Please note that I didn't say we need to vote a strictly D majority in. I'm not for that at all I probably should've stated that more clearly.
We do need to get more of a 1:1 ratio of R:D asap, though. Then, when we have a government that can actually debate issues we can see where people stand on issues based on their actions, not their promises and tune things up in 2 & 4 years.
It's nice to know he doesn't waste his time being sucked down into the brain numbing, wallet emptying, taxpayer raping, felon creating crap that is professional sports.
I'd much rather have a President that uses his time for personal and intellectual diversions rather than one that chokes on a pretzel while watching some mass-market crap aired on that most Republican of channels, Fox.
Why shouldn't Hillary have been allowed to run? She purchased a house in NY and moved there a full month before she announced her intentions. Keyes doesn't live in IL, says he won't move to IL, and doesn't own land in IL.
Comparing Hillary to Keyes is an apples-to-oranges comparison. One of them did it right. The other one is a hypocrite for doing exactly what he spoke out against two years ago.
Not a word about the estimated 15000-20000 voters in the FL panhandle (generally a Republican area) who didn't vote after the networks called the election for Gore before the polls closed in the panhandle.
No matter how hard you try you can't solve stupidity. That people in the panhandle couldn't be bothered to get out of their Lay-Z-Boys and get to the polls isn't really Carter's concern. He's more concerned with issues like the disenfranchisement of thousands of black voters by the Republican controlled FL government and their quasi-legal and mistake ridden felon lists that kept honest Americans, mostly democrats, away from casting their valid votes in 2000.
"Vote Republican, it's easier than thinking." seems to be appropos for those 15-20K people in NW FL who could care less about their right to vote.
It's also a general election. Stories like this help to underscore the disgusting fact that the currently Republican controlled Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of our government are essentially circumventing the three branch checks and balances system that the founding fathers created. It's crony capitalism and it wouldn't happen if we had a government that was capable of having a valid debate about these issues. A valid debate can't happen with a corrupt majority, though.
People need to see that we're fighting a military action (remember, Bush told us the war was over before 800+ American servicemen died for no noble reason) so that corporations that are run by Republicans and donate greatly to the Republican party can find further ways to make money...innocent lives and sovereign nations be damned.
People need to go into their local voting boths on 11/2 with the full knowledge of what the people with the (R)s after their name are doing so that they can vote for the people with the
(D)s after their names and get some semblance of balance back into the House and Senate. Then we can worry about fine tuning the system again.
Wow, what a great slanted, uneducated, and banal response that was.
I never said people should buy somethng I work on if they feel it isn't worth their money. That false claim came from you, not me. If people don't like what I create that's fine. That's great. That lets me know I should should do better next time. But, those people have absolutely no right whatsoever to make the completely illogical, misguided, and outright immoral claim that since they weren't going to pay for the product they should just get it for free anyway. Next time you feel that way go in to any local store, pick up an item and walk out with it. When you get busted for shoplifting use the claim of "I value it at $0, so I should just get it." and see where that gets you. Yeah yeah you can make the strawman argument that digital bits can be copied without incuring any financial burden so it's "different", blah blah blah. That totally marginalizes the work done to create those bits in the first place, though.
Yeah, It's all about me because I need money to survive. Whatever..
I can honestly answer that question..."yes". Early in my career (mid '90s) I worked for an online game company that gave the games away for free. You could download them for free (not counting subscription fees) from GEnie. You were then required to pay by the hour to play them. It worked and the spread of the free games did indeed help acquire new paying customers.
That business model has all but dried up, though. Games now are sold in boxes and the SKU is king. Royalty rates are tied to the success of the company. The success of the company is tied to the publisher selling boxes. If the publisher doesn't sell the minimum number of boxes needed to fulfill the contract then the developer gets $0 after the release of the product and, more often than not, goes out of business. It's painful as all getout to see a game you've worked multiple years on not sell well, yet literaly hundreds of thousands of people are playing it online. It's doubly painful to see those numbers while you are unemployed, sitting at home, polishing up your resume, and doing everything you can possibly imagine to try and get another job.
The original ranter can call me a money grubbing whore all he wants. He can claim that since I make money off of my work I'm not making art, blah blah blah. But until he sits down and actually devotes his talents towards creating something and then seeing it used without compensation--seeing first hand the connection between rampant copying and the rapid depletion of his personal savings as he tries to stay solvent, he'll never be able to have a valid debate over this. He's wrong, front to back, but he doesn't have the real world experience (e.g. pain) to understand that. So, instead he'll act like the world owes him somethng for nothing and turn a blind eye to the fact that his actions do have direct consequences on other human beings.
Case in point, the author of the story this discussion deals with had to expend a lot of personal time, effort, imagination, and corporate finances to track down a network that had been compromised because somebody felt it necessary to have some dodgy P2P software installed on their work machine. Someone at that company felt entitled to get something that they should've paid for and caused a fellow worker now end of grief just for their own personal convenience/amusement.
So should I be saying "FU!" to the people that steal the games I work on or should I be saying "FU!" to myself for being such a whore that I want to have a house for myself and my wife, food on our table, clothes in our closet, and money with which to enjoy our lives?
According to you I'm a horrible horrible person for not working my life away to let you have all the fun you want while I live in squalor. Gee, thanks. I don't understand how I completely misunderstood my place in life all these years! You, the one with no talents but a freely available file sharing program get everything while I, the educated, hard working person with a great idea and the means to produce it must be resigned to a life of crap.
Do you enjoy going through live being a complete and total self-centered, cheap ass bastard?
A few years back Alan Keyes was quite vocal in his claims that Hillary Clinton shouldn't have been allowed to run in the NY senate race since she had just purchased a house there. Of course she was a strong Democrat going up against a very week Republican, but that probably didn't have anything to do with it...(ha!)
The rendering technology part of this survey is only valid when viewed in the scope of "What do people who play Half-Life or CounterStrike prefer". Outside of that scope, though, it's a single datapoint and therefore spurious.
There may be some entries from internet cafe/lan center machines Those responses would be from machines that have at least tried CS:Source. Unfortunately, though, the percentage of those respondants to the rest will be extremely small. Since those lan center machines are the only ones that can have tried CS:Source at this point there's no majority sample in the survey that has tried a modern game available through Steam.
Source engine games will play better on D3D. Valve has stated that, ATi has stated that, and it's been backed up by myriad HL2 pre-release benchmarks run on various 3D cards on various gaming news sites. Once HL2 is available the OpenGL / D3D reponses in that survey will swing wildly.
That disclaimer is a direct result of EA's attempt to shut down their NFS:Hot Pursuit servers in a vain attempt to get more people to subscribe to Motor City Online (before they axed it). The problem came from the fact that EA was still selling NFS:HP boxes, all of those boxes touted online play, and there was no text saying EA could shut their servers down. EA legal went "eh...whoops, gotta keep em up". So people are still playing NFS:HP online for free and MCO has gone the way of the dodo.
All EA game boxes now feature a line stating that EA can shut the servers down with about a month's notice. If I remember correctly one of the BF games has a specific date listed. After that date EA can just shut the servers down with no notice.
Yes, Nader matters. The fact that the Republicans are funding Nader matters. Florida is going to be a highly contested race on Nov 2, just like it was 4 years ago. Nader will never win. The best he can hope for is 3% of the vote so he can get federal matching funds. The problem is that a vote for Nader is a vote not for Kerry. Florida is always just slightly GOP, so a vote for Nader directly helps Bush.
The Supreme Court was correct in ruling him off the ballot. It's good to see that they aren't letting J. Bush circumvent the three branch system to help G.W. yet again.
No, it's new as of today. The Governor can't over-rule the state Supreme Court. He tried, with some vague threat of hurricane Ivan being the reason he was thumbing his nose at the high court. Today justice won out (thank God) and Gov. Bush got the legal smack-down he should've gotten in 2000.
Ditto,
MMJB had everything that is in iTunes, except for the iPod and iTMS literally years before Apple ever bought up that small developer and turnd their MP3 player into iTunes. Why do you thing Apple parterned with MM to be the MP3 library of choice for iPod Windows before iTunes Windows was out? It was because MMJB was as powerful as iTunes, if not more, and could easily be adapted to manage the iPod.
People always crow when it looks like MS or a Linux developer does something that Apple implemented first. Yet, when the same is true of Apple it gets spun like the true inovator is a non-issue.
iTunes is ok, but my personal opinion is that on Windows MMJB is superior.
You're looking at the serial number of the post I made, Einstein. A person's registration number is the number directly after their name.
For instance, you are the 625325th person to register on Slashdot. That number will remain constant on every post you write. The post you made above was the 10,250,236th post made. The next time you post that number will be larger
Did you really think there were 10.25 million users on Slashdot??
That's an interesting statement considering Yahoo! is my home page, MusicMatch is my music application of choice, and I have a Slashdot ID that's only five digits long.
Please don't generalize. Please don't think that Slashdot isn't a varied community of people with different needs and different choices. If you want to be a Linux isolationist then go hang out in #linux on irc and just say "RTFM" to any newbie that comes in with a problem.
Could you even be bothered to read the article summary?
The time restriction is for PPV movies, not for any other content. Your episode of 6' Under will still be there next week.
OnDemand and DirecTV's PPV system already work with a restriction. You pay for a movie/show and you have 24hrs in which to watch it. After that your access to the media is removed. How is this any different than what TiVO and Replay are instituting?
It's called Pay Per View, not Pay Per I-Get-To-Keep-It-For-As-Long-As-I-Damn-Well-Want.
You want easy access? Pay $4.95 for a PPV movie. You want a permanent archive? Go spend $16.00 on the DVD for cripes sake.
You're kidding, right? A video card of equivilent power as to what the XBox has (e.g. nVidia 5700) will eat up ~$100 of your budget. A 5.1 sound card will cost another ~$100. A 2Ghz Celeron will run you around $60.
Without a motherboard, memory, case or HD you're already over budget by $110. It's still better to buy the XBox
The names of the common TrueType fonts are nothing more than copyright CYA. A font developer can copyright the name of a font and their specific curves definition that describe it. Anyone else can clean-room a new knock-off (e.g. print all the letters out, scan them back in, and the create their own curves & hints) and call it something else.
Arial = Heletica
Times NR = Times
Courier New = Courier
Are you actually claiming that Times didn't exist in 1972? Do you understand where Times came from? It was the font that the New York Times commissioned to make their paper stand out.
There's this element called "lead", see, and people used to carve backwards letters out of it, arrange them in words and rows and then smear ink on them and smash them on paper. Artisans created unique and interesting font designs to make specific applications of the technology pleasing to the eye, easy to read, and unique.
Times has existed for much longer than 30-40 years. Most of the common fonts you see in use now were created a long time ago and then adapted to new printing systems as technology improved.
Cold press printing introduced the concept of a measurement system specific to the world of type (points, picas, ciceros, etc...), along with standard nomenclature for various adjustable aspects of type (e.g. leading and kerning)
When typewriters were invented they kept this system to ensure compatibility with what came before. The increase in machine composed documentation via typewriters meant that a refinement for asthetics and readibility were created, such as default margin sizes. When word processors were invented they continued with the now ubiquitous measurement system and pleasing layout defaults.
All you've really proven is that Word is faithful to the established system. Anything more is just pure conjecture.
Letters line up the same way relative to those above and below what, exactly? You typed one line, "SUBJECT: CYA" and then magically extrapolated the pt size, font selection, margins, leading, and kerning of an entire document?
That's nice. Good. Now please post a link to your resume so we can judge just how much of a true expert in the field of forgery forensics you actually are.
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We do need to get more of a 1:1 ratio of R:D asap, though. Then, when we have a government that can actually debate issues we can see where people stand on issues based on their actions, not their promises and tune things up in 2 & 4 years.
I'd much rather have a President that uses his time for personal and intellectual diversions rather than one that chokes on a pretzel while watching some mass-market crap aired on that most Republican of channels, Fox.
Comparing Hillary to Keyes is an apples-to-oranges comparison. One of them did it right. The other one is a hypocrite for doing exactly what he spoke out against two years ago.
No matter how hard you try you can't solve stupidity. That people in the panhandle couldn't be bothered to get out of their Lay-Z-Boys and get to the polls isn't really Carter's concern. He's more concerned with issues like the disenfranchisement of thousands of black voters by the Republican controlled FL government and their quasi-legal and mistake ridden felon lists that kept honest Americans, mostly democrats, away from casting their valid votes in 2000.
"Vote Republican, it's easier than thinking." seems to be appropos for those 15-20K people in NW FL who could care less about their right to vote.
People need to see that we're fighting a military action (remember, Bush told us the war was over before 800+ American servicemen died for no noble reason) so that corporations that are run by Republicans and donate greatly to the Republican party can find further ways to make money...innocent lives and sovereign nations be damned.
People need to go into their local voting boths on 11/2 with the full knowledge of what the people with the (R)s after their name are doing so that they can vote for the people with the (D)s after their names and get some semblance of balance back into the House and Senate. Then we can worry about fine tuning the system again.
I never said people should buy somethng I work on if they feel it isn't worth their money. That false claim came from you, not me. If people don't like what I create that's fine. That's great. That lets me know I should should do better next time. But, those people have absolutely no right whatsoever to make the completely illogical, misguided, and outright immoral claim that since they weren't going to pay for the product they should just get it for free anyway. Next time you feel that way go in to any local store, pick up an item and walk out with it. When you get busted for shoplifting use the claim of "I value it at $0, so I should just get it." and see where that gets you. Yeah yeah you can make the strawman argument that digital bits can be copied without incuring any financial burden so it's "different", blah blah blah. That totally marginalizes the work done to create those bits in the first place, though.
Yeah, It's all about me because I need money to survive. Whatever..
That business model has all but dried up, though. Games now are sold in boxes and the SKU is king. Royalty rates are tied to the success of the company. The success of the company is tied to the publisher selling boxes. If the publisher doesn't sell the minimum number of boxes needed to fulfill the contract then the developer gets $0 after the release of the product and, more often than not, goes out of business. It's painful as all getout to see a game you've worked multiple years on not sell well, yet literaly hundreds of thousands of people are playing it online. It's doubly painful to see those numbers while you are unemployed, sitting at home, polishing up your resume, and doing everything you can possibly imagine to try and get another job.
The original ranter can call me a money grubbing whore all he wants. He can claim that since I make money off of my work I'm not making art, blah blah blah. But until he sits down and actually devotes his talents towards creating something and then seeing it used without compensation--seeing first hand the connection between rampant copying and the rapid depletion of his personal savings as he tries to stay solvent, he'll never be able to have a valid debate over this. He's wrong, front to back, but he doesn't have the real world experience (e.g. pain) to understand that. So, instead he'll act like the world owes him somethng for nothing and turn a blind eye to the fact that his actions do have direct consequences on other human beings.
Case in point, the author of the story this discussion deals with had to expend a lot of personal time, effort, imagination, and corporate finances to track down a network that had been compromised because somebody felt it necessary to have some dodgy P2P software installed on their work machine. Someone at that company felt entitled to get something that they should've paid for and caused a fellow worker now end of grief just for their own personal convenience/amusement.
According to you I'm a horrible horrible person for not working my life away to let you have all the fun you want while I live in squalor. Gee, thanks. I don't understand how I completely misunderstood my place in life all these years! You, the one with no talents but a freely available file sharing program get everything while I, the educated, hard working person with a great idea and the means to produce it must be resigned to a life of crap.
Do you enjoy going through live being a complete and total self-centered, cheap ass bastard?
A few years back Alan Keyes was quite vocal in his claims that Hillary Clinton shouldn't have been allowed to run in the NY senate race since she had just purchased a house there. Of course she was a strong Democrat going up against a very week Republican, but that probably didn't have anything to do with it...(ha!)
The rendering technology part of this survey is only valid when viewed in the scope of "What do people who play Half-Life or CounterStrike prefer". Outside of that scope, though, it's a single datapoint and therefore spurious.
There may be some entries from internet cafe/lan center machines Those responses would be from machines that have at least tried CS:Source. Unfortunately, though, the percentage of those respondants to the rest will be extremely small. Since those lan center machines are the only ones that can have tried CS:Source at this point there's no majority sample in the survey that has tried a modern game available through Steam.
Source engine games will play better on D3D. Valve has stated that, ATi has stated that, and it's been backed up by myriad HL2 pre-release benchmarks run on various 3D cards on various gaming news sites. Once HL2 is available the OpenGL / D3D reponses in that survey will swing wildly.
All EA game boxes now feature a line stating that EA can shut the servers down with about a month's notice. If I remember correctly one of the BF games has a specific date listed. After that date EA can just shut the servers down with no notice.
The Supreme Court was correct in ruling him off the ballot. It's good to see that they aren't letting J. Bush circumvent the three branch system to help G.W. yet again.
No, it's new as of today. The Governor can't over-rule the state Supreme Court. He tried, with some vague threat of hurricane Ivan being the reason he was thumbing his nose at the high court. Today justice won out (thank God) and Gov. Bush got the legal smack-down he should've gotten in 2000.
People always crow when it looks like MS or a Linux developer does something that Apple implemented first. Yet, when the same is true of Apple it gets spun like the true inovator is a non-issue.
iTunes is ok, but my personal opinion is that on Windows MMJB is superior.
For instance, you are the 625325th person to register on Slashdot. That number will remain constant on every post you write. The post you made above was the 10,250,236th post made. The next time you post that number will be larger
Did you really think there were 10.25 million users on Slashdot??
Please don't generalize. Please don't think that Slashdot isn't a varied community of people with different needs and different choices. If you want to be a Linux isolationist then go hang out in #linux on irc and just say "RTFM" to any newbie that comes in with a problem.
The time restriction is for PPV movies, not for any other content. Your episode of 6' Under will still be there next week.
OnDemand and DirecTV's PPV system already work with a restriction. You pay for a movie/show and you have 24hrs in which to watch it. After that your access to the media is removed. How is this any different than what TiVO and Replay are instituting?
It's called Pay Per View, not Pay Per I-Get-To-Keep-It-For-As-Long-As-I-Damn-Well-Want.
You want easy access? Pay $4.95 for a PPV movie. You want a permanent archive? Go spend $16.00 on the DVD for cripes sake.
So you've been to those websites, hmmm?
You're kidding, right? A video card of equivilent power as to what the XBox has (e.g. nVidia 5700) will eat up ~$100 of your budget. A 5.1 sound card will cost another ~$100. A 2Ghz Celeron will run you around $60. Without a motherboard, memory, case or HD you're already over budget by $110. It's still better to buy the XBox
The names of the common TrueType fonts are nothing more than copyright CYA. A font developer can copyright the name of a font and their specific curves definition that describe it. Anyone else can clean-room a new knock-off (e.g. print all the letters out, scan them back in, and the create their own curves & hints) and call it something else. Arial = Heletica Times NR = Times Courier New = Courier
There's this element called "lead", see, and people used to carve backwards letters out of it, arrange them in words and rows and then smear ink on them and smash them on paper. Artisans created unique and interesting font designs to make specific applications of the technology pleasing to the eye, easy to read, and unique.
Times has existed for much longer than 30-40 years. Most of the common fonts you see in use now were created a long time ago and then adapted to new printing systems as technology improved.
When typewriters were invented they kept this system to ensure compatibility with what came before. The increase in machine composed documentation via typewriters meant that a refinement for asthetics and readibility were created, such as default margin sizes. When word processors were invented they continued with the now ubiquitous measurement system and pleasing layout defaults.
All you've really proven is that Word is faithful to the established system. Anything more is just pure conjecture.
Not likely.
That's nice. Good. Now please post a link to your resume so we can judge just how much of a true expert in the field of forgery forensics you actually are.
10, 12, 20, what was going to be the next number pulled out of your nether-region?
Please tell, how did you come up with the assinine "20 years" bit?