1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.
3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.
>>>In mobile phone land, a generation is around 1 year
This is why I keep postponing purchase of a new phone. I know that the $200 iPhone-clone with internet capability will probably drop to $30 1.5 years from now. I'm a patient person.
>>>see apple if you need evidence
And Macs. Got a G4 that won't run the latest Safari or iTunes (good thing Opera supports old computers else I'd be browserless). I eventually sold the G4 ought of frustration. Meanwhile my XP-PC still runs everything I throw at it, even though it's a year older. "Long term support" is one advantage MS has over Apple. even though MS software is inferior.
Sony tries to run their Commercial division the way they run their Professional division. In the Pro division they are constantly introducing new formats - first Umatic VCRs, then Betacam, then Betacam SP, then Video8, then Hi8, the Betacam Digital, then Betacam HD, and so on.
The pros happily gobble-up all these new formats because they can afford the huge upgrade costs, but that doesn't work for the Consumer division. You'd think Sony would finally learn but they never do. They just keep introducing one flop after another (betamax, super betamax, betamax ED, minidisc, memory cards, etc). Their only real successes were the cooperative ones like CD, DVD, and Bluray where they shared the profits with other companies.
If I was Sony I'd follow in the footsteps of Atari and Sega and just say, "Oh forget the portables." When the Lynx flopped and ditto the Game Gear, they realized the market was profitable for Nintendo, but not for them, and bowed-out.
James Kirk had better writers (actual science fiction writers like Harlan Ellison).
Sony sure has screwed-up. They had the #1 console for ten years. They sold nearly 300 million units and smashed the competition (nintendo64, sega saturn, gamecube, xbox). And then threw it all away with bad ideas and an overpriced PS3. Not that PS3 is a bad console but a release price of $700 is ridiculously high.
Now it appears they are repeating the PS3 mistake with the PSP-2. They ought to learn a lesson from Nintendo - less powerful but cheap consoles == something kids can afford.
For example the images of Leisure Suit Larry & Maniac Mansion look like shit compared to how the game appeared on my 1985 Amiga. By ignoring the Atari/Commodore machines they've skipped-over some of the most innovative games (because of 4000 color graphics and/or near-CD quality sound).
The most glaring omission I see are Atari, Commodore, and Amiga graphic adventures. The topic discusses Apples and IBMs, but nary a word about the other machines.
Some of the Best graphic adventures were on the Ataris/Commodores because they had 128 and 4000 colors respectively. If you wanted to play Activision's Mindshadow or the graphic-adventure Zork Zero, you didn't waste time with a black-and-white Mac or 4 color IBM. You played them on the Atari or Commodore or Amiga so you could get near-photo-realistic graphics.
>>>What has the fact that the boy is an autist have to do with this?
They tend to be obsessive and very focused. He might be performing so well, simply because he sees patterns in games and uses them avoid dying. Kinda like that cow-obsessed woman in the HBO movie "Temple Grandin". The kid might be similarly talented in the area of grokking how computers work, and he simply sees the logic/formulas behind the game.
It used to be pretty common in the 8 and 16 bit era, like finding patterns in Pac-Man or Marble Madness, so why can't it happen now in the 32 bit era?
Wow. You messed-up your history. Windows 1 existed long before OS/2 did. It was released in 1985 and was essentially a DOS shell.
1985 was also the year Atari released a windows-based OS, ditto Commodore Amiga, and ditto Berkeley Softworks (GEOS for the C=64). Everyone was trying to copy the 1984 Mac look/feel.
Your friends with somebody who you don't really know (like an ex-classmate) and therefore forget their name when the photo is shown to you. Stupid, stupid, stupid facebook security design.
What's that called? Security through obscurity? Fail.
- White House advisor Van Jones was a member of the communist party. - Bin Laden IS a terrorist who admitted he organized the 9/11 attacks - Press Secretary Anita Dunn said, "My favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-dung" who of course was a communist. - In Dreams of My Father, president Obama said his father was a communist and he agreed with that philosophy.
But that's okay . Just keep you head buried and pretend none of the above has been documented. Just keep repeating "no evidence" while it's staring you directly in the face.
>>>no guarantee that any company wouldn't throttle back your content
True but any such company would quickly lose customers and either learn to change for the better - or end up bankrupt like Circuit City. The advantage of a free market is that customers have the choice to not visit a company, and therefore send it into a nosedive. No such option exists in a Monopoly, and Net Neutrality certainly won't make Comsucks work any better. They'll still be a shitty company. I want choice to pick somebody else.
>>>Breaking up AT&T didn't do much of anything these days
I have a choice of dozens of long distance providers, and dozens of local phone providers. Also I can choose from tons of brands for the actual phone itself. We're better off now then in the 1970s when you had to choose ATT for long distance, ATT for local calls, and ATT for your phone or modem. Then we had a phone monopoly; today we have choice.
I also have a choice in my natural gas and electricity providers. Ideally I should have a choice in my high-speed internet provider too. Let the State or City government run 50-optical fiber cables (just as they already run water/sewer lines), lease the optics one-by-one, and then the customer can choose between 50 different companies.
Certainly better than the current government-created monopoly called Comcast. I want CHOICE not a monopoly. Net neutrality does nothing to fix that flaw.
>>>The very fact that Glenn Beck airs such crazy outbursts of "other people" shows his tacit approval.
Really? Beck saying, "And here's a clip of spooky dude George Soros"..... followed by Soros saying he wants to see the US dollar and society collapse.... you call that tacit approval??? Ha! Hardly.
Bottom Line: Only juveniles make an argument with insults. (Most) adults have moved past that level and can debate calmly and rationally with maturity.
One thing this bill overlooks is the Website charging money. - For example ESPN360.com and Disneyconnection.com block all ISPs except those that pay an extra fee, which of course raises customers' bills. I don't want to see my bills raised for these dumbass sites, just as I don't want to be forced to take ESPN or Bravo with my cable tv subscription. One of the great benefits of internet is A La Carte - the customer decides whether or not to pay the subscription (i.e. gives $1/month to playboy.com). That choice should never been taken away.
I LOVE your post. - I like to call myself a "saver" rather than a consumer. Sure I have certain needs like food and shelter, but I'd estimate 70% of my income goes directly to the bank for long-term savings. My goal is to have enough money I could retire at 40 if I felt like it. (Like Benj. Franklin did.)
>>>nutball levels of a Glen Beck or Michele Bachmann
What, precisely, do you find more "nutballish" about Beck and Michelle then Franken? Michelle seems like a decent politicians to me (along the lines of Ron Paul), and Beck's show is most prerecorded video of various Elite persons *in their own words* admitting they want a revolution. Or to raise gas taxes. Or to impose carbon taxes ("electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket").
So please, enlighten me and others, what makes Beck/Michelle worse than Franken? In your opinion but backed with facts? Thanks.
Wouldn't a better solution be to break-up the ISP Monopolies, just as we broke-up the AT&T Phone monopoly during the 1980s?
Trying to impose net neutrality is a good idea, but doesn't solve the CORE problem: Lack of choice for customers. They are treating the symptom rather than the root disease.
If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. (i.e. I'll create a third commodoreXXX account and just post the same message again. I will not be censored by governments nor corporations like slashfrak.) Like so:
Back to topic:
(1) Yes I'm sure the hacking of the CEO's account will make a few heads roll at today's meetings. "Why was this allowed to happen?" will be the shouted words while the managers trip over each other trying to fix the mess & do damage control so they don't get fired.
(2) This new interface sucks. First my classic, text-only settings have disappeared which slows donw loading a LOT. Second the Menus and "reply" buttons do not appear on Mozilla Seamonkey or Opera. I have to set the "mask as internet explorer" flag to trick slashdot into believing Mozilla/Opera are IE. Bogus.
1) This new interface sucks. First my classic, text-only settings have disappeared which slows donw loading a LOT. Second the Menus and "reply" buttons do not appear on Mozilla Seamonkey or Opera. I have to set the "mask as internet explorer" flag to trick slashdot into believing Mozilla/Opera are IE. Bogus.
2) Back to topic:
Yes I'm sure the hacking of the CEO's account will make a few heads roll at today's meetings. "Why was this allowed to happen?" will be the shouted words while the managers trip over each other trying to fix the mess & do damage control so they don't get fired.
Slashdot Mirror
Not in the European Union:
ARTICLE 8
1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.
3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.
>>>should be 65C816
Thanks. And I accidentally said two days ago that I own a Windows 3 laptop with 80386. I meant the 80386SX with the 16 bit bus. I apologize. ;-)
>>>In mobile phone land, a generation is around 1 year
This is why I keep postponing purchase of a new phone. I know that the $200 iPhone-clone with internet capability will probably drop to $30 1.5 years from now. I'm a patient person.
>>>see apple if you need evidence
And Macs. Got a G4 that won't run the latest Safari or iTunes (good thing Opera supports old computers else I'd be browserless). I eventually sold the G4 ought of frustration. Meanwhile my XP-PC still runs everything I throw at it, even though it's a year older. "Long term support" is one advantage MS has over Apple. even though MS software is inferior.
Sony tries to run their Commercial division the way they run their Professional division. In the Pro division they are constantly introducing new formats - first Umatic VCRs, then Betacam, then Betacam SP, then Video8, then Hi8, the Betacam Digital, then Betacam HD, and so on.
The pros happily gobble-up all these new formats because they can afford the huge upgrade costs, but that doesn't work for the Consumer division. You'd think Sony would finally learn but they never do. They just keep introducing one flop after another (betamax, super betamax, betamax ED, minidisc, memory cards, etc). Their only real successes were the cooperative ones like CD, DVD, and Bluray where they shared the profits with other companies.
>>>must be very scary for Sony.
If I was Sony I'd follow in the footsteps of Atari and Sega and just say, "Oh forget the portables." When the Lynx flopped and ditto the Game Gear, they realized the market was profitable for Nintendo, but not for them, and bowed-out.
James Kirk had better writers (actual science fiction writers like Harlan Ellison).
Sony sure has screwed-up. They had the #1 console for ten years. They sold nearly 300 million units and smashed the competition (nintendo64, sega saturn, gamecube, xbox). And then threw it all away with bad ideas and an overpriced PS3. Not that PS3 is a bad console but a release price of $700 is ridiculously high.
Now it appears they are repeating the PS3 mistake with the PSP-2. They ought to learn a lesson from Nintendo - less powerful but cheap consoles == something kids can afford.
"The Jaguar is 64 bit! Not as powerful as the N64, but more powerful than the 32 bit Sony Playstation." - Jack Tramel, Atari
"The PS2 will be able to do Toy Story graphics in real time!" - Sony
"The PS3 will be so great, people will WANT to pay $700 to get it!" - Ken Kutaragi
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me 4 times, shame on both of us.
For example the images of Leisure Suit Larry & Maniac Mansion look like shit compared to how the game appeared on my 1985 Amiga. By ignoring the Atari/Commodore machines they've skipped-over some of the most innovative games (because of 4000 color graphics and/or near-CD quality sound).
The most glaring omission I see are Atari, Commodore, and Amiga graphic adventures. The topic discusses Apples and IBMs, but nary a word about the other machines.
Some of the Best graphic adventures were on the Ataris/Commodores because they had 128 and 4000 colors respectively. If you wanted to play Activision's Mindshadow or the graphic-adventure Zork Zero, you didn't waste time with a black-and-white Mac or 4 color IBM. You played them on the Atari or Commodore or Amiga so you could get near-photo-realistic graphics.
>>>What has the fact that the boy is an autist have to do with this?
They tend to be obsessive and very focused. He might be performing so well, simply because he sees patterns in games and uses them avoid dying. Kinda like that cow-obsessed woman in the HBO movie "Temple Grandin". The kid might be similarly talented in the area of grokking how computers work, and he simply sees the logic/formulas behind the game.
It used to be pretty common in the 8 and 16 bit era, like finding patterns in Pac-Man or Marble Madness, so why can't it happen now in the 32 bit era?
Wow. You messed-up your history. Windows 1 existed long before OS/2 did. It was released in 1985 and was essentially a DOS shell.
1985 was also the year Atari released a windows-based OS, ditto Commodore Amiga, and ditto Berkeley Softworks (GEOS for the C=64). Everyone was trying to copy the 1984 Mac look/feel.
Bad choice of words.
Although Tiger would probably do anything, especially if the mom's a MILF.
.
Or worse:
Your friends with somebody who you don't really know (like an ex-classmate) and therefore forget their name when the photo is shown to you. Stupid, stupid, stupid facebook security design.
What's that called? Security through obscurity?
Fail.
No evidence?
- White House advisor Van Jones was a member of the communist party.
- Bin Laden IS a terrorist who admitted he organized the 9/11 attacks
- Press Secretary Anita Dunn said, "My favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-dung" who of course was a communist.
- In Dreams of My Father, president Obama said his father was a communist and he agreed with that philosophy.
But that's okay . Just keep you head buried and pretend none of the above has been documented. Just keep repeating "no evidence" while it's staring you directly in the face.
>>>no guarantee that any company wouldn't throttle back your content
True but any such company would quickly lose customers and either learn to change for the better - or end up bankrupt like Circuit City. The advantage of a free market is that customers have the choice to not visit a company, and therefore send it into a nosedive. No such option exists in a Monopoly, and Net Neutrality certainly won't make Comsucks work any better. They'll still be a shitty company. I want choice to pick somebody else.
>>>Breaking up AT&T didn't do much of anything these days
I have a choice of dozens of long distance providers, and dozens of local phone providers. Also I can choose from tons of brands for the actual phone itself. We're better off now then in the 1970s when you had to choose ATT for long distance, ATT for local calls, and ATT for your phone or modem. Then we had a phone monopoly; today we have choice.
I also have a choice in my natural gas and electricity providers. Ideally I should have a choice in my high-speed internet provider too. Let the State or City government run 50-optical fiber cables (just as they already run water/sewer lines), lease the optics one-by-one, and then the customer can choose between 50 different companies.
Certainly better than the current government-created monopoly called Comcast. I want CHOICE not a monopoly. Net neutrality does nothing to fix that flaw.
>>>The very fact that Glenn Beck airs such crazy outbursts of "other people" shows his tacit approval.
Really?
Beck saying, "And here's a clip of spooky dude George Soros"..... followed by Soros saying he wants to see the US dollar and society collapse.... you call that tacit approval??? Ha! Hardly.
Bottom Line:
Only juveniles make an argument with insults. (Most) adults have moved past that level and can debate calmly and rationally with maturity.
One thing this bill overlooks is the Website charging money.
- For example ESPN360.com and Disneyconnection.com block all ISPs except those that pay an extra fee, which of course raises customers' bills. I don't want to see my bills raised for these dumbass sites, just as I don't want to be forced to take ESPN or Bravo with my cable tv subscription. One of the great benefits of internet is A La Carte - the customer decides whether or not to pay the subscription (i.e. gives $1/month to playboy.com). That choice should never been taken away.
I LOVE your post.
- I like to call myself a "saver" rather than a consumer. Sure I have certain needs like food and shelter, but I'd estimate 70% of my income goes directly to the bank for long-term savings. My goal is to have enough money I could retire at 40 if I felt like it. (Like Benj. Franklin did.)
>>>nutball levels of a Glen Beck or Michele Bachmann
What, precisely, do you find more "nutballish" about Beck and Michelle then Franken? Michelle seems like a decent politicians to me (along the lines of Ron Paul), and Beck's show is most prerecorded video of various Elite persons *in their own words* admitting they want a revolution. Or to raise gas taxes. Or to impose carbon taxes ("electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket").
So please, enlighten me and others, what makes Beck/Michelle worse than Franken? In your opinion but backed with facts? Thanks.
Wouldn't a better solution be to break-up the ISP Monopolies, just as we broke-up the AT&T Phone monopoly during the 1980s?
Trying to impose net neutrality is a good idea, but doesn't solve the CORE problem: Lack of choice for customers. They are treating the symptom rather than the root disease.
Dear moderators:
If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. (i.e. I'll create a third commodoreXXX account and just post the same message again. I will not be censored by governments nor corporations like slashfrak.) Like so:
Back to topic:
(1) Yes I'm sure the hacking of the CEO's account will make a few heads roll at today's meetings. "Why was this allowed to happen?" will be the shouted words while the managers trip over each other trying to fix the mess & do damage control so they don't get fired.
(2) This new interface sucks. First my classic, text-only settings have disappeared which slows donw loading a LOT. Second the Menus and "reply" buttons do not appear on Mozilla Seamonkey or Opera. I have to set the "mask as internet explorer" flag to trick slashdot into believing Mozilla/Opera are IE. Bogus.
Frak. I didn't know slashdot ran on a Commodore Amiga. Perhaps a 4000 with 68060 (75 mhz)?
aside - Mac OS running on an Amiga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ElgKvKFuY
1) This new interface sucks. First my classic, text-only settings have disappeared which slows donw loading a LOT. Second the Menus and "reply" buttons do not appear on Mozilla Seamonkey or Opera. I have to set the "mask as internet explorer" flag to trick slashdot into believing Mozilla/Opera are IE. Bogus.
2) Back to topic:
Yes I'm sure the hacking of the CEO's account will make a few heads roll at today's meetings. "Why was this allowed to happen?" will be the shouted words while the managers trip over each other trying to fix the mess & do damage control so they don't get fired.