ah, but Nutscrape DOES have some of it's own quirks that cause cruft. (ever use IE and Netscape on a Mac? Tell me it's Microsoft's fault Netscape is slower!)
For instance, Netscape still holds displaying any table content until the entire table loads - thus, tables, being the main tool used for layouts, cause pain on pages with lots of text. Plus, when Netscape redownloads the page when you simply hit the back button when the fscking page is taking up space in the \cache directory anyway. I really hate that.
PS. Netscape NT GPFs on me about 3 times a week (if I don't reboot after the GPF, relaunchin Netscape, the average survival time before my next GPF is about 10 minutes, which is about how long it takes my NT box to reboot). Netscape Mac, doesn't crash unless I print, and I guess I can probably blame the CRAPPY-ASS Epson printer drivers. Never saw Netscape Linux crash, but it does go into lala land a lot.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The problem isn't standardization, per se. It's standardization on file-formats and protocols (which are really sort of the same thing, for this argument).
If everyone standardized on a file format, and if all the various applications could use the same format PROPERLY, then we'd have a very rich diverse choice of platforms. (XML, anyone?) but when one company bends the standard, and bundles that "extension" with their product, it forces people to unnaturally stick with that product, so they can conform to the extended standard. So it's the company that bends the rules, and force-bundles the extension to their product that causes uninteroperability - the bandaid solution is to standardize on that product, but it causes worse problems long-term, because no matter what you do, you're NEVER going to get the whole world to standardize on one software product, because no software can be all things to all people.
Now, Microsoft made a damn good effort at eliminating all commmercial competition, in the name of standardization, to HELP it's customers with the interoperability problems caused by standardization (one of your clients uses Sun? Fine, we'll eliminate Sun!). Of course, this brings about all kinds of abuses when one application vendor dominates, but that's not the argument I'm making here. Let's assume Microsoft's intentions are all good, that all they want to do is solve the interoperability problem by eliminating competing applications, and therefore allowing people to ensure that their application will always interoperate with any other person they might have to deal with. But the natural order of things emerged when folks started using a system that could survive all commercial attacks. Linux. (Darwinism in action). You can't starve an animal that doesn't need to eat.
So now we KNOW, that the philosophy of standardization via elimination CAN'T work, and is broken. So the alternative is interoperability - and all we need to do is standardize the file formats (XML) (XML) (XML), not the applications.
Is it better to have a single species dominate the ecosystem, or is it better to have biodiversity?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
IMHO, the speculative bubble in the stock market today is built upon the internet, and the promise of tomorrow's lucrative ecommerce junk.
MSFT is surfing on THAT wave, not the other way around. If all Microsoft employees tomorrow were rounded up and sent to prison for life terms, the momentum of the "internet phenomenon" may be slowed a hair (because MS is perceived as enabling this most economically), but it will not be stopped or significantly slowed, because there are TONS of options for business implementation, and still other options for consumer capture (Macintosh, Linux, other upstarts encouraged by the demise of the 800 buzillion-pound gorilla).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I think that this was one of the greatest features of Novell - the fact that if your server was barfing, you could go into the debugger, and neuter an offending process; or if the server was really in trouble, it would drop into the debugger, so you could at least figure out what went wrong, or dump the memory image and send it to someone who could.
And also, it's one of the things I really, really, really HATE about NT. No debugger comes with the OS, and there's no free, distributable one out there, so from a tech support standpoint, if your customer's server barfs, you kind of have to guess at what went wrong, or establish a pattern from multiple calls, or try to reproduce it in-house. Switching from supporting Netware products to NT products has been hell, and this is 90% of the reason. This kind of thing in Linux can only help "the cause". (and because my company is working on some fairly significant Linux products, and I may end up supporting them, this makes me more optimistic about the future.)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I think that was fixed in Office98, because that's what my wife used to do her homework for a paralegal class she's in, the teacher told her not to use Word, because it couldn't do such and such, and she showed him that it could do it, so she was allowed to use Word.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
eh? If Bill Clinton was found to have kidnapped, raped and murdered several small children, would you have any qualms about frying his ass just because he's president and that would throw the country into turmoil?
The major economic consequences have already happened, just look at the dead bodies scattered all over the green grass of the Microsoft campus: Borland, Netscape, Wordperfect, Novell, etc. ad nauseum. Perhaps with Microsoft on some kind of leash, competition can flourish, and the industry REALLY thrive. Just because it looks successful now, doesn't mean that's what it *could* be.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
um - no more cc:Mail or Lotus Notes. Pretty much the game is owned by MS Exchange. Although Notes seems to pretty much have bottomed out and stabilized. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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Aw, fresh out of moderator points eh? Well, at least you have the tag. Not quite as obnoxious as ALL CAPS - but we get the point. You're shouting.
Okay, so if this console ran only programs that used OpenGL, I'd be fine with that, because OpenGL is cross platform, so if Google Games wanted to write a game for this box, they could fairly easily port their code to other platforms, at least computer platforms where there are OpenGL implementations, or where Mesa works.
But we're talking about tying developers into a platform-specific API that was designed first and formost to lock people onto one platform (DirectX). Games written first for DirectX will rarely get ported to other platforms, because they'll cover 90% of the PC market, and the rest is economically inconvenient for developers. So, say you buy a PSXII. Google Games writes a killer game for X-Box, and you have to buy X-Box to play that game, or, you can play it on your PC if you have one. Either way, it's Microsoft leveraging their PC platform dominance to edge out competitors in the game console market. It stinks, and if you've heard this argument a few times before, it's because there are a bunch of folks out there like you who just don't seem to "get it".
It's more than just hating Microsoft. It's fearing the likely future that's in store if Microsoft "wins". If you're not afraid of the kind of world that will likely be, then you have no imagination.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
People are MUCH more willing to buy "the genuine item", especially when it comes to status symbol items, like luxury cars.
Sure, the Hyundai has ABS, 2.8l engine, styling, chrome wheels, disk brakes, double wishbone suspension, leather seats, and costs only $18,000. The BMW has the same, $50,000, because it has the BMW name badge on it. (believe me, I'm *not* saying a BMW is mechanically the same as a Hyundai, but how about the case with Honda/Acura? There's very little engineering difference, made by the same damn company, yet you pay more for the Acura)
Now, if the Wal Mart soda had that Coke badge on the can. . . folks would flock to it for 25 cents less, - but hey, I buy the expensive stuff, means I'm rich, I'm important, and I have a high-paying job, three wives, 2000 sheep, 24 camels 15 donkeys, and a velvet pavillion.
Do you feel comfortable inviting your boss' boss over for dinner to your house, and showing him your collection of pirated DVDs on your DVD rack on top of your entertainment center? Or would you rather have the "legit" packaging, promenently displayed saying "I'm a good citizen, and a vigorous consumer!".
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
There are many, many, many good examples. I wonder why the DOJ limited their case only to the browser market?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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"and she'll claw the eyes out of anyone else who tries to do the same on her corner. "
needless to say, clawing another hooker's eyes out, or having her pimp chase the others away with a.45, is still illegal. Or, we'll find out when Judge Jackson renders his judgement.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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"The only problem with it is that it's tied to Windows. But if this console runs it... Well that's fine by me"
well, it's NOT fine with me. I don't care if Bill Clinton's cigar runs it, if it's tied to Windows, it's just not good.
The EVIL is - single-platform dominance, it allows monopolies, from which follow all kinds of abuses. To eliminate that EVIL, the market needs multiple platforms, and developers have to "buckle down" and write for and support multiple platforms. It's the only way to avoid the obvious abuses that come with a monopoly that single-platform dominance brings with it. NOT convenient for developers. Not really convenient for consumers (faced with having to make technical choices they're not really qualified to make). But definately beneficial to us all in the long run.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Perhaps the AI's could "hack around" him. I mean, the code of the matrix isn't set in stone, so of course the AI's could probably do stuff to limit his powers, or even eliminate them. All manner of plotlines could evolve around this. This would definately abstractify the battle somewhat, so they would either have to come up with new and funky ways to visually represent it to "big explosion hungry" audiences, or it could get boring real quick.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Morpheus' brother/sister (depending on your source) is Death. Not sure of the geneological relation to Hades. But Death sure does have something to do with "entering the underworld".
"hey Charon, whussup?" "got another bunch?" "yup." "seezyer tomorow." "bye."
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Maybe *they* (the machines) teach the humans that in Matrix school, but it's not REALLY a law of nature. So maybe the machines CAN run forever off of energy leeched off of human bodies, fed on human bodies. . .
aw, whatever. Hey, movies are entertainment. Who took "Star Wars" seriously as science fiction, instead of science fantasy? There's plenty of corn in Star Wars, and the plot really wasn't all that special, did that make it a bad movie?
Now, just because some moviegoers "immerse" themselves a bit deeper, or extend their suspension of disbelief further than you can, doesn't mean that it wasn't good entertainment. Was it empirically "good literature"? High art? I think when you judge modern American Pop culture by those standards, you're gonna be disappointed anyway. What a depressing life.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Lucas DID know that he wanted to do sequels, some versions were a series of 12, then 6, then the popular 9, and now we're back down to 6.
Proof that Lucas had a meta plotline worked out from the start: Vader is very similar to the german word for Father.
But still, the original theater showing of Star Wars, before it was called "A New Hope", before they knew they would be able to do Empire, was *NOT* episode IV, or episode I, or episode anything. They had the crawling prolog, but NO "Episode IV". It just wasn't there. No way, no how, better go see a shrink to undo the damage the Church of Scientology did to your mind.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
excuse me for sounding communist again on the subject of flat panel displays, but they're just way too expensive. The pricing is demand-driven, not cost-driven. It's the same sort of thing that makes Intel Xeon CPU's $4000, and a nearly identical Celeron $300. (not ACTUALLY identical, NEARLY identical - but the difference doesn't justify the cost difference, it's just price gouging).
I mean, maybe some of this is just sour-grapes because I can't afford one, but geez, can't they price one of these high-end monitors in the ballpark of "high-end" rather than, geosynchronous -orbit? I'd pay $5000 for one, but only someone who has way more money than they know what to do with would pay $27,000.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The honest customer gets the VERY REAL and TANGIBLE benefit of not having to worry about Feds busting down his door and confiscating his computer, and locking him away.
The pirate may convince himself it's not going to happen. But there's always that possibility.
When you pirate, you get the software. When you purchase, you get legitimacy. (personally, I think that MS probably hides GUIDs with your VC++ license # in the binaries it compiles, so virus writers can be tracked down, just like MS Word (UP) encodes GUIDs in Word documents).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I think most people who do the keyword thing are well aware, by now, that it does not trigger Echelon.
on the other hand, on that web site that was doing all the Jam Echelon Day advocacy, there was some kind of text generator, which actually generated a little block of text that made grammatical sense, and used the keywords, but was randomly generated. THAT is what I used on Jam Echelon Day, and that's what I told all my friends to use, because if Echelon is CONTENT sensitive, that's the sort of thing that would trigger it.
Folks who otherwise relied on dumb keyword lists, didn't read the whole Jam Echelon Site day, and get points off for not following directions. Go stand in the corner.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
B for me. but I still don't trust the Govt. Though I DO think a lot of "conspiracy theorists" dramatically overplay the power the government has. Especially the survivalist whackos, who seem to WANT the apocolypse to come as some sort of "social purging", so they can restore their sense of meritocracy to the world (guys with bunkers, jeeps and guns deserve to survive, bankers don't).
"Bah!" I say (as I polish the ramp and throat of my vintage M1911)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The fallacy of your argument is that you believe that the US Govt. serves the interest of the people of the US. It does, but only a minority, of rich, powerful, and influential people (hmmm, influential, that means they have influence, right?). As long as YOUR interests mesh with theirs (I know mine do in some degrees, being a pretty average (statistically speaking) suburban middle-class white family guy), that's okay. But if you're out of that elite group - say your skin color is about a shade darker than beige, or your income is a bit less than $20k/yr, or you're beliefs are a bit Marxist, or perhaps you're a tad to the right of Billy Graham, religion-wise (not economics-wise - excellent confusion of issues there), or if you are not a US Citizen, your interests perhaps are NOT being looked out for by the US Govt. Even if you're a voter (not the case of non-US Citizen).
Now, that argument of emotion aside, the logical argument on why Echelon is bad, bad, bad, is when you learn the basics of how the US Govt. is set up, with it's system of checks and balances (never mind the lobbyists and Political Action Committees), you see that it's carefully set up to prevent any small group from gaining total unilateral control of the whole shebang. The Executive branch is answerable to the Legislative branch, the Legislative branch is answerable to the Judicial branch, and the Judicial branch is answerable to the Executive branch. Unfortunately, the NSA branch is answerable to noone. Therefore, pure evil.
Oh, enough of attacking your arguments. I'll attack you now: You're ugly and your momma dresses you funny.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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ah, but Nutscrape DOES have some of it's own quirks that cause cruft. (ever use IE and Netscape on a Mac? Tell me it's Microsoft's fault Netscape is slower!)
For instance, Netscape still holds displaying any table content until the entire table loads - thus, tables, being the main tool used for layouts, cause pain on pages with lots of text. Plus, when Netscape redownloads the page when you simply hit the back button when the fscking page is taking up space in the \cache directory anyway. I really hate that.
PS. Netscape NT GPFs on me about 3 times a week (if I don't reboot after the GPF, relaunchin Netscape, the average survival time before my next GPF is about 10 minutes, which is about how long it takes my NT box to reboot).
Netscape Mac, doesn't crash unless I print, and I guess I can probably blame the CRAPPY-ASS Epson printer drivers.
Never saw Netscape Linux crash, but it does go into lala land a lot.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The problem isn't standardization, per se. It's standardization on file-formats and protocols (which are really sort of the same thing, for this argument).
If everyone standardized on a file format, and if all the various applications could use the same format PROPERLY, then we'd have a very rich diverse choice of platforms. (XML, anyone?) but when one company bends the standard, and bundles that "extension" with their product, it forces people to unnaturally stick with that product, so they can conform to the extended standard.
So it's the company that bends the rules, and force-bundles the extension to their product that causes uninteroperability - the bandaid solution is to standardize on that product, but it causes worse problems long-term, because no matter what you do, you're NEVER going to get the whole world to standardize on one software product, because no software can be all things to all people.
Now, Microsoft made a damn good effort at eliminating all commmercial competition, in the name of standardization, to HELP it's customers with the interoperability problems caused by standardization (one of your clients uses Sun? Fine, we'll eliminate Sun!). Of course, this brings about all kinds of abuses when one application vendor dominates, but that's not the argument I'm making here. Let's assume Microsoft's intentions are all good, that all they want to do is solve the interoperability problem by eliminating competing applications, and therefore allowing people to ensure that their application will always interoperate with any other person they might have to deal with. But the natural order of things emerged when folks started using a system that could survive all commercial attacks. Linux. (Darwinism in action). You can't starve an animal that doesn't need to eat.
So now we KNOW, that the philosophy of standardization via elimination CAN'T work, and is broken. So the alternative is interoperability - and all we need to do is standardize the file formats (XML) (XML) (XML), not the applications.
Is it better to have a single species dominate the ecosystem, or is it better to have biodiversity?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
IMHO, the speculative bubble in the stock market today is built upon the internet, and the promise of tomorrow's lucrative ecommerce junk.
MSFT is surfing on THAT wave, not the other way around. If all Microsoft employees tomorrow were rounded up and sent to prison for life terms, the momentum of the "internet phenomenon" may be slowed a hair (because MS is perceived as enabling this most economically), but it will not be stopped or significantly slowed, because there are TONS of options for business implementation, and still other options for consumer capture (Macintosh, Linux, other upstarts encouraged by the demise of the 800 buzillion-pound gorilla).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I think that this was one of the greatest features of Novell - the fact that if your server was barfing, you could go into the debugger, and neuter an offending process; or if the server was really in trouble, it would drop into the debugger, so you could at least figure out what went wrong, or dump the memory image and send it to someone who could.
And also, it's one of the things I really, really, really HATE about NT. No debugger comes with the OS, and there's no free, distributable one out there, so from a tech support standpoint, if your customer's server barfs, you kind of have to guess at what went wrong, or establish a pattern from multiple calls, or try to reproduce it in-house. Switching from supporting Netware products to NT products has been hell, and this is 90% of the reason. This kind of thing in Linux can only help "the cause". (and because my company is working on some fairly significant Linux products, and I may end up supporting them, this makes me more optimistic about the future.)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
no, actually, fixing problems with microsoft products (when it's actually possible), is kind of fun, and often humorous.
The sucky part of dealing with microsoft products, is having to RELY on them.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I think that was fixed in Office98, because that's what my wife used to do her homework for a paralegal class she's in, the teacher told her not to use Word, because it couldn't do such and such, and she showed him that it could do it, so she was allowed to use Word.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
eh?
If Bill Clinton was found to have kidnapped, raped and murdered several small children, would you have any qualms about frying his ass just because he's president and that would throw the country into turmoil?
The major economic consequences have already happened, just look at the dead bodies scattered all over the green grass of the Microsoft campus:
Borland, Netscape, Wordperfect, Novell, etc. ad nauseum. Perhaps with Microsoft on some kind of leash, competition can flourish, and the industry REALLY thrive. Just because it looks successful now, doesn't mean that's what it *could* be.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"Can anyone name something that has been
released in the last decade that *hasn't* been cracked. "
Quantas.
Quantas never cracked.
Definately Quantas.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
um - no more cc:Mail or Lotus Notes. Pretty much the game is owned by MS Exchange. Although Notes seems to pretty much have bottomed out and stabilized. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Aw, fresh out of moderator points eh? Well, at least you have the tag. Not quite as obnoxious as ALL CAPS - but we get the point. You're shouting.
Okay, so if this console ran only programs that used OpenGL, I'd be fine with that, because OpenGL is cross platform, so if Google Games wanted to write a game for this box, they could fairly easily port their code to other platforms, at least computer platforms where there are OpenGL implementations, or where Mesa works.
But we're talking about tying developers into a platform-specific API that was designed first and formost to lock people onto one platform (DirectX). Games written first for DirectX will rarely get ported to other platforms, because they'll cover 90% of the PC market, and the rest is economically inconvenient for developers. So, say you buy a PSXII. Google Games writes a killer game for X-Box, and you have to buy X-Box to play that game, or, you can play it on your PC if you have one. Either way, it's Microsoft leveraging their PC platform dominance to edge out competitors in the game console market. It stinks, and if you've heard this argument a few times before, it's because there are a bunch of folks out there like you who just don't seem to "get it".
It's more than just hating Microsoft. It's fearing the likely future that's in store if Microsoft "wins". If you're not afraid of the kind of world that will likely be, then you have no imagination.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
People are MUCH more willing to buy "the genuine item", especially when it comes to status symbol items, like luxury cars.
Sure, the Hyundai has ABS, 2.8l engine, styling, chrome wheels, disk brakes, double wishbone suspension, leather seats, and costs only $18,000. The BMW has the same, $50,000, because it has the BMW name badge on it. (believe me, I'm *not* saying a BMW is mechanically the same as a Hyundai, but how about the case with Honda/Acura? There's very little engineering difference, made by the same damn company, yet you pay more for the Acura)
Now, if the Wal Mart soda had that Coke badge on the can. . . folks would flock to it for 25 cents less, - but hey, I buy the expensive stuff, means I'm rich, I'm important, and I have a high-paying job, three wives, 2000 sheep, 24 camels 15 donkeys, and a velvet pavillion.
Do you feel comfortable inviting your boss' boss over for dinner to your house, and showing him your collection of pirated DVDs on your DVD rack on top of your entertainment center? Or would you rather have the "legit" packaging, promenently displayed saying "I'm a good citizen, and a vigorous consumer!".
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Did MS destroy the Spreadsheet market?
Did MS destroy the Messaging market?
Did MS destroy the Word Processor market?
Did MS destroy the Compiler/IDE market?
There are many, many, many good examples. I wonder why the DOJ limited their case only to the browser market?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"and she'll claw the eyes
.45, is still illegal. Or, we'll find out when Judge Jackson renders his judgement.
out of anyone else who tries to do the same on her corner. "
needless to say, clawing another hooker's eyes out, or having her pimp chase the others away with a
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"The only problem with it is
that it's tied to Windows. But if this console runs it... Well that's fine by me"
well, it's NOT fine with me. I don't care if Bill Clinton's cigar runs it, if it's tied to Windows, it's just not good.
The EVIL is - single-platform dominance, it allows monopolies, from which follow all kinds of abuses.
To eliminate that EVIL, the market needs multiple platforms, and developers have to "buckle down" and write for and support multiple platforms. It's the only way to avoid the obvious abuses that come with a monopoly that single-platform dominance brings with it.
NOT convenient for developers.
Not really convenient for consumers (faced with having to make technical choices they're not really qualified to make).
But definately beneficial to us all in the long run.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Perhaps the AI's could "hack around" him. I mean, the code of the matrix isn't set in stone, so of course the AI's could probably do stuff to limit his powers, or even eliminate them. All manner of plotlines could evolve around this. This would definately abstractify the battle somewhat, so they would either have to come up with new and funky ways to visually represent it to "big explosion hungry" audiences, or it could get boring real quick.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Morpheus' brother/sister (depending on your source) is Death. Not sure of the geneological relation to Hades. But Death sure does have something to do with "entering the underworld".
"hey Charon, whussup?"
"got another bunch?"
"yup."
"seezyer tomorow."
"bye."
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Maybe *they* (the machines) teach the humans that in Matrix school, but it's not REALLY a law of nature. So maybe the machines CAN run forever off of energy leeched off of human bodies, fed on human bodies. . .
aw, whatever. Hey, movies are entertainment. Who took "Star Wars" seriously as science fiction, instead of science fantasy? There's plenty of corn in Star Wars, and the plot really wasn't all that special, did that make it a bad movie?
Now, just because some moviegoers "immerse" themselves a bit deeper, or extend their suspension of disbelief further than you can, doesn't mean that it wasn't good entertainment. Was it empirically "good literature"? High art? I think when you judge modern American Pop culture by those standards, you're gonna be disappointed anyway. What a depressing life.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
That's complete bullshit.
Lucas DID know that he wanted to do sequels, some versions were a series of 12, then 6, then the popular 9, and now we're back down to 6.
Proof that Lucas had a meta plotline worked out from the start: Vader is very similar to the german word for Father.
But still, the original theater showing of Star Wars, before it was called "A New Hope", before they knew they would be able to do Empire, was *NOT* episode IV, or episode I, or episode anything. They had the crawling prolog, but NO "Episode IV". It just wasn't there. No way, no how, better go see a shrink to undo the damage the Church of Scientology did to your mind.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
excuse me for sounding communist again on the subject of flat panel displays, but they're just way too expensive. The pricing is demand-driven, not cost-driven. It's the same sort of thing that makes Intel Xeon CPU's $4000, and a nearly identical Celeron $300. (not ACTUALLY identical, NEARLY identical - but the difference doesn't justify the cost difference, it's just price gouging).
I mean, maybe some of this is just sour-grapes because I can't afford one, but geez, can't they price one of these high-end monitors in the ballpark of "high-end" rather than, geosynchronous -orbit? I'd pay $5000 for one, but only someone who has way more money than they know what to do with would pay $27,000.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The honest customer gets the VERY REAL and TANGIBLE benefit of not having to worry about Feds busting down his door and confiscating his computer, and locking him away.
The pirate may convince himself it's not going to happen. But there's always that possibility.
When you pirate, you get the software.
When you purchase, you get legitimacy. (personally, I think that MS probably hides GUIDs with your VC++ license # in the binaries it compiles, so virus writers can be tracked down, just like MS Word (UP) encodes GUIDs in Word documents).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I think most people who do the keyword thing are well aware, by now, that it does not trigger Echelon.
on the other hand, on that web site that was doing all the Jam Echelon Day advocacy, there was some kind of text generator, which actually generated a little block of text that made grammatical sense, and used the keywords, but was randomly generated. THAT is what I used on Jam Echelon Day, and that's what I told all my friends to use, because if Echelon is CONTENT sensitive, that's the sort of thing that would trigger it.
Folks who otherwise relied on dumb keyword lists, didn't read the whole Jam Echelon Site day, and get points off for not following directions. Go stand in the corner.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I hope they put the executions on pay-per-view.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
B for me. but I still don't trust the Govt. Though I DO think a lot of "conspiracy theorists" dramatically overplay the power the government has. Especially the survivalist whackos, who seem to WANT the apocolypse to come as some sort of "social purging", so they can restore their sense of meritocracy to the world (guys with bunkers, jeeps and guns deserve to survive, bankers don't).
"Bah!" I say (as I polish the ramp and throat of my vintage M1911)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The fallacy of your argument is that you believe that the US Govt. serves the interest of the people of the US. It does, but only a minority, of rich, powerful, and influential people (hmmm, influential, that means they have influence, right?). As long as YOUR interests mesh with theirs (I know mine do in some degrees, being a pretty average (statistically speaking) suburban middle-class white family guy), that's okay. But if you're out of that elite group - say your skin color is about a shade darker than beige, or your income is a bit less than $20k/yr, or you're beliefs are a bit Marxist, or perhaps you're a tad to the right of Billy Graham, religion-wise (not economics-wise - excellent confusion of issues there), or if you are not a US Citizen, your interests perhaps are NOT being looked out for by the US Govt. Even if you're a voter (not the case of non-US Citizen).
Now, that argument of emotion aside, the logical argument on why Echelon is bad, bad, bad, is when you learn the basics of how the US Govt. is set up, with it's system of checks and balances (never mind the lobbyists and Political Action Committees), you see that it's carefully set up to prevent any small group from gaining total unilateral control of the whole shebang. The Executive branch is answerable to the Legislative branch, the Legislative branch is answerable to the Judicial branch, and the Judicial branch is answerable to the Executive branch. Unfortunately, the NSA branch is answerable to noone. Therefore, pure evil.
Oh, enough of attacking your arguments. I'll attack you now: You're ugly and your momma dresses you funny.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
None of them have broken?
None have them have lived to tell about it. . .
http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/397.html
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".