Auto-update doesn't work on Mac though unfortunately. I love firefox, but the bugs on firefox take some getting used to. It still pisses me off to no end that there is no scrollbar so you can't see what percentage of the page you are viewing.
I do not like DRM in a house. I do not like DRM with a mouse. I do not like DRM here or there. I do not like DRM anywhere. I do not like D-R and M. I do not like DRM, Jobs-Steven
Except for the fact that they are changing their TOS and you are bound to these changes without your consent. Next time they could just as easily add in an evil clause, and if you complain then they can cite your complicity this time around.
Even though they are on the surface doing something good, it is still setting a bad and dangerous precedent.
I highly recommend the book The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki, the guy who was responsible for the branding of Apple and making it into a cult company.
From Guy's website:
The Art of the StartWhen you get pregnant, you read What to Expect When You're Expecting. When you get laid off, you read What Color is Your Parachute?. When you get entrepreneurial, you read The Art of the Start.
This book is a weapon of mass construction. My goal was to provide the definitive guide for anyone starting anything. It builds upon my experience as an evangelist, entrepreneur, and most recently, as a venture capitalist who found, fixed, and funded startups.
The book is as relevant for two guys in a garage starting the next Google as social activists trying to save the world. GIST: cuts through the theoretical crap, theories and gets down to the real-world tactics of pitching, positioning, branding, recruiting, bootstrapping, and rainmaking.
Yes, but this just proves that all of the people who buy these games are really stupid and probably prone to commit violence in the first place. After all, who would spend money on a game when you can get Nethack, Wesnoth, ADOM, the Q3A demo, etc. for free anyway.
Even MMORPG's now qualify as being mostly for the stupid with the advent of WoW. Who would pay 15 bucks a month when you can get second life, a much better game, for a ten dollar one-time fee, and you own everything you create in the game. Most MUDs are still free also. You can even play old school Ultima Online for free, the version that was around before they made it suck to attract stupid people.
When exactly did I say that you were supposed to be scared? What I said was that you should think about it critically. I guess the fact that to you "think critically" means "be scared" means our education system really is broken.
I said what we should view their suggestions with a skeptic's eye. Should I take your disagreement with me to mean that we should accept whatever they give us like sheep?
I wrote this on K5 to explain how to hack the college admissions system through sports, so that you can still get into college no matter how bad your school is. This is based on my own personal experience, but I have tried to make it as geek friendly as possible.
Bill Gates may be repeating it, but these are the ideas of the Aspen Group, a coalition of business leaders and billionaires. Their opinion is that schools were designed to make kids good factory workers, and they are obsolete because kids no longer grow up to work in factories. This is true, schools are obsolete. However, be use a skeptic's eye when these people tell you what the replacement should be.
This is largely a group of Fabians out to preserve the social hierarchy. It's members include everyone from Steve Case to Jack Valenti. Anyway, I just thought you should know who that even if it is Bill advocating the ideas this time, he is really just the spokeman for a larger group.
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Auto-update doesn't work on Mac though unfortunately. I love firefox, but the bugs on firefox take some getting used to. It still pisses me off to no end that there is no scrollbar so you can't see what percentage of the page you are viewing.
Talk about a shameless plug, they put the entire review on the front page!
I do not like DRM
in a house.
I do not like DRM
with a mouse.
I do not like DRM
here or there.
I do not like DRM
anywhere.
I do not like
D-R and M.
I do not like DRM,
Jobs-Steven
I got mono playing beruit.
Isn't that sort of like cutting off your legs to run faster?
We keep their DNA sample, and then plant some at the crime scene the next time we kill someone. Wow that was the easiest ask slashdot ever.
I see that they are partnered with wikipedia, what exactly is the relationship of this partnership?
>I can see the title of their chapter "Downloaders are PENIS dirty thieves."
Even though they are on the surface doing something good, it is still setting a bad and dangerous precedent.
Wikipedia is already the 69th most popular website in the english website according to alexa.com, how much more mainstream can you get?
From Guy's website:
The Art of the StartWhen you get pregnant, you read What to Expect When You're Expecting. When you get laid off, you read What Color is Your Parachute?. When you get entrepreneurial, you read The Art of the Start.
This book is a weapon of mass construction. My goal was to provide the definitive guide for anyone starting anything. It builds upon my experience as an evangelist, entrepreneur, and most recently, as a venture capitalist who found, fixed, and funded startups.
The book is as relevant for two guys in a garage starting the next Google as social activists trying to save the world. GIST: cuts through the theoretical crap, theories and gets down to the real-world tactics of pitching, positioning, branding, recruiting, bootstrapping, and rainmaking.
seeing as the Internet is a major contributing factor to depression and suicide nowadays.
What ever happened to that new and decentralized torrent program?
Mod parent down, I screwed up. I reposted this formatted properly.
Yes, but this just proves that all of the people who buy these games are really stupid and probably prone to commit violence in the first place. After all, who would spend money on a game when you can get Nethack, Wesnoth, ADOM, the Q3A demo, etc. for free anyway.
Even MMORPG's now qualify as being mostly for the stupid with the advent of WoW. Who would pay 15 bucks a month when you can get second life, a much better game, for a ten dollar one-time fee, and you own everything you create in the game. Most MUDs are still free also. You can even play old school Ultima Online for free, the version that was around before they made it suck to attract stupid people.
Please keep up the obvious, uninsightful, and only tangentially related posts to whore your porn site. The rest of us really appreciate it.
Any M-rated game has violence levels unacceptable and definitionally harmful to anyone under 17.
What percentage of all games made would you say are violent?
GTA has sold 30 million units, with San Andreas expected to hit 20 million on its own.
Is there a correlation between playing violent video games and acting in a violent manner?
Of course.
Is gaming escapism?
Yes, just as Ted Bundy escaped into pornography.
this guy isn't very smart is he?
Any M-rated game has violence levels unacceptable and definitionally harmful to anyone under 17.
What percentage of all games made would you say are violent
GTA [Grand Theft Auto series] has sold 30 million units, with San Andreas expected to hit 20 million on its own.
Is there a correlation between playing violent video games and acting in a violent manner?
Of course.
Is gaming escapism?
Yes, just as Ted Bundy escaped into pornography.
this guy isn't very smart is he?
These people are retarded. If they want to stop violence then they should just ban killing people instead.
Is that a hardware terabit or a software terabit?
When exactly did I say that you were supposed to be scared? What I said was that you should think about it critically. I guess the fact that to you "think critically" means "be scared" means our education system really is broken.
I said what we should view their suggestions with a skeptic's eye. Should I take your disagreement with me to mean that we should accept whatever they give us like sheep?
I wrote this on K5 to explain how to hack the college admissions system through sports, so that you can still get into college no matter how bad your school is. This is based on my own personal experience, but I have tried to make it as geek friendly as possible.
You can read more about them here.
This is largely a group of Fabians out to preserve the social hierarchy. It's members include everyone from Steve Case to Jack Valenti. Anyway, I just thought you should know who that even if it is Bill advocating the ideas this time, he is really just the spokeman for a larger group.