Many people here on slashdot would perhaps be happy with a smaller paycheck if it was an awesome working environment where they could be challenged every day to do cool, neat things and write lots of code.
In any case, great reading.
I wouldn't because I couldn't stand the idea that 99.99% of the profits from my work would go straight to the sociopaths and leaches. There is no symbiosis in the corporate world. You might be happier doing cool stuff but you can just do that while reverse telecommuting from the corporate slaveshop.
I've never understood the anglo (commonwealth + former parts of the british empire) paranoia about ID cards. The rest of the world uses them and abuse is very rare. You could make the argument that in this technological age data is more easily found and correlated to your identity with such a scheme. I look at it from another point of view though. The technology is going in that direction anyway and identity is going to be established by some authority regardless, I'd rather it be controlled by the government than some corporation. At least citizens exert some form of direct control over government as long as we stay vigilant.
I agree completely with this. Another problem with upping the AI "skill" is that AI simply isn't good enough yet, leaving the player with the feeling the computer is cheating (because it is). Take Civilization for example, on the higher difficulty levels the AI players simply get access to technology and units impossibly fast. If your AI has the advantage simply by violating the in-game rules players have to follow you will end up with an unrewarding experience.
At the risk of burning more karma I disagree. Maybe perception is different up there in Scandinavia where Russia is a tangible presence, but down here in Brussels the feeling is generally different. In the very best case they are regarded as being on the periphery of Europe. Hell, people here were dubious about Poland joining the EU (same for Serbia, etc in fact). I made that sound like a bad thing, but it really isn't. They are set apart, bridging the gap between europe and asia.
I haven't met a single european who would consider russians european, they're slavs. Sort of *almost* european, but not quite. I think if we consider Americans our cousins, Russians would be second cousins.
Sometimes it's beneficial to have a lot of smaller servers vs a big consolidated one. It's the same principle that's behind RAID: you independently upgrade, repair, replace the smaller servers and it's easier to add capacity. Also mainframe expertise is a dying art and so will get more expensive, so in the long run maintenance costs will probably be lower and access to skilled administrators assured.
And so am I. Pointing out that the far right is criticizing him is a rhetorical ploy. Mitterrand is a douchebag, he needs to go. If he could just take down Sarkozy with him that'd be nice, too.
The evidence is irrefutable; Mitterrand wrote that in a book, and it's not taken out of context. The term used is even more specifically damning; he used "gosses", which is only used to mean young kids, as opposed to "garcon" which can also be taken to mean "young man."
I understood from coverage in Belgium he in fact used both words. The RTBF has a litteral quote from the book :
"La plupart d'entre eux sont jeunes, beaux, apparemment épargnés par la dévastation qu'on pourrait attendre de leur activité. J'apprendrai plus tard qu'ils ne viennent pas tous les soirs, ont une petite amie, sont souvent étudiants et vivent parfois même avec leur famille qui prétend ignorer l'origine de leur gagne-pain."
("Most of them are young, handsome, apparently spared the devastation one could expect from their activities. I would learn later they don't come every night, have a girlfriend, are often students and even live with their families sometimes who feign ignorance of their livelihood.")
Sounds sleazy, but nearer to "regular" prostitution than what he's actually accused of. I find the timing of the whole affair suspect. Coming as soon as it does after the Polanski incident. The man may be an ass, but the whole thing reeks of political maneuvering based on deliberately stirred up pedophile hysteria. And being from Belgium I've seen that hysteria before, it never leads to good things.
Because LASIK and plastic surgery are often not held up to the same high standard as other surgeries. They are often done quickly on an industrial scale by second rate practitioners to make a quick buck. LASIK in particular is often done without proper diagnosis by many cut-rate "doctors." I have keratoconus and know others with the same affliction who got LASIK without being diagnosed properly causing irreparable damage to their eyes. There are many, many awful horror stories about (often unnecessary) plastic surgery too. Those get swept under the rug because they are not seen as worthy of complaint ("you did it to yourself").
How about making fines proportional to income ? Of course personally I still prefer the guillotine for the rich, but proportional fines are a close second.
Their "Culture Minister" wrote a book about buggering young Thai boys. What a joke of a country.
That's right trust information that came in vicious attacks by an extreme right party of holocaust deniers. The guy may be guilty, but I'll reserve judgment until he's stood before a jury of his peers instead of a pack of rabid dogs like the Front National.
Investigating the source is just one part of the verification of the information provided. Presumably a lot of information can be verified independently by a journalist once he's been made aware of it regardless of where it came from. Only a fool would publish that which could not be verified and might be slanderous.
Yes, that would also stop the Chinese app "farms" that churn out a lot of the lame apps. Maybe also have a tiered system where a single company (or indy developer) can only have 5 products on the store at one time (excluding version updates), unless it pays extra for an extended license.
The real fun will be when apps are available on multiple platforms, but have different names because of conflicting approvals processes, squatters, and other things that have not yet surfaced.
Theoretically, if you have a trademark name you could ask Apple to honor that trademark or failing that go to court with your rivals. But yeah, it's problematic.
But is it really 2012 in 3 years? I mean, the romans and the catholics messed up the calendar so many times... maybe we're really in the year 1809 for all we know.
It's all just convention anyway, if you call it 1809 you're living in 1809. I think we should do like a lot of sci-fi writers and put year 0 at 1945 AD when the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now THAT was a milestone if ever there was one.
No, he went into the library and used a passwordless computer that participated in the experimental free access and ran a script on it. That computer, which had valid access, received the pages. Then it forwarded each received page to the amazon IP computer(s), which is what the report refers to as the computers outside the library.
In other words, he didn't falsify any requests for the information or forge their credentials from other computers. He used the genuine, authorized computer and obtained information that that computer was permitted to receive.
You know I could do the same on the computers at work and that would land me in jail rather quickly.
You can't blame people for making money within the boundaries of the law. If this leads to undesirable results, the law is broken and needs to be fixed, simple as that. People will then stop their undesirable acts, either by themselves or by force. Blaming this situation on Eolas is putting things really way, way too simplistic.
You can't legislate everything, all laws have unintended consequences and ambiguities which is why we still have people interpreting law in first place. The law may be bad but it definitely wasn't meant for this bull. "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
The Palm Pre is quad band. Don't know if you can get it unlocked where you are, but here in Belgium locking is still illegal (despite heavy lobbying) so we'll probably get it unlocked when it goes on sale here by mid october. I've heard good things about it too.
Funny they should do that precisely on WM 6.5's launchday...
Palm's just desperately trying to stay in the news, which is also what the whole Pre-iTunes sync drama is all about. They must be pretty close to the edge. I hope they do well with this move though so they can motivate Apple to do the same.
There are still people who use original iMacs with OS9 or early versions of OSX. Of course 10 year old macs are more obsolete than the equivalent PC because in that time Apple not only switched the OS they use but also the hardware platform it runs on.
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Finally, after years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick.
Many people here on slashdot would perhaps be happy with a smaller paycheck if it was an awesome working environment where they could be challenged every day to do cool, neat things and write lots of code.
In any case, great reading.
I wouldn't because I couldn't stand the idea that 99.99% of the profits from my work would go straight to the sociopaths and leaches. There is no symbiosis in the corporate world. You might be happier doing cool stuff but you can just do that while reverse telecommuting from the corporate slaveshop.
I've never understood the anglo (commonwealth + former parts of the british empire) paranoia about ID cards. The rest of the world uses them and abuse is very rare. You could make the argument that in this technological age data is more easily found and correlated to your identity with such a scheme. I look at it from another point of view though. The technology is going in that direction anyway and identity is going to be established by some authority regardless, I'd rather it be controlled by the government than some corporation. At least citizens exert some form of direct control over government as long as we stay vigilant.
its "no big deal" until you need to know something off the internet right now, high stakes
I need to know what a fourteen year old thinks about copyright law and I need to know it NOW !
I agree completely with this. Another problem with upping the AI "skill" is that AI simply isn't good enough yet, leaving the player with the feeling the computer is cheating (because it is). Take Civilization for example, on the higher difficulty levels the AI players simply get access to technology and units impossibly fast. If your AI has the advantage simply by violating the in-game rules players have to follow you will end up with an unrewarding experience.
At the risk of burning more karma I disagree. Maybe perception is different up there in Scandinavia where Russia is a tangible presence, but down here in Brussels the feeling is generally different. In the very best case they are regarded as being on the periphery of Europe. Hell, people here were dubious about Poland joining the EU (same for Serbia, etc in fact). I made that sound like a bad thing, but it really isn't. They are set apart, bridging the gap between europe and asia.
I haven't met a single european who would consider russians european, they're slavs. Sort of *almost* european, but not quite. I think if we consider Americans our cousins, Russians would be second cousins.
Sometimes it's beneficial to have a lot of smaller servers vs a big consolidated one. It's the same principle that's behind RAID: you independently upgrade, repair, replace the smaller servers and it's easier to add capacity. Also mainframe expertise is a dying art and so will get more expensive, so in the long run maintenance costs will probably be lower and access to skilled administrators assured.
And so am I. Pointing out that the far right is criticizing him is a rhetorical ploy. Mitterrand is a douchebag, he needs to go. If he could just take down Sarkozy with him that'd be nice, too.
The evidence is irrefutable; Mitterrand wrote that in a book, and it's not taken out of context. The term used is even more specifically damning; he used "gosses", which is only used to mean young kids, as opposed to "garcon" which can also be taken to mean "young man."
I understood from coverage in Belgium he in fact used both words. The RTBF has a litteral quote from the book :
"La plupart d'entre eux sont jeunes, beaux, apparemment épargnés par la dévastation qu'on pourrait attendre de leur activité. J'apprendrai plus tard qu'ils ne viennent pas tous les soirs, ont une petite amie, sont souvent étudiants et vivent parfois même avec leur famille qui prétend ignorer l'origine de leur gagne-pain."
("Most of them are young, handsome, apparently spared the devastation one could expect from their activities. I would learn later they don't come every night, have a girlfriend, are often students and even live with their families sometimes who feign ignorance of their livelihood.")
Sounds sleazy, but nearer to "regular" prostitution than what he's actually accused of. I find the timing of the whole affair suspect. Coming as soon as it does after the Polanski incident. The man may be an ass, but the whole thing reeks of political maneuvering based on deliberately stirred up pedophile hysteria. And being from Belgium I've seen that hysteria before, it never leads to good things.
Because LASIK and plastic surgery are often not held up to the same high standard as other surgeries. They are often done quickly on an industrial scale by second rate practitioners to make a quick buck. LASIK in particular is often done without proper diagnosis by many cut-rate "doctors." I have keratoconus and know others with the same affliction who got LASIK without being diagnosed properly causing irreparable damage to their eyes. There are many, many awful horror stories about (often unnecessary) plastic surgery too. Those get swept under the rug because they are not seen as worthy of complaint ("you did it to yourself").
How about making fines proportional to income ? Of course personally I still prefer the guillotine for the rich, but proportional fines are a close second.
Their "Culture Minister" wrote a book about buggering young Thai boys.
What a joke of a country.
That's right trust information that came in vicious attacks by an extreme right party of holocaust deniers. The guy may be guilty, but I'll reserve judgment until he's stood before a jury of his peers instead of a pack of rabid dogs like the Front National.
Investigating the source is just one part of the verification of the information provided. Presumably a lot of information can be verified independently by a journalist once he's been made aware of it regardless of where it came from. Only a fool would publish that which could not be verified and might be slanderous.
Yes, that would also stop the Chinese app "farms" that churn out a lot of the lame apps. Maybe also have a tiered system where a single company (or indy developer) can only have 5 products on the store at one time (excluding version updates), unless it pays extra for an extended license.
The real fun will be when apps are available on multiple platforms, but have different names because of conflicting approvals processes, squatters, and other things that have not yet surfaced.
Theoretically, if you have a trademark name you could ask Apple to honor that trademark or failing that go to court with your rivals. But yeah, it's problematic.
Yes, all those mobile devices have wireless and yet the venerable Spectrum still has none. No fair !
fuck the law.
Tried that once, wasn't worth the paper cuts.
He has to hate kittens to soothe his guilty conscience
But is it really 2012 in 3 years? I mean, the romans and the catholics messed up the calendar so many times... maybe we're really in the year 1809 for all we know.
It's all just convention anyway, if you call it 1809 you're living in 1809. I think we should do like a lot of sci-fi writers and put year 0 at 1945 AD when the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now THAT was a milestone if ever there was one.
No, he went into the library and used a passwordless computer that participated in the experimental free access and ran a script on it. That computer, which had valid access, received the pages. Then it forwarded each received page to the amazon IP computer(s), which is what the report refers to as the computers outside the library.
In other words, he didn't falsify any requests for the information or forge their credentials from other computers. He used the genuine, authorized computer and obtained information that that computer was permitted to receive.
You know I could do the same on the computers at work and that would land me in jail rather quickly.
You can't blame people for making money within the boundaries of the law. If this leads to undesirable results, the law is broken and needs to be fixed, simple as that. People will then stop their undesirable acts, either by themselves or by force. Blaming this situation on Eolas is putting things really way, way too simplistic.
You can't legislate everything, all laws have unintended consequences and ambiguities which is why we still have people interpreting law in first place. The law may be bad but it definitely wasn't meant for this bull. "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
The Palm Pre is quad band. Don't know if you can get it unlocked where you are, but here in Belgium locking is still illegal (despite heavy lobbying) so we'll probably get it unlocked when it goes on sale here by mid october. I've heard good things about it too.
Funny they should do that precisely on WM 6.5's launchday...
Palm's just desperately trying to stay in the news, which is also what the whole Pre-iTunes sync drama is all about. They must be pretty close to the edge. I hope they do well with this move though so they can motivate Apple to do the same.
There are still people who use original iMacs with OS9 or early versions of OSX. Of course 10 year old macs are more obsolete than the equivalent PC because in that time Apple not only switched the OS they use but also the hardware platform it runs on.
How many Linux households have a token Windows box?
To burn in effigy ? Like the booming American flag export business to Iran.