Saltpeter has no proven effect on sexual drive, that's a myth.
When I was eighteen I spent a few months in boot camp with almost no sexual thoughts at all, truly a spectacular event at the time. Plain old stress does a fantastic job without chemical help.
So my boycotting Walmart and McDonalds is theft? after all I'm depriving them of profits, so by your logic I'm stealing from them...
Obviously not, because you're not getting anything from them. Choosing not to buy a thing is not depriving a company of profits, because there were no potential profits to begin with.
I will pirate companies/developers I don't, like the Zelda franchise since they ruined it after Zelda 1(nes), any Square game since FFVII, games by EA, music by anyone popular today, ect
These are stealing. The franchises are so ruined, but you HAVE to play them? Skipping the glaring hypocrisy, if you play the game then it (probably) entertained you. You have received a service. If the service was intended to be only available to people who pay and you do not pay, then you're a thief.
I don't really care what you do - just be honest about it. Have I ever pirated? You bet. And when I did, I stole. And so do you. I don't understand why people who are willing to concede that they are breaking the law are so upset with being called "thief." It's like you don't want to lumped in with common criminals... but if you're breaking the law for nothing more than personal gain, how are you any better?
Incorrect. Except for the size, DVD-based movies look better on a monitor in every way. Assuming I am watching alone, I would prefer a 21" monitor to a 29" TV every time, and so would you if you had seen it. If you have company, then size is maybe more important. Your statement is ridiculous either way. Movies are made for the big screen, not TV.
This also allows a legitimate software writer to make a piece of software that will work for a high percentage of the market, so it isn't all bad. Besides, if a significant number of people switch to, say Mozilla, then you'll just see the companies like this invest in exploiting Mozilla.
I remember reading somewhere that, although the illustrations for the books show the scar in the center, the text doesn't mention the exact location. The article further stated that the movie location is where Ms. Rowling wanted it. I have read the HP books, but it's been a while and I no longer have the copies, so I can't verify this, but if you have the text handy you might check your assumptions.
Except that, popular perceptions aside, cloning someone isn't like running them through a copier. Identical genetic code does not necessarily create identical organisms. You can only be sure of certain vague traits, such as predisposition to catch/resist certain diseases. But there are no guarantees. It isn't that exact a science, and never will be, although perhaps one day cloning along with other yet-to-be-invented techniques will enable one to produce a Xerox Strike Force.
...and they taught you a great tolerance of opposing viewpoints and not to generalize about people you know nothing of, since instant judgement is the opposite of thinking, correct? Most people are educated in the public system, and though being educated outside that system does necessarily make you a minority, that is in itself not a virtue (a fact that is seemingly not widely grasped among the posters on this site), and is certainly no license for you to categorically denigrate everyone unlike yourself.
If you're truly trying to promote your education then you should take a more educated stance on it; as they stand, your statements sound much more like promotion of yourself, not the school.
Just a note.
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When these hackers put on their little performance for the FBI, they were in Seattle, which is well inside American territory. American laws did apply at that time, and it was then that they found themselves arrested and their data copied. Up until then, they were offered false jobs by a fictitious company in the hopes of catching them in criminal activity, but that's far from prosecution. The ethics of "sting"-type operations aside, you won't get caught in a sting if you're truly innocent. Further, I submit that you may be overlooking the apparently vast arrogance and stupidity of the hackers themselves. They deserved to get caught, and I don't think the hacker community is any worse off for their loss. I know that both Russian and American society are better off.
I'd say relative value is more important. I work for a large international bank, and these guys throw around mere thousands of dollars like you and I would that quarter.
As a minority user base, YES we are precluded from some professional applications, because those companies are in business to make money. They're not in business to support the best OS, whichever one judges that to be. They make apps for Windows because that's where the money is. Linux, right now, is where the money is not. There's no compelling financial reason for Bungie to start writing Linux games.
If Linux is to ever become a gaming platform, it will have to do it the same way every other OS and console has - killer games available only on Linux. Until a crack development house churns out several top-tier titles and releases them either Linux-only or at least Linux-first, almost nobody is going to seriously think of Linux and gaming as two great tastes that taste great together.
Because the entire event took place within a school during school hours and involved only minors, and because no law was actually broken, it is permissible for the proceeding to be non-judicial. There is no guarantee in such a system of any rights, nor are there any procedural obligations.
In most cases, this is as it should be. You'd not be appreciative if it took a jury of one's peers to assign detention for chewing gum, thereby wasting even more of your tax dollars on non-educational school time. In most non-judicial arenas there is a rather severe limit on the extent of punishment that may be meted out, and that (to me) is the issue here. If he broke a known school rule and got caught, punishing him in some form is appropriate. Expulsion shouldn't be an option for what appears to have been such an informal review, however.
I think that could be a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. Game developers must cater to the general user base, and if that base stagnates itself, then it necessarily holds up progress on all but the most cutting-edge games. As long as large strides forward are made in graphics, though, I believe we as a people are largely attracted to the newest and shiniest. Most non-gamers won't see the big graphical improvement from, say, Half-Life to No One Lives Forever unless they see them side-by-side. Once the improvement is more obvious (probably by next year), the cards will continue to sell.
You also make a good point about the developer resources. But how much of that development time/effort/expense is because the engines cannot be reused? A new engine must be built (or licensed and then probably modified heavily) every couple of years. Once the horizon comes closer and we're gaining the 5% from 90 to 95 instead of the huge leaps from Quake II to Unreal Tournament, a much larger jump in which much of the graphical technology for Quake II was unusably obsolete, possibly these costs will go down and improved games will actually come more quickly, as a tweak to Quake VI is enough to warrant a fanfare and Quake VII isn't necessarily required.
This is going to be around $530, and that's about $70 less than the Voodoo 5 6000 was going to cost, for a card that is miles better than the V5 6K. I would have considered a 6K had they been released, and this is a much better value.
Before I got into gaming, I was into drinking in bars, mostly. $600? Two weeks, tops. Assuming the card lasts more than two weeks and never gives me a hangover, I'd say it's not a bad investment, or at least that I've made worse.
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Well, since the Hercules press release says the Prophet III will be released in March, and since that's in two days, I don't think the Mac will beat it by many many weeks unless it's released in about two weeks ago.
Sorry, Conspiracy Man. Valentine's Day has been heartlessly (GET IT?) commercialized, but it wasn't invented by the bourgeoisie. The day was chosen to replace an ancient mating ritual I don't recall the details of, and it's in commemoration of St. Valentine, a bishop who was martyred by them mean old ancient Romans. The first Valentine's Day card, as we think of them, dates back to 1870 or thereabouts.
You can still rail against The Man for ruining it though...
For the purposes of this discussion they may as well have. This is an apples-and-oranges comparison, as I see it. I won't dispute IBM's continued donimance in mid-size to large computing installations. Linux is partly about that, but I am coming at this from a monetarily bigger point of view: the mass PC market. Linux may very well have a chance in that arena someday, where the systems you named likely never will.
Ah, the halcyon days of microchannel! There were several things right about the PS/2, aside from that. The Model 60 tower was the first PC I ever saw that required no tools at all to access and work on. I attribute their failure to (very) high prices, the floppy-based BIOS, and the poor decision not to release MCA to the world's hardware developers. My point is that IBM has the engineering to take over the PC market - the questions have been in marketing, timing, and image. This seems to me a good opportunity to improve on at least one of those factors. I don't think IBM has given up, even after the PS/2 and OS/2 marketplace debacles.
If IBM is more flexible and courageous (yes, it takes courage to bring something like this project to your boss, knowing that it's going to cost a lot of time and money and you have no real plan to directly recoup those funds), we have Microsoft to thank. IBM's "new attitude" is definitely that of a hungry company, which is the opposite of what they were when Bill & Co. basically cheated them out of the financial windfall that was DOS, and then later out of Windows.
It's fair to ask yourself whether IBM would be bothering with Linux if they had a successful OS that they had developed in-house. Moreover, I don't think it's unfair to wonder whether this isn't a first move at proprietizing an IBM Linux, which might not be a bad thing in itself but this is a huge corporation and I, for one, have a difficult time believing they got that way and stayed that way through altruism. This is a Predator as dangerous as Microsoft, maybe more so since they aren't watched like MS is.
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Saltpeter has no proven effect on sexual drive, that's a myth.
When I was eighteen I spent a few months in boot camp with almost no sexual thoughts at all, truly a spectacular event at the time. Plain old stress does a fantastic job without chemical help.
Obviously not, because you're not getting anything from them. Choosing not to buy a thing is not depriving a company of profits, because there were no potential profits to begin with.
I will pirate companies/developers I don't, like the Zelda franchise since they ruined it after Zelda 1(nes), any Square game since FFVII, games by EA, music by anyone popular today, ect
These are stealing. The franchises are so ruined, but you HAVE to play them? Skipping the glaring hypocrisy, if you play the game then it (probably) entertained you. You have received a service. If the service was intended to be only available to people who pay and you do not pay, then you're a thief.
I don't really care what you do - just be honest about it. Have I ever pirated? You bet. And when I did, I stole. And so do you. I don't understand why people who are willing to concede that they are breaking the law are so upset with being called "thief." It's like you don't want to lumped in with common criminals... but if you're breaking the law for nothing more than personal gain, how are you any better?
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Incorrect. Except for the size, DVD-based movies look better on a monitor in every way. Assuming I am watching alone, I would prefer a 21" monitor to a 29" TV every time, and so would you if you had seen it. If you have company, then size is maybe more important. Your statement is ridiculous either way. Movies are made for the big screen, not TV.
sillyputty...and if these people had RUN that, they'd have had the new VM and wouldn't have been affected. But nobody wants to hear that.
sillyputtyThis also allows a legitimate software writer to make a piece of software that will work for a high percentage of the market, so it isn't all bad. Besides, if a significant number of people switch to, say Mozilla, then you'll just see the companies like this invest in exploiting Mozilla.
sillyputtyThat's pretty much how most humans work, already.
see: drugs, sex, extreme sports.
Sometimes when we abuse a right we lose it. Why not block them from using a system they have shown themselves to be incapable of using responsibly?
I remember reading somewhere that, although the illustrations for the books show the scar in the center, the text doesn't mention the exact location. The article further stated that the movie location is where Ms. Rowling wanted it. I have read the HP books, but it's been a while and I no longer have the copies, so I can't verify this, but if you have the text handy you might check your assumptions.
sillyputtyNitpick: it's not illegal to remove the tag on your mattress. That message is not for the end consumer.
Except that, popular perceptions aside, cloning someone isn't like running them through a copier. Identical genetic code does not necessarily create identical organisms. You can only be sure of certain vague traits, such as predisposition to catch/resist certain diseases. But there are no guarantees. It isn't that exact a science, and never will be, although perhaps one day cloning along with other yet-to-be-invented techniques will enable one to produce a Xerox Strike Force.
...and they taught you a great tolerance of opposing viewpoints and not to generalize about people you know nothing of, since instant judgement is the opposite of thinking, correct? Most people are educated in the public system, and though being educated outside that system does necessarily make you a minority, that is in itself not a virtue (a fact that is seemingly not widely grasped among the posters on this site), and is certainly no license for you to categorically denigrate everyone unlike yourself. If you're truly trying to promote your education then you should take a more educated stance on it; as they stand, your statements sound much more like promotion of yourself, not the school. Just a note. -s
X Windows isn't an OS.
When these hackers put on their little performance for the FBI, they were in Seattle, which is well inside American territory. American laws did apply at that time, and it was then that they found themselves arrested and their data copied. Up until then, they were offered false jobs by a fictitious company in the hopes of catching them in criminal activity, but that's far from prosecution. The ethics of "sting"-type operations aside, you won't get caught in a sting if you're truly innocent. Further, I submit that you may be overlooking the apparently vast arrogance and stupidity of the hackers themselves. They deserved to get caught, and I don't think the hacker community is any worse off for their loss. I know that both Russian and American society are better off.
sillyputtyI'd say relative value is more important. I work for a large international bank, and these guys throw around mere thousands of dollars like you and I would that quarter.
I think it's a realistic attitude to have.
As a minority user base, YES we are precluded from some professional applications, because those companies are in business to make money. They're not in business to support the best OS, whichever one judges that to be. They make apps for Windows because that's where the money is. Linux, right now, is where the money is not. There's no compelling financial reason for Bungie to start writing Linux games.
If Linux is to ever become a gaming platform, it will have to do it the same way every other OS and console has - killer games available only on Linux. Until a crack development house churns out several top-tier titles and releases them either Linux-only or at least Linux-first, almost nobody is going to seriously think of Linux and gaming as two great tastes that taste great together.
Because the entire event took place within a school during school hours and involved only minors, and because no law was actually broken, it is permissible for the proceeding to be non-judicial. There is no guarantee in such a system of any rights, nor are there any procedural obligations.
In most cases, this is as it should be. You'd not be appreciative if it took a jury of one's peers to assign detention for chewing gum, thereby wasting even more of your tax dollars on non-educational school time. In most non-judicial arenas there is a rather severe limit on the extent of punishment that may be meted out, and that (to me) is the issue here. If he broke a known school rule and got caught, punishing him in some form is appropriate. Expulsion shouldn't be an option for what appears to have been such an informal review, however.
Suspecting someone of narrowmindedness because of the state they live in is hypocrisy.
I think that could be a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. Game developers must cater to the general user base, and if that base stagnates itself, then it necessarily holds up progress on all but the most cutting-edge games. As long as large strides forward are made in graphics, though, I believe we as a people are largely attracted to the newest and shiniest. Most non-gamers won't see the big graphical improvement from, say, Half-Life to No One Lives Forever unless they see them side-by-side. Once the improvement is more obvious (probably by next year), the cards will continue to sell.
You also make a good point about the developer resources. But how much of that development time/effort/expense is because the engines cannot be reused? A new engine must be built (or licensed and then probably modified heavily) every couple of years. Once the horizon comes closer and we're gaining the 5% from 90 to 95 instead of the huge leaps from Quake II to Unreal Tournament, a much larger jump in which much of the graphical technology for Quake II was unusably obsolete, possibly these costs will go down and improved games will actually come more quickly, as a tweak to Quake VI is enough to warrant a fanfare and Quake VII isn't necessarily required.
Ha ha commoner! Everybody knows that a yaught costs MUCH more than a mere yacht! Ha ha ha! I bet you don't have a limozine, either!
Cool, they even have a negative term for being the best at something and then getting better.
Now, that's cynical.This is going to be around $530, and that's about $70 less than the Voodoo 5 6000 was going to cost, for a card that is miles better than the V5 6K. I would have considered a 6K had they been released, and this is a much better value.
Before I got into gaming, I was into drinking in bars, mostly. $600? Two weeks, tops. Assuming the card lasts more than two weeks and never gives me a hangover, I'd say it's not a bad investment, or at least that I've made worse.Well, since the Hercules press release says the Prophet III will be released in March, and since that's in two days, I don't think the Mac will beat it by many many weeks unless it's released in about two weeks ago.
Sorry, Conspiracy Man. Valentine's Day has been heartlessly (GET IT?) commercialized, but it wasn't invented by the bourgeoisie. The day was chosen to replace an ancient mating ritual I don't recall the details of, and it's in commemoration of St. Valentine, a bishop who was martyred by them mean old ancient Romans. The first Valentine's Day card, as we think of them, dates back to 1870 or thereabouts. You can still rail against The Man for ruining it though...
"What, has IBM misplaced AIX, OS/390, or OS/400?"
For the purposes of this discussion they may as well have. This is an apples-and-oranges comparison, as I see it. I won't dispute IBM's continued donimance in mid-size to large computing installations. Linux is partly about that, but I am coming at this from a monetarily bigger point of view: the mass PC market. Linux may very well have a chance in that arena someday, where the systems you named likely never will.
Ah, the halcyon days of microchannel! There were several things right about the PS/2, aside from that. The Model 60 tower was the first PC I ever saw that required no tools at all to access and work on. I attribute their failure to (very) high prices, the floppy-based BIOS, and the poor decision not to release MCA to the world's hardware developers. My point is that IBM has the engineering to take over the PC market - the questions have been in marketing, timing, and image. This seems to me a good opportunity to improve on at least one of those factors. I don't think IBM has given up, even after the PS/2 and OS/2 marketplace debacles.
If IBM is more flexible and courageous (yes, it takes courage to bring something like this project to your boss, knowing that it's going to cost a lot of time and money and you have no real plan to directly recoup those funds), we have Microsoft to thank. IBM's "new attitude" is definitely that of a hungry company, which is the opposite of what they were when Bill & Co. basically cheated them out of the financial windfall that was DOS, and then later out of Windows.
It's fair to ask yourself whether IBM would be bothering with Linux if they had a successful OS that they had developed in-house. Moreover, I don't think it's unfair to wonder whether this isn't a first move at proprietizing an IBM Linux, which might not be a bad thing in itself but this is a huge corporation and I, for one, have a difficult time believing they got that way and stayed that way through altruism. This is a Predator as dangerous as Microsoft, maybe more so since they aren't watched like MS is.
Maybe I am being overly skeptical?