"We [are] stuck with a system where politicians are no longer in contact with their constituency and Special Interest Groups (SIG) are able to purchase laws."
That's not the only problem; the level of apathy in the US has reached an all-time high. The majority of voters don't really care about who will take the presidency this year. A large group of voters are abstaining from the elections because they feel that the country would go in the same path no matter who wins. In that sense, capitalism wins, and consumers lose, big time.
I think that "Master of Puppets" accurately portrays this situation. Of course, this was back in 1985, when Metallica cared less about their profits and more about their freedoms. Now they're poster childs for the DMCA. How pathetic; an anti-capitalist, disestablishmentarian band reduced to whining over the piracy of its works. They didn't complain about people bringing recorders to "Puppets" concerts, and now they're whining over Napster. Ugh, is no one immune?
Bah. I'm outraged. Since when am I a subordinate of "the Market"? Since when is the ability of a corporation to make money placed above my own rights and freedoms?
Since the advent of capitalism. Sucks, doesn't it?
Just look at Rambus: even though people are boycotting systems with Rambus memory, Sony used it in the PlayStation 2. There are plenty of moronic console devotees rushing out to buy PS2s, so Rambus is covered.
The options for resisting a pathetic product are dwindling. Boycotts don't work, protests don't work, even exposing the manufacturers/designers for the megalomaniacal morons they are isn't working. What shall we do?
...which will be protected by the DMCA. Case in point: the Cue:Cat. It could be easily declawed by any person willing enough to get a screwdriver and an Exacto knife. However, DC cried out "foul!" and "DMCA!" at the same time.
I'd hate to see DMCA-protected hardware in the future; however, the trend has been set: hardware devices in the future will be relatively cheap, but there will be an expensive service bound to them. They will be easy to hack, but doing so means violating the DMCA and facing the full brunt of the U.S. legal system. In other words, technological Darwinism as we know it will end. Pathetic companies like DC will be allowed to leech money off of their pathetic products and they will be allowed to make a despicably large profit. If this isn't grounds for a revolution, then I don't know what is.
...have you heard of the support horror stories about Oracle? Check out some of these tales of woe; I don't know where, but I've heard a lot of griping over Oracle's staff.
Of course, MySQL has NO staff to speak of (other than the development team), but still, you get what you pay for.
It's how I know that someone's posting a reply to one of my posts: if it takes longer than 2 seconds to navigate to my users.pl, then someone's probably replying.
Of course, there's Bender: promises, promises. However, Bender still puts random spaces into long A HREF tags, so I can't refer to long URLs like Boston Globe pages. For such a good discussion site, Slashdot has some bad code issues.
Just because Intel is patenting IA64 doesn't mean that it's the end of the world. 64-bit processing is still in its infancy in the consumer world (either vaporware or prototype, but still not released). If IA64 really takes the cake and beats out AMD's tweaking of x86, then maybe Intel will start dropping prices and using their heads when designing chipsets.
Of course, there's been transitions like this before (Windows 3.1, VESA, Win32, DirectX, Linux, SDRAM, OSS, etc.). This transition is like the previous ones; it requires patience and judgment (though a fat wallet certainly helps).
Personally, I like how Intel is patenting IA64; that way, there won't be any sleazy IA64 imitations out there, as was the case with the K6, IDT WinChip, and Cyrix's entire line of CPUs (quote from the Quake manual: "Computers without an FPU will not run Quake... at all. This includes the now infamous "Pentium-class performance, for less money" knock-off chip [Cyrix 5x86]). Yes, this might be an assembly/C/C++ programmers nightmare, but isn't that why programmers are always learning new things? No? Well they should be; maybe that's why amateur programming stinks so much.
The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts (forgive the blatant Amazon link, but you just might like it). My English professor gave me a copy of the chapter: "Coda: The Faustian Pact." Excellent reading, since I'm doing an essay on how the Internet is turning us into the Borg. True food for thought, since the UCLA study that came out almost wrecked my concentration.
Sony has SquareSoft, Sega has Capcom, Nintendo has... well, I don't even know if they have a devotee. Anyway, any kind of merger would cause a shakeup in the developer devotion category.
back in 1998, when Windows 98 was released. That was probably the only time that people swarmed to get 98; right now, the smart ones are going with Win2000 if they need their Win32 fill.
When eyeing the PS2, remember a few things...
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By purchasing the PlayStation 2, you're probably indirectly supporting SDMI, DVD-CCA, MPAA, and RIAA (not to mention SDMI).
Sony is the biggest juggernaut of the Big 5 record companies, and is one of the key members/creditors/benefactors of the MPAA.
Stop the inanity. Don't support Sony's pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, and sloth. I can also prove how Sony has committed all seven deadly sins.
Anyone else fear a "Halloween" situation?
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Seriously, I fear that a conspiracy is in the mix somehow. This seems like a mixture of the retail customer hypnotism schemes portrayed in "Halloween", "Batman Forever", and the Chin'PokoMon episode of South Park combined. We might see the former PS2 owners in a zombie-like state, where all that they do is buy animé magazines and surf to hentai sites. Not since Street Fighter II have I been worried about such an alienation of our culture by a video game console industry.
The hackers broke through the base64+XOR "encryption". However, they didn't circumvent, misuse, or even use the:Cue barcodes. Therefore, they didn't violate the DMCA! Damn, I wish that the lawyers knew this one.
...and before passing judgment on something merely by listening to others' anecdotes, go ahead and try it out. You'll agree that it's one of the best workstation operating systems.
Sure, the server version could use a little work, but then that's why they developed Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
It is well known that the majority of Slashdot members (the "Slashdotters") prefer the Sony PlayStation console over the Sega Dreamcast, and they also prefer Quake III over Unreal Tournament. However, Q3 is being released for the Dreamcast while UT is being released for the PS2. What will happen from here? Will we suddenly hear references to "BotPack.u" and "CliffyB"? Will stories about UnrealScript add-ons and weapon mutators be posted?
Also, since Loki is developing UT for Linux, the game could start having a presence here on Slashdot. Better get that story icon ready for the "unreal" topic, Rob.
My fault for using the "less than" sign. That's proably what cut out the piece of the traceroute.
Anyway, here's what my reply should've read:
I said that Slashcode was gonna mangle the tracert! Bender must be on a bender right now! hehe.
Anyway, some of the missing tracert hops read (less than) 10ms. Also, wouldn't mouse-chewed cables result in no connection? Also, I checked the backplanes myself; they are true Cat5.
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That's not the only problem; the level of apathy in the US has reached an all-time high. The majority of voters don't really care about who will take the presidency this year. A large group of voters are abstaining from the elections because they feel that the country would go in the same path no matter who wins. In that sense, capitalism wins, and consumers lose, big time.
I think that "Master of Puppets" accurately portrays this situation. Of course, this was back in 1985, when Metallica cared less about their profits and more about their freedoms. Now they're poster childs for the DMCA. How pathetic; an anti-capitalist, disestablishmentarian band reduced to whining over the piracy of its works. They didn't complain about people bringing recorders to "Puppets" concerts, and now they're whining over Napster. Ugh, is no one immune?
Wait a minute. Are they actually using these cards as intended or are they just whacking a Palm Pilot with the network adapters?
Since the advent of capitalism. Sucks, doesn't it?
The options for resisting a pathetic product are dwindling. Boycotts don't work, protests don't work, even exposing the manufacturers/designers for the megalomaniacal morons they are isn't working. What shall we do?
I'd hate to see DMCA-protected hardware in the future; however, the trend has been set: hardware devices in the future will be relatively cheap, but there will be an expensive service bound to them. They will be easy to hack, but doing so means violating the DMCA and facing the full brunt of the U.S. legal system. In other words, technological Darwinism as we know it will end. Pathetic companies like DC will be allowed to leech money off of their pathetic products and they will be allowed to make a despicably large profit. If this isn't grounds for a revolution, then I don't know what is.
Rights, User: Passed away October 28, 2000. Murdered by the DMCA.
Find something decent to report on, like the ATI Radeon problem with the capacitors breaking off.
Of course, MySQL has NO staff to speak of (other than the development team), but still, you get what you pay for.
Of course, there's Bender: promises, promises. However, Bender still puts random spaces into long A HREF tags, so I can't refer to long URLs like Boston Globe pages. For such a good discussion site, Slashdot has some bad code issues.
But I do wish that they'd actually use .pl files instead of those vague entries.
Of course, there's been transitions like this before (Windows 3.1, VESA, Win32, DirectX, Linux, SDRAM, OSS, etc.). This transition is like the previous ones; it requires patience and judgment (though a fat wallet certainly helps).
Personally, I like how Intel is patenting IA64; that way, there won't be any sleazy IA64 imitations out there, as was the case with the K6, IDT WinChip, and Cyrix's entire line of CPUs (quote from the Quake manual: "Computers without an FPU will not run Quake... at all. This includes the now infamous "Pentium-class performance, for less money" knock-off chip [Cyrix 5x86]). Yes, this might be an assembly/C/C++ programmers nightmare, but isn't that why programmers are always learning new things? No? Well they should be; maybe that's why amateur programming stinks so much.
The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts (forgive the blatant Amazon link, but you just might like it). My English professor gave me a copy of the chapter: "Coda: The Faustian Pact." Excellent reading, since I'm doing an essay on how the Internet is turning us into the Borg. True food for thought, since the UCLA study that came out almost wrecked my concentration.
Sony has SquareSoft, Sega has Capcom, Nintendo has... well, I don't even know if they have a devotee. Anyway, any kind of merger would cause a shakeup in the developer devotion category.
"Your dot-com or your life!"
Structured Query Language. There, I'm now ready to become an Oracle DBA, MCSE, and so on.
Translated, this would read: "at it is maximum transmission rate of about 120 Bits per second!", which is just plain wrong.
Use "its", not "it's" as a possessive pronoun.
back in 1998, when Windows 98 was released. That was probably the only time that people swarmed to get 98; right now, the smart ones are going with Win2000 if they need their Win32 fill.
Sony is the biggest juggernaut of the Big 5 record companies, and is one of the key members/creditors/benefactors of the MPAA.
Stop the inanity. Don't support Sony's pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, and sloth. I can also prove how Sony has committed all seven deadly sins.
Seriously, I fear that a conspiracy is in the mix somehow. This seems like a mixture of the retail customer hypnotism schemes portrayed in "Halloween", "Batman Forever", and the Chin'PokoMon episode of South Park combined. We might see the former PS2 owners in a zombie-like state, where all that they do is buy animé magazines and surf to hentai sites. Not since Street Fighter II have I been worried about such an alienation of our culture by a video game console industry.
The hackers broke through the base64+XOR "encryption". However, they didn't circumvent, misuse, or even use the :Cue barcodes. Therefore, they didn't violate the DMCA! Damn, I wish that the lawyers knew this one.
Sure, the server version could use a little work, but then that's why they developed Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
Also, since Loki is developing UT for Linux, the game could start having a presence here on Slashdot. Better get that story icon ready for the "unreal" topic, Rob.
Anyway, here's what my reply should've read:
I said that Slashcode was gonna mangle the tracert! Bender must be on a bender right now! hehe.
Anyway, some of the missing tracert hops read (less than) 10ms. Also, wouldn't mouse-chewed cables result in no connection? Also, I checked the backplanes myself; they are true Cat5.
Anyway, some of the missing tracert hops read no connection? Also, I checked the backplanes myself; they are true Cat5.