I submitted this the day it happened on a local news station (here). North Thurston school district is across the street. I guess it has to be posted on c|net before it can get on the main page =)
I think many turn based games have been replaced by more brain taxing RTS games. Part of the difficulty in RTS games is coming up with descisions rapidly, much more than turn based games. Take chess for example. If you dont have a timer a person may go through every consequence and decide if its a good move (supported by this statement on page 4 "TBGs are very time-consuming. To plan out all the moves of your characters in an SSI gold box game, or to move every trooper in X-Com, or (especially) to plot the movement of divisions and corps in a war-game - that's brutal work."). That might bring a bad chess player up to someone who can make the descision in a second. Stick on a timer and the better person will win. Well a RTS game is like that except of course timed chess isn't really RTS but if they had it I'm sure it would get the brain goin a little more =D A level of pressure can also be added, and also visual intensity. So a simple answer to your question, they were replaced by better games. So I fail to see a "problem" with the dissapearing TB games.
You're right that public schools are not a unalienable right. But I don't think its right for people to take that away because he did something that IS his right. And when you punish someone for something that is his right, you're saying its not okay to excercise their rights, and that is wrong. And this wasn't inside school or with school resources. So I dont think your comparison of a drivers liscense is just. If I go to the DMV and pass my test, I get a liscense. If I make a parody of the DMV in a viagra commercial, they have no right to take away my license. Nothing in the article said he was a bad student (it did say he graduated).
This sounds overly buzz-wordy like they're trying to sell something. Take this for example:
"And Powell employs a formidable arsenal of remedies. He can have almost any Web page removed from the Internet in hours. He can have a suspect's Internet connection turned off -- pedestrian dial-up or fancy broadband -- within days. He has single-handedly rendered entire news groups suitable only for spam and porn. By pressuring large ISPs, he has made entire areas of the Internet a danger zone to pirates hoping to trade in his client's software. "
"Well, the P4 has bugs in it. wanna bet that the P10 @ 10 Ghz will have bugs too?:o)
As more and more people turn to AMD, Intel is trying everything they can to turn the tide. Thruth is, the inventors of the cpu are getting there ass kicked by AMD, and they can't stop em..."
What support you got? You made 4 unsupported statements, and you even made some more unsupported statements based on the unsupported statements. Please, elabortate =)
Everyone knows that having a trademark should give no rights to the domain name. But has there been a precedent set that I missed? Do these people actually have a case if they want it?
I'm surprised they didn't start with a civil lawsuit or a cease and decist order. And I would be even more surprised if they have any case since it obviously sounds like a parody. Does the fact that it has to do with the police department cancel that out, or what?
The guy keeps on saying how paranoid he is, so his statements would be skewed right there. But the guy give NO support for his ideas. He makes obscure references to other slashdot articles that could be argued even if he did point out the specifics. And all the articles that have corporations censoring stuff don't matter anyway. Like the Napster, Nazi thing. That is not what I would consider a loss of my rights. Napster cannot keep me from listening to white pride music or something. And the government won't try. Napster is a "private" service, they can do whatever they want. Same with porn censoring companies and whatnot. And then he goes on like moving to another country is going to help, it's the internet!
No, I honestly don't believe that a stricter language is the next step anywhere. Remember, in the internet, a step that helps stupid people do more is key. Like AOL and IE. Its almost common now for people to leave out html tags and the browsers don't care. The other thing that seems to drive a lot of people is the way it looks. If they cant have browser specific custom scroll bars or annoying DHTML/flash they get bored. So I think the next step, if XHTML is even in the equation, are programs that write XHTML or some type of action that just makes XHTML more like HTML.
"Compared to the rich functionality of HTML 4, XHTML Basic may look like one step back, but in fact, it is two steps forward for clients that do not need what is in HTML 4.."
Is that saying that a simple HTML may be better for people that don't need everything in HTML 4? Id understand if it was "for an audience that cant read full featured HTML 4", but if you dont need something in HTML 4, you just dont use it?
It says somewhere in the @home agreement that the modem is included (leased) in the monthly fee. Although it does say that the agreement can be changed at any time without notice.. But anyway they have never sold cable modems, or at least they haven't offered them to me. Ill call them. (though daddy needs a new sound system anyway)
Turns quake into Tron, why would they call that a feature? I haven't seen anyone run fast enough to make a blur anyway. To be realistic the whole screen should blur when you change directions quickly, but screw that, I want to see what Im shooting at.
I was told when I was 5 that "he told me to do it" excuses didn't work.
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If I was responsible for taking care of multiblillion dollar space stations I wouldn't trust myself with a cup of coffee. Certainly not with a pint(or.. 7) of ale.
They arent signed to BMG. You cant trade it.
Seems to me like they would want songs to be traded *only* if they are from a different label. Unless they abandon their whole theory that trading reduces sales.
Where do your tax dollars go? I mean, what country? If I live in Russia, do your tax dollars go towards keeping secrets from me? You bet. I'm sure if letting the secret out benefitted your country (some random unamed one) they would let you know. And obviously since you could be from any country, it shows that telling 1 (random unamed countries) tax payer would let secrets out to the whole world.
Now I can fufill my dream to teach Maylasia, and other 3rd world countries, reading and writing via telecommuting.. Do you I get to donate my canned goods this way too?
*Dont throw that 486 away! Think about the maylasians with only commodore64's!*
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I submitted this the day it happened on a local news station (here). North Thurston school district is across the street. I guess it has to be posted on c|net before it can get on the main page =)
I think many turn based games have been replaced by more brain taxing RTS games. Part of the difficulty in RTS games is coming up with descisions rapidly, much more than turn based games. Take chess for example. If you dont have a timer a person may go through every consequence and decide if its a good move (supported by this statement on page 4 "TBGs are very time-consuming. To plan out all the moves of your characters in an SSI gold box game, or to move every trooper in X-Com, or (especially) to plot the movement of divisions and corps in a war-game - that's brutal work."). That might bring a bad chess player up to someone who can make the descision in a second. Stick on a timer and the better person will win. Well a RTS game is like that except of course timed chess isn't really RTS but if they had it I'm sure it would get the brain goin a little more =D A level of pressure can also be added, and also visual intensity. So a simple answer to your question, they were replaced by better games. So I fail to see a "problem" with the dissapearing TB games.
You're right that public schools are not a unalienable right. But I don't think its right for people to take that away because he did something that IS his right. And when you punish someone for something that is his right, you're saying its not okay to excercise their rights, and that is wrong. And this wasn't inside school or with school resources. So I dont think your comparison of a drivers liscense is just. If I go to the DMV and pass my test, I get a liscense. If I make a parody of the DMV in a viagra commercial, they have no right to take away my license. Nothing in the article said he was a bad student (it did say he graduated).
This sounds overly buzz-wordy like they're trying to sell something. Take this for example:
"And Powell employs a formidable arsenal of remedies. He can have almost any Web page removed from the Internet in hours. He can have a suspect's Internet connection turned off -- pedestrian dial-up or fancy broadband -- within days. He has single-handedly rendered entire news groups suitable only for spam and porn. By pressuring large ISPs, he has made entire areas of the Internet a danger zone to pirates hoping to trade in his client's software. "
They could have just said "He's an asshole"
No, the student was awarded $62,000, the lawyer took $52,000 of that.
"Well, the P4 has bugs in it. wanna bet that the P10 @ 10 Ghz will have bugs too? :o)
As more and more people turn to AMD, Intel is trying everything they can to turn the tide. Thruth is, the inventors of the cpu are getting there ass kicked by AMD, and they can't stop em..."
What support you got? You made 4 unsupported statements, and you even made some more unsupported statements based on the unsupported statements. Please, elabortate =)
Everyone knows that having a trademark should give no rights to the domain name. But has there been a precedent set that I missed? Do these people actually have a case if they want it?
I'm surprised they didn't start with a civil lawsuit or a cease and decist order. And I would be even more surprised if they have any case since it obviously sounds like a parody. Does the fact that it has to do with the police department cancel that out, or what?
Doesn't that wreck the whole MAD agreement?
The guy keeps on saying how paranoid he is, so his statements would be skewed right there. But the guy give NO support for his ideas. He makes obscure references to other slashdot articles that could be argued even if he did point out the specifics. And all the articles that have corporations censoring stuff don't matter anyway. Like the Napster, Nazi thing. That is not what I would consider a loss of my rights. Napster cannot keep me from listening to white pride music or something. And the government won't try. Napster is a "private" service, they can do whatever they want. Same with porn censoring companies and whatnot. And then he goes on like moving to another country is going to help, it's the internet!
No, I honestly don't believe that a stricter language is the next step anywhere. Remember, in the internet, a step that helps stupid people do more is key. Like AOL and IE. Its almost common now for people to leave out html tags and the browsers don't care. The other thing that seems to drive a lot of people is the way it looks. If they cant have browser specific custom scroll bars or annoying DHTML/flash they get bored. So I think the next step, if XHTML is even in the equation, are programs that write XHTML or some type of action that just makes XHTML more like HTML.
"Compared to the rich functionality of HTML 4, XHTML Basic may look like one step back, but in fact, it is two steps forward for clients that do not need what is in HTML 4.."
Is that saying that a simple HTML may be better for people that don't need everything in HTML 4? Id understand if it was "for an audience that cant read full featured HTML 4", but if you dont need something in HTML 4, you just dont use it?
It says somewhere in the @home agreement that the modem is included (leased) in the monthly fee. Although it does say that the agreement can be changed at any time without notice.. But anyway they have never sold cable modems, or at least they haven't offered them to me. Ill call them. (though daddy needs a new sound system anyway)
Turns quake into Tron, why would they call that a feature? I haven't seen anyone run fast enough to make a blur anyway. To be realistic the whole screen should blur when you change directions quickly, but screw that, I want to see what Im shooting at.
I was told when I was 5 that "he told me to do it" excuses didn't work.
If I was responsible for taking care of multiblillion dollar space stations I wouldn't trust myself with a cup of coffee. Certainly not with a pint(or.. 7) of ale.
They arent signed to BMG. You cant trade it. Seems to me like they would want songs to be traded *only* if they are from a different label. Unless they abandon their whole theory that trading reduces sales.
MP4 has been around for a while as far as I know with a standard already set.
I couldn't load the site to see if it was on the list (slashdotted maybe), but this linux/mac game looked pretty cool: Parsec
Why dont they just lower prices? If they are abusing their monopoly, dropping their prices should be a piece of cake.
Where do your tax dollars go? I mean, what country? If I live in Russia, do your tax dollars go towards keeping secrets from me? You bet. I'm sure if letting the secret out benefitted your country (some random unamed one) they would let you know. And obviously since you could be from any country, it shows that telling 1 (random unamed countries) tax payer would let secrets out to the whole world.
Now we will have even more cameras pointed at peoples genitals.. You know that's what they made it for.
Now I can fufill my dream to teach Maylasia, and other 3rd world countries, reading and writing via telecommuting.. Do you I get to donate my canned goods this way too? *Dont throw that 486 away! Think about the maylasians with only commodore64's!*
With Bush president, Saturday Night Live will never run out of material again!
I was thinking a battlebots rip off, but these guys got it going on. I will be watching it for sure.
I would be pretty pissed off if my robot person starting kicking my $1300 robot dog.