I'm all for the changes they propose, but I think it's a bit "excessive" to vote in a whole new political party just to address that, when there would be so many other unknowns about which way they'd vote on anything from foreign economic policy to education to war, to ??
Well, we have the current regime which is absolutely awful on digital rights AND foreign policy. We have a new party which is great on digital rights, and unknown on foreign policy. It seems pretty obvious which to choose.
This is a particularly retarded analogy. My bank account information is not covered by copyright. It's not even especially secret. It's printed on every check I mail out. There's nothing wrong with copying that information as many times as you like. You only run into problems when you use that information for fraud.
There is no rational middle ground on piracy. If you're going to take the stance that copying is bad, you have to fight it all out. Scorched earth. Anything less, and you might as well legalize file sharing. The risks of getting caught file sharing are so low, that you must have extraordinarily draconian punishments for the risk/reward ratio to work out against file sharing.
There are three choices. You are either for locking down *everything*, for locking down *nothing*, or you are for ineffectual bumbling. Even the first option is more respectable than the last option.
I'm not terribly sympathetic. I don't get paid for work I did 15 years ago, don't see why they should. GOG does do some good work making these things run on modern systems, but I can do that myself.
The OpenGraphics project are building a graphics card with a big-ass FPGA on it. Seems like the right tool in the right place... ...for the right lawsuit.
Personally, I don't get it. These old games made their money back ages ago, everyone involved has other jobs. I don't feel like I'm depriving anyone when I grab a torrent of DOS classics. Cheap doesn't compete with free when there's no moral imperative. I'd rather spend my limited funds on those making new homebrew hardware and software for classic systems.
I don't think there's much reason to be teaching game development to fine arts students. Teach game development to CS students, and game design to fine arts students. You could even have them work together on projects in the same class. Just don't spend too much time trying to teach English majors how to program.
He probably would have done more damage if he had used the business degree instead. AIG, CitiGroup, etc have certainly done more damage to the US than any terrorist attack.
I agree. Engineering in particular seems to draw some of those who are a little too wacky to pursue real science. In a field where you apply the ideas of others, you can get away with being crazier than in a field where your own ideas are subjected to peer-review. It's a lot more common to find a fundamentalist engineer than it is to find a fundamentalist research scientist.
Adobe really screwed the pooch here. If they intended to support 64 bit linux, why didn't they say so? Why simply drop the plugin and ignore the problem for so long? A simple "we're working on it" would have put a lot of people at ease.
Gnash sounds really good now. I do enjoy the occasional flash based shmup though, so I'll have to see how well the new plugin works.
judging any title in the franchise around it's single-player "campaign" is like passing judgment on a car based upon the music system and seat comfort.
Assuming the car gets from point A to point B, those are the next most important qualities of a car. I'll take a 15 year old buick with comfy seats and nice sound over a cramped, noisy sports car anytime.
It looks like this paper has only been "published" on the Social Science Research Network. In their FAQ peer review is only mentioned twice, and only in reference to one of their sister networks.
A degree is a piece of paper, judge the guy by how good the book actually is.
How do I know how good the book actually is? The quality of the book is directly related to the truthfulness of the claims within. Since I'm not a physicist, I can't evaluate most of the claims in the book myself. I have to take them on trust. I trust a book by someone like Roger Penrose a lot more than someone who hasn't been vetted by the scientific community.
Yes creating a sequence of commands and using logic statements to control the program flow is programing.
So helloworld.c isn't a program because there are no logic statements?
But typing commands on the commands line isn't. You are not programing or writing code when you type dir or ls!
What about when I type 'for each in *; do cp $each $each.bak; done'? It has logic that controls the flow of the program, so it's programming right? Or is your problem that it's interpreted in real time? Perl and python can both be run in interactive mode, and that's clearly programming. Why not bash?
But ls, tar, and or install are not parts of the Bash language. They are programs that you are executing.
Neither are CPAN modules part of the Perl language. Calling external binaries from bash is no different than calling external libraries from any other language.
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I'm all for the changes they propose, but I think it's a bit "excessive" to vote in a whole new political party just to address that, when there would be so many other unknowns about which way they'd vote on anything from foreign economic policy to education to war, to ??
Well, we have the current regime which is absolutely awful on digital rights AND foreign policy. We have a new party which is great on digital rights, and unknown on foreign policy. It seems pretty obvious which to choose.
This is a particularly retarded analogy. My bank account information is not covered by copyright. It's not even especially secret. It's printed on every check I mail out. There's nothing wrong with copying that information as many times as you like. You only run into problems when you use that information for fraud.
There is no rational middle ground on piracy. If you're going to take the stance that copying is bad, you have to fight it all out. Scorched earth. Anything less, and you might as well legalize file sharing. The risks of getting caught file sharing are so low, that you must have extraordinarily draconian punishments for the risk/reward ratio to work out against file sharing.
There are three choices. You are either for locking down *everything*, for locking down *nothing*, or you are for ineffectual bumbling. Even the first option is more respectable than the last option.
Copying something is obviously wrong
But, it's not. Creating scarcity where none exists is wrong. If that's not obvious to you, you don't really understand or support Pirate politics.
By displaying a search's ads onscreen a couple of seconds sooner, the frequency of users clicking on those ads could only go up.'
By displaying ads for shorter periods of time, click frequency will actually go down.
The nice thing is, it doesn't matter whether you care or not. I'm still not paying for 15 year old games. And you can't make me. Nyha!
I'm not terribly sympathetic. I don't get paid for work I did 15 years ago, don't see why they should. GOG does do some good work making these things run on modern systems, but I can do that myself.
I actually loaded up RTCW on both a Windows XP and Linux PC the other week as I was feeling a bit nostalgic.
Quit making me feel old.
The OpenGraphics project are building a graphics card with a big-ass FPGA on it. Seems like the right tool in the right place...
Personally, I don't get it. These old games made their money back ages ago, everyone involved has other jobs. I don't feel like I'm depriving anyone when I grab a torrent of DOS classics. Cheap doesn't compete with free when there's no moral imperative. I'd rather spend my limited funds on those making new homebrew hardware and software for classic systems.
DVDs, or any kind of disk media is just NOT suitable for an entertainment system used around children
Solution: Get rid of the kid, not the disc.
It's a lot more common to find a fundamentalist scientist than it is to find a fundamentalist engineer.
Is that actually true? I work in science and have never met a fundamentalist scientist. Met a few fundamentalist engineers though.
I don't think there's much reason to be teaching game development to fine arts students. Teach game development to CS students, and game design to fine arts students. You could even have them work together on projects in the same class. Just don't spend too much time trying to teach English majors how to program.
He probably would have done more damage if he had used the business degree instead. AIG, CitiGroup, etc have certainly done more damage to the US than any terrorist attack.
I agree. Engineering in particular seems to draw some of those who are a little too wacky to pursue real science. In a field where you apply the ideas of others, you can get away with being crazier than in a field where your own ideas are subjected to peer-review. It's a lot more common to find a fundamentalist engineer than it is to find a fundamentalist research scientist.
Adobe really screwed the pooch here. If they intended to support 64 bit linux, why didn't they say so? Why simply drop the plugin and ignore the problem for so long? A simple "we're working on it" would have put a lot of people at ease.
Gnash sounds really good now. I do enjoy the occasional flash based shmup though, so I'll have to see how well the new plugin works.
judging any title in the franchise around it's single-player "campaign" is like passing judgment on a car based upon the music system and seat comfort.
Assuming the car gets from point A to point B, those are the next most important qualities of a car. I'll take a 15 year old buick with comfy seats and nice sound over a cramped, noisy sports car anytime.
It looks like this paper has only been "published" on the Social Science Research Network. In their FAQ peer review is only mentioned twice, and only in reference to one of their sister networks.
Filesystems should be doing this.
And I thank you for producing more future laborers and tax payers who will subsidize my retirement.
Can I ask you something? Why would I want to be part of the gene pool? How would it benefit me personally?
Are cops for a balanced budget? Not if it means cuts for them.
Neither is the right wing, if it means cuts for cops. Have any of the supposed deficit hawks in the tea party proposed any cuts to law enforcement?
Are they for states rights? Not hardly!
Neither is the right wing. Consider how Bush's DEA responded when California legalized medical marijuana.
And how do cops feel about unions? Great! As long as it is their union.
I think you'll find that the right wing is very much in favor of police unions too.
In fact, for every point you brought up the predicted position of a self-interested police officer is consistent with that of the right wing.
A degree is a piece of paper, judge the guy by how good the book actually is.
How do I know how good the book actually is? The quality of the book is directly related to the truthfulness of the claims within. Since I'm not a physicist, I can't evaluate most of the claims in the book myself. I have to take them on trust. I trust a book by someone like Roger Penrose a lot more than someone who hasn't been vetted by the scientific community.
This kind of control scheme works fine in games like Bangai-O on the Dreamcast, Everyday Shooter on the PSP, or Robotron 64 on the Nintendo 64.
Yes creating a sequence of commands and using logic statements to control the program flow is programing.
So helloworld.c isn't a program because there are no logic statements?
But typing commands on the commands line isn't.
You are not programing or writing code when you type dir or ls!
What about when I type 'for each in *; do cp $each $each.bak; done'?
It has logic that controls the flow of the program, so it's programming right?
Or is your problem that it's interpreted in real time? Perl and python can
both be run in interactive mode, and that's clearly programming. Why not bash?
But ls, tar, and or install are not parts of the Bash language.
They are programs that you are executing.
Neither are CPAN modules part of the Perl language. Calling external binaries from bash is no different than calling external libraries from any other language.
not one of them is going to spend 2 seconds looking at man pages
If you're not going to read the documentation available, don't complain about a lack of documentation.
But what you want to install it better be in the repositories
At least there are repositories. Far better than going to a dozen different websites to get the packages you need to make Windows usable.
The problem is that there are still a lot of things that should be simple (or could be simple), but are NOT simple.
I say the same thing about Windows.