If you ave ever been around the Philadelphia area and stop by to get a hoagie from our wonderful Wawa convenience stores, all the touch screens run linux. As do all the Megatouch gaming systems in bars.
No, the character was dirt poor but he had access to some 'central property' that I suppose he might have sold off for series cash. The central aspect is important because the Metaverse was very strict in imposing its metaphor. For example, in Second Life you can teleport to pretty much any area specifically not closed off. On the other hand, you have to literally take a high speed train or program some other type of vehicle and physically move yourself in the Metaverse.
Hiro owned a small apartment in the Hacker quarter which was right in the middle of the area that all other building spread out from. He also made the unfortunate error of selling his stock in the Metaverse operating company. Whoops.
As for bitcoin, just as a quick and rough aside, the problem is that its particular proof-of-work is useless. When you mine bitcoins, you aren't doing any useful labor. A bitcoin operated peer-to-peer economy would be the ultimate bubble. Maybe if you tied its production to computation that actually does something useful.
The real fact is those associated with the movement choose to take the identity of the whole movement. A movement that says, "We are Anonymous and we are gathered together to allow us to do whatever we want. And to prevent you from stopping us." If a Anonymous member rapes somebody and identifies it as an act for Anonymous, well, that sucks but you gave yourself an identity that centered around empowering people to do whatever you want without repercussion.
The correct response at that point is to discard your Anonymous identity, come out, and say 'I am not that nor do I support those who identify themselves with that, Anonymous. I am and I would not rape for the lulz.'
Now, the Christians. You do find people who are not Christian identifying the Religion as a whole with its freak outliers. The media in America is generally Christian-centric so it avoids doing this. The thing is, the Christian faith is not "We do things for the lulz and we band together in anonymity to make it difficult for you to catch and prosecute us." It has a relatively well defined set of morals and principles that you can point to and say, "No, Westboro, no, that is not what Jesus would want." You can generally separate a good Christian from a bad Christian. How do you separate a good Anonymous thug from a bad Anonymous thug?
I am not familiar with the policy behind this. I know you have to pay to get the developers license to put your apps in the app store. So Apple still makes cash from free apps. Does it cost money to deploy these Web Apps?
You lack humor credibility. Way to go. I would tell you to go to DeVry but they don't do CE (Comedic Engineering) degrees, either. Looks like your just shit outta luck.
They aren't a civil disobedience group. Anonymous is a political action group at best. A pretty poor one, too. Civil disobedience hinges on refusing to obey poor laws. This is more like breaking into the house of someone you don't like.
Civil disobedience also is about accepting the consequences of your actions. Like for example, when the followers of MLK did sit-ins at segregated businesses they would be arrested. They would plead guilty, and when bailed out return to the business and continue the sit-in. Anonymous does not do this. In my personal opinion, that makes them simple criminals, not activists of any sort. This is why I stated earlier that they are a political action group only at best.
But by definition they are not a civil disobedience group and it does a great injustice to the memories of Thoreau, Ghandi, Dr. King, and all their followers who have actually dared and risked something to change the world.
This is all a very cute discussion, what with the suggestions of flame throwers and Browning machine guns to deter pirates. The discussion of the morality of deterring pirates is good, too, though a little underwhelming. Obviously, we should try to deter them as it means we don't have to kill them or answer their demands.
But the actual issue is far more practical. http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part2.htm is quiet clear. Any practice or exercise with weapons violates innocent passage. Now, some might say that having a shotgun or some such on a boat is no big deal. Well, everything is a big deal when you're interacting with nations. It's like saying sending one military man into another country to arrest a known criminal is not a big deal. I mean, if a country is frightened of one military man how great of a country can it be? That isn't the point. If Canada or China drops even one military man to hassle even one person under U.S. authority I'm sure you can imagine the controversy and diplomatic firestorms that would cause.
Even a small militarized asset in a given nation's territorial waters is too much for any nation serious about its sovereignty. That is all of them, by the way. The right of innocent passage is main way that we can have a workable system of sea trade. The discussion shouldn't be focused on what can be put on a ship to seriously mess pirates up. Instead, consider whether this qualifies as a weapon that could cause diplomatic issues.
People haven't even played the games that could be generated with this theory and they're already harshing on the technique.
I hope you guys hate fractals and Amazon.com recommendation lists as well. Nothing cool is ever generated procedurally and there is certainly/NO/ creativity involved in initially making these procedures. At all. Really.
Okay, this sounds like bullshit. I have two main points to make and I'd like to get an answer to these reservations.
I don't think that these coupons would be effected by the change over to GPL3. I'm betting they're a not too hard legal fight away, tops, from legally declaring that these coupons were released for a particular legal/business situation and making them not count for GPL3 versions of the product.
And even if this all goes down the way groklaw says it will, I don't believe you could mount an effective legal challenge against Microsoft when they invalidate all the vouchers and offer either a refund or a product of equal monetary value.
I also kind of get the feeling that if these guys waited they coulda sprung this on Microsoft at the first legal challenge they offered and totally took the advantage or at lest made a nice high profile case with more amusing geeky stories following it up. Now, I think the Microsoft legal beagles will shut this down before it comes to anything.
If you don't mind a little perl, http://www.blosxom.com/ is pretty neat. I use it and it's real easy to get up and going, just set up directories, change a few config things, and bam. No db, no php, nothing extra. Very nice and very extensible if you need it.
Apologies but the last sentence should be: Honestly, I would prefer another editor/admin, even if he was more generic or whatever, if he simply understand/what/ the basics of videogame news and general writing were.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed it but Zonk is actually quite a poor writer and editor or admin or whatever the fuck he is. First, he has a poor mastery of the English language. This article strikes it home for me particularly, but his earlier articles have examples of his poor writing style. They simply weren't enough to condemn him. Second, his choice of "video game news," with the quotes self-conscious, is sad or, if you prefer, debatable. This review is okay, aside from massive grammatical errors, but did any else notice when he decided that gametunnel.com's (I don't wanna link) monthly overview of indy games was news? That was sad. I'm glad he seems to have grown out of it but... Anyway, Ummm. Fuck Zonk. He, as far as I can tell, sucks. Honestly, I would really prefer another editor/admin, even if he was more generic or whatever, if he simply understood the basics of video game news and general writing were.
Thinking about this, something comes to me. Both the sperm and egg are alive by those definitions. Life starts BEFORE conception. Thus, every time a girl turns me down it's a crime against god.
I couldn't glean it from wiki but what kind of propulsion and stabilization systems does the probe have? I assume it still needs to correct its orientation every now and then.
They do. The tolls and taxes. Part of most states sale taxes go to subsidizing road costs. The lose of this tax (Wal Mart cheats on taxes through loopholes and off shore accounts) combined with the massive traffic they generate is one of the reasons many economists dislike Wal-Marts effect on small towns.
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Someone prolly already pointed this out, but can't you use pine to access gmail? The best, and worst, of both worlds.
Havin' said that, I used to use pine and now use gmail 'cause I'm lazy. Yay slackers.
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I mean, there are many things you can be nerdy about. My roommate knows so much about football, watchs football, plays videogame football. He drones on and on about football. He is a football nerd. Not an fanatic, 'cause he never/PLAYS/ football but just a nerd. And this book is definatly something to be read by football nerds.
Could it be that the means for delivering good shareware is finally catching up to the amount of data files(Animation and such) that the average spiffy game is employing? I don't mean the small shareware games to kill a few hours, but the larger more pro ones. I know that if I had to sit for a few hours to get my install of Starscape, like I would when I had my modem, I would probably not have bothered.
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If you ave ever been around the Philadelphia area and stop by to get a hoagie from our wonderful Wawa convenience stores, all the touch screens run linux. As do all the Megatouch gaming systems in bars.
No, the character was dirt poor but he had access to some 'central property' that I suppose he might have sold off for series cash. The central aspect is important because the Metaverse was very strict in imposing its metaphor. For example, in Second Life you can teleport to pretty much any area specifically not closed off. On the other hand, you have to literally take a high speed train or program some other type of vehicle and physically move yourself in the Metaverse.
Hiro owned a small apartment in the Hacker quarter which was right in the middle of the area that all other building spread out from. He also made the unfortunate error of selling his stock in the Metaverse operating company. Whoops.
As for bitcoin, just as a quick and rough aside, the problem is that its particular proof-of-work is useless. When you mine bitcoins, you aren't doing any useful labor. A bitcoin operated peer-to-peer economy would be the ultimate bubble. Maybe if you tied its production to computation that actually does something useful.
The real fact is those associated with the movement choose to take the identity of the whole movement. A movement that says, "We are Anonymous and we are gathered together to allow us to do whatever we want. And to prevent you from stopping us." If a Anonymous member rapes somebody and identifies it as an act for Anonymous, well, that sucks but you gave yourself an identity that centered around empowering people to do whatever you want without repercussion.
The correct response at that point is to discard your Anonymous identity, come out, and say 'I am not that nor do I support those who identify themselves with that, Anonymous. I am and I would not rape for the lulz.'
Now, the Christians. You do find people who are not Christian identifying the Religion as a whole with its freak outliers. The media in America is generally Christian-centric so it avoids doing this. The thing is, the Christian faith is not "We do things for the lulz and we band together in anonymity to make it difficult for you to catch and prosecute us." It has a relatively well defined set of morals and principles that you can point to and say, "No, Westboro, no, that is not what Jesus would want." You can generally separate a good Christian from a bad Christian. How do you separate a good Anonymous thug from a bad Anonymous thug?
I am not familiar with the policy behind this. I know you have to pay to get the developers license to put your apps in the app store. So Apple still makes cash from free apps. Does it cost money to deploy these Web Apps?
You lack humor credibility. Way to go. I would tell you to go to DeVry but they don't do CE (Comedic Engineering) degrees, either. Looks like your just shit outta luck.
Man, I should have learned Canadian.
This might be witty in his native tongue.
They aren't a civil disobedience group. Anonymous is a political action group at best. A pretty poor one, too. Civil disobedience hinges on refusing to obey poor laws. This is more like breaking into the house of someone you don't like.
Civil disobedience also is about accepting the consequences of your actions. Like for example, when the followers of MLK did sit-ins at segregated businesses they would be arrested. They would plead guilty, and when bailed out return to the business and continue the sit-in. Anonymous does not do this. In my personal opinion, that makes them simple criminals, not activists of any sort. This is why I stated earlier that they are a political action group only at best.
But by definition they are not a civil disobedience group and it does a great injustice to the memories of Thoreau, Ghandi, Dr. King, and all their followers who have actually dared and risked something to change the world.
This is all a very cute discussion, what with the suggestions of flame throwers and Browning machine guns to deter pirates. The discussion of the morality of deterring pirates is good, too, though a little underwhelming. Obviously, we should try to deter them as it means we don't have to kill them or answer their demands.
But the actual issue is far more practical. http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part2.htm is quiet clear. Any practice or exercise with weapons violates innocent passage. Now, some might say that having a shotgun or some such on a boat is no big deal. Well, everything is a big deal when you're interacting with nations. It's like saying sending one military man into another country to arrest a known criminal is not a big deal. I mean, if a country is frightened of one military man how great of a country can it be? That isn't the point. If Canada or China drops even one military man to hassle even one person under U.S. authority I'm sure you can imagine the controversy and diplomatic firestorms that would cause.
Even a small militarized asset in a given nation's territorial waters is too much for any nation serious about its sovereignty. That is all of them, by the way. The right of innocent passage is main way that we can have a workable system of sea trade. The discussion shouldn't be focused on what can be put on a ship to seriously mess pirates up. Instead, consider whether this qualifies as a weapon that could cause diplomatic issues.
People haven't even played the games that could be generated with this theory and they're already harshing on the technique.
I hope you guys hate fractals and Amazon.com recommendation lists as well. Nothing cool is ever generated procedurally and there is certainly /NO/ creativity involved in initially making these procedures. At all. Really.
Okay, this sounds like bullshit. I have two main points to make and I'd like to get an answer to these reservations.
I don't think that these coupons would be effected by the change over to GPL3. I'm betting they're a not too hard legal fight away, tops, from legally declaring that these coupons were released for a particular legal/business situation and making them not count for GPL3 versions of the product.
And even if this all goes down the way groklaw says it will, I don't believe you could mount an effective legal challenge against Microsoft when they invalidate all the vouchers and offer either a refund or a product of equal monetary value.
I also kind of get the feeling that if these guys waited they coulda sprung this on Microsoft at the first legal challenge they offered and totally took the advantage or at lest made a nice high profile case with more amusing geeky stories following it up. Now, I think the Microsoft legal beagles will shut this down before it comes to anything.
It happens.
If you don't mind a little perl, http://www.blosxom.com/ is pretty neat. I use it and it's real easy to get up and going, just set up directories, change a few config things, and bam. No db, no php, nothing extra. Very nice and very extensible if you need it.
Apologies but the last sentence should be: /what/ the basics of videogame news and general writing were.
Honestly, I would prefer another editor/admin, even if he was more generic or whatever, if he simply understand
Enjoy.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed it but Zonk is actually quite a poor writer and editor or admin or whatever the fuck he is. First, he has a poor mastery of the English language. This article strikes it home for me particularly, but his earlier articles have examples of his poor writing style. They simply weren't enough to condemn him. Second, his choice of "video game news," with the quotes self-conscious, is sad or, if you prefer, debatable. This review is okay, aside from massive grammatical errors, but did any else notice when he decided that gametunnel.com's (I don't wanna link) monthly overview of indy games was news? That was sad. I'm glad he seems to have grown out of it but... Anyway, Ummm. Fuck Zonk. He, as far as I can tell, sucks. Honestly, I would really prefer another editor/admin, even if he was more generic or whatever, if he simply understood the basics of video game news and general writing were.
Thinking about this, something comes to me. Both the sperm and egg are alive by those definitions. Life starts BEFORE conception. Thus, every time a girl turns me down it's a crime against god.
Why would you need to be sued if you weren't a spammer? A simple conversation should suffice.
Zonk, lay off.
And it's already the second time this column has been slashdotted.
I couldn't glean it from wiki but what kind of propulsion and stabilization systems does the probe have? I assume it still needs to correct its orientation every now and then.
They do. The tolls and taxes. Part of most states sale taxes go to subsidizing road costs. The lose of this tax (Wal Mart cheats on taxes through loopholes and off shore accounts) combined with the massive traffic they generate is one of the reasons many economists dislike Wal-Marts effect on small towns.
Someone prolly already pointed this out, but can't you use pine to access gmail?
The best, and worst, of both worlds.
Havin' said that, I used to use pine and now use gmail 'cause I'm lazy. Yay slackers.
I mean, there are many things you can be nerdy about. My roommate knows so much about football, watchs football, plays videogame football. He drones on and on about football. He is a football nerd. Not an fanatic, 'cause he never /PLAYS/ football but just a nerd. And this book is definatly something to be read by football nerds.
Maxim D. P.
The world is ending. Nyah.
Could it be that the means for delivering good shareware is finally catching up to the amount of data files(Animation and such) that the average spiffy game is employing? I don't mean the small shareware games to kill a few hours, but the larger more pro ones. I know that if I had to sit for a few hours to get my install of Starscape, like I would when I had my modem, I would probably not have bothered.
I mean, its cooled, its internet enabled, makes snacks. If it runs quake, it's my new lan-party machine.
Actually, one of them tends to light on fire. Its really quite funny. It would be a good match. I got my money on the dehumi.