"...he claims his earlier proposal was merely intended as satire, to "highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry's willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games.""
Someone should point out to this guy examples such as Quake 3 Arena where the developers have included likenesses of themselves in the game as characters to be obliterated. I'm sure some finger-in-ear LAA-LAA-LAAAAing would ensue.
I second this. Going from straight Perl to mod_perl is a great step to make for the speed and functionality of your site. I think you might be surprised by just how much speed is possible with mod_perl.
There are two ways to port an existing application to mod_perl; the fast way and the proper way. The fast way is essentially to take your entire existing application and make it one giant function within mod_perl. Try a quick basic port and see how much better your site performs once you do. I think you'll be encouraged enough to go on and do a 'proper' port to optimize your site specifically for mod_perl.
Excessive polluting by certain countries will, of course, lead to a negative global effect (global warming for starters). This in turn will lead to international resentment of the polluting countries (it's already largely there and continuing to build). That will inevitably lead to action against said irresponsible countries, as you know that somewhere among the billions of people on earth are going to be people willing to use their own actions to stop it. This, I predict, will lead to deeming of said actions as "terrorism" by the people responsible for the pollution in the first place, in order to demonize those taking action against their inaction. But don't worry, because after the first incident or two, I'm fairly certain I can predict that any large source of pollution will then be heavily guarded, at the expense of that countries tax payers. Let the war begin.
As for who is "good" and who is "evil" in this predictable future conflict, I'm afraid I am going to have to side with those who are looking out for the best interests of me and my fellow humans. Those who aren't, you know who you are. Don't complain when you're held accountable by your fellow humans for your actions.
...kind of makes you wonder if perhaps you got it wrong the first time when you put the levy on blank media, huh Parliment?
Death to the CPCC and their outrageous greed.
Where did all these people come from the last few years, who think that just because you can make gameplay more realistic, that you should?
I choose Doom 3 gameplay over Half-Life 2 or Unreal whatever-version-it-is-this-month any day. Some of us actually enjoy adrenaline being released into our systems while we play computer games. I've pretty much completely stopped playing FPS games these days because they're all so high on realism and short on fun that they put me to sleep. The slow, campy gameplay of Counter Strike and the random trajectory of the bullets makes me want to drop my giant CRT monitor on you, which I keep because of it's lack of motion blur at the speeds at which I like my gameplay to flow. That is, really god damned fast.
Kudos to id software for choosing to make better games as opposed to pandering to the newbie masses, like the author of the article. That's what makes them the reigning kings of FPS games.
This comment is bang on. Publication bans on information pending jury based trials are as old as the modern media, and have served our justice system well.
I'd love to see the Liberal party duly punished based on the results of the inquiry, provided that the charges prove accurate, but on the conditions that it's not premature nor unfare. At no point has there been any doubt in my mind that, at it's conclusion, the inquiry would be thourough and informative. There's absolutely no benefit to the Canadian public of an early leak of this testimony in advance of Brault's trial. The testimony was never intended to be perminantly suppressed. The proper assumption at this stage is that the publication ban would have been lifted in due time.
This is in my eyes merely an attempt by an extreme right winger (by Canadian standards) from a foreign nation to influence Canadian politics and use sensationalism to try to skew the opinions and perhaps future votes of Canadian citizens. This is not how we do things in Canada, and the idea of right wing americans (who I'd never accuse of being advocates of free speech unless it invovled slandering an opposing politcal force) trying to report to the Canadian public makes me sick to my stomach... even as a conservative myself. I think the majority of Canadians would have been happy to let the proceedings finish before passing judgement. In Canada, presumably unlike the united states based on the actions of the blogger, people would not have been fooled by a Liberal call of an early election and instead it would easily backfire and have the people presume them guilty in that situation.
See this for what it is: an extreme right wing member of the american amateur media trying to (a) make a name for himself and (b) slander a left wing Canadian party. Whether or not the Liberal party is guilty is moot as it relates to this breech of the publication ban, and is a matter best left to the Canadian courts and the Canadian public to decide.
Although in this I can see (see me not judging, merely observing) the trend of French trying systematically to piss off America...
As an English speaking Canadian, I've got a natural tendancy to hate the French, obviously. But I'm sorry, there are two problems with that theory:
1) Canada, and many other countries, have already done all of this for a long time. The tax, the legal downloads, and so on.
2) France is a large source of movies in the international scene. Your rather silly assumption that all movies come from america demonstrates how sheltered a life you live. There are very few countries, other than the usa, who don't watch a lot of foreign films. And no, foreign does not mean "from the usa".
The only way in which you might have a point is that the ruling in the French court is a victory for those who value personal freedoms. And based on what I've seen happening in the usa in the last decade, that's a contradiction to the way you guys are headed.
Slashdot is really starting to suck hardcore lately.
The post seems to be trying hard to imply that the games themselves were banned, as if for content or otherwise in the name of censorship. But if you actually read the article, it's nothing of the sort. The games are banned because they're only being distributed illegally (all copies of the game in China are inherantly pirated). This is completely different. It's more likely to mean that China is trying to pave the way for foreign software to enter their market, not the other way around.
It's bad enough when people here don't RTFA, but when the original poster's start not RTFA either, this whole website is going to shit.
To your first point, I respond with: evidence please. To your second point, I respond with: evidence please, and furthermore since when is a publication that facilitates advertising expected to take responsibility for it's advertisers? To your third point, I respond with: evidence please.
In lieu of any evidence, I'd like to point out that this post is just misguided drivle and should never have been moderated "insightful" by any stretch of the imagination. I think the only purpose of this post was to facilitate the neccesary cognitive dissonance for anyone looking for some good excuses as to why suppressing free speech is okay when done to that other guy over there, but not okay when it's done to you.
As an intelligent, free thinking person, I have a very hard time with the notion that by simply hearing someone's side of the story I am predisposed to be negatively affected by it. When someone is saying something that I think is ludicrous, and I want to convince you of that, the first thing I'm going to do is facilitate allowing you to hear what it is they have to say. I trust that any other reasonable person would likely draw a similiar conclusion. So when someone tries to stiffle the communication of others, it's human nature to become highly suspicious.
...and competing with the GPL is like competing with Microsoft.
Perhaps you should be writing software that builds on top of GPL software, rather than building parallel to something that exists?
I am a lone coder within the engineering department of a large company, writing in house software, and with GPL software like Linux, Apache, and Perl with my base, that is exactly what I do. The point of GPL software is to give guys like us a base to start building from, so we don't have to keep writing the same basic tools over and over again.
... first class on day one, they would cover off not including some pointless story about your childhood home which comprises half of the letter and has absolutely no relivence to the point of the letter, other than to say that windows users are "in the dark".
Don't get me wrong, the letter itself was justified, and the author is right about the tool by microsoft I'm sure. But why is that story in there, to make sure that someone at Microsoft doesn't actually read it?
But a relaunch? What are they smoking? I don't see any changes. Maybe they added more albums/artists/labels, but they were usually doing this all the time anyway.
If that's how this system works, then I think I'll hold on to my money and wait for the next relaunch. Under a monthly subscription format, I would not be happy if they were not continually adding music en masse.
Nope, you missed the point (twice now). Read it again, and read it slowly this time. If you still don't understand why charging customers directly is NOT the same as getting the cost from the government, then get your parents to come read it for you and have them explain it.
Uhm, I think you're missing the point. I assume (I don't know, I'm not an american) that your government helps foot the bill for this on your regular telephone system. So I think what the poster is trying to illustrate is that the incumbant carriers are going to have an advantage over the VOIP carriers in regards to the visible cost to the customer. Not only that, but if you as a consumer go with VOIP, then you'll be paying for the tap for your neighbors in addition to your own.
I think expecting people from countries on totally different continents to know the geography of your provinces/states, particularly the lesser known ones, is a little excessive.
Of course you know the Canadian provinces, it's right next door. I'm pretty sure the average Canadian can identify ~35/50 american states (there are just too many that are too insignificant to remember them all).
Wow... are you kidding or was this a serious post? I mean obviously if someone says they live 80 miles north of something, it means you measure from the northern most tip.
If you weren't american, I'd be certain you were being sarcastic.
Cable ISPs are, of course, well aware of this technique and have at least two good ways I know of to combat it. In short, I wouldn't recommend messing around unless you're willing to accept the risk of being religated to something other than cable... something which is almost certainly going to be slower, ironically.
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... I simply refuse to group with anyone I can't properly communicate with. Communication between party members is key in WoW.
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I am the clit commander!
"...he claims his earlier proposal was merely intended as satire, to "highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry's willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games.""
Someone should point out to this guy examples such as Quake 3 Arena where the developers have included likenesses of themselves in the game as characters to be obliterated. I'm sure some finger-in-ear LAA-LAA-LAAAAing would ensue.
I second this. Going from straight Perl to mod_perl is a great step to make for the speed and functionality of your site. I think you might be surprised by just how much speed is possible with mod_perl.
There are two ways to port an existing application to mod_perl; the fast way and the proper way. The fast way is essentially to take your entire existing application and make it one giant function within mod_perl. Try a quick basic port and see how much better your site performs once you do. I think you'll be encouraged enough to go on and do a 'proper' port to optimize your site specifically for mod_perl.
Excessive polluting by certain countries will, of course, lead to a negative global effect (global warming for starters). This in turn will lead to international resentment of the polluting countries (it's already largely there and continuing to build). That will inevitably lead to action against said irresponsible countries, as you know that somewhere among the billions of people on earth are going to be people willing to use their own actions to stop it. This, I predict, will lead to deeming of said actions as "terrorism" by the people responsible for the pollution in the first place, in order to demonize those taking action against their inaction. But don't worry, because after the first incident or two, I'm fairly certain I can predict that any large source of pollution will then be heavily guarded, at the expense of that countries tax payers. Let the war begin.
As for who is "good" and who is "evil" in this predictable future conflict, I'm afraid I am going to have to side with those who are looking out for the best interests of me and my fellow humans. Those who aren't, you know who you are. Don't complain when you're held accountable by your fellow humans for your actions.
...kind of makes you wonder if perhaps you got it wrong the first time when you put the levy on blank media, huh Parliment? Death to the CPCC and their outrageous greed.
Where did all these people come from the last few years, who think that just because you can make gameplay more realistic, that you should?
I choose Doom 3 gameplay over Half-Life 2 or Unreal whatever-version-it-is-this-month any day. Some of us actually enjoy adrenaline being released into our systems while we play computer games. I've pretty much completely stopped playing FPS games these days because they're all so high on realism and short on fun that they put me to sleep. The slow, campy gameplay of Counter Strike and the random trajectory of the bullets makes me want to drop my giant CRT monitor on you, which I keep because of it's lack of motion blur at the speeds at which I like my gameplay to flow. That is, really god damned fast.
Kudos to id software for choosing to make better games as opposed to pandering to the newbie masses, like the author of the article. That's what makes them the reigning kings of FPS games.
This comment is bang on. Publication bans on information pending jury based trials are as old as the modern media, and have served our justice system well.
I'd love to see the Liberal party duly punished based on the results of the inquiry, provided that the charges prove accurate, but on the conditions that it's not premature nor unfare. At no point has there been any doubt in my mind that, at it's conclusion, the inquiry would be thourough and informative. There's absolutely no benefit to the Canadian public of an early leak of this testimony in advance of Brault's trial. The testimony was never intended to be perminantly suppressed. The proper assumption at this stage is that the publication ban would have been lifted in due time.
This is in my eyes merely an attempt by an extreme right winger (by Canadian standards) from a foreign nation to influence Canadian politics and use sensationalism to try to skew the opinions and perhaps future votes of Canadian citizens. This is not how we do things in Canada, and the idea of right wing americans (who I'd never accuse of being advocates of free speech unless it invovled slandering an opposing politcal force) trying to report to the Canadian public makes me sick to my stomach... even as a conservative myself. I think the majority of Canadians would have been happy to let the proceedings finish before passing judgement. In Canada, presumably unlike the united states based on the actions of the blogger, people would not have been fooled by a Liberal call of an early election and instead it would easily backfire and have the people presume them guilty in that situation.
See this for what it is: an extreme right wing member of the american amateur media trying to (a) make a name for himself and (b) slander a left wing Canadian party. Whether or not the Liberal party is guilty is moot as it relates to this breech of the publication ban, and is a matter best left to the Canadian courts and the Canadian public to decide.
Although in this I can see (see me not judging, merely observing) the trend of French trying systematically to piss off America...
As an English speaking Canadian, I've got a natural tendancy to hate the French, obviously. But I'm sorry, there are two problems with that theory:
1) Canada, and many other countries, have already done all of this for a long time. The tax, the legal downloads, and so on.
2) France is a large source of movies in the international scene. Your rather silly assumption that all movies come from america demonstrates how sheltered a life you live. There are very few countries, other than the usa, who don't watch a lot of foreign films. And no, foreign does not mean "from the usa".
The only way in which you might have a point is that the ruling in the French court is a victory for those who value personal freedoms. And based on what I've seen happening in the usa in the last decade, that's a contradiction to the way you guys are headed.
On windows:
... or just block this address on your firewall (much better).
route add 83.138.187.18 mask 255.255.255.255
Slashdot is really starting to suck hardcore lately.
The post seems to be trying hard to imply that the games themselves were banned, as if for content or otherwise in the name of censorship. But if you actually read the article, it's nothing of the sort. The games are banned because they're only being distributed illegally (all copies of the game in China are inherantly pirated). This is completely different. It's more likely to mean that China is trying to pave the way for foreign software to enter their market, not the other way around.
It's bad enough when people here don't RTFA, but when the original poster's start not RTFA either, this whole website is going to shit.
To your first point, I respond with: evidence please.
To your second point, I respond with: evidence please, and furthermore since when is a publication that facilitates advertising expected to take responsibility for it's advertisers?
To your third point, I respond with: evidence please.
In lieu of any evidence, I'd like to point out that this post is just misguided drivle and should never have been moderated "insightful" by any stretch of the imagination. I think the only purpose of this post was to facilitate the neccesary cognitive dissonance for anyone looking for some good excuses as to why suppressing free speech is okay when done to that other guy over there, but not okay when it's done to you.
As an intelligent, free thinking person, I have a very hard time with the notion that by simply hearing someone's side of the story I am predisposed to be negatively affected by it. When someone is saying something that I think is ludicrous, and I want to convince you of that, the first thing I'm going to do is facilitate allowing you to hear what it is they have to say. I trust that any other reasonable person would likely draw a similiar conclusion. So when someone tries to stiffle the communication of others, it's human nature to become highly suspicious.
...and competing with the GPL is like competing with Microsoft.
Perhaps you should be writing software that builds on top of GPL software, rather than building parallel to something that exists?
I am a lone coder within the engineering department of a large company, writing in house software, and with GPL software like Linux, Apache, and Perl with my base, that is exactly what I do. The point of GPL software is to give guys like us a base to start building from, so we don't have to keep writing the same basic tools over and over again.
... first class on day one, they would cover off not including some pointless story about your childhood home which comprises half of the letter and has absolutely no relivence to the point of the letter, other than to say that windows users are "in the dark".
Don't get me wrong, the letter itself was justified, and the author is right about the tool by microsoft I'm sure. But why is that story in there, to make sure that someone at Microsoft doesn't actually read it?
Nope, you missed the point (twice now). Read it again, and read it slowly this time. If you still don't understand why charging customers directly is NOT the same as getting the cost from the government, then get your parents to come read it for you and have them explain it.
Uhm, I think you're missing the point. I assume (I don't know, I'm not an american) that your government helps foot the bill for this on your regular telephone system. So I think what the poster is trying to illustrate is that the incumbant carriers are going to have an advantage over the VOIP carriers in regards to the visible cost to the customer. Not only that, but if you as a consumer go with VOIP, then you'll be paying for the tap for your neighbors in addition to your own.
I think expecting people from countries on totally different continents to know the geography of your provinces/states, particularly the lesser known ones, is a little excessive.
Of course you know the Canadian provinces, it's right next door. I'm pretty sure the average Canadian can identify ~35/50 american states (there are just too many that are too insignificant to remember them all).
Wow... are you kidding or was this a serious post? I mean obviously if someone says they live 80 miles north of something, it means you measure from the northern most tip.
If you weren't american, I'd be certain you were being sarcastic.
Well I hear that email is "The Internet's number one used application [and] is the most cost effective marketing tool!".
Their first mistake was letting the anti-copyright camp pick their mascot for them.
This further confirms my theory that MCPs are generally pre-teen girls.
If fast paced, high adrenaline 1on1 gaming within id developed games can make a comeback... then I'll have to try to make one too.
I prefer the Google cache.
Cable ISPs are, of course, well aware of this technique and have at least two good ways I know of to combat it. In short, I wouldn't recommend messing around unless you're willing to accept the risk of being religated to something other than cable... something which is almost certainly going to be slower, ironically.