I don't think so, because back in '97 Apple and MS signed a 5 year cross-patenting deal. That deal was announced at a summer expo, so unless they signed it in January 97 it should still apply.
He's only a figurehead now. On June 28, 1999, Andover.Net bought Slashdot and all of Malda's "Blockstackers" company for $1.5 million. Malda is now Andover.Net's employee.
Yes he is their employee, but he also has full creative and editorial control over Slashdot.
between having cameras taking pictures like this and having dozens of real live policemen standing at the entrance, looking at people "manually?"
Okay.
Cop looks at fan entering stadium.
Fan either looks suspicious and is investigated, or allowed to procede
Cop forgets fan's face about 1 second later
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Camera takes picture of fan's face
Picture is stored in database......until its deleted
Paranoid government conspiracies aside, I'd much rather take my chances with a cop than a camera and database. And why couldn't they sell this database like any other customer data...or if thats illegal, it could be used within the same parent company.
Say NBC offers to hire the security....General Electric, NBC's parent company, could then use this database just like credit information. Say GE buys Discover in 2010....how would you like them to start calling you up with cheasy offers for Superbowl XXXXV tickets for repeat customers?
Just one more example of why the US needs consumer privacy laws.
That being said, your overall point about "choice" in American politics is legitimate: we got to choose between the son of a former president and the son of a former senator
...and a former basketball player(Bradley), a Veitnam Vet (McCain), a former Republican (Pat), a short religious quack (Gary Baur), a magazine publisher (Forbes), a former head of the Red Cross (Elizabeth Dole) and an environmentalist on an ego trip (Nader). Am I forgetting anybody....oh yeah, Alan Keys, another Rebublican hopefull.
Thats TEN choices, not two. Maybe more if I missed a few more GOP canidates.
And thats not even counting the 250+ independant party canidates nationwide.
perhaps justifying Nader's observation that there were no real differences between the two.
How. Bush hasn't even been in office for two weeks, but you say with a straight face that a Gore administration would be no different?
Face it, Starr spent $60 MILLION to get Bill Clinton by any means nessesary, and finally resorted to looking for misleading statements about the presidents sex life for a bogus purgery charge.
Lets spend at least $5 million investigating Bush to see if he actually served those couple years in the Air Guard, and another $5 mill for those rumors of an illegal abortion.
Now, once you've selected every possible option, and loaded this potentially-yours Apple with all the goodies that make these machines so great, look at the price.
And this is different from Dell, Gateway, Compaq, IBM et all? OF COURSE ITS GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE IF YOU SELECT EVERY OPTION!
For 95% of the population, the 3d millennium started a year ago. Some people nitpick that Christ's birth was dated at year 1 instead of 0. But then you could just nitpick some more, as we don't know for sure when he was born, making that argument a big waste of time.
No, Linux does not need anything from IBM. We don't need their journaling filesystem, their scalabiltiy, clustering software or clout in the marketplace.
But they would be damn nice things to have, and I think we could do better than to sneer with NIH syndrome when somebody offers something.
You see him kiss the chick, then you see Ash back in S-Mart telling his story to a sceptical clerk (dorky guy with glasses from Seaquest). The clerk askes him if he said the words right before he took the potion....the "basically I said em, yeah" bit again.
Then this hot clerk comes up and tells Ash that his story is kinda cute, just as a wind picks up in the store. She-Bitch pops up again, and Ash kicks her ass with a 22 that holds about 100 shots.
Disney seems to think that they perfected their formula for animated movies with Mermaid: the movie is a musical, loosly based on a fairy tale and has several annoying sidekicks. It got old.
Nice to see them make such a radical, gutsy change as to drop the musical part.
Could I offer you some cheddar? swiss? american?
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Because you really need some cheese with that whine.
ure, a game that takes 60-200 hours to finish (Baldur's Gate II) is great for the high-school kidees with nothing better to do
If that is too long for you, THEN DON'T BUY THE GAME. Simple as that. There are plenty of choices out there for a shorter attention span; really long games are the exception, not the rule. There are some things I dislike about BG and Diablo but that doesn't mean I diss that part of the genre.
I look back fondly on the days of the endless Ultima sequels
Ah, you must be one of those people who look back with rose colored glasses of nostalgia. People have been whining about how stuff was better when they were kids, wether its games, music or films for as long as we've had them. The simple fact is that there is some good stuff and a whole lot of crap; its always been that way and always will.
For every classic release of Ultima there was another E.T. groaner that never should have seen the light of day. And there are plenty of great modern games, like Dues Ex, Half Life and Grim Fandingo to go along with the bombs like Diakatana.
There's lots of stuff out there to like if you'll look for it.
If spielberg wanted the movie to be realistic and acurate, and remind people what has been done to protect our freedom, then maybe the movie should have portrayed something other than just realistic violence.
Spielberg did far more.....or did you miss the whole plot of the movie, which was to find the last surviving son and return him home to his mother.
By not showing realistic violence (pain and death) you are ignoring the greatest sacifice our soldiers made. I would rather see Saving Private Ryan than some old John Wayne movie dripping with blind patriotism.
I guess that means you should beat your kids to let 'em know violoence is bad too?
No, genius boy, thats child abuse and you can go to prison for that. Where you are likely to get your ass beat by all the convicts who were beat up by their parents as children.
In general, kids become sensetive and non-violent by being treated genty and shielded from this kind of stuff.
Which may work great, until they get out into the Real World and have deal with people outside your immediate circle of friends and family. For most, this starts no later than kindergarden.
The only way to totaly shield your kids from any exposure to these annoying little things called life and reality, you'd have to keep them locked up in your basement for their entire lives.
You SHOULD take kids to see movies like Saving Private Ryan, to see the consequences of violence up close and personal. Somebody gets shot in an old Clint Eastwood western, he'll just fall over, you wont see any blood and after that he's forgotten. A G.I. gets shot in the head in Saving Private Ryan, you see blood and brains flying out from the exit wound....hmmm, maybe violence is a bad thing.
The income tax came into effect in 1913. Our government ran smoothly on excise taxes and tarrifs for 150 years. The only reason government costs so much more today is due to the outragious spending that should be abolished.
Oh, you mean outrageous spending like national defense (far more now than in 1913), education, heath care, and of course the interstate highway system.....
It is apparent to me that the only reason Gore is promoted as having any more stature than Bush is because: a) The press, being mostly liberal, is inclined to bash him as much as possible
Yes, the press is mostly liberal, and has bashed Gore as much as possible.
b) Gore has wankish mastery for quoting stats (this impresses many people, though god knows why) while Bush does not
Probably because people like to hear specifics, which Gore offers in abundance while its hard to get a strait answer out of Bush, even for traditional Rebublican stances. Does he support the Supreme Courts definition of affirmative action or not, does he favor banning the abortion pill or not, and what exactly is his stand on rights for homosexuals. And this is just from the debates.
All politicans answer straight questions with off topic answers to some degree. Bush Sr. did this, and of course so did Clinton. But Dubya can't do it for shit and its painfully obvious when he does.
c) Bush has made a few _verbal_ slipups (but so did his father) that has made him look like he doesn't understand.
The guy can't talk for more than a few minutes without an attack of verbal dyslexia. I've never really held this against him, everybody does this once in a while, but its pretty bad when you have a total breakdown trying to explain your own tax plan to a voter.
In other words, I think Bush is actually smarter than Gore. I find it really hard to believe that anyone that watched the debates was impressed by Gore's performance _any_ measure.
I doubt anybody watched the debates and decided Gore would make a great drinking buddy, but especially in the third debate he cleaned the floor with Bush. Too bad Gore was such a uptight jerk in the first debate and a submissive wuss in the second.
To make a long story short, a significant number of intelligent, educated, and politically knowledgable people are voting for Bush. I count myself amongst those numbers, thank you. Good bye
And you might have stuck us with a real boob for the next four years. Just have to wait and see.
The winner take all system is only unfair because its possible to win the popular vote but lose the electoral college. If a 3d party canidate didn't get any electoral votes, it means he didn't get a majoraty in any state. If he can't get a majoraty in any state, he can't very well get elected president, can he?
Didn't get your five percent.
Pissed off the democrats, so even if you were to get elected as say, a senator, you will have virtually zip in the way of allies.
Why have packages at all then? Spend five times as long downloading the source for your os instead of binaries, then spend a couple weeks compiling all your code (or months if you have a slow processor). So efficient, why doesn't everyone do it this way.
Both Bush and Gore are the same people. Maybe they have differences of opinion in speeches or debates, but let's face it
They have serious differences on heath care, education, gun control, taxes etc etc. How are they "the same people"?
they will do the same thing every president does after they win. And that's do whatever they feel like, past promises be damned.
If Nader becomes president, he will also do whatever he pleases, so there's no point in voting for him, either.
Why is that good? Because it is a 3rd choice, and having more than two choices is a good thing. I, for one, am appalled by the fact that in America, the greatest country in the world, we limit ourselves to only two guys for the leadership of our nation. We force OURSELVES to make a choice simply on who we hate LESS. That's horrible.
You are ignoring the primaries and the Reform Party. On the Democrat side, there was Gore and Bradley, in the Reform Party Pat Buchanan and some other guy who lost thier nomination (was Trump ever actually a canidate?). For the GOP, you had a veritable bonanaza: Bush, McCain, Forbes, Keyes, Bauer.....am I missing anybody?
Including Nader, you have had at least TEN choices, not two. And thats just for the presidential race; governers, represenatives and senators also have primaries where you can pick which canidate you want to represent the party for the office. To say you only have two choices in an election is being nieve.
Q: Nader isn't going to win. He is a wasted vote.
A: If you already plan on NOT voting, take half an hour out of your life (it only happens every 4 years, you can spare it) and vote for Nader.
Its not a wasted vote if you weren't going to vote in the first place (which in itself is a waste). If you want to have an influence on how this country is going to be governed for the next four years, in one of the closest races ever, it most definetly is a wasted vote.
Q: A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush.
A: Not true really, math-wise. It's just a vote for Nader
True, but its also a vote not for Gore. I wonder how green Nader voters will feel if Bush gets elected and we have an Exxon Valdez in the Alaskan wildlife refuge.
My hope is that one person that reads this will look into the issues and give Nader their vote. If he hits that 5% mark, we can expect to see a 2004 election that is unlike the usual tripe and empty promises we expect from politics.
To become an elected politician (and get reelected) you have to make allies and compromises. This would be true if we have 2 parties, 4 parties or 500 parties. And each and every canidate from those parties could make empty promises just as well as a Democrat or Rebublican.
I have 42 gigs of mp3's on hard drives in my computer. I have instant access to any song that I have; I don't have to waste time finding the right cd and putting it in a drive.
And if its all on you computer, its much easier to share the music with your friends if you live in a dorm or have dsl. Its really great if you have a home network, too.
I do burn all my music to cd, but only for backup purposes.
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I don't think so, because back in '97 Apple and MS signed a 5 year cross-patenting deal. That deal was announced at a summer expo, so unless they signed it in January 97 it should still apply.
He's only a figurehead now. On June 28, 1999, Andover.Net bought Slashdot and all of Malda's "Blockstackers" company for $1.5 million. Malda is now Andover.Net's employee.
Yes he is their employee, but he also has full creative and editorial control over Slashdot.
Like his is low or anything.
Okay.
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Paranoid government conspiracies aside, I'd much rather take my chances with a cop than a camera and database. And why couldn't they sell this database like any other customer data...or if thats illegal, it could be used within the same parent company.
Say NBC offers to hire the security....General Electric, NBC's parent company, could then use this database just like credit information. Say GE buys Discover in 2010....how would you like them to start calling you up with cheasy offers for Superbowl XXXXV tickets for repeat customers?
Just one more example of why the US needs consumer privacy laws.
That being said, your overall point about "choice" in American politics is legitimate: we got to choose between the son of a former president and the son of a former senator
...and a former basketball player(Bradley), a Veitnam Vet (McCain), a former Republican (Pat), a short religious quack (Gary Baur), a magazine publisher (Forbes), a former head of the Red Cross (Elizabeth Dole) and an environmentalist on an ego trip (Nader). Am I forgetting anybody....oh yeah, Alan Keys, another Rebublican hopefull.
Thats TEN choices, not two. Maybe more if I missed a few more GOP canidates.
And thats not even counting the 250+ independant party canidates nationwide.
perhaps justifying Nader's observation that there were no real differences between the two.
How. Bush hasn't even been in office for two weeks, but you say with a straight face that a Gore administration would be no different?
Face it, Starr spent $60 MILLION to get Bill Clinton by any means nessesary, and finally resorted to looking for misleading statements about the presidents sex life for a bogus purgery charge.
Lets spend at least $5 million investigating Bush to see if he actually served those couple years in the Air Guard, and another $5 mill for those rumors of an illegal abortion.
Now, once you've selected every possible option, and loaded this potentially-yours Apple with all the goodies that make these machines so great, look at the price.
And this is different from Dell, Gateway, Compaq, IBM et all? OF COURSE ITS GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE IF YOU SELECT EVERY OPTION!
For 95% of the population, the 3d millennium started a year ago. Some people nitpick that Christ's birth was dated at year 1 instead of 0. But then you could just nitpick some more, as we don't know for sure when he was born, making that argument a big waste of time.
No, Linux does not need anything from IBM. We don't need their journaling filesystem, their scalabiltiy, clustering software or clout in the marketplace.
But they would be damn nice things to have, and I think we could do better than to sneer with NIH syndrome when somebody offers something.
You see him kiss the chick, then you see Ash back in S-Mart telling his story to a sceptical clerk (dorky guy with glasses from Seaquest). The clerk askes him if he said the words right before he took the potion....the "basically I said em, yeah" bit again.
Then this hot clerk comes up and tells Ash that his story is kinda cute, just as a wind picks up in the store. She-Bitch pops up again, and Ash kicks her ass with a 22 that holds about 100 shots.
Thats about it. Should see it sometime, its good.
Disney seems to think that they perfected their formula for animated movies with Mermaid: the movie is a musical, loosly based on a fairy tale and has several annoying sidekicks. It got old.
Nice to see them make such a radical, gutsy change as to drop the musical part.
Because you really need some cheese with that whine.
ure, a game that takes 60-200 hours to finish (Baldur's Gate II) is great for the high-school kidees with nothing better to do
If that is too long for you, THEN DON'T BUY THE GAME. Simple as that. There are plenty of choices out there for a shorter attention span; really long games are the exception, not the rule. There are some things I dislike about BG and Diablo but that doesn't mean I diss that part of the genre.
I look back fondly on the days of the endless Ultima sequels
Ah, you must be one of those people who look back with rose colored glasses of nostalgia. People have been whining about how stuff was better when they were kids, wether its games, music or films for as long as we've had them. The simple fact is that there is some good stuff and a whole lot of crap; its always been that way and always will.
For every classic release of Ultima there was another E.T. groaner that never should have seen the light of day. And there are plenty of great modern games, like Dues Ex, Half Life and Grim Fandingo to go along with the bombs like Diakatana.
There's lots of stuff out there to like if you'll look for it.
If spielberg wanted the movie to be realistic and acurate, and remind people what has been done to protect our freedom, then maybe the movie should have portrayed something other than just realistic violence.
Spielberg did far more.....or did you miss the whole plot of the movie, which was to find the last surviving son and return him home to his mother.
By not showing realistic violence (pain and death) you are ignoring the greatest sacifice our soldiers made. I would rather see Saving Private Ryan than some old John Wayne movie dripping with blind patriotism.
I guess that means you should beat your kids to let 'em know violoence is bad too?
No, genius boy, thats child abuse and you can go to prison for that. Where you are likely to get your ass beat by all the convicts who were beat up by their parents as children.
In general, kids become sensetive and non-violent by being treated genty and shielded from this kind of stuff.
Which may work great, until they get out into the Real World and have deal with people outside your immediate circle of friends and family. For most, this starts no later than kindergarden.
The only way to totaly shield your kids from any exposure to these annoying little things called life and reality, you'd have to keep them locked up in your basement for their entire lives.
Some people can't handle some movies wether they're 4 years old, 14, 40 or 84. Plenty of adults cried during that movie too, especially at the end.
Which was my point: it was supposed to be a shocking film.
You SHOULD take kids to see movies like Saving Private Ryan, to see the consequences of violence up close and personal. Somebody gets shot in an old Clint Eastwood western, he'll just fall over, you wont see any blood and after that he's forgotten. A G.I. gets shot in the head in Saving Private Ryan, you see blood and brains flying out from the exit wound....hmmm, maybe violence is a bad thing.
The income tax came into effect in 1913. Our government ran smoothly on excise taxes and tarrifs for 150 years. The only reason government costs so much more today is due to the outragious spending that should be abolished.
Oh, you mean outrageous spending like national defense (far more now than in 1913), education, heath care, and of course the interstate highway system.....
It is apparent to me that the only reason Gore is promoted as having any more stature than Bush is because: a) The press, being mostly liberal, is inclined to bash him as much as possible
Yes, the press is mostly liberal, and has bashed Gore as much as possible.
b) Gore has wankish mastery for quoting stats (this impresses many people, though god knows why) while Bush does not
Probably because people like to hear specifics, which Gore offers in abundance while its hard to get a strait answer out of Bush, even for traditional Rebublican stances. Does he support the Supreme Courts definition of affirmative action or not, does he favor banning the abortion pill or not, and what exactly is his stand on rights for homosexuals. And this is just from the debates.
All politicans answer straight questions with off topic answers to some degree. Bush Sr. did this, and of course so did Clinton. But Dubya can't do it for shit and its painfully obvious when he does.
c) Bush has made a few _verbal_ slipups (but so did his father) that has made him look like he doesn't understand.
The guy can't talk for more than a few minutes without an attack of verbal dyslexia. I've never really held this against him, everybody does this once in a while, but its pretty bad when you have a total breakdown trying to explain your own tax plan to a voter.
In other words, I think Bush is actually smarter than Gore. I find it really hard to believe that anyone that watched the debates was impressed by Gore's performance _any_ measure.
I doubt anybody watched the debates and decided Gore would make a great drinking buddy, but especially in the third debate he cleaned the floor with Bush. Too bad Gore was such a uptight jerk in the first debate and a submissive wuss in the second.
To make a long story short, a significant number of intelligent, educated, and politically knowledgable people are voting for Bush. I count myself amongst those numbers, thank you. Good bye
And you might have stuck us with a real boob for the next four years. Just have to wait and see.
The winner take all system is only unfair because its possible to win the popular vote but lose the electoral college. If a 3d party canidate didn't get any electoral votes, it means he didn't get a majoraty in any state. If he can't get a majoraty in any state, he can't very well get elected president, can he?
Didn't get your five percent.
Pissed off the democrats, so even if you were to get elected as say, a senator, you will have virtually zip in the way of allies.
Got just enough to be a spoiler, nice job.
Its news because not too many distros have started using xfree 4, and because Taco is a card carring Debian nazi.
I hope you got your undies in a knot over the stories of Red Hat including gcc 2.9.6 in thier last release.
But lets not waste any more Slashdot bandwidth. Lets to go comp.os.joto.his.tastes.only and rail about the cruel injustice of it all.
Why have packages at all then? Spend five times as long downloading the source for your os instead of binaries, then spend a couple weeks compiling all your code (or months if you have a slow processor). So efficient, why doesn't everyone do it this way.
Both Bush and Gore are the same people. Maybe they have differences of opinion in speeches or debates, but let's face it
They have serious differences on heath care, education, gun control, taxes etc etc. How are they "the same people"?
they will do the same thing every president does after they win. And that's do whatever they feel like, past promises be damned.
If Nader becomes president, he will also do whatever he pleases, so there's no point in voting for him, either.
Why is that good? Because it is a 3rd choice, and having more than two choices is a good thing. I, for one, am appalled by the fact that in America, the greatest country in the world, we limit ourselves to only two guys for the leadership of our nation. We force OURSELVES to make a choice simply on who we hate LESS. That's horrible.
You are ignoring the primaries and the Reform Party. On the Democrat side, there was Gore and Bradley, in the Reform Party Pat Buchanan and some other guy who lost thier nomination (was Trump ever actually a canidate?). For the GOP, you had a veritable bonanaza: Bush, McCain, Forbes, Keyes, Bauer.....am I missing anybody?
Including Nader, you have had at least TEN choices, not two. And thats just for the presidential race; governers, represenatives and senators also have primaries where you can pick which canidate you want to represent the party for the office. To say you only have two choices in an election is being nieve.
Q: Nader isn't going to win. He is a wasted vote.
A: If you already plan on NOT voting, take half an hour out of your life (it only happens every 4 years, you can spare it) and vote for Nader.
Its not a wasted vote if you weren't going to vote in the first place (which in itself is a waste). If you want to have an influence on how this country is going to be governed for the next four years, in one of the closest races ever, it most definetly is a wasted vote.
Q: A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush.
A: Not true really, math-wise. It's just a vote for Nader
True, but its also a vote not for Gore. I wonder how green Nader voters will feel if Bush gets elected and we have an Exxon Valdez in the Alaskan wildlife refuge.
My hope is that one person that reads this will look into the issues and give Nader their vote. If he hits that 5% mark, we can expect to see a 2004 election that is unlike the usual tripe and empty promises we expect from politics.
To become an elected politician (and get reelected) you have to make allies and compromises. This would be true if we have 2 parties, 4 parties or 500 parties. And each and every canidate from those parties could make empty promises just as well as a Democrat or Rebublican.
I have 42 gigs of mp3's on hard drives in my computer. I have instant access to any song that I have; I don't have to waste time finding the right cd and putting it in a drive.
And if its all on you computer, its much easier to share the music with your friends if you live in a dorm or have dsl. Its really great if you have a home network, too.
I do burn all my music to cd, but only for backup purposes.