Shadowbane had a good run and there are still those of us that would log into it if it was still running. There's an attempt to back engineer the game's server at http://www.shadowbaneemulator.com/ .
I'd love another sandbox fantasy game to come on that market that works as well as world of warcraft but all those I've tried since them have lacked the "flow" that blizzard put into their game to keep me coming back.
That would be my point. It's impossible for them to test upgrade on a mission critical system because they don't even have a testing environment to make sure the entire thing doesn't crash after the upgrade. You'd think they would invest in one considering that every time they do an upgrade, teh system crashes and it doesn't come back up for a week as they try and figure out what went wrong../sigh
...have you actually seen the so called "software" that hospitals are running their businesses with? I'm lucky if our software doesn't crash, lag, not save records, etc while I'm trying to do my work. And don't even get me started on our "administrator", who routinely doesn't even bother to test whether or not an upgrade is going to work on the test server, if they even had a test server (which they don't).
If you want a nutral poitn of view, how about "You shouldn't be editing an article who subject matter happens to be a personal friend of yours, period."
Your right, companies should be allowed to sell their services at a price they want... The problem with telcos and cable companies is that we, the people (ie the government) grant these companies monopolies and allow them, and even subsidize them with tax payer money, to set up their infrastructure on our property. The telcos and cable companies do NOT own the land that they set their cables, poles, and underground pipe upon. That land is ours and we grant them right of way to use it for their business because it is in our best interest to do so. You see, just because we grant them this right of way does not mean that we no longer have a say. In fact, it is part of the deal that they are granted this monopoly because it is ultimately beneficial for us that they do so and that they have to follow the rules we set down for them if they wish to do business on our property. Simply speaking, that if they choose to do business in our communities, and we grant them right of way to lay down their lines on our property (which gives them an advantage over their competetors) that they might have to allow others to piggy back upon those right of way lines and have competition. Ultimately we let them have right of way for our own benefit. When this relationship no longer is a benefit to us, the rightful owners of the land on which they have set up their business, we have the right to not "renew their lease" if they don't wish to follow whatever new rules we set out for them. In turn, they can remove their infrastructure (cable/phone lines) from our property and take their business elsewhere.
So you see, all this is, ultimately, is two sides of a business relationship. If they do not like the rules we set out for their use of our property, they have every right to pack up and move on to greener pastures. If however, they wish to continue doing business with us, they can make the lower bid and get our business.
What I'm hoping for is wifi technology that will decentralize internet access and get rid of all these land lines that are cluttering my view. I've already discontinued cable service (I can get "TV" from online sources like hulu, iTuneMusic Store, Netflix, etc and/or buy DVDs) I don't really need cable TV programming. I get phone service from my mobile. The only line I have yet to escape is DSL which I will gladly replace with whatever wifi service becomes available in my area. Hell if it was economically feasible, I'd detach from the electric grid as well.;)
Who's the one who said that making the most money was the qualification for being the best and brightest? IMO all you need to make a shitton of money is willingness to screw over your fellow man and a singular drive to gather as much for yourself as you possibly can while making sure nobody else can do the same. In essence, greed, and at the expense of everything else. Neither brains nor brawn are necessary.
only if they are playing music not covered by independent contract... Stations that only play Creative Commons licensed music, for example, are still in the clear according to the SE rep I talked to on the phone today.
Oh and I forgot to mention that according to the representative, music that is licensed using Creative Commons for such things, will not be collected upon so long as the internet radio station reporting their playlists do not include those CC tracks as collectable.
So according to their rep, Artist do not have to participate with Soundexchange involuntarily if they make reasonable assurances that those that do play their music in their streams do not report them as payable to SE.
So long as the license dose not forbid it, internet radio stations that play only music licensed using the Creative Commons are exempt from these fees. I gave sound exchange a call and was able to talk to a representative at length about such things.
I've been playing eve off an on since it was released and have yet to have been griefed in any way. Sometimes it seems that reputations out shine reality.
I don't know where all you folks get this crazy idea that all PvP servers are some chaotic mess of asshattery.... really, that kind of stuff happens so rarely that it's a joke that it's even mentioned anymore. I've been playing on a PvP server since release and "griefing" really is a pass time that hasn't lived up to it's reputation for years for anyone with any experience living on a PvP server.
what the hell were school officials doing snooping around on conficated phones? Conficating a students phone does not give them permission to perform some sort of search of that phone's content, does it? One would think that any such conficated phones would need to be held in the same manner as any other item that requires privacy concerns, and return to the parents of that phone, who would be the actual owners of that phone, wouldn't they?
Can someone please explain to me why the government feels that this needs to be a Law? Let the colleges/universities police their own students and govern their own institutions. Who sponsors such a bill in congress?
.... If I just take an axe to that pole out front in MY yard? That should solve the problem of these pesky no good thieves who don't pay the toll for using my property!
Until their excusivity contract is over, don't hope for anything groundbreaking from the iPhone. Once it's concluded, all bets are off, espcially considering the relative popularity of the device.
Wikipedia is currently suffering from an onslaught of restrictive and destructive rules and policies that make it's mandate, that the general public be able to contribute without any prior knowledge or understanding of the rules or policies. All those rules that exclusionists seek to use to manage and maintain control over wikipedia are in the long term, the very tools that will seal it's final destruction.
Only massive protests against the current exclusionist tyranny through general disobedience will save Wikipedia from becoming completely useless to the general public. I recommend that everyone who believes in wikipedia as a community project, go there and do everything that is reasonably possible to let those in power know that anything less then IAR will not be tolerated.;)
the problem with this approach is that there is a lot of citation that does not exist in the digital realm. There are plenty of obscure in print citations that could be made to what would be considered reliable sources, but because it's not on the internet somewhere, it will get deleted.
my experience has been the same. I've contributed two articles on music and they were deleted within the hour siting policy CSD-A7. It's impossible to even get started, let alone have any sort of participation by the community. Administrators are deleting articles at a high rate using their own subjective opinion on the subject matter.
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Shadowbane had a good run and there are still those of us that would log into it if it was still running. There's an attempt to back engineer the game's server at http://www.shadowbaneemulator.com/ .
I'd love another sandbox fantasy game to come on that market that works as well as world of warcraft but all those I've tried since them have lacked the "flow" that blizzard put into their game to keep me coming back.
That would be my point. It's impossible for them to test upgrade on a mission critical system because they don't even have a testing environment to make sure the entire thing doesn't crash after the upgrade. You'd think they would invest in one considering that every time they do an upgrade, teh system crashes and it doesn't come back up for a week as they try and figure out what went wrong. ./sigh
...have you actually seen the so called "software" that hospitals are running their businesses with? I'm lucky if our software doesn't crash, lag, not save records, etc while I'm trying to do my work. And don't even get me started on our "administrator", who routinely doesn't even bother to test whether or not an upgrade is going to work on the test server, if they even had a test server (which they don't).
If you want a nutral poitn of view, how about "You shouldn't be editing an article who subject matter happens to be a personal friend of yours, period."
You say this as if it was a bad thing.
In other words lawyers need to keep them selves busy to justify the paycheck every week.
not yet it doesn't... but it will! ;)
Your right, companies should be allowed to sell their services at a price they want... The problem with telcos and cable companies is that we, the people (ie the government) grant these companies monopolies and allow them, and even subsidize them with tax payer money, to set up their infrastructure on our property. The telcos and cable companies do NOT own the land that they set their cables, poles, and underground pipe upon. That land is ours and we grant them right of way to use it for their business because it is in our best interest to do so. You see, just because we grant them this right of way does not mean that we no longer have a say. In fact, it is part of the deal that they are granted this monopoly because it is ultimately beneficial for us that they do so and that they have to follow the rules we set down for them if they wish to do business on our property. Simply speaking, that if they choose to do business in our communities, and we grant them right of way to lay down their lines on our property (which gives them an advantage over their competetors) that they might have to allow others to piggy back upon those right of way lines and have competition. Ultimately we let them have right of way for our own benefit. When this relationship no longer is a benefit to us, the rightful owners of the land on which they have set up their business, we have the right to not "renew their lease" if they don't wish to follow whatever new rules we set out for them. In turn, they can remove their infrastructure (cable/phone lines) from our property and take their business elsewhere.
So you see, all this is, ultimately, is two sides of a business relationship. If they do not like the rules we set out for their use of our property, they have every right to pack up and move on to greener pastures. If however, they wish to continue doing business with us, they can make the lower bid and get our business.
What I'm hoping for is wifi technology that will decentralize internet access and get rid of all these land lines that are cluttering my view. I've already discontinued cable service (I can get "TV" from online sources like hulu, iTuneMusic Store, Netflix, etc and/or buy DVDs) I don't really need cable TV programming. I get phone service from my mobile. The only line I have yet to escape is DSL which I will gladly replace with whatever wifi service becomes available in my area. Hell if it was economically feasible, I'd detach from the electric grid as well. ;)
Who's the one who said that making the most money was the qualification for being the best and brightest? IMO all you need to make a shitton of money is willingness to screw over your fellow man and a singular drive to gather as much for yourself as you possibly can while making sure nobody else can do the same. In essence, greed, and at the expense of everything else. Neither brains nor brawn are necessary.
only if they are playing music not covered by independent contract... Stations that only play Creative Commons licensed music, for example, are still in the clear according to the SE rep I talked to on the phone today.
Oh and I forgot to mention that according to the representative, music that is licensed using Creative Commons for such things, will not be collected upon so long as the internet radio station reporting their playlists do not include those CC tracks as collectable.
So according to their rep, Artist do not have to participate with Soundexchange involuntarily if they make reasonable assurances that those that do play their music in their streams do not report them as payable to SE.
So long as the license dose not forbid it, internet radio stations that play only music licensed using the Creative Commons are exempt from these fees. I gave sound exchange a call and was able to talk to a representative at length about such things.
So all is not lost for the little guys.
I've been playing eve off an on since it was released and have yet to have been griefed in any way. Sometimes it seems that reputations out shine reality.
I don't know where all you folks get this crazy idea that all PvP servers are some chaotic mess of asshattery.... really, that kind of stuff happens so rarely that it's a joke that it's even mentioned anymore. I've been playing on a PvP server since release and "griefing" really is a pass time that hasn't lived up to it's reputation for years for anyone with any experience living on a PvP server.
what the hell were school officials doing snooping around on conficated phones? Conficating a students phone does not give them permission to perform some sort of search of that phone's content, does it? One would think that any such conficated phones would need to be held in the same manner as any other item that requires privacy concerns, and return to the parents of that phone, who would be the actual owners of that phone, wouldn't they?
...otherwise it becomes easy to conduct.
Autonomous robot killing machines only make it easier to kill people without the guilt of murder, not fight wars.
Do they read slashdot? Maybe they might get a clue if someone anonymously pointed them in that direction?
Can someone please explain to me why the government feels that this needs to be a Law? Let the colleges/universities police their own students and govern their own institutions. Who sponsors such a bill in congress?
Anartica? Then there's always all those planet's out there that need colonizing. :o
.... If I just take an axe to that pole out front in MY yard? That should solve the problem of these pesky no good thieves who don't pay the toll for using my property!
Until their excusivity contract is over, don't hope for anything groundbreaking from the iPhone. Once it's concluded, all bets are off, espcially considering the relative popularity of the device.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules
;)
Wikipedia is currently suffering from an onslaught of restrictive and destructive rules and policies that make it's mandate, that the general public be able to contribute without any prior knowledge or understanding of the rules or policies. All those rules that exclusionists seek to use to manage and maintain control over wikipedia are in the long term, the very tools that will seal it's final destruction.
Only massive protests against the current exclusionist tyranny through general disobedience will save Wikipedia from becoming completely useless to the general public. I recommend that everyone who believes in wikipedia as a community project, go there and do everything that is reasonably possible to let those in power know that anything less then IAR will not be tolerated.
the problem with this approach is that there is a lot of citation that does not exist in the digital realm. There are plenty of obscure in print citations that could be made to what would be considered reliable sources, but because it's not on the internet somewhere, it will get deleted.
my experience has been the same. I've contributed two articles on music and they were deleted within the hour siting policy CSD-A7. It's impossible to even get started, let alone have any sort of participation by the community. Administrators are deleting articles at a high rate using their own subjective opinion on the subject matter.
obviously you have yet to actually write an article for wikipedia. :\