She has written a few articles on her expierence with the record companies.
The quick clumsy summary is that they exploit the artists badly.
She writes these days and plays in the band Loveless. I have seen them play a few times and they are great. Fun well written Pop/Rock. (I don't know exactly how to describe them) lvls.com has a free MP3 to download with the bands permission so people can check them out.
Oh come on. The first submission is only one page. Hardly tons of "free source material". If they were asking for an entry fee I would scream "SCAM", but they aren't.
Just like/. the signal to noise ratio will be awful in the first round of submissions.
Sounds to me like they are just hoping to find something fresh, and discover a new writer.
Doctors don't treat themselves for the same reason. You are too close to the problem to be objective. Know your rights, you have a right to a lawyer who can give you a competant defence. This is to help with due process, another important right.
as the old.sig says Never invite Vampires or Police into your home.
Too bad they did. Evironmental science is really dificult stuff and it sounds like this author made a strong attempt at it. With subjects as complex as climate change, econmoics, and population planning, making a decent book with a valid conclusion is a dificult problem.
"Limits to Growth" was a pretty important book on this subject and it got almost everything wrong. A very dry but funny read if you dig it up. The basic ideas from it are still ratling around even when they are clearly oversimplifications.
Video games are a great example of a classic software project.
All the Ultima games were pretty typical of the way software was being developed at the time they were made.
U1-4 were made by pretty small teams over amazingly short periods of time, considering what tools they had to work with.
With U5 and U6 the projects start getting much bigger U7-10 and UO had pretty huge groups working on them.
These big groups may have been able to do something great but the task required different skills. More "suit" less h4x0r. My guess is that Lord Brittish had a hard time learning how to run a big team. Give the guy some slack this was not an easy thing to do!
He has lots of expierence now maybe he can pull off another great game.
I loved U4 and U5 and hated UO. He seems to have a handle on some of the things that went so badly wrong with UO. (I have no need to pay $10 a month to be virtually mugged) I will give his next game a chance if it looks like he solved the killer problems.
Your first instinct was right. Full and early disclosure is a better way to go.
It would be nice if they had the solutions as soon as the problem was found but it doesn't work that way.
You find the bug first then the fix comes later.
For those of us administrating wu-ftpd servers, the vulnerability is unacceptable. Yes more script kiddies would find out about the bug if it was disclosed as soon as it was found, but good admins would find out just as fast, and respond.
i.e. shut down the broken aplication or replace it. (at least until it is fixed)
Now we all get to sit around and wonder if there was a break in during the time the bug was known by some h4x0rs but not disclosed to us admins.
I understand the logic of the other position. I just disagree.
ESR can be very controversal. Maybe they were trying to stay especially on topic. Hopefully next year they can invite someone involved with INTERCAL to discuss the topic.
As has been said elsewhere, these kind of conferences are really focused on trying to find common ground so knowledge can be spread between specialists.
ESR has an unfortunate reputation for stridency, this could have been a reason for his absence.
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She has written a few articles on her
expierence with the record companies.
The quick clumsy summary is that they exploit the artists badly.
She writes these days and plays in the band Loveless. I have seen them play a few times and they are great. Fun well written Pop/Rock. (I don't know exactly how to describe them)
lvls.com has a free MP3 to download with the bands permission so people can check them out.
A very different attitude towards file sharing!
I'm waiting for any Tolkien related story to not bring up this incredibly stupid troll. It was done by Klerck the king of stupid and trolls.
Just drop it!
8 means good luck or something. It was a Chinese character and her parents decided not to have it translated.
NPR had something on her a while back
I bought the Rush album Vaport Trails. I liked it. Not fantastic but pretty good. FWIW I own most of Rush's albums and have been a fan for years.
No it is the same Gary Gygax. After TSR was bought by WotC the new management aproached GG and rebuilt a relationship with him.
There were several years where GG and TSR where on very bad terms. These days GG seems to be quite friendly to WotC.
Oh come on. The first submission is only one page. Hardly tons of "free source material". If they were asking for an entry fee I would scream "SCAM", but they aren't.
/. the signal to noise ratio will be awful in the first round of submissions.
Just like
Sounds to me like they are just hoping to find something fresh, and discover a new writer.
Doctors don't treat themselves for the same reason.
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You are too close to the problem to be objective.
Know your rights, you have a right to a lawyer who can give you a competant defence.
This is to help with due process, another important right.
as the old
Never invite Vampires or Police into your home.
Too bad they did. Evironmental science is really dificult stuff and it sounds like this author made a strong attempt at it. With subjects as complex as climate change, econmoics, and population planning, making a decent book with a valid conclusion is a dificult problem.
"Limits to Growth" was a pretty important book on this subject and it got almost everything wrong. A very dry but funny read if you dig it up. The basic ideas from it are still ratling around even when they are clearly oversimplifications.
VA was forced to change this after 9/11
I am in the same spot.
My suggestion is to try to ease up a bit and see the movie. It won't be what you or I have hoped for and imagined but it sounds like it isn't bad.
Still I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Video games are a great example of a classic software project.
All the Ultima games were pretty typical of the way software was being developed at the time they were made.
U1-4 were made by pretty small teams over amazingly short periods of time, considering what tools they had to work with.
With U5 and U6 the projects start getting much bigger U7-10 and UO had pretty huge groups working on them.
These big groups may have been able to do something great but the task required different skills. More "suit" less h4x0r. My guess is that Lord Brittish had a hard time learning how to run a big team. Give the guy some slack this was not an easy thing to do!
He has lots of expierence now maybe he can pull off another great game.
I loved U4 and U5 and hated UO. He seems to have a handle on some of the things that went so badly wrong with UO. (I have no need to pay $10 a month to be virtually mugged) I will give his next game a chance if it looks like he solved the killer problems.
Your first instinct was right. Full and early disclosure is a better way to go.
It would be nice if they had the solutions as soon as the problem was found but it doesn't work that way.
You find the bug first then the fix comes later.
For those of us administrating wu-ftpd servers, the vulnerability is unacceptable. Yes more script kiddies would find out about the bug if it was disclosed as soon as it was found, but good admins would find out just as fast, and respond.
i.e. shut down the broken aplication or replace it. (at least until it is fixed)
Now we all get to sit around and wonder if there was a break in during the time the bug was known by some h4x0rs but not disclosed to us admins.
I understand the logic of the other position. I just disagree.
alright you can have some
OH, my mistake then. I take it all back. I even take back several things said by other people.
ESR can be very controversal. Maybe they were trying to stay especially on topic. Hopefully next year they can invite someone involved with INTERCAL to discuss the topic.
As has been said elsewhere, these kind of conferences are really focused on trying to find common ground so knowledge can be spread between specialists.
ESR has an unfortunate reputation for stridency, this could have been a reason for his absence.
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