Personally I'm fairly certain that one of the groups will get into space successfully, though getting back in one piece will be questionable, and being able to do it again in 2 weeks will be near out of the question.
Very interesting! I had not thought of it this way. I'm still not sure that's a very good thing either, [see DSL problems with *bell] but at least it's by the book.
Come on! We're not talking about political opinion, or philanthropy, we're talking about solicitation.
Political solicitation, charitable soliciation either way it's still about money, not people or love. If they weren't soliciting, the DNC list wouldn't apply...
I certainly hope that the FCC is not successful. A government that acts above law leads to nothing good.
I certainly hope this goes through the courts nice and speedily, and that they allow the list. After all, how many "No solicitation" signs are posted around the nation? I'm not up to snuff on case law, though I can't imagine they haven't been tested in court yet... Why would a near identical sign put up regarding telephone solicitation be any different?
But most importantly, this sort of thing should follow the process.
Furthermore, you'd have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that not getting the imagery done caused the loss of life. Given that the consensus is that even if the imagry indicated damage, there was no way to repair it, good luck.
You *might* have a case for depraved indifference, but for every expert that says the foam could cause damage, they could get 1 that said it wouldn't *and* the historical evidence that there wasn't much damage done.
The first time I heard "Holy Shit!" in quake 3 [q3ctf5? railed a guy from under the hallway right as he was going to cap.]
Tribes' "Shazbot!" voicechats
The "Lost in the Zone" entry voice chat for the Twilight Zone pinball machine.
The absolute worst though, is the dull '*thump* *thump*' of Dungeon master on the Amiga as the monsters got closer, and louder. And the bloodcurdling scream [about 3 volume levels louder than any monster noise] when you fell into a pit.
No, the way to totally win the contest is to cryogenically freeze the mouse. Technically the thing will still be alive for years and years...
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And they do it for all the wrong reasons.
Web apps are being chosen because they are the new trend. They do not provide a better platform for the app. They do not provide an open standard for use. They do not provide ubiquitous access. All they provide is a pre-written network transport because far too often webapps are being written by ASP monkeys who couldn't write socket code if their lives depended on it.
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Then why can't the aide inform citizens about the entire issue, just like they inform the representative?
While I mostly agree that having slashdot polls for laws are a bad idea, I'm not so sure that informing the populace is one of the major problems. Having an educated populace in the first place would be a good start...
Nowadays I fear that large companies will require snazzy flashy "professional" sites that will require more than 2 people's spare time to create. And if you're not doing web design for those companies, just do it in your spare time as extra cash, not as a company.
Umm... no. Tropico is as much a political simulation as Monopoly is a hotel construction simulation. Sure theres symbolism there, but from a gameplay perspective it's very minor compared to y'know actual gameplay.
Tropico plays alot more like Roller Coaster Tycoon, or Dungeon Keeper. The kind of build stuff and keep people happy games.
I don't think anyone really has a problem with exclusive downloads if said downloads were available, speedy, and registration free. Fileplanet is currently none of these.
*shrug* the Lionheart Demo was an "exclusive" download, and was free to download on other sites within a few hours of release. I don't imagine any other demo won't follow the same pattern.
Not replication, but manipulation. Given that the majority of things these days even are made of ceramics or plastics which have readily abundant quantities, we just need to fabricate them in the shape/pattern/molecules we want.
To a lesser degree, we do this now and get better every day.
Fusion power is not a limitless power supply. Certainly *very* abundant, though we still have many problems containing and sustaining the reaction, with little to no foreseeable improvements. I may be wrong, in fact there's a good chance I am... but I *do* expect fine molecular manipulation before commercially viable fusion power.
Figure that land isn't *too* important as a surface which recieves [in?]direct sunlight. Basically, the only energy that comes into the earth is sunlight, which must be harnessed somehow, be it via solar panels for electricity or via plants for food. The land isn't so important because by that time I'll assume we can create structures enough to solve that sort of problem. Transitionally I think that yes, there will be some sort of time period where people who own much land will have a great amount of sway over those that don't.
Now away from opinion: Outlook, like most windows apps allows for COM interfaces. Perl, PHP, or heaven forbid Visual Basic have COM interfaces. It's pretty simple to use MS's helpful documentation of the Outlook COM functions to write up your own contact extraction utility. Once you have the data, it's pretty trivial to format it and/or toss it into another DB.
Go ahead, the energy still has to come from somewhere. [and it will be solar energy] Though I'm skeptical that individuals will be able to get enough light to power all of their items, or to do everything they'd like to do.
All these things need power, and all of these things will be developed before good solar power harnessing is implimented [thus practically eliminating that scarcity]
This argument makes the assumption that IT is ever properly staffed in the first place. IT people almost universally want to lessen their workload so it falls more in line with their actual [underfunded] workload capacity!
Rumour has it that the patch doesn't actually work due to various issues, but it *is* known that the patch only fixes the DCOM privledge escalation *NOT THE DAMNED RPC OVERFLOW*
So win2k machines still have their RPC services crashed:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326746
Maybe Microsoft will get their shit together and fix the damned thing properly, or better yet, allow admins to disable the listener on a service that DOESN'T NEED TO LISTEN! grr...
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Personally I'm fairly certain that one of the groups will get into space successfully, though getting back in one piece will be questionable, and being able to do it again in 2 weeks will be near out of the question.
Why are you trusting internal users? Statistically, the hacker won't enter your network; you've already hired him.
Very interesting! I had not thought of it this way. I'm still not sure that's a very good thing either, [see DSL problems with *bell] but at least it's by the book.
Come on! We're not talking about political opinion, or philanthropy, we're talking about solicitation.
Political solicitation, charitable soliciation either way it's still about money, not people or love. If they weren't soliciting, the DNC list wouldn't apply...
I certainly hope that the FCC is not successful. A government that acts above law leads to nothing good.
I certainly hope this goes through the courts nice and speedily, and that they allow the list. After all, how many "No solicitation" signs are posted around the nation? I'm not up to snuff on case law, though I can't imagine they haven't been tested in court yet... Why would a near identical sign put up regarding telephone solicitation be any different?
But most importantly, this sort of thing should follow the process.
Furthermore, you'd have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that not getting the imagery done caused the loss of life. Given that the consensus is that even if the imagry indicated damage, there was no way to repair it, good luck.
You *might* have a case for depraved indifference, but for every expert that says the foam could cause damage, they could get 1 that said it wouldn't *and* the historical evidence that there wasn't much damage done.
Pretty much anything Duke Nukem said.
The first time I heard "Holy Shit!" in quake 3 [q3ctf5? railed a guy from under the hallway right as he was going to cap.]
Tribes' "Shazbot!" voicechats
The "Lost in the Zone" entry voice chat for the Twilight Zone pinball machine.
The absolute worst though, is the dull '*thump* *thump*' of Dungeon master on the Amiga as the monsters got closer, and louder. And the bloodcurdling scream [about 3 volume levels louder than any monster noise] when you fell into a pit.
No, the way to totally win the contest is to cryogenically freeze the mouse. Technically the thing will still be alive for years and years...
And they do it for all the wrong reasons.
Web apps are being chosen because they are the new trend. They do not provide a better platform for the app. They do not provide an open standard for use. They do not provide ubiquitous access. All they provide is a pre-written network transport because far too often webapps are being written by ASP monkeys who couldn't write socket code if their lives depended on it.
Then why can't the aide inform citizens about the entire issue, just like they inform the representative?
While I mostly agree that having slashdot polls for laws are a bad idea, I'm not so sure that informing the populace is one of the major problems. Having an educated populace in the first place would be a good start...
At least we know now how Bush got elected.
Obviously the dead have risen, and they're voting Republican.
Go back in time about 10 years.
Nowadays I fear that large companies will require snazzy flashy "professional" sites that will require more than 2 people's spare time to create. And if you're not doing web design for those companies, just do it in your spare time as extra cash, not as a company.
Umm... no. Tropico is as much a political simulation as Monopoly is a hotel construction simulation. Sure theres symbolism there, but from a gameplay perspective it's very minor compared to y'know actual gameplay.
Tropico plays alot more like Roller Coaster Tycoon, or Dungeon Keeper. The kind of build stuff and keep people happy games.
I don't think anyone really has a problem with exclusive downloads if said downloads were available, speedy, and registration free. Fileplanet is currently none of these.
*shrug* the Lionheart Demo was an "exclusive" download, and was free to download on other sites within a few hours of release. I don't imagine any other demo won't follow the same pattern.
Not replication, but manipulation. Given that the majority of things these days even are made of ceramics or plastics which have readily abundant quantities, we just need to fabricate them in the shape/pattern/molecules we want.
To a lesser degree, we do this now and get better every day.
Fusion power is not a limitless power supply. Certainly *very* abundant, though we still have many problems containing and sustaining the reaction, with little to no foreseeable improvements. I may be wrong, in fact there's a good chance I am... but I *do* expect fine molecular manipulation before commercially viable fusion power.
Well, sort of.
Figure that land isn't *too* important as a surface which recieves [in?]direct sunlight. Basically, the only energy that comes into the earth is sunlight, which must be harnessed somehow, be it via solar panels for electricity or via plants for food. The land isn't so important because by that time I'll assume we can create structures enough to solve that sort of problem. Transitionally I think that yes, there will be some sort of time period where people who own much land will have a great amount of sway over those that don't.
That's because LDAP sucks.
Now away from opinion: Outlook, like most windows apps allows for COM interfaces. Perl, PHP, or heaven forbid Visual Basic have COM interfaces. It's pretty simple to use MS's helpful documentation of the Outlook COM functions to write up your own contact extraction utility. Once you have the data, it's pretty trivial to format it and/or toss it into another DB.
Go ahead, the energy still has to come from somewhere. [and it will be solar energy] Though I'm skeptical that individuals will be able to get enough light to power all of their items, or to do everything they'd like to do.
Energy.
All these things need power, and all of these things will be developed before good solar power harnessing is implimented [thus practically eliminating that scarcity]
And neither is the prohibition of yelling *FIRE!* in a theatre for example.
This argument makes the assumption that IT is ever properly staffed in the first place. IT people almost universally want to lessen their workload so it falls more in line with their actual [underfunded] workload capacity!
Fantasy too. Tolkien's elves [and their derivatives] are one of the better examples of immortality influencing culture.
Rumour has it that the patch doesn't actually work due to various issues, but it *is* known that the patch only fixes the DCOM privledge escalation *NOT THE DAMNED RPC OVERFLOW*
So win2k machines still have their RPC services crashed:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326746
Maybe Microsoft will get their shit together and fix the damned thing properly, or better yet, allow admins to disable the listener on a service that DOESN'T NEED TO LISTEN! grr...
Except for those of us in California of course. We accept our new Austrian Overlords.
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326746
win2k machines are still vulnerable to a dos; even patched.
Thanks microsoft...