I am suprised that noone mentioned serious sam yet. Great Doom clone from a small programming team in Croatia. In the later levels with swarms of baddies after you I have seen this game bring 800 Mhz athalons to thier knees. This is a gme that is targeted for the hard-core FPS player. Also it only costs 10-15$. Also if you kick down the graphics it will run just fine on a p2 300. Too bad that it's just doom with better graphics.
I believe that you are thinking of the mormon geaneology (sp?) libraries. It is the largest library of it's kind in the USA located in Salt Lake City. However if you go to your local library and ask the referance libraian for the Geaneology department or floor I am sure you will find a smaller version.
But what about UPGRADES. Forget about plastic surgery. We could just clone the perfect body for you to your specifications and it will look completely natural. And when the Updated eyes or biceps come out you have a BCI (body control interface) connector built in to accept it.
Fully agree. While I now collect mostly MP3s for major record labels I have been collecting CD's and tapes since I was around 14 and found that I could copy all my friends tapes and share them. Even then tho I would go out and buy the tapes that I really felt deserved it even if I already had a copy. Now I do the same thing with MP3s. I just ripped the latest marilyn Manson CD. (personally I felt I deserved it after the dissapointment that was mechanical animals) but on the same day I spent aboujt 60$ on a bunch of alternative tentacles CD's so that these artists would get the money.
While I disagree with the word "I" not being capitolized (are breakings to the rule not exceptions) I must agree with you on the other points as they are true exceptions and not breakings.;)
Normally I dissaprove of replying to sigs but yours is really really wrong. The rule that the word "I" is always capitolized has no exceptions to it. Same thing with the first word of every sentance and that a english word must have a vowel (does not count celtic words that are spelled using english letters.) So even the exception rule has exceptions.
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Thank-you. you said it better than I could. If I could mod you up I would;)
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Sorry man. I just cant buy into the full free market BS that your post seems to point to what you believe in. While I am for a fair and free market this is not a fair market. This is a large agricorp trying to take over world food production. Mostly by preying on un- or undereducated farmers in backwards third world countries. Most of these countries dont have anyone in them that understands genetics let alone the Intricacies involved in adding a new species (that is what we are doing) into the middle of a biome whole cloth without any evolution or indeed with even a decent human understanding of what the effects might be. If Mansanto created another Kudzu Ivy or did the equivelant of adding cats into the austrailian biome by your argument they would not be held responsible. The countries that were promised that the GM food is safe and sound and fully tested (in 11 years. Yea right.) are the ones at fault. Not that these countries would be able to do anything as Monsanto is a fully legally protected international corperation. Oh well. Please look into what full free market corperatism (we are in a corperate not a capitalist system) does to the general populous and the ways that a large corperation can protect themselves from free market "corrections" and then maybe we can talk. Basically I agree with you in theory, unfortuneatly we live on earth, not theory.
Mind you I have other issues with Mansanto other than this but they do not fall under the scope of this discussion.
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Why? They could always buy their grain from a different supplier. And if they've managed to get themselves locked in to a contract which allows Monsanto to raise their prices at their whim then that's a foolish move and these farmers are reaping what they have sown.
No they cannot because that would loose them the market share that they have gained. They want those big profits that growing corn at twice the natural rate gives. Also by the time that mansanto raises the prices they have spent extensive amounts of money setting up thier farms around the GM food. Special fertilizers must be used (GM food requires more and different fertalizers then are required for "normal" food)Also they do not have any seeds because Mansanto forces them to buy new seeds and they cannot hold their seeds to replant the next year. Also farmers must spend a lot of money on pesticides that you can only get from Mansanto or it's affiliate companies. The infrastructure involved makes it extremely difficult for a farmer to just switch over to another crop.
Another strawman argument. You're blaming the GM food when it's obviously the people buying it who are at fault for not doing their research properly. If they were buying huge amounts of GM crops to replace their normal crops then you would think they would investiate things like disease resistance, which one would assume is why they bought it in the first place...
This is just a ridiculous argument. Your trying to tell me that an extremely poor rice farmer in china can decunstruct the patented and trade secreted mansanto golden rice's genome to determine if it will survive in China or not. By this logic firestone shouldnt be in trouble with it's cars because each individual owner of a firestone tire should have done stress tests on thier tires before ddriving on them. No, I'm sorry. If Mansanto (or any company) releases a product that does not work as advertised then that company is responcible. Not the consumer. This is why snake oil salesmen are not legal.
This is great. Open source science at the start of a new dicipline. No catching up with the big boys now. The first gene map as public knowledge without any corperate strings or eula's stamped on your babies ass because you didnt want it born blind. This is the most promising news for the future that I believe I have ever seen. I'll be spending the rest of the day in hope for a better tomorrow for my children.
And before you ask I am not being sarcastic. This is very good news. The first really major big win agianst corperate powerhouses that I have heard of since the AT&T monopoly breakup.
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Man you chose a really bad company to base your argument on. Mansanto is very well known for a lot of underhanded tricks re: frankenfood. On the surface I am not agianst GM food. Actually I see a lot of good things coming from it. However Mansanto will go down to a small south american country and completly bankrupt it. What happens is they set up one or two of the richest farm owners with thier patented grow twice as fast corn or wheat. These farmers then have a large advantage over all of the family farms that did not get the mansanto handout. The monsanto farmer then buys out the smaller farmers. When the mansanto farmers own most of the farmland mansanto then raises the price of thier grain (which by the way cannot reproduce) and the large farmers are forced to sell out to a large agricorp. Much like the ones mansanto owns a lot of stock in. Now all the local farmers are reduced to basically being wheat pickers.
Also on top of this GE food has never had to pass any serious tests of it. Whole crops were wiped out in china because the GE food had disease immunities from the western world. China has a slightly different set of crop diseases and *poof* there goes the rice. Please do your research into how things are done and not just hope that people are doing the things that they should be. While this is a "anti frankenfood" site it does have some good info in it. http://www.purefood.org/monlink.htm
First sale is still there. The library can sell the book. however the licencing is different between a normal commercial book and one that a library can use on thier shelves. Libraries get gouged for the publications on the whole. One thing to notice is that periodicals (magzines and newspapers) are usually not allowed to be checked out for the time that they are current (a month for most magazines). While I dont know for sure I would suppose that this is one of the main reasons that libraries are allowed to have monthly publications like that. it isnt like most people keep magazines from thier subscriptions.
having worked in a library for a year and a half I can say that no, donations do not go on the shelf. All of the donations that we recieved (quite a lot. A small u-haul trailer per day) were sold during our book sale. The occasional book might make it to the shelves but that would only be 1 out of 1000. The main reason for this is that the books were not licenced in such a way that we could put them on the shelves. And if you check out the prices listed for a library book replacement we are talking 20-40 dollars for a $5 childrens book. However please keep donating your used books as they do add a lot to the libraries income in book sales and the librarians will "steal" an occaisional book or 2 and really enjoy it. (BTW we would put like 2$ in the pot for something people would normally pay a dollar for so is not really stealing.;)
Completely agree. The drive for corporation profit over either common sence or common decency is perhaps what most of the other battles that I see on slashdot (amongst other publications) are all about. Enviromental issues, Campaign finance reform, free software, free speach, Napster et all. All of these issues have at thier core a corporation or group of corperations that are trying to make even more money than the godawful amount that they make already. Agian going back to Jello Biafra, we have developed a large number of wealth addicts. This small corner of the population is willing to do ANYTHING to be able to make more and more money, regardless of what happens to ANYONE else. Hell this group of wealth addict has even completely stopped the democratic process and has a unequivacable veto for any local laws anywhere in the world (the WTO anyone?) I'm just wondering at what point people will fight for thier own powers back. Oh well. Good luck to everyone in the coming corporatocracy. Hope you have enough money to not be put in prison.
Perhaps instead of trying to correct other peoples spelling mistakes that were made right when they wake up and then hiding as a anon coward you could contribute to the discussion a little. It is always easier to critic then create.
This entire article is absolutely sick. First off the spin on this is incredible. Most of the article was written as a "good girl" piece showcasing thier new lobbyist. If anyone has heard Jello Biafra speak you will know what I am talking about. The conglomerate owned media doing a carefully spin controlled piece on the conglomerate owned lobbyist who is trying to get more money for the conglomerate owned publishing company. The lines at the end are the most chilling.
No one, she says, wants to go up against libraries.
"That," Schroeder says, "is why we are here."
The entire article is trying to spin away the core issue which it crowds in after a nice little showcase piece on thier sexy little lobbyist. Hidden most of the way down in badly written language that most people probally wouldnt read to far into anyways we find that the publishing companies have a right to kill libraries because ""The publishing community does not believe that the public should have the same rights in the electronic world," Kranich says." What is wrong with me going to the library to read a book. I am not stealing. I gaurentee that I spend more time in the library than 90% of aamericana. I also will gaurentee that I spend more money on books that my library system doesnt have that anyone out there except bibliophiles and college students.
The entire idea of "right to a profit" is scary and seems to be getting more and more of a stranglehold upon our legislatures. Worse, the major media companies seem to take it as a matter of course. This is a big change from years gone by when people had to compete agianst each other. God I need to move to another contry that doesnt have a gun to its head held by corperate interests.
What it has lost is the sense (one might say the "art") of "pure game design." That is, before there WERE great sound and graphics (who remembers text-based computer games anymore?) the game was 100% about the design of the GAME. It's games like Ultima, Wizardry, and Might & Magic, or The Sword of Aragon, Empire, and Bomb Alley that put gameplay first over graphics. Their sequels over the years have added far more in glitz than in game design, and that's what I miss the most.
At least someone in the game industry thinks the same way I do. If there is one more quake clone that doesnt add any good gameplay (The DS9 game) or another warcraft game I will just not buy it I suppose. Unfortuneatly I cant do anything else and am not pathetic enough to shoot myself over a game;)
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I believe that he was trying to say that your solution would be great in a perfect world where we had software that could block well. However in the world we live in blocking software doesnt work this way and it would take a inordant amount of trained manpower to go through all x many billions of web pages to filter out the porn ones. Then they would just change thier domains and you have to start over agian.
Me and a couple of friends at work just had the idea of starting up a company to set up wireless networks for apartments locally here. The idea was to get everybody hooked up under wireless access points giving us unlimited bandwidth as long as you are within 1/4 mile of any apartment in the city eventually.
On a related note (and why we were thinking this) the airport here in Austin already has a wireless network for the terminal that you can just bring a card into and be hooked up. There are plans to cover the entire downtown area with a similar network within 5 years or so. Personally I think that this would be great. Give every taxpaying citizen of the city a passord (like the library) and charge people outside of the city 20 or 25 bucks a year to connect to this. The idea for the city is to try to entice large corporations to come in and they wont have to add that much to the infrastructure and be completely connected on their own little subnet. The taxes the corps pay will be more than enough to add another ocr-3 line to cover the added bandwidth.
This is a really in-depth mind-blowing thought. You mean we should use the hammer for nails and the screwdriver for screws.
Seriously folks. The article is just saying use the right tool for the right job. It's a no-brainer. If you want news stories you search cnn.com or another newsite. If you are looking for financial information search The Wall Street Journal or another financial page. Search engines like google (get the toolbar, it is great) or AJ are for general searches to get you started out on a topic so you can refine your search from there. Duh.
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I am suprised that noone mentioned serious sam yet. Great Doom clone from a small programming team in Croatia. In the later levels with swarms of baddies after you I have seen this game bring 800 Mhz athalons to thier knees. This is a gme that is targeted for the hard-core FPS player. Also it only costs 10-15$. Also if you kick down the graphics it will run just fine on a p2 300. Too bad that it's just doom with better graphics.
I believe that you are thinking of the mormon geaneology (sp?) libraries. It is the largest library of it's kind in the USA located in Salt Lake City. However if you go to your local library and ask the referance libraian for the Geaneology department or floor I am sure you will find a smaller version.
But what about UPGRADES. Forget about plastic surgery. We could just clone the perfect body for you to your specifications and it will look completely natural. And when the Updated eyes or biceps come out you have a BCI (body control interface) connector built in to accept it.
Right on /. Good way of handling morons like this who just dont get it. Exposure, exposure, exposure.
Ahhhhhh, No. They only get that cut on audio cassettes and CD's specifically packaged for recording music. For "data" cds they get nothing at all.
Fully agree. While I now collect mostly MP3s for major record labels I have been collecting CD's and tapes since I was around 14 and found that I could copy all my friends tapes and share them. Even then tho I would go out and buy the tapes that I really felt deserved it even if I already had a copy. Now I do the same thing with MP3s. I just ripped the latest marilyn Manson CD. (personally I felt I deserved it after the dissapointment that was mechanical animals) but on the same day I spent aboujt 60$ on a bunch of alternative tentacles CD's so that these artists would get the money.
Y is a vowel in times that it sounds like either an "e" or a "I". For instance Sky. In the word You "Y" is a consanant. Sorry.
While I disagree with the word "I" not being capitolized (are breakings to the rule not exceptions) I must agree with you on the other points as they are true exceptions and not breakings. ;)
Normally I dissaprove of replying to sigs but yours is really really wrong. The rule that the word "I" is always capitolized has no exceptions to it. Same thing with the first word of every sentance and that a english word must have a vowel (does not count celtic words that are spelled using english letters.) So even the exception rule has exceptions.
Thank-you. you said it better than I could. If I could mod you up I would ;)
Mind you I have other issues with Mansanto other than this but they do not fall under the scope of this discussion.
No they cannot because that would loose them the market share that they have gained. They want those big profits that growing corn at twice the natural rate gives. Also by the time that mansanto raises the prices they have spent extensive amounts of money setting up thier farms around the GM food. Special fertilizers must be used (GM food requires more and different fertalizers then are required for "normal" food)Also they do not have any seeds because Mansanto forces them to buy new seeds and they cannot hold their seeds to replant the next year. Also farmers must spend a lot of money on pesticides that you can only get from Mansanto or it's affiliate companies. The infrastructure involved makes it extremely difficult for a farmer to just switch over to another crop.
Another strawman argument. You're blaming the GM food when it's obviously the people buying it who are at fault for not doing their research properly. If they were buying huge amounts of GM crops to replace their normal crops then you would think they would investiate things like disease resistance, which one would assume is why they bought it in the first place...
This is just a ridiculous argument. Your trying to tell me that an extremely poor rice farmer in china can decunstruct the patented and trade secreted mansanto golden rice's genome to determine if it will survive in China or not. By this logic firestone shouldnt be in trouble with it's cars because each individual owner of a firestone tire should have done stress tests on thier tires before ddriving on them. No, I'm sorry. If Mansanto (or any company) releases a product that does not work as advertised then that company is responcible. Not the consumer. This is why snake oil salesmen are not legal.
And before you ask I am not being sarcastic. This is very good news. The first really major big win agianst corperate powerhouses that I have heard of since the AT&T monopoly breakup.
Also on top of this GE food has never had to pass any serious tests of it. Whole crops were wiped out in china because the GE food had disease immunities from the western world. China has a slightly different set of crop diseases and *poof* there goes the rice. Please do your research into how things are done and not just hope that people are doing the things that they should be. While this is a "anti frankenfood" site it does have some good info in it. http://www.purefood.org/monlink.htm
Do it man. i will help you with the HTML if you need it ;)
First sale is still there. The library can sell the book. however the licencing is different between a normal commercial book and one that a library can use on thier shelves. Libraries get gouged for the publications on the whole. One thing to notice is that periodicals (magzines and newspapers) are usually not allowed to be checked out for the time that they are current (a month for most magazines). While I dont know for sure I would suppose that this is one of the main reasons that libraries are allowed to have monthly publications like that. it isnt like most people keep magazines from thier subscriptions.
Completely agree. The drive for corporation profit over either common sence or common decency is perhaps what most of the other battles that I see on slashdot (amongst other publications) are all about. Enviromental issues, Campaign finance reform, free software, free speach, Napster et all. All of these issues have at thier core a corporation or group of corperations that are trying to make even more money than the godawful amount that they make already. Agian going back to Jello Biafra, we have developed a large number of wealth addicts. This small corner of the population is willing to do ANYTHING to be able to make more and more money, regardless of what happens to ANYONE else. Hell this group of wealth addict has even completely stopped the democratic process and has a unequivacable veto for any local laws anywhere in the world (the WTO anyone?) I'm just wondering at what point people will fight for thier own powers back. Oh well. Good luck to everyone in the coming corporatocracy. Hope you have enough money to not be put in prison.
Perhaps instead of trying to correct other peoples spelling mistakes that were made right when they wake up and then hiding as a anon coward you could contribute to the discussion a little. It is always easier to critic then create.
No one, she says, wants to go up against libraries.
"That," Schroeder says, "is why we are here."
The entire article is trying to spin away the core issue which it crowds in after a nice little showcase piece on thier sexy little lobbyist. Hidden most of the way down in badly written language that most people probally wouldnt read to far into anyways we find that the publishing companies have a right to kill libraries because ""The publishing community does not believe that the public should have the same rights in the electronic world," Kranich says." What is wrong with me going to the library to read a book. I am not stealing. I gaurentee that I spend more time in the library than 90% of aamericana. I also will gaurentee that I spend more money on books that my library system doesnt have that anyone out there except bibliophiles and college students.
The entire idea of "right to a profit" is scary and seems to be getting more and more of a stranglehold upon our legislatures. Worse, the major media companies seem to take it as a matter of course. This is a big change from years gone by when people had to compete agianst each other. God I need to move to another contry that doesnt have a gun to its head held by corperate interests.
I own a copy of this. The problem wasnt that noone wanted to help each other the problem was that the game sucked. Way too long and way to boring.
At least someone in the game industry thinks the same way I do. If there is one more quake clone that doesnt add any good gameplay (The DS9 game) or another warcraft game I will just not buy it I suppose. Unfortuneatly I cant do anything else and am not pathetic enough to shoot myself over a game ;)
I believe that he was trying to say that your solution would be great in a perfect world where we had software that could block well. However in the world we live in blocking software doesnt work this way and it would take a inordant amount of trained manpower to go through all x many billions of web pages to filter out the porn ones. Then they would just change thier domains and you have to start over agian.
On a related note (and why we were thinking this) the airport here in Austin already has a wireless network for the terminal that you can just bring a card into and be hooked up. There are plans to cover the entire downtown area with a similar network within 5 years or so. Personally I think that this would be great. Give every taxpaying citizen of the city a passord (like the library) and charge people outside of the city 20 or 25 bucks a year to connect to this. The idea for the city is to try to entice large corporations to come in and they wont have to add that much to the infrastructure and be completely connected on their own little subnet. The taxes the corps pay will be more than enough to add another ocr-3 line to cover the added bandwidth.
Seriously folks. The article is just saying use the right tool for the right job. It's a no-brainer. If you want news stories you search cnn.com or another newsite. If you are looking for financial information search The Wall Street Journal or another financial page. Search engines like google (get the toolbar, it is great) or AJ are for general searches to get you started out on a topic so you can refine your search from there. Duh.