLC, but still it's pretty lousy to force the open-source programmers to downgrade their software.
That L curve is propaganda and no more valid than the junk spewing out of "911 Truthers" or "Obama Birthers" folks. I reject conspiracy nonsense, and you should too.
BTW I don't consider corporations to be "people" and will not treat them as such.
What annoys me is that managers expect perfection from imperfect being. I remember in my second year as an engineer I was testing an FPGA using a self-designed testbox. By a simply drawing a line in the wrong place I had connected 28 volts to 4 of the pins, which then blew-out the FPGA.
Rather than say "Ooops. Fix it and try again," the managers totally over-reacted and stopped work on the project. We wasted two weeks on this simple error. Thousands of dollars in man-hours because of a damaged $200 part. Rdiculous. I identified the problem within just a few hours and had it fixed by the next day, but the managers went into panic mode and forbade me from entering the lab until a 2 week review was finished.
>>>When a politician decides to engage in 2 costly wars while lowering taxes for the rich
What about a politician that drives the national debt from 10.5 trillion (105,000 per US household, approximately) to 13 trillion (~$130,000 per) after only 1.5 years in office? Never has our debt grown this fast. Not even under Ronnie Raygun. .
>>>or when a majority of society elects politicians who repeatedly punish the poor and middle class while rewarding the rich
90% of income taxes are paid by the 1% richest earners. 99% are paid by the 10% richest. Yes I know - an inconvenient fact but also happens to be true (came direct from the IRS). .
>>>and then complain about not having enough money to support their expensive lifestyles, you can attribute that to stupidity.
>>>It's pretty obvious that BP didn't intend to cause a spill.
Is it? I'm hearing stories coming-out where engineers wrote e-mails warning this blowout would happen. But the managers, based-upon their vast PoliSci degree knowledge, pushed forward anyway with drilling. Later engineers' emails read like this: "I told you this would fucking happen."
Or deliberately ignoring your own engineers saying, "This is a bad idea. The wellhead will blow out." Then try to act all surprised to discover the engineers knew what they were talking about, and blame the engineers instead of your own stupidity Mr. BP Manager.
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>>>Cuba is a perfect example of this. They have better or equivalent health outcomes to the United States, yet they spend a fraction
False. The second part is true but the first is false, because Cuba's government hospitals often don't treat people at all. Since those persons are left to die, they never become part of the system and don't appear in the statistic. Plus given the type of government (totalitarian) it wouldn't surprise me to learn unfavorable stats are removed by the government. (See the scene in 1984 where negative news is expunged and rewritten into positive news.)
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Anonymous Karma Coward wrote:
Good thing that macs have been using intel chips for years now.
So Mac users should throw-away their PPC machines, even if they are still like new and working perfectly? How un-green of you. Filling-up landfills with perfectly good hardware.
>>>Until the companies that control exclusive rights in these games start attacking emulator maintainers under theories of circumvention and/or contributory infringement.
Yeah because it's really worked so far. They've really been successful in stopping me from copying everything under the sun. Oh wait. They haven't. (Holds up copies of X360 games.) ----- BTW this is why copyright was supposed to have a sunset. 14 years or 28 years and then it becomes public domain. That means tons of copies would be made, so even if the original company dies (Atari), there will still be clones in the wild. Emulators and ROMs. Maybe even hardware clones.
As for Star Raiders, I don't think there's any need to preserve it "forever". I have my doubts the next generation will want to play it. That particular product only has meaning to those of us who owned Atari 800s or Atari VCS/2600 consoles..... approximately ages 35 to 50. Once we pass away the game will have about as much relevance to the future culture as wagon wheels have in ours (i.e. virtually none).
>>>there are remnants of past administrations that stick around for a long time
True but then why did Obama do this?
- sign the Patriot Renewal Act instead of letting it expire
- allow his employees in the White House say it's okay to revoke Miranda Rights and interrogate US citizens immediately?
I don't think you can blame George Duh Bush for these items.
I just hope 10.1 works better than Flash 10 does.
I've been reading all kinds of complaints from PowerPC Mac users, even those with speedy 2 or 2.5 gigahertz Dual processors, that Flash 10 plays movies like a snail through molasses. Most of them had to downgrade to Flash 9 just to watch youtube.com. Apparently F10 was optimized for Intel CPUs and doesn't work right on PPCs.
+1 insightful.
That's pretty devious of Corporate. Tell people they have the right to stop unsafe procedures, which also means they have the right to take the blame if they remained silent (either voluntarily, or because the boss threatened them with firing).
>>>>>Or deliberately ignoring your own engineers saying, "This is a bad idea. The wellhead will blow out."
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>>Nobody said that
I've heard the Emails read-out over the radio. I could probably find the actual emails with a google search. The engineers DID warn management, but management refused to listen. They ignored the safety concerns and pushed forward anyway.
>>>Takes credit for success, and passes blame for failure? It's the only way to get into the Fortune 100 C*O offices that I'm aware of.
I knew I shoulda been a business major.
They're the ones with real power.
>>>Every employee has the authority to stop a job - any job.
Wow you're a naive' fuck. About the same as I was when I was fresh out of college, said I refuse to do something because it will cost 10 times more than my solution, and the boss said if I don't do it, then he'll find someone else who WILL do it.
I spent about a day running that through my head, and then decided to keep my job. The circuit card cost 10 times more than it should have, and was eventually thrown-out, but at least I still had an income to pay my bills.
NO employee has an authority to stop a job.
He merely has the authority to be employed. Or fired.
That's it.
>>>And the alternative to such a system is... ?
Revoke all corporate licenses. That would weaken the ability of the rich to consolidate wealth, and eliminate "limited liability" so that CEOs are directly responsible for any deaths/harm they cause.
>>>What's wrong with AOL and ME?
I don't know. I see nothing wrong with the first and I've never used the second, so I guess you'll have to enlighten me. Or you can continue acting like a clown. Whichever.
>>>eMachines desktop
I've had a couple of these. They work just fine, especially since Gateway bought them. They are merely Gateway machines with a lower price point..... like Hondas and Toyotas are lower-priced variants of Acuras and Lexuses.
>>>He's not a US citizen.
>>>He's got damning information about their spying.
>>>He's about to release it.
>>>I'd say more his life is in danger.
I'll be happy when we get rid of that damn Bush so these things stop happening. Oh. Wait.....
>>>being told that they can't have internet access because they don't have Windows.
My AOL Dialup ISP is like that. They don't support anything but 98, XP, Vista, and Se7en. Mac, Amiga, and Linux OS users are told by the sign-up website that they can not join.
>>>Why the sudden conservative turn?
I assume you are using this word in the European sense (conservative==centralized power), not the American sense (conservative==constitutionalist). In any case it does appear Australia is turning more-and-more towards a totalitarian state, step by step, and away from individual liberty.
>>>does that mean that any website with ads should be, by this law, taken offline?
Or return to the simple GIF and PNG ads of yesteryear. That sounds like a positive outcome to me, since I'd rather download a 20k banner than a 500k movie banner.
I disagree.
Antiviral software and firewalls slow-down computers. Perhaps if you have 4 gigabytes and a dual 3000 megahertz CPU you don't notice, but for my 2000 MHz P4 and 1/3 gig machine these programs make the system run slow. So I don't run them (except the occasional cleaning which always turns-up nothing).
In their defense, AOL is still an okay company. They aren't as big as they used to be in the 90s, but then neither is Sega and I still like them.
- I used AOL back in the 80s when they were called Quantum Link. It was the only service that provided full-color graphics, like a primitive website: http://toastytech.com/guis/c64gquantumlink.gif
- http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/files/Habitat%20scene.gif
- I continued using them for my first ISP to serve web pages to my Commodore Amiga.
- I dropped them after the whole "busy signal" debacle.
- But then went back to them when they provided Accelerated Dialup under the name "netscape isp". It's great for travel, or backup when the Broadband fails, and only costs $7.
So basically I've been a customer of theirs, minus a brief break, for nearly 25 years.
"Fuck." was my response too. I listen to shoutcast almost nonstop, because I like their high-quality ACCplus (HE-AAC) streams. Only difference is I use WinAmp instead of VLC, but still it's pretty lousy to force the open-source programmers to downgrade their software.
My concern is that Comcast might yank NBC off free television and turn it into another pay-to-see cable channel.
That L curve is propaganda and no more valid than the junk spewing out of "911 Truthers" or "Obama Birthers" folks. I reject conspiracy nonsense, and you should too.
BTW I don't consider corporations to be "people" and will not treat them as such.
I shoulda been a business major.
What annoys me is that managers expect perfection from imperfect being. I remember in my second year as an engineer I was testing an FPGA using a self-designed testbox. By a simply drawing a line in the wrong place I had connected 28 volts to 4 of the pins, which then blew-out the FPGA.
Rather than say "Ooops. Fix it and try again," the managers totally over-reacted and stopped work on the project. We wasted two weeks on this simple error. Thousands of dollars in man-hours because of a damaged $200 part. Rdiculous. I identified the problem within just a few hours and had it fixed by the next day, but the managers went into panic mode and forbade me from entering the lab until a 2 week review was finished.
They would not allow for error.
>>>When a politician decides to engage in 2 costly wars while lowering taxes for the rich
What about a politician that drives the national debt from 10.5 trillion (105,000 per US household, approximately) to 13 trillion (~$130,000 per) after only 1.5 years in office? Never has our debt grown this fast. Not even under Ronnie Raygun.
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>>>or when a majority of society elects politicians who repeatedly punish the poor and middle class while rewarding the rich
90% of income taxes are paid by the 1% richest earners. 99% are paid by the 10% richest. Yes I know - an inconvenient fact but also happens to be true (came direct from the IRS).
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>>>and then complain about not having enough money to support their expensive lifestyles, you can attribute that to stupidity.
Well on this one we agree.
>>>It's pretty obvious that BP didn't intend to cause a spill.
Is it? I'm hearing stories coming-out where engineers wrote e-mails warning this blowout would happen. But the managers, based-upon their vast PoliSci degree knowledge, pushed forward anyway with drilling. Later engineers' emails read like this: "I told you this would fucking happen."
Or deliberately ignoring your own engineers saying, "This is a bad idea. The wellhead will blow out." Then try to act all surprised to discover the engineers knew what they were talking about, and blame the engineers instead of your own stupidity Mr. BP Manager.
>>>Cuba is a perfect example of this. They have better or equivalent health outcomes to the United States, yet they spend a fraction
False. The second part is true but the first is false, because Cuba's government hospitals often don't treat people at all. Since those persons are left to die, they never become part of the system and don't appear in the statistic. Plus given the type of government (totalitarian) it wouldn't surprise me to learn unfavorable stats are removed by the government. (See the scene in 1984 where negative news is expunged and rewritten into positive news.)