Right. Perfectly safe. That's why english tourist guides directed at overseas tourists consistently recommend against using them. Perfectly safe, of course. Nothing to worry about. No need to take precautions. No need to be careful where you can.
Most statistics are 10,000 times more likely to be made up on the spot.
They don't know, they're not relevant, and that's not what their site is about. Intellectually incestuous hipsters, smug in the obscurity of their tastes are their target demographic.
I'd sooner ask Jack Chick what's wrong with America. That answer might at least be entertaining.
These are the last people who want to ask. Bitter technophiles, the reflexively partisan, and assorted other pretentious misfits with nothing better to do on saturday night.
Yes this includes me.
Maybe you are as you say, maybe you are the sort of mental afterbirth who mourns the breakup of Creed. I don't know how to help you, and neither does anyone else here.
You're on your own, just like the rest of us. Beware of furries, quotemongers trying to sound wise, furries, and single mothers with scars.
The moderation down of my previous post as 'offtopic' is a good example of a correct and levelheaded moderation.
In an ongoing effort to provide a modicum of interest and challenge for you, the Slashdot reader, this post will be both offtopic, a troll, as well as flamebait. Your patience is appreciated, as always.
All jews have hairy toes. A negro ate my model airplane collection. Cmdr Taco likes string cheese A BIT TOO MUCH IN MY OPINION.
Further, Bill Gates is cool, and you are not.
NOTE: These inappropriate posts are for testing purposes only, and no guarantee of trollishness is expressed or implied.
It's to create the illusion of choice. Just like with Sony and their Aiwa marque, it's so they can get deals with the big chains to feature their products almost exclusively, while still projecting the image that $electronics_store has a wide variety of products from a wide variety of manufacturers.
Maybe you look up the definition of 'troll' again.
You have owned one machine made by this company. I'm glad it's worked out for you. Anecdotes are statistically meaningless, especially when drawn from such a small sample.
Did HP charge you c. $10 US to ship you a restore CD? That's what our customers got charged. It also took (on average) two weeks to get the CD. HP started this little stunt when they began shipping boxes loaded with XP, on the stated premise that it would be easier for end-users to reinstall the OS from a seperate, compressed partition than from CDs. Unless, of course, NTLDR got b0rked, in which case the damn thing was a paperweight until the CDs arrived.
Emachines started using standard ATX power supplies when they started shipping Athlon XP and P4 boxes. The 110-watt power supplies they used before that were junk, and were the worst thing about those machines.
As far as the HP being everything you wanted it to be: Great, far out, neato. I have no idea what your needs are, or what your upgrades were.
Frankly, sir, you sound like a consumer whose pride was wounded when someone else criticized the manufacturer you bought your machine from and then had the temerity to back it up!
HP has worked tirelessly for the last five years to ensure that their consumer PCs are some of the most unreliable, poorly-supported pieces of Wal-Mart level junk on the market. I should know, I used to sell the damn things. Emachines were actual more reliable for most of the 3-year stint I worked at Orifice Depot. HP has done everything possible to drain any remaining residues of consumer goodwill left. Between not having mobo drivers for many of their PCs available at all, not even shipping a restore CD with their retail machines, and... oh hell I could go on.
Enthusiasts won't pay these prices for a machine from HP. They should at least do like Sony, and pretend to be a different company for their better products.
Make it solid state and durable. You should have no problems with something that amounts to little more than a processor, battery, some flash memory and some sensors.
There are far more stressful environments for computers in military and industrial settings.
FI doesn't expect it to work. Read between the lines. They just want to get the RIAA et al. to stop bugging them for a techno fix for a socioeconomic problem.
To paraphrase a famous quote: "The RIAA has made their decision. Now let's see them enforce it."
Most game plots are very linear, and the worlds aren't detailed to any appreciable degree if you go 'off the beaten track'. The is only natural because programmer, artist and developer time are expensive. This leads to a lot of assumptions being made during development about both the world and the perspective of the characters in it. It also has to work in terms of game mechanics. You also want to create a worldview that the majority of the people playing the game can connect to, without either boring the crap out of them or pissing off too many PTA types or yokel politicians. Most important of all: SOMETHING HAS TO BE HAPPENING. There has to be drama-- something to make the main character decide to ACT. It helps if it's something that looks good in a screen shot, too.
Taken through all these filters, it doesn't really surprise me that most games have simplistic and heavy handed "messages". It seems to me that has a lot to do with the limits of the medium as currently understood. MMPORPGs have the possibility of changing this, due to their open-ended nature and the way they can evolve over time.
Also, the author mentions simulacra as if it were a purely postmodern marxist concept, but the sort of simulacra he describes is what J.G. Ballard called a 'Baudrillardian Simulacra' which is the term he used for a sort of copy without an orginal. That may sound like a silly concept, but they can be powerful social forces. The most common sort of this is a yearning for the 'good old days' that never existed.
In certain industries (including the one I'm currently working in) the fact that many of the people working in it learned on illegally obtained software is both 1) tacitly understood and 2) never spoken of.
We can speak of law, IP, and morality all we wish, but at the end of the day there are many people with drive and talent who, for whatever reason, opted to do something illegal to get what they felt they needed.
The skate couriers in the novel wore armor based on this principle. Flexible, but with an increasing resistance curve like a catcher's mitt. It's good that it's lightweight, because if it's too bulky to do your job in, it's not really useful.
I imagine this could be combined with a chem warfare suit (maybe with build-in cooling) to make an ABC system for the footsoldier that's actually practical.
You've answered your own question. All your old data on one tiny device that can easily be lost, broken, or stolen. If you keep anything important in more than one place, you've halved your chances of a single mishap destroying all your stuff.
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What you say is more or less correct.
Snottily attributing any ideas about airpower to someone who died in 1831 is not.
Just because they are both totalitarian states with a capitalist ideal does not make them the same thing.
Well, the vatican de-canonized St. Nicholas, and then the Discordians adopted him.
...probably have better things to do than run a statistical analysis on Slashdot posts.
If the guy you killed wore a different uniform than you, you're a hero.
I think you're painting with too broad of a brush, but I don't think that the New York Times has been the 'paper of record' since Watergate.
The entire idea of their *being* such a thing seems a little outdated to me.
infringing on our rights as citizens
Downloading stuff is not a right. It's a privilege.
It's neither. It's a mechanism. The map is not the territory.
That's why I always read Slashdot with a bucket of popcorn.
Right. Perfectly safe. That's why english tourist guides directed at overseas tourists consistently recommend against using them. Perfectly safe, of course. Nothing to worry about. No need to take precautions. No need to be careful where you can.
Most statistics are 10,000 times more likely to be made up on the spot.
A rest stop in the middle of nowhere is really the last place you should lose situational awareness.
They don't know, they're not relevant, and that's not what their site is about. Intellectually incestuous hipsters, smug in the obscurity of their tastes are their target demographic.
I'd sooner ask Jack Chick what's wrong with America. That answer might at least be entertaining.
These are the last people who want to ask. Bitter technophiles, the reflexively partisan, and assorted other pretentious misfits with nothing better to do on saturday night.
Yes this includes me.
Maybe you are as you say, maybe you are the sort of mental afterbirth who mourns the breakup of Creed. I don't know how to help you, and neither does anyone else here.
You're on your own, just like the rest of us. Beware of furries, quotemongers trying to sound wise, furries, and single mothers with scars.
Oh yeah, brush your teeth three times a day.
The moderation down of my previous post as 'offtopic' is a good example of a correct and levelheaded moderation.
In an ongoing effort to provide a modicum of interest and challenge for you, the Slashdot reader, this post will be both offtopic, a troll, as well as flamebait. Your patience is appreciated, as always.
All jews have hairy toes.
A negro ate my model airplane collection.
Cmdr Taco likes string cheese A BIT TOO MUCH IN MY OPINION.
Further, Bill Gates is cool, and you are not.
NOTE: These inappropriate posts are for testing purposes only, and no guarantee of trollishness is expressed or implied.
It's to create the illusion of choice. Just like with Sony and their Aiwa marque, it's so they can get deals with the big chains to feature their products almost exclusively, while still projecting the image that $electronics_store has a wide variety of products from a wide variety of manufacturers.
Maybe you look up the definition of 'troll' again.
You have owned one machine made by this company. I'm glad it's worked out for you. Anecdotes are statistically meaningless, especially when drawn from such a small sample.
Did HP charge you c. $10 US to ship you a restore CD? That's what our customers got charged. It also took (on average) two weeks to get the CD. HP started this little stunt when they began shipping boxes loaded with XP, on the stated premise that it would be easier for end-users to reinstall the OS from a seperate, compressed partition than from CDs. Unless, of course, NTLDR got b0rked, in which case the damn thing was a paperweight until the CDs arrived.
Emachines started using standard ATX power supplies when they started shipping Athlon XP and P4 boxes. The 110-watt power supplies they used before that were junk, and were the worst thing about those machines.
As far as the HP being everything you wanted it to be: Great, far out, neato. I have no idea what your needs are, or what your upgrades were.
Frankly, sir, you sound like a consumer whose pride was wounded when someone else criticized the manufacturer you bought your machine from and then had the temerity to back it up!
HP has worked tirelessly for the last five years to ensure that their consumer PCs are some of the most unreliable, poorly-supported pieces of Wal-Mart level junk on the market. I should know, I used to sell the damn things. Emachines were actual more reliable for most of the 3-year stint I worked at Orifice Depot. HP has done everything possible to drain any remaining residues of consumer goodwill left. Between not having mobo drivers for many of their PCs available at all, not even shipping a restore CD with their retail machines, and... oh hell I could go on.
Enthusiasts won't pay these prices for a machine from HP. They should at least do like Sony, and pretend to be a different company for their better products.
Make it solid state and durable. You should have no problems with something that amounts to little more than a processor, battery, some flash memory and some sensors.
There are far more stressful environments for computers in military and industrial settings.
FI doesn't expect it to work. Read between the lines. They just want to get the RIAA et al. to stop bugging them for a techno fix for a socioeconomic problem.
To paraphrase a famous quote: "The RIAA has made their decision. Now let's see them enforce it."
Most game plots are very linear, and the worlds aren't detailed to any appreciable degree if you go 'off the beaten track'. The is only natural because programmer, artist and developer time are expensive. This leads to a lot of assumptions being made during development about both the world and the perspective of the characters in it. It also has to work in terms of game mechanics. You also want to create a worldview that the majority of the people playing the game can connect to, without either boring the crap out of them or pissing off too many PTA types or yokel politicians. Most important of all: SOMETHING HAS TO BE HAPPENING. There has to be drama-- something to make the main character decide to ACT. It helps if it's something that looks good in a screen shot, too.
Taken through all these filters, it doesn't really surprise me that most games have simplistic and heavy handed "messages". It seems to me that has a lot to do with the limits of the medium as currently understood. MMPORPGs have the possibility of changing this, due to their open-ended nature and the way they can evolve over time.
Also, the author mentions simulacra as if it were a purely postmodern marxist concept, but the sort of simulacra he describes is what J.G. Ballard called a 'Baudrillardian Simulacra' which is the term he used for a sort of copy without an orginal. That may sound like a silly concept, but they can be powerful social forces. The most common sort of this is a yearning for the 'good old days' that never existed.
I mean, you can legally buy the old cartridges and all, but won't they spin this as IP theft?
In certain industries (including the one I'm currently working in) the fact that many of the people working in it learned on illegally obtained software is both 1) tacitly understood and 2) never spoken of.
We can speak of law, IP, and morality all we wish, but at the end of the day there are many people with drive and talent who, for whatever reason, opted to do something illegal to get what they felt they needed.
I really don't see that changing.
The skate couriers in the novel wore armor based on this principle. Flexible, but with an increasing resistance curve like a catcher's mitt. It's good that it's lightweight, because if it's too bulky to do your job in, it's not really useful.
I imagine this could be combined with a chem warfare suit (maybe with build-in cooling) to make an ABC system for the footsoldier that's actually practical.
You've answered your own question. All your old data on one tiny device that can easily be lost, broken, or stolen. If you keep anything important in more than one place, you've halved your chances of a single mishap destroying all your stuff.
Maybe we're just on the timeline where Biff found the book.
The programs themselves. To me it seems like all OSS stuff is Dollar Store versions of commercial software.