I guess the layer count is high, but how does it compare with similar products? I've never thought of it that way. I know layer count does affect the cost of the board itself. I know a guy that does a lot of printed circuit board stuff, I'll ask him how high he's gone.
Anyhoo, I believe that the layer count has to do with the fact that there is a LOT of wiring associated with the particular bus type, er, well I understand that it isn't _really_ a bus, but I don't want to get into the particulars.
It seems every one that parades an interest group on slashdot makes wild generalizations about the "evil" out there, evil business, evil government, evil science, evil technology, evil lawyers, evil this, evil that, trying to promote a serious interest on slashdot is worthless.
Frankly all this activism is getting old on me.
I will note the remark about peta flop is a little out of line, but they try to make themselves out to be the most extreme of the extreme groups and seem to get confused when no one agrees or understands them.
The one thing that gets me is this:
millions of innocent creatures die every day
Do you even have real statistics to back THAT claim up? Millions of creatures die every day? I think that figure is a huge streatch even if it was replaced with every year. Come on, admit it, it is sensationalism.
I am against animal abuse but I am also against sensationalism.
You just don't get it, do you?
disk is short for diskette, which is the traditional name for what are now called floppy disks.
Phillips own the trademark for "Compact Disc"s, and that's how they choose to spell it.
I imagine discus beats both roots. My dictionary shows it as having an oldest known use in 1656.
Frankly I hadn't really noticed the difference and I just switched over to disc because I like how it looks.
IMO, to assign a definitive differentiation is rediculous.
"Worst Episode Ever!"
"Worst Convention Ever!"
"The Collector!"
I don't remember the guy's name either but he's funny when they use him, I think their selective use of him is a good idea though, he won't make a spin-off show alone.
As for the Matrix, it just didn't seem original, in general it followed the standard style over substance. It wasn't a bad movie, it just felt too rushed with almost didly character development, IMO.
Overclocking isn't all that hard, 1 GHz can be bought off the shelf for a low price, its technical superiority is someone else's. The only cooling system _I_ know about that actually takes real knowledge to build is the Kryotech type. To build one of those you need to know refrigeration and how build the entire cycle. Putting more fans in a case isn't hard. Even the trick liquid cooling systems only require basic metal fabrication skills and bravery to risk your computer.
Case design is still a valid part of making the computer sell and look good in a home. Remember when companies only sold varying shades of gray? Lots of imagination there.
IBM tried to sell an all-black PC but that didn't catch on.
I am concerned about the excess amount of fossil fuel usage age considering that many Apple cases are layer of plastic over a layer of metal. Nice one. I like the graphite G4 towers, so it's not totally wasted, but it is using a lot more material than needed just to satisfy silly aesthetic preferences.
I agree whole heartedly. That would be one step toward sanity, although I think the software companies might cry and scream "needless regulation!".
I don't know how many EEs get licenced though, there is a Professional Engineer certification for it. It's not like licencing electricians.
I believe the mission critical software is done by licenced EEs. None of this "Software Engineer" crap where there is no certification or IIRC even a available degree in.
... and you have to admit that Internet Explorer is QUITE a fine browser.
Being the best browser doesn't mean it's any good. I think IE has massive resource leaks, I can't keep a multiple-window session going for more than several hours, less if I browse a lot of image galeries, and multiple window support is bad, you can't have folders in the link bar and hope that the item you click will go to that session. Outlook Express might be very handy but it just can't handle certain kinds of HTML mail without crashing, so sometimes I have my Yahoo account bail it out.
Regardless of platform, x86 or Alpha, and regardless of Win9x or the NT base.
I have to admit that having the exact same bugs across multiple platforms is a tough trick.
BTW: I am on about 58 days uptime on NT4 SP3, on an Alpha RISC machine. I run native and x86 code seamlessly.
Okay, if you have poor directional stability in RWD and snow, *let off the gas!*
I think that is inherently the problem. It usually happens when I am trying to accelerate, and I try to accelerate very slowly mind you, but a sudden slipperier section of road knocked me out. Letting off the gas doesn't do much for me, I am not sure if I even have the response time.
My very main beef with RWD systems is that in itself. IMO they just don't handle very well at all when you have sudden and unpredictable changes in road conditions. The other is that they get stuck easier, I have a friend that owns a Mark VIII and one time he didn't bother to stop by our house because we had some snow in his driveway, a concious decision made *bacause* it was RWD. He passed us and went home only to get stuck in his own driveway. The weight and the power are in totally different places and if the snow isn't perfectly manicured one can run into trouble if you have little momentum. Putting weight in the back is a poor hack at best, IMO. At least the truck has 4WD to make up for it.
I think the handling issue is _much_ more of a platform issue than simply FWD / RWD / AWD.
From 1984 to maybe recently Chrysler made at least one FWD car that outcornered every GM car made up until maybe the C5 (current model) Corvette, as I have been tracking the cornering and slalom ratings in car magazines for quite a while. I have scared people with the way it corners, even with tall tires.
It was the humble Laser / Datona platform, when both cars shared pretty much the same body. Later Lasers were built on a Mitsubishi body style, I believe they handled just about as well. I think the current Neon sport package can outhandle most cars even at twice the price.
I have driven RWD vehicles in unpredictable icy winter conditions with much less luck. Once my rear wheels slipped I had much less directional stability than I would desire, I ended up in the ditch far more often than with FWD vehicles (well 2 and 0), even with a decent weight balance on the rear tires.
Even if I lost traction on an FWD vehicle, I still had momentum, a similar situation would put me in a tailspin on a typical RWD system. The argument that loosing drive traction means loosing steering power on FWD systems don't mean much to me because of the way most diffs are set up. If the diffs were positraction I think I might have much better luck but they aren't on many vehicles that I have noticed.
In many ways you are correct. Right now the standard as it is has an upper limit of 10Mbps, and about 4.5GB per layer.
Your comments make sense assuming that the format will be extended which I do believe it will. The problem is that this mythical extended format does not exist yet, DVHS exists now, IIRC actually has existed commercially before realtime (actually on-the-fly) DVD recorders were put on the market.
Someone else commented that tapes wear out faster. That is true. But I have yet to play any of my DVDs or video tapes any more than 5 times. Even rental VHS tapes do extremely well considering how many times they get played in lots of machines that never get cleaned.
If it doesn't have compression artifacts I'd be happy.
DVDs really aren't capable of HD resolutions without serious artifacting problems, so you need something to fill the gap. Right now DVD recorders cost at least twice as much as D-VHS recorders and don't do HD.
The argument at the moment is moot as few can recieve or playback full HD resolutions.
The problem here is because a high-bandwidth machine can cause _soo_ much havoc on a network.
It is stuff like this that might cause your computer to be blocked. You may do what you want with your computer, but if your computer causes trouble on the network, don't be surprised if your service providers yank your connection. It is your right to do what you want with your computer, but the ISP has a right to not supply an open feed to problem computers.
> I think the Japanese have the right idea with the 'one commecial break every 15 minutes;
> for 2 minutes' thing. Only one break for a half hour show... lovely.
It's like that in England too. America is just too commercial for its own good. Maybe you're just too gullible:-)
Too commercial for its own good? Definitely. The thing is, the length of commercials on the original Japanese airing seems to be rising, or at least higher than people think it is.
Last I checked American broadcasts, about 3/4 of an hour (22.5 minutes) is dedicated to the show, the rest to ads. I am seeing quite a few anime shows that are going to about 23.5 minutes. The most common misconception about anime TV shows is that the original broadcast is always 25 minutes, but I really haven't found that to be the case for any show that I have checked, they usually run short of that, so that's actually about 6 minutes of ads, I just don't know how they are arranged.
I think in the US it is broken to several short breaks just so that there isn't much time to leave the TV and make it back to see the show, or to increase the likelyhood that someone will still be watching the commercial. I keep wondering why we need more ads if we are more gullible? I read about advertisers complaining about the lack of effectiveness of commercials, I wonder if they lack a sense of reality, and a definite lack of creativity on their part.
You didn't offend me, I was curious what it was. Yeah, the villains did bug me too, actually just the stupid morphing boomers - I understand they are bio-engineered but their mutations defy any sense of logic and reality I can put to it. AFIAK, I think it was a teen-aimed series, not really for kids, similar to the new BGC 2040, which I happen to like more, it doesn't have such huge gaping plot holes to show where a budget used to be.
I am not sure which thread this it was in, I too cringe when people have such glorious and gushing praise of one show to the exclusion of others, and gringe when people excessively rip something as trash.
My tastes often run varied. I can appreciate a good deal of anime (95%+ of what I manage to watch) but I can't appreciate the rabidness of enthusiasm that some people put into it. My ratings often run counter to the status quo on some things. I liked Tenchi Universe and New Tenchi (aka Tenchi in Tokyo) as much or more than I liked the OVAs, I guess mostly because there is more of a coherent story within each series, although there is little real connection between each series other than the main characters.
I understand most of the post, but Bubblegum Crisis as moronic? Have you actually watched it?
The two things that are moronic are 1) the name, until you learn the meaning (the situation with the Boomers about ready to explode, the "Bubblegum Crash" is after the 'pop') and 2) the dub. It's not my kind of series but I've found it entertaining.
Kenshin is more than a one man A-team, into the second US released volume he gets good allies, and the show does progress. I have grown to appreciate it but it isn't on my personal must-get list either.
I hear you. Like the computer geek that says popular OSs are totally worthless, the film or music freak that says movies made for the 'commoner' just don't stack up, etc. There is some good stuff out there that is popular, and really it is often up to an individuals tastes.
I do disagree with the original poster though, show for show that I have watched, it seems that anime is markedly better than US cartoons of late (all IMO, but just watch saturday morning once in a while OK?) There is a crudely I assume US animated Jackie Chan show, among many others I just prefer to block out. Even with Japan being said to be in something of a slump they still seem to do alright, at least for what I see that comes here.
As for Cowboy BeBop, I have a hard time believing that there won't be a lot of snips here and there, that's not counting what has to be cut for time slot.
The better theatrical animation seems to go toward Disney's direction, but they have immense budgets. Even I have a hard time comming up with somthing that is all around high quality and original as the Fantasia movies (hey, I liked 2000 OK?).
Sure on average, stuff that is popular isn't as good, but good stuff for any genre tends to be fairly obscure.
Many internet retailers sell DVDs for fairly low prices. I think the entire 6 DVD set of Cowboy BeBop can be had for $130 including shipping.
express.com used to be very good, and they are for in-stock items, just don't order out of stock items.
DVDplanet.com seems to be stocking anime fairly well these days although I don't like their site engineering, quite bloated for modem use. There are a few others but they don't come to mind.
I think it takes three bad deals, but the person of each bad deal has to report it. Just one can too easily be a harrasing thing, but if you get reports from three different people that their deals have gone bad then they yank you.
I think did fine by allowing only finallized sellers & bidders to post feedback because those are official sales that eBay makes money on, and also only official transactions get dispute resolution and bidder insurance.
I thought bids were always retractable, now bid retractions are tracked as part of the user history.
The few times I have accepted a seller offer off eBay's system, without an official item to go along with it, I have done well but I am always cautious because there is often NO RECOURSE if something goes wrong, I have a friend that was suckered by this. The no recourse exposes the buyer to too much risk and since eBay didn't make any money on that transaction, why should they support it?
A more convenient "defer to non-winning bidder" option sounds great.
I know it sounds like money-grubbing on eBays part but there are legitimate non-grubbing reasons why they want to do it.
Thank you, I wasn't about to click fifteen times to get "the list" when they just string it out to the point that it isn't a list, more like a psychology test.
I will admit that I have only played a couple of them and have not heard of a few. Actually I have only played Doom, Quake, Wing Commander, Sim City and maybe Mechwarrior II.
Are any of these combat overhead view strategy games like WarCraft, Command & Conquer or Total Annihilation? Sorry I don't know the 'lingo', but I really liked this style game.
I don't see anything wrong with what the Catholic Church is doing. They are providing a service at a price. Too high a price? Keep in mind that price has galaxies more significance than just money cost. Try to start another ISP. The fact that you can request the filtering to be turned off (and they'll turn it off) is telling, so in short this is a standard rubber-stamp slashdot overreaction.
I am not sure getting the internet for all is even a worthwhile goal, it just seems like progress without purpose. I know I spend my time on stupid sites like Slashdot rather than self-improvement type sites, so the 'net for me has a negative influence on my time.;)
If you think about it, the pOrn industry is the first to really profit from the internet. Do I really agree with filtering? Not really. Should an organization that is likely loosing money providing internet service to private homes be _required_ to filter or to not filter? No. I think even the Phillipines is a capitalist country with some amount of freedom in that respect.
The thing is that governments have to provide services that no business can, I have no idea how they'd get money for something like free public schooling for all children or a justice system without some sort of odd payment collection system called taxes.
I also really don't care what some rediculous writer's association wants, selling used books has been legal for a long time, if it weren't, how would a college bookstore be in the clear? My college is _very_ concientious about IP, permissions and copyrights, and they sell used books. You can't play videos in a dorm and apartment basements because it technically amounts to a public showing, even though only members and guests of the building are allowed in the area.
I guess Stallman IS right that attempts will be made like this, I didn't think he would be when I read his writings six years ago.
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I guess the layer count is high, but how does it compare with similar products? I've never thought of it that way. I know layer count does affect the cost of the board itself. I know a guy that does a lot of printed circuit board stuff, I'll ask him how high he's gone.
Anyhoo, I believe that the layer count has to do with the fact that there is a LOT of wiring associated with the particular bus type, er, well I understand that it isn't _really_ a bus, but I don't want to get into the particulars.
Sorry dude, but people other than you DO understand Japanese, and get the joke.
That is such an inside joke, no pun intended, that not that many people would get it unless brought to their attention.
True, partly to nitpick and make excuses. But..
It seems every one that parades an interest group on slashdot makes wild generalizations about the "evil" out there, evil business, evil government, evil science, evil technology, evil lawyers, evil this, evil that, trying to promote a serious interest on slashdot is worthless.
Frankly all this activism is getting old on me.
I will note the remark about peta flop is a little out of line, but they try to make themselves out to be the most extreme of the extreme groups and seem to get confused when no one agrees or understands them.
The one thing that gets me is this:
millions of innocent creatures die every day
Do you even have real statistics to back THAT claim up? Millions of creatures die every day? I think that figure is a huge streatch even if it was replaced with every year. Come on, admit it, it is sensationalism.
I am against animal abuse but I am also against sensationalism.
Apparently not serious enough of an issue to convince you to log in to make a real discussion of it?
Definitive answer!
"Alternative spelling of disk . Disc is often used for optical discs, while disk generally refers to magnetic discs, but there is no real rule."
What part of "there is no real rule" makes it definitive?
Of course this is all moot anyways, all my MiniDiscs have exactly that spelling: MiniDisc.
You just don't get it, do you?
disk is short for diskette, which is the traditional name for what are now called floppy disks.
Phillips own the trademark for "Compact Disc"s, and that's how they choose to spell it.
I imagine discus beats both roots. My dictionary shows it as having an oldest known use in 1656.
Frankly I hadn't really noticed the difference and I just switched over to disc because I like how it looks.
IMO, to assign a definitive differentiation is rediculous.
"Worst Episode Ever!"
"Worst Convention Ever!"
"The Collector!"
I don't remember the guy's name either but he's funny when they use him, I think their selective use of him is a good idea though, he won't make a spin-off show alone.
As for the Matrix, it just didn't seem original, in general it followed the standard style over substance. It wasn't a bad movie, it just felt too rushed with almost didly character development, IMO.
Overclocking isn't all that hard, 1 GHz can be bought off the shelf for a low price, its technical superiority is someone else's. The only cooling system _I_ know about that actually takes real knowledge to build is the Kryotech type. To build one of those you need to know refrigeration and how build the entire cycle. Putting more fans in a case isn't hard. Even the trick liquid cooling systems only require basic metal fabrication skills and bravery to risk your computer.
Case design is still a valid part of making the computer sell and look good in a home. Remember when companies only sold varying shades of gray? Lots of imagination there.
IBM tried to sell an all-black PC but that didn't catch on.
I am concerned about the excess amount of fossil fuel usage age considering that many Apple cases are layer of plastic over a layer of metal. Nice one. I like the graphite G4 towers, so it's not totally wasted, but it is using a lot more material than needed just to satisfy silly aesthetic preferences.
Thanks for the link. It's very interesting that it is the IEEE doing this and not the ACM or other computer science related professional organization.
I agree whole heartedly. That would be one step toward sanity, although I think the software companies might cry and scream "needless regulation!".
I don't know how many EEs get licenced though, there is a Professional Engineer certification for it. It's not like licencing electricians.
I believe the mission critical software is done by licenced EEs. None of this "Software Engineer" crap where there is no certification or IIRC even a available degree in.
... and you have to admit that Internet Explorer is QUITE a fine browser.
Being the best browser doesn't mean it's any good. I think IE has massive resource leaks, I can't keep a multiple-window session going for more than several hours, less if I browse a lot of image galeries, and multiple window support is bad, you can't have folders in the link bar and hope that the item you click will go to that session. Outlook Express might be very handy but it just can't handle certain kinds of HTML mail without crashing, so sometimes I have my Yahoo account bail it out.
Regardless of platform, x86 or Alpha, and regardless of Win9x or the NT base.
I have to admit that having the exact same bugs across multiple platforms is a tough trick.
BTW: I am on about 58 days uptime on NT4 SP3, on an Alpha RISC machine. I run native and x86 code seamlessly.
Okay, if you have poor directional stability in RWD and snow, *let off the gas!*
I think that is inherently the problem. It usually happens when I am trying to accelerate, and I try to accelerate very slowly mind you, but a sudden slipperier section of road knocked me out. Letting off the gas doesn't do much for me, I am not sure if I even have the response time.
My very main beef with RWD systems is that in itself. IMO they just don't handle very well at all when you have sudden and unpredictable changes in road conditions. The other is that they get stuck easier, I have a friend that owns a Mark VIII and one time he didn't bother to stop by our house because we had some snow in his driveway, a concious decision made *bacause* it was RWD. He passed us and went home only to get stuck in his own driveway. The weight and the power are in totally different places and if the snow isn't perfectly manicured one can run into trouble if you have little momentum. Putting weight in the back is a poor hack at best, IMO. At least the truck has 4WD to make up for it.
I think the handling issue is _much_ more of a platform issue than simply FWD / RWD / AWD.
From 1984 to maybe recently Chrysler made at least one FWD car that outcornered every GM car made up until maybe the C5 (current model) Corvette, as I have been tracking the cornering and slalom ratings in car magazines for quite a while. I have scared people with the way it corners, even with tall tires.
It was the humble Laser / Datona platform, when both cars shared pretty much the same body. Later Lasers were built on a Mitsubishi body style, I believe they handled just about as well. I think the current Neon sport package can outhandle most cars even at twice the price.
I have driven RWD vehicles in unpredictable icy winter conditions with much less luck. Once my rear wheels slipped I had much less directional stability than I would desire, I ended up in the ditch far more often than with FWD vehicles (well 2 and 0), even with a decent weight balance on the rear tires.
Even if I lost traction on an FWD vehicle, I still had momentum, a similar situation would put me in a tailspin on a typical RWD system. The argument that loosing drive traction means loosing steering power on FWD systems don't mean much to me because of the way most diffs are set up. If the diffs were positraction I think I might have much better luck but they aren't on many vehicles that I have noticed.
In many ways you are correct. Right now the standard as it is has an upper limit of 10Mbps, and about 4.5GB per layer.
Your comments make sense assuming that the format will be extended which I do believe it will. The problem is that this mythical extended format does not exist yet, DVHS exists now, IIRC actually has existed commercially before realtime (actually on-the-fly) DVD recorders were put on the market.
Someone else commented that tapes wear out faster. That is true. But I have yet to play any of my DVDs or video tapes any more than 5 times. Even rental VHS tapes do extremely well considering how many times they get played in lots of machines that never get cleaned.
So buy a tape rewinder.
If it doesn't have compression artifacts I'd be happy.
DVDs really aren't capable of HD resolutions without serious artifacting problems, so you need something to fill the gap. Right now DVD recorders cost at least twice as much as D-VHS recorders and don't do HD.
The argument at the moment is moot as few can recieve or playback full HD resolutions.
The problem here is because a high-bandwidth machine can cause _soo_ much havoc on a network.
It is stuff like this that might cause your computer to be blocked. You may do what you want with your computer, but if your computer causes trouble on the network, don't be surprised if your service providers yank your connection. It is your right to do what you want with your computer, but the ISP has a right to not supply an open feed to problem computers.
> I think the Japanese have the right idea with the 'one commecial break every 15 minutes;
> for 2 minutes' thing. Only one break for a half hour show... lovely.
It's like that in England too. America is just too commercial for its own good. Maybe you're just too gullible
Too commercial for its own good? Definitely. The thing is, the length of commercials on the original Japanese airing seems to be rising, or at least higher than people think it is.
Last I checked American broadcasts, about 3/4 of an hour (22.5 minutes) is dedicated to the show, the rest to ads. I am seeing quite a few anime shows that are going to about 23.5 minutes. The most common misconception about anime TV shows is that the original broadcast is always 25 minutes, but I really haven't found that to be the case for any show that I have checked, they usually run short of that, so that's actually about 6 minutes of ads, I just don't know how they are arranged.
I think in the US it is broken to several short breaks just so that there isn't much time to leave the TV and make it back to see the show, or to increase the likelyhood that someone will still be watching the commercial. I keep wondering why we need more ads if we are more gullible? I read about advertisers complaining about the lack of effectiveness of commercials, I wonder if they lack a sense of reality, and a definite lack of creativity on their part.
You didn't offend me, I was curious what it was. Yeah, the villains did bug me too, actually just the stupid morphing boomers - I understand they are bio-engineered but their mutations defy any sense of logic and reality I can put to it. AFIAK, I think it was a teen-aimed series, not really for kids, similar to the new BGC 2040, which I happen to like more, it doesn't have such huge gaping plot holes to show where a budget used to be.
I am not sure which thread this it was in, I too cringe when people have such glorious and gushing praise of one show to the exclusion of others, and gringe when people excessively rip something as trash.
My tastes often run varied. I can appreciate a good deal of anime (95%+ of what I manage to watch) but I can't appreciate the rabidness of enthusiasm that some people put into it. My ratings often run counter to the status quo on some things. I liked Tenchi Universe and New Tenchi (aka Tenchi in Tokyo) as much or more than I liked the OVAs, I guess mostly because there is more of a coherent story within each series, although there is little real connection between each series other than the main characters.
I understand most of the post, but Bubblegum Crisis as moronic? Have you actually watched it?
The two things that are moronic are 1) the name, until you learn the meaning (the situation with the Boomers about ready to explode, the "Bubblegum Crash" is after the 'pop') and 2) the dub. It's not my kind of series but I've found it entertaining.
Kenshin is more than a one man A-team, into the second US released volume he gets good allies, and the show does progress. I have grown to appreciate it but it isn't on my personal must-get list either.
I hear you. Like the computer geek that says popular OSs are totally worthless, the film or music freak that says movies made for the 'commoner' just don't stack up, etc. There is some good stuff out there that is popular, and really it is often up to an individuals tastes.
I do disagree with the original poster though, show for show that I have watched, it seems that anime is markedly better than US cartoons of late (all IMO, but just watch saturday morning once in a while OK?) There is a crudely I assume US animated Jackie Chan show, among many others I just prefer to block out. Even with Japan being said to be in something of a slump they still seem to do alright, at least for what I see that comes here.
As for Cowboy BeBop, I have a hard time believing that there won't be a lot of snips here and there, that's not counting what has to be cut for time slot.
The better theatrical animation seems to go toward Disney's direction, but they have immense budgets. Even I have a hard time comming up with somthing that is all around high quality and original as the Fantasia movies (hey, I liked 2000 OK?).
Sure on average, stuff that is popular isn't as good, but good stuff for any genre tends to be fairly obscure.
Many internet retailers sell DVDs for fairly low prices. I think the entire 6 DVD set of Cowboy BeBop can be had for $130 including shipping.
express.com used to be very good, and they are for in-stock items, just don't order out of stock items.
DVDplanet.com seems to be stocking anime fairly well these days although I don't like their site engineering, quite bloated for modem use. There are a few others but they don't come to mind.
I think it takes three bad deals, but the person of each bad deal has to report it. Just one can too easily be a harrasing thing, but if you get reports from three different people that their deals have gone bad then they yank you.
I think did fine by allowing only finallized sellers & bidders to post feedback because those are official sales that eBay makes money on, and also only official transactions get dispute resolution and bidder insurance.
I thought bids were always retractable, now bid retractions are tracked as part of the user history.
The few times I have accepted a seller offer off eBay's system, without an official item to go along with it, I have done well but I am always cautious because there is often NO RECOURSE if something goes wrong, I have a friend that was suckered by this. The no recourse exposes the buyer to too much risk and since eBay didn't make any money on that transaction, why should they support it?
A more convenient "defer to non-winning bidder" option sounds great.
I know it sounds like money-grubbing on eBays part but there are legitimate non-grubbing reasons why they want to do it.
Thank you, I wasn't about to click fifteen times to get "the list" when they just string it out to the point that it isn't a list, more like a psychology test.
I will admit that I have only played a couple of them and have not heard of a few. Actually I have only played Doom, Quake, Wing Commander, Sim City and maybe Mechwarrior II.
Are any of these combat overhead view strategy games like WarCraft, Command & Conquer or Total Annihilation? Sorry I don't know the 'lingo', but I really liked this style game.
Agreed.
;)
I don't see anything wrong with what the Catholic Church is doing. They are providing a service at a price. Too high a price? Keep in mind that price has galaxies more significance than just money cost. Try to start another ISP. The fact that you can request the filtering to be turned off (and they'll turn it off) is telling, so in short this is a standard rubber-stamp slashdot overreaction.
I am not sure getting the internet for all is even a worthwhile goal, it just seems like progress without purpose. I know I spend my time on stupid sites like Slashdot rather than self-improvement type sites, so the 'net for me has a negative influence on my time.
If you think about it, the pOrn industry is the first to really profit from the internet. Do I really agree with filtering? Not really. Should an organization that is likely loosing money providing internet service to private homes be _required_ to filter or to not filter? No. I think even the Phillipines is a capitalist country with some amount of freedom in that respect.
Alas, much adeu about zilch.
You definitely have a point there.
The thing is that governments have to provide services that no business can, I have no idea how they'd get money for something like free public schooling for all children or a justice system without some sort of odd payment collection system called taxes.
I also really don't care what some rediculous writer's association wants, selling used books has been legal for a long time, if it weren't, how would a college bookstore be in the clear? My college is _very_ concientious about IP, permissions and copyrights, and they sell used books. You can't play videos in a dorm and apartment basements because it technically amounts to a public showing, even though only members and guests of the building are allowed in the area.
I guess Stallman IS right that attempts will be made like this, I didn't think he would be when I read his writings six years ago.