If those old NES games looked like modern games, I wouldn't play video games at all! What we need is the opposite, something that makes current games not look crappy and 3D.
"I purchase a LOT of dvd movies. these has DRM content such as the fbi warning and sometimes trailers or just film studio propaganda which is non-skippable on my sony dvd player (otherwise very nice)... what's up with that? we have to first buy the content, then HAVE to watch crap like that?"
I'm not an expert on DVD technical limitations, but I'm pretty sure that they could make DVDs that would start playing the actual content within two seconds of inserting the DVD. How nice that would be. Pop it in, watch it, hit eject, done. No FBI warning, no previews, no annoying stupidly dramatic menu intro, no annoying dramatic transition before starting the content. Fuck I hate that crap, because it's completely unnecessary and has zero value to me. But I guess I'd be rightly told to get a real DVD player or use a PC-based one that can disable all that crap and act like CD player in regard to playing tracks.
You left out one of the motivations for labeling things illnesses: it justifies forced drugging.
Seems people who buy into this kind of thinking are completely unable to grasp how temporary arrangments of components in a system can yield a set of behaviors. As someone commented elsewhere, addiction is the new name for being posession (by the devil). Any behavior must be due to a single module in the system, which must be eliminated.
In related news, the music industry is suing itself for its recent press story which informs people that Yahoo! China is the best search engine to use to find mp3s on the web, thereby pointing people to music that's only a few clicks (plus one) away.
"Or, did Mr. Occam come along, rob the house, grab the laptop and other portable goodies from the house (which happened), and then later realize that the machine wasn't exactly fenceable (especially with US Government Property markings on it, etc), and he either passed it off to someone else or made arrangements for indirect involvement in turning it into the Baltimore FBI office for a shot at the $50k reward money?"
Wait, they know the last name of the guy who stole it?
"By creating a detector for a known bug pattern, we can search for that bug pattern not only in the current code base for a specific project, but in any project, current or future."
Does it require a 1.21 gigawatt lightning bolt to power the future search feature?
I read somewhere that their actions are based on specific times on the countdown clock, so if they need more time for a particular step, they have to "hold" time there. Sounds exactly like classic BASIC with its line numbers!
"If the chief safety officer can't cancel a launch due to safety concerns, what's the point of having a chief safety officer?"
Becauase you can blame him for not really objecting to the launch if something goes wrong. "Sure, you said we shouldn't launch, but you didn't really mean it. If you had, you'd have stopped it."
"An alert passenger in your front passenger seat improves your ability to drive safely, even if you're deep in conversation. It's another set of eyes watching the road. A remote voice on the other end of a cellphone has the opposite effect."
Hmmm, what if the person on the other end is also driving? I bet you never thought of that!
"It's like those people who call it OS/X or OS-X. Where are they getting these magic hyphens and slashes from?"
Probably from the same Place people get those Random Capitalizations of Words you see so often on the Internet, as demonstrated in this Sentence. Or worse, random capital letters in the middle of words, like DeskTop. Man that pisses me off. Learn how to write!
""I don't like The Man tracking my activities, right down to where and when I park"
You're concerned about The Man knowing where you park your registered motor vehicle, license plate clearly visible as required by law, on a public street? As you enter and exit your vehicle in public view. Yep, that's some highly sensitive and privileged information right there."
The essential difference is that paying via cellphone allows very cheap tracking, while having people regularly scan every parking meter and record the license number is much more costly. These privacy issues are all about automation and near-zero cost of implementation, not whether the information can be (legally) obtained regardless of cost.
"Yes, you can have the whole source tree from my upstream and the 2K of diffs I have added - the reasonable cost for this source is $94.37 per CD"
Is that the right answer?
I like your post and reasoning. My solution is that if many people want the source, they work together to cover your cost and arrange their own server to keep it on. Perhaps they can work with you on setting up an automated system to upload a single copy to their server (paying you for your time of course).
Is it more expensive to put transmission lines underground?
Yes. Transmission lines supply electric power to large areas serving large numbers of people, and they are much more expensive to build. The extra cost of placing these lines underground is quite significant. An equivalent underground transmission line can cost several times more than the cost of an overhead transmission line.
Why does it cost so much more?
Transmission lines can provide enough electricity to power whole cities and are much more technically complex and material intensive. The design, installation and maintenance costs are all higher for underground lines. Installation costs for underground transmission lines can be several times those of an overhead line.
"[Fon's] goal is to create Wi-Fi networks, street by street, across Europe and the US"
Isn't a company called Linksys also doing something like this? They seem to have pretty good coverage these days, and they don't even require a login. I think they may be using a different network topology, though.
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Too bad the webserver BSOD'd before I could see ReactOS's BSOD:
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If those old NES games looked like modern games, I wouldn't play video games at all! What we need is the opposite, something that makes current games not look crappy and 3D.
"I purchase a LOT of dvd movies. these has DRM content such as the fbi warning and sometimes trailers or just film studio propaganda which is non-skippable on my sony dvd player (otherwise very nice)... what's up with that? we have to first buy the content, then HAVE to watch crap like that?"
I'm not an expert on DVD technical limitations, but I'm pretty sure that they could make DVDs that would start playing the actual content within two seconds of inserting the DVD. How nice that would be. Pop it in, watch it, hit eject, done. No FBI warning, no previews, no annoying stupidly dramatic menu intro, no annoying dramatic transition before starting the content. Fuck I hate that crap, because it's completely unnecessary and has zero value to me. But I guess I'd be rightly told to get a real DVD player or use a PC-based one that can disable all that crap and act like CD player in regard to playing tracks.
YouSirAreASpacebarAddict!
You left out one of the motivations for labeling things illnesses: it justifies forced drugging.
Seems people who buy into this kind of thinking are completely unable to grasp how temporary arrangments of components in a system can yield a set of behaviors. As someone commented elsewhere, addiction is the new name for being posession (by the devil). Any behavior must be due to a single module in the system, which must be eliminated.
2.51 million per day backdated to december 15th
202 days
December 15, 2004, not 2005. Add 365 days. That's a huge chunk of cash now.
"I must be tired I saw body bags instead of goody bags that would be some hardcore negotiations."
You must have misread this as happening in America. Understandable in these post-9/11 times.
In related news, the music industry is suing itself for its recent press story which informs people that Yahoo! China is the best search engine to use to find mp3s on the web, thereby pointing people to music that's only a few clicks (plus one) away.
"Or, did Mr. Occam come along, rob the house, grab the laptop and other portable goodies from the house (which happened), and then later realize that the machine wasn't exactly fenceable (especially with US Government Property markings on it, etc), and he either passed it off to someone else or made arrangements for indirect involvement in turning it into the Baltimore FBI office for a shot at the $50k reward money?"
Wait, they know the last name of the guy who stole it?
"By creating a detector for a known bug pattern, we can search for that bug pattern not only in the current code base for a specific project, but in any project, current or future."
Does it require a 1.21 gigawatt lightning bolt to power the future search feature?
Just think, some day we'll have self-calculating machines that do things like "53 plus 1" for us!
I read somewhere that their actions are based on specific times on the countdown clock, so if they need more time for a particular step, they have to "hold" time there. Sounds exactly like classic BASIC with its line numbers!
"If the chief safety officer can't cancel a launch due to safety concerns, what's the point of having a chief safety officer?"
Becauase you can blame him for not really objecting to the launch if something goes wrong. "Sure, you said we shouldn't launch, but you didn't really mean it. If you had, you'd have stopped it."
"The purpose of this project was to determine the reactions of the internet public to lack of information."
Here's my mini-version of this experiment:
I have one word for you: that's two words.
Are we to (erroneously) conclude from your example that the cellphone must have been the cause?
"An alert passenger in your front passenger seat improves your ability to drive safely, even if you're deep in conversation. It's another set of eyes watching the road. A remote voice on the other end of a cellphone has the opposite effect."
Hmmm, what if the person on the other end is also driving? I bet you never thought of that!
"It's like those people who call it OS/X or OS-X. Where are they getting these magic hyphens and slashes from?"
Probably from the same Place people get those Random Capitalizations of Words you see so often on the Internet, as demonstrated in this Sentence. Or worse, random capital letters in the middle of words, like DeskTop. Man that pisses me off. Learn how to write!
"I just play two year old games [...] I don't have to spend insane amounts of cash on a gaming rig, either. And hey, the games are still new to me.
Same here, only I go back a few more years. I just got this new one called Space Invaders. Such a trip! Amazing graphics too. Like you say, new to me!
Yeah but they are still useful for giving the feeling of certainty. Can't someone think of the feelin's???
"Just so everyone will flush and wash their hands!"
Agreed; who needs hands anyway?
""I don't like The Man tracking my activities, right down to where and when I park"
You're concerned about The Man knowing where you park your registered motor vehicle, license plate clearly visible as required by law, on a public street? As you enter and exit your vehicle in public view. Yep, that's some highly sensitive and privileged information right there."
The essential difference is that paying via cellphone allows very cheap tracking, while having people regularly scan every parking meter and record the license number is much more costly. These privacy issues are all about automation and near-zero cost of implementation, not whether the information can be (legally) obtained regardless of cost.
"Yes, you can have the whole source tree from my upstream and the 2K of diffs I have added - the reasonable cost for this source is $94.37 per CD"
Is that the right answer?
I like your post and reasoning. My solution is that if many people want the source, they work together to cover your cost and arrange their own server to keep it on. Perhaps they can work with you on setting up an automated system to upload a single copy to their server (paying you for your time of course).
I feel sick after reading this drivel:
Is it more expensive to put transmission lines underground?
Yes. Transmission lines supply electric power to large areas serving large numbers of people, and they are much more expensive to build. The extra cost of placing these lines underground is quite significant. An equivalent underground transmission line can cost several times more than the cost of an overhead transmission line.
Why does it cost so much more?
Transmission lines can provide enough electricity to power whole cities and are much more technically complex and material intensive. The design, installation and maintenance costs are all higher for underground lines. Installation costs for underground transmission lines can be several times those of an overhead line.
"[Fon's] goal is to create Wi-Fi networks, street by street, across Europe and the US"
Isn't a company called Linksys also doing something like this? They seem to have pretty good coverage these days, and they don't even require a login. I think they may be using a different network topology, though.