GENCON had a need to become more family-friendly. Their core participants now have families. I've been going every year since I was in grade school when it was held at UofW Parkside. My cousin who took me now has a 14 year old son. I have kids ages 3 & 5. The next generation os GENCONers isn't walking to Indy by themselves, they are being brought with their parents who have been going for years.
Now, I loved Milwaukee, but Indy is a great town. There is plenty of things for the kids to do when they are not gaming. They went to the zoo and the Colts game. I also like being able to get a room near the center. Milwaukee was just too small. The Safe House might well have been the greatest bar ever, but The Ram does a great job and gives back more to the gamers than any other place I've seen in my 20+ years attending. Party in the plaza Thursday night? All the food and drink was donated by The Ram.
Check out the promises the republican national committie and the City of Boston made during the conventions. Boston installed thousands of cameras throught the city, to provide added security for the republican convention. Boston promised to take them down as soon as the convention was over.
Call me crazy, but New York hosted the Republican National Convention. Boston hosted the Democrats. Here is your clue: John Kerry is Senator of what state?
I am wondering why he is launching Gizmo before he has a version that will run on his OS? I know that Windows is the big dog, but if you own a Linux company, you might want to release a Linux version at launch.
Because, scientifically, there is no real debate anymore over whether or not man is impacting the climate and causing global warming.
Your statement is true. The debate is over how much man in impacting climate change. The Earth has been through many, many periods in its history where it was warmer than it is today. This was before cars or factories. It managed to cool itself down.
There is still much debate about global warming in scientific circles. There is much less debate in the media.
Dude, Flash has over 90% of the audience. It's as heavily-used as PDF and comes standard with most web browsers. If you can't view a page with Flash on it, that's your fault for not spending five minutes to download it.
Unless, of course, you are running a 64-bit version of the browser on SuSE 9.3 or Windows XP-64. Of course, I don't really miss the flash that much except for the games.
In Illinois for the primary we walk in, provide our names (and maybe ID) and then ask for the ballot of the party we wish to vote for in the primary. This is usually recorded in the big book. So anyone looking at voting records knows I voted in the Republican primary in 2000 and the Democratic primary in 2004. But they still don't know which candidate I voted for.
Perhaps somebody can convince the author of the program to "accidently" release the source code into the GPL or something.
No real need to release the code under the GPL. Just release the code. Release the code to the public domain and let EVERYONE go nuts. There could be 500 new versions by the end of the week. Let the movie companies go after all of them.
Although that is probably covered in his legal settlement.
Are you sure he is a terrorist? He has denied involvement and been found not guilty twice in Venezuelan courts. They now want him back to try him a third time. I know that your more enlightened countries allow a person to be charged multiple times with the same crime, but we have a little something against that here in the backwards United States.
Yes, I second that. This is a very good book. Available as an audiobook too, for listening during the commute to work (which is how I "read" the book).
(ii) has not been made available in copies for sale to the general public in the United States in a format intended to permit viewing outside a motion picture exhibition facility.'.
Ok, it will probably take a judge to decide this, but does this mean that once screeners are released to video stores and other media that the motion picture is no longer considered unreleased?
Also, from my reading of the bill, this only applies to computer transmition. You will not face this penalty if you sell the pre-released movie on the street.
First, we arne't Bush bashing. He wasn't really involved with this bill. It's bashing the Republicans and their love of the religious right.
Damn those nuts on the religious right like cosponsors Sen Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT). The bill's sponsor list is a strange mix of Senators from both the Christian crowd and the Hollywood crowd. In fact, it leans more towards the Hollywood crowd since Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) is a big fan of the MPAA and RIAA.
I guess the simple solution is not to pirate pre-released movies. Is that really so hard?
If his teacher has any sense, (s)he will sit the boy down and explain the tricky legal issues involved in doing a parody, and how to do it right.
Sure because I always seek legal advice from art school teachers. You might have found a group that knows less about the law than most Slashdot posters.
I've definitely seen Linux go backwards over the last few years and it pains me, because by now it COULD have been ready for the desktop.
As a long-time Windows user and recent Linux user, I have to say that you are only partially correct. I would not want to give my Dad a Linux distro and let him try to get his computer to work like it does with Windows. He could figure it out in time, but it would be a struggle. I am facing the same problems with my conversion to SuSE.
No matter how smart my father and I may be, we are not in the majority of desktop users. The majority use a preconfigured workstation at their place of employment. It is usally set up and maintained by the IT staff. If you plop a Linux desktop in front of the majority of users in an office setting, it won't take any more or less training than upgrading from W2K to XP.
Most people of my age didn't learn Windows at home. My home computer ran TRS-DOS and CP/M. School had dumb terminals hooked up to IBM and Unix. No one ran Windows at home until they first saw it at work. And it was no great shakes to start out.
So wait. If I use the Gimp to edit my pictures, they then fall under the GPL? If I wrote a document in OpenOffice, does it become GPL?
I think that a font is a tool like anything else. The product from that tool isn't under the GPL, but if you include that tool in another tool, that tool will be under the GPL.
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Until you cut that in half.
GENCON had a need to become more family-friendly. Their core participants now have families. I've been going every year since I was in grade school when it was held at UofW Parkside. My cousin who took me now has a 14 year old son. I have kids ages 3 & 5. The next generation os GENCONers isn't walking to Indy by themselves, they are being brought with their parents who have been going for years.
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Now, I loved Milwaukee, but Indy is a great town. There is plenty of things for the kids to do when they are not gaming. They went to the zoo and the Colts game. I also like being able to get a room near the center. Milwaukee was just too small. The Safe House might well have been the greatest bar ever, but The Ram does a great job and gives back more to the gamers than any other place I've seen in my 20+ years attending. Party in the plaza Thursday night? All the food and drink was donated by The Ram.
And you only have 4000 more stories? Newbie!
Check out the promises the republican national committie and the City of Boston made during the conventions. Boston installed thousands of cameras throught the city, to provide added security for the republican convention. Boston promised to take them down as soon as the convention was over.
Call me crazy, but New York hosted the Republican National Convention. Boston hosted the Democrats. Here is your clue: John Kerry is Senator of what state?
I am wondering why he is launching Gizmo before he has a version that will run on his OS? I know that Windows is the big dog, but if you own a Linux company, you might want to release a Linux version at launch.
Because, scientifically, there is no real debate anymore over whether or not man is impacting the climate and causing global warming.
Your statement is true. The debate is over how much man in impacting climate change. The Earth has been through many, many periods in its history where it was warmer than it is today. This was before cars or factories. It managed to cool itself down.
There is still much debate about global warming in scientific circles. There is much less debate in the media.
Dude, Flash has over 90% of the audience. It's as heavily-used as PDF and comes standard with most web browsers. If you can't view a page with Flash on it, that's your fault for not spending five minutes to download it.
Unless, of course, you are running a 64-bit version of the browser on SuSE 9.3 or Windows XP-64. Of course, I don't really miss the flash that much except for the games.
If he didn't click, you must acquit!
I miss Johnnie Cochran!
This Sci-Fi must live somewhere warmer than Chicago. We won't be picking up any fireflies until later this month.
I guess I'll go read the article now....
In Illinois for the primary we walk in, provide our names (and maybe ID) and then ask for the ballot of the party we wish to vote for in the primary. This is usually recorded in the big book. So anyone looking at voting records knows I voted in the Republican primary in 2000 and the Democratic primary in 2004. But they still don't know which candidate I voted for.
Perhaps somebody can convince the author of the program to "accidently" release the source code into the GPL or something.
No real need to release the code under the GPL. Just release the code. Release the code to the public domain and let EVERYONE go nuts. There could be 500 new versions by the end of the week. Let the movie companies go after all of them.
Although that is probably covered in his legal settlement.
Are you sure he is a terrorist? He has denied involvement and been found not guilty twice in Venezuelan courts. They now want him back to try him a third time. I know that your more enlightened countries allow a person to be charged multiple times with the same crime, but we have a little something against that here in the backwards United States.
Or it is anti-Slahdotted. All I get from the link is the following:
Sorry, slashdot users aren't allowed. You've been too naughty.
I had my own 15 minutes of fame here in Wichita, KS because of Star Wars and my Jedi costume:
You got your 15 minutes of fame in Wichita, Kansas? Dude, someone owes you about 14.8 more minutes in a real city somewhere.
Yes, I second that. This is a very good book. Available as an audiobook too, for listening during the commute to work (which is how I "read" the book).
Cool. is it available on BitTorrent somewhere?
I want exclusive use of the word "codswallop!"
So I got a job where I can real work done on a daily basis.
Get real work done, or argue physics on Slashdot. Something like that.
(ii) has not been made available in copies for sale to the general public in the United States in a format intended to permit viewing outside a motion picture exhibition facility.'.
Ok, it will probably take a judge to decide this, but does this mean that once screeners are released to video stores and other media that the motion picture is no longer considered unreleased?
Also, from my reading of the bill, this only applies to computer transmition. You will not face this penalty if you sell the pre-released movie on the street.
First, we arne't Bush bashing. He wasn't really involved with this bill. It's bashing the Republicans and their love of the religious right.
Damn those nuts on the religious right like cosponsors Sen Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT). The bill's sponsor list is a strange mix of Senators from both the Christian crowd and the Hollywood crowd. In fact, it leans more towards the Hollywood crowd since Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) is a big fan of the MPAA and RIAA.
I guess the simple solution is not to pirate pre-released movies. Is that really so hard?
If his teacher has any sense, (s)he will sit the boy down and explain the tricky legal issues involved in doing a parody, and how to do it right.
Sure because I always seek legal advice from art school teachers. You might have found a group that knows less about the law than most Slashdot posters.
My wife's accounting firm is giving out flash drives to all the staff as well as custom printing some of them for customer promotions.
Most of the staff will need directions on what to do with them, so they don't meet any (computer) geek criteria.
The Lawyers. It always goes to the lawyers. We'll get stupid coupons or something.
I believe GP is reffering to the product activation copy protection that Adobe has started putting in its products (i.e. Photoshop CS).
Then the GGP is misinformed. Macromedia has been using product activation as well. I know I had to activate my copies of Robodemo and Captivate.
I've definitely seen Linux go backwards over the last few years and it pains me, because by now it COULD have been ready for the desktop.
As a long-time Windows user and recent Linux user, I have to say that you are only partially correct. I would not want to give my Dad a Linux distro and let him try to get his computer to work like it does with Windows. He could figure it out in time, but it would be a struggle. I am facing the same problems with my conversion to SuSE.
No matter how smart my father and I may be, we are not in the majority of desktop users. The majority use a preconfigured workstation at their place of employment. It is usally set up and maintained by the IT staff. If you plop a Linux desktop in front of the majority of users in an office setting, it won't take any more or less training than upgrading from W2K to XP.
Most people of my age didn't learn Windows at home. My home computer ran TRS-DOS and CP/M. School had dumb terminals hooked up to IBM and Unix. No one ran Windows at home until they first saw it at work. And it was no great shakes to start out.
So wait. If I use the Gimp to edit my pictures, they then fall under the GPL? If I wrote a document in OpenOffice, does it become GPL?
I think that a font is a tool like anything else. The product from that tool isn't under the GPL, but if you include that tool in another tool, that tool will be under the GPL.
Of course, IANAL.
Buy me a drink at GenCon in August and I'll let you try it on my SuSE laptop.