That appears to have been a copy & paste fail:
17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths
Again it had nothing to do with the DRM. The people attempting to play were just holding it wrong.
In addition, that "Battle.net not found" modal is just there because the algorithm used to determine when to display it is wrong, you can ignore it... We'll have it fixed in the next patch.
Actually, yes it does. If they are monitoring it in an official capacity as a member of the NSA they are breaking the law.
Then again, it's likely the law has been changed in some sekret room somewhere and we're just not aware of it yet, the same way they have rewritten the laws regarding torture, rendition, etc and the public has stood by and watched
not exactly true... while I wouldn't spend a *lot* of time in 0.0, I would do trade runs and missions out there. While I wasn't completely new, I was definitely still low/mid-level and only had craptastic t1 and skill pts spread everywhere. It's a fun game but like most MMO's is too much of a time sink for me to stick with for long.
I did see in their newsletter they're bringing skill queuing in, which should definitely help convince the more casual players to stick around. If I had any free time right now I'd probably go back for that.
As a matter of fact I do tend to think of myself as a "janitor".. at least in my current position, when more than 1/2 my time is spent refactoring poorly-written code from CIS majors or techs who learned a language, got hired as a programmer and thought that's all that was needed in Software Development. No understanding of data structures, algorithms, etc.. much less more recent concepts like design patterns or unit testing. Feh!
I am an @Home subscriber in the Northern VA area, and although we are initially setup with DHCP the leases are permanent. They do this because they "reserve the right" to change the ip, but as long as you aren't having any problems it should be the same ip. It doesn't matter if you change systems/NIC's. I don't even setup DHCP on my systems, but rather just use the IP that was assigned to me no matter which system is attached. You may want to try this, as I believe it will probably solve your problems.
it's like a cult from the automobile industry who steals cars to make everyone get car alarms
Actually, they would open your door and start your car for you, since your car manufacturer doesn't require keys. It is not equivalent to theft. Though of course they'd write up a text file telling everyone (thieves, owners, manufacturers) the stupidity of creating a car with no locks. And to top it off they'd do it in that oh-so-humourous way that the cDc is famous for. (and it's very, very far from murder, as the "computer security experts" equate it with in their analogy.)
No, I'd have to disagree. I was visiting my dad and playing with his scanner. In the three days I was there I found out the kid across the street was dealing crack, and the lady next door was having an affair with her husband. Actually, I would never broadcast my activities on a cordless or cellular and am encouraging most people I know to use PGP. No matter how "boring" my life may be, I want the "monitors" to know as little about it as possible. Last time they wanted info on me I made them come right out and ask. I was walking down the street reading a book after picking up a coffee one morning, and a cop pulled over and asked for my ID. He didn't run my info and gave no reason other than "we just got a call", just wrote it all down. I still wonder who it was that requested it, I'm 90% sure it was DEA, but who knows, perhaps it was because of communications with the Communist Party or that my g/f was a member of Young Communist League. Oh well, what can we do? We live in a police state.
I think you miss the point though that it's not RedHat's project to "productize". I thought it was a good thing when RedHat hired Raster. I don't particuliarly care for the company itself, but I thought that the fact they were hiring coders to work on their own "free software" projects was really cool. I didn't know that they would try and dictate the direction he would take with it, though. That is not for them to do, being as it's not their software to do it with.
Let me put it another way. Let's say a band you like is on a small label, and playing a certain style of music, and suddenly they sign a lucrative recording contract. If their music were to change from corporate pressure (tone down the lyrics, or make it more "Top 40'ish"), they would have sold out. It is very much selling out. They would have changed what they had been doing not because they wanted to, but to make the company that was paying them happy (and rich).
Personally, I am really happy that Raster didn't sell out. Besides being able to respect his integrity, I think the community is much better off with Raster coding what he likes & bringing his contributions back to the community, and Red Hat either hiring someone to code their GNOME-compliant Win9x-style interface that they want to appeal to the masses or go back to using fvwm95 or whatever.
How many people would be upset if Alfredo was being paid to work on Window Maker, but one day the corp. that writes his paycheck thought it would be a good idea that would help new users by changing the GNUStep logo in the top of the dock to a "talking, help-giving paperclip"(tm):). The only difference is WM is modelled after a specific environ so it would be immediately obvious, but with E the specs are all in Raster's head and if the company that's paying him is telling him to go against the direction he wants it to go, that is a bad thing.
Keep up the good work, Raster, Mandrake, Alfredo, Miguel & the _COUNTLESS_OTHERS_ who spend YOUR time creating software and sharing it with us. And thank you.
Actually, I believe it is the other way around. His description was of how to move from other pano formats to the.irx (IRIX) format. From what was said, I gathered that IRIX views this as threatening because.irx content developers must purchase a "key" for each image produced, but with knowledge of the file format they could purchase a single key and use it for all of their images by changing the contents of the.irx file. But in essence you are correct, that it is a threat to their licensing scheme. But since they built their product around an open file format, it can only be viewed as them trying to shut someone up to cover up for their own stupid mistake.
(btw, I'm hoping the site was/.'ed, not shut down)
> To my knowledge it is illegal in the USA even to say words "kill the..." (I am not even quoting it). You can get to > prison for just these words, even if you used them in your Email. One guy did it few years ago, was traced and >where he is now?
Slashdot Mirror
If you have no skin in the game you have no reason to care if taxes go up on everyone else and you will continue to vote yourself more money.
It sure sounds like what you are advocating is returning to a time where only white, male property-owners were allowed to vote.
At best, or he could end up drugged by the child so they can continue without his meddling.
That appears to have been a copy & paste fail:
17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths
Wrong again, the government and mainstream media are both arms of the corporatocracy.
Again it had nothing to do with the DRM. The people attempting to play were just holding it wrong.
In addition, that "Battle.net not found" modal is just there because the algorithm used to determine when to display it is wrong, you can ignore it... We'll have it fixed in the next patch.
Actually, yes it does. If they are monitoring it in an official capacity as a member of the NSA they are breaking the law.
Then again, it's likely the law has been changed in some sekret room somewhere and we're just not aware of it yet, the same way they have rewritten the laws regarding torture, rendition, etc and the public has stood by and watched
not exactly true... while I wouldn't spend a *lot* of time in 0.0, I would do trade runs and missions out there. While I wasn't completely new, I was definitely still low/mid-level and only had craptastic t1 and skill pts spread everywhere. It's a fun game but like most MMO's is too much of a time sink for me to stick with for long.
I did see in their newsletter they're bringing skill queuing in, which should definitely help convince the more casual players to stick around. If I had any free time right now I'd probably go back for that.
damn, you're old
I'm pretty sure I saw the Warm Plasma Cloak drop off the Nexus Prince in Mana-Tombs on Heroic...
Shadow's Edge, Genocide, Discworld... a few other LPMud's I don't remember the names of...
lpc rocks.
imagination > graphics
And at the current rate of exchange $95US is what, 5 Euros?
If anyone actually approached consumers with a contract long enough to be read in the venue they marketed their product...
Why do you think the lines were so long? You could have read (and re-read) the contract in most locations.
reading a book?
As a matter of fact I do tend to think of myself as a "janitor".. at least in my current position, when more than 1/2 my time is spent refactoring poorly-written code from CIS majors or techs who learned a language, got hired as a programmer and thought that's all that was needed in Software Development. No understanding of data structures, algorithms, etc.. much less more recent concepts like design patterns or unit testing. Feh!
-jE
I am an @Home subscriber in the Northern VA area, and although we are initially setup with DHCP the leases are permanent. They do this because they "reserve the right" to change the ip, but as long as you aren't having any problems it should be the same ip. It doesn't matter if you change systems/NIC's. I don't even setup DHCP on my systems, but rather just use the IP that was assigned to me no matter which system is attached. You may want to try this, as I believe it will probably solve your problems.
oh, that bites
$ cal 27000
cal: illegal year value: use 1-9999
it's like a cult from the automobile industry who steals cars to make everyone get car alarms
Actually, they would open your door and start your car for you, since your car manufacturer doesn't require keys. It is not equivalent to theft. Though of course they'd write up a text file telling everyone (thieves, owners, manufacturers) the stupidity of creating a car with no locks. And to top it off they'd do it in that oh-so-humourous way that the cDc is famous for. (and it's very, very far from murder, as the "computer security experts" equate it with in their analogy.)
No, I'd have to disagree. I was visiting my dad and playing with his scanner. In the three days I was there I found out the kid across the street was dealing crack, and the lady next door was having an affair with her husband. Actually, I would never broadcast my activities on a cordless or cellular and am encouraging most people I know to use PGP. No matter how "boring" my life may be, I want the "monitors" to know as little about it as possible. Last time they wanted info on me I made them come right out and ask. I was walking down the street reading a book after picking up a coffee one morning, and a cop pulled over and asked for my ID. He didn't run my info and gave no reason other than "we just got a call", just wrote it all down. I still wonder who it was that requested it, I'm 90% sure it was DEA, but who knows, perhaps it was because of communications with the Communist Party or that my g/f was a member of Young Communist League. Oh well, what can we do? We live in a police state.
I think you miss the point though that it's not RedHat's project to "productize". I thought it was a good thing when RedHat hired Raster. I don't particuliarly care for the company itself, but I thought that the fact they were hiring coders to work on their own "free software" projects was really cool. I didn't know that they would try and dictate the direction he would take with it, though. That is not for them to do, being as it's not their software to do it with.
:). The only difference is WM is modelled after a specific environ so it would be immediately obvious, but with E the specs are all in Raster's head and if the company that's paying him is telling him to go against the direction he wants it to go, that is a bad thing.
Let me put it another way. Let's say a band you like is on a small label, and playing a certain style of music, and suddenly they sign a lucrative recording contract. If their music were to change from corporate pressure (tone down the lyrics, or make it more "Top 40'ish"), they would have sold out. It is very much selling out. They would have changed what they had been doing not because they wanted to, but to make the company that was paying them happy (and rich).
Personally, I am really happy that Raster didn't sell out. Besides being able to respect his integrity, I think the community is much better off with Raster coding what he likes & bringing his contributions back to the community, and Red Hat either hiring someone to code their GNOME-compliant Win9x-style interface that they want to appeal to the masses or go back to using fvwm95 or whatever.
How many people would be upset if Alfredo was being paid to work on Window Maker, but one day the corp. that writes his paycheck thought it would be a good idea that would help new users by changing the GNUStep logo in the top of the dock to a "talking, help-giving paperclip"(tm)
Keep up the good work, Raster, Mandrake, Alfredo, Miguel & the _COUNTLESS_OTHERS_ who spend YOUR time creating software and sharing it with us. And thank you.
j-E
Actually, I believe it is the other way around. His description was of how to move from other pano formats to the .irx (IRIX) format. From what was said, I gathered that IRIX views this as threatening because .irx content developers must purchase a "key" for each image produced, but with knowledge of the file format they could purchase a single key and use it for all of their images by changing the contents of the .irx file.
/.'ed, not shut down)
But in essence you are correct, that it is a threat to their licensing scheme. But since they built their product around an open file format, it can only be viewed as them trying to shut someone up to cover up for their own stupid mistake.
(btw, I'm hoping the site was
> To my knowledge it is illegal in the USA even to say words "kill the ..." (I am not even quoting it). You can get to
> prison for just these words, even if you used them in your Email. One guy did it few years ago, was traced and
>where he is now?
"Kill the watermelon"?