Actually, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if one of the reasons this judge is holding the bill for consideration is that he realized how much of an in-state loss of revenue it would be if this bill was active before the majority of the Christmas shopping season. I mean, considering that the average price per game is probably 40-45 dollars, and the Michigan sales tax is 6%, that's $2.40 per game, times the number of games purchased... and with a population of almost 10 million, even if only 1% of the state population purchased a single game, that's still around a quarter of a million dollars to the state, and four million in sales.
Of course, he could have held it back because it's a silly damn law too...
Wrongo. Unless they have a warrant to search, they can't come in unless you let them. However, if you let them in, and they happen to see guns and drugs lying out in the open, yeah, you're screwed.
I don't see what the problem is with Warden. It's a real simple solution to deal with it.
1) Don't cheat. 2) Don't run anything else at the same time as WoW. 3) If it bugs you that much, stop playing. (But give me all your items and gold.)
From your point of view, yes. But they're going where the money is, so it will enable them to eventually produce LCDs that work the way you want. If they filled the smaller market's demands first, sure, they might be the only ones out there who have photo production quality (or whatever you want to call it) with all the other companies focused on the gamer market, but they'd sell a lot less of them. I mean, you only have to look at the number of subscribers of games like World of Warcraft to see why.
But you don't have to pay anything to access the Onion specifically. There is no registration fee, and you aren't required to buy anything from the advertisements.
I think the point is, though, that anyone who already wanted Jack's e-mail and phone # and whatnot, easily had it already from the aforementioned VG Cats link because the creator of VG Cats made no bones about publishing it weeks ago. Bloody hell, Thompson makes a point of attaching it to practically everything he sends out, so it's not like he's trying to hide it to begin with.
And if you had continued to quote the header on the article, you would have seen the "down from 64 percent from the previous 12 months."
A one-quarter drop in a year? My gosh, could that be even more insightful then a snide throwaway comment? (Yes, one-quarter. It was at 64%. It is now at 48%. 64-48=16. 16/64=0.25, which is 25%. Thank you. Drive through. Don't forget your fries.)
I really can't see those numbers going up any time soon. Most everyone in my parent's generation still goes to get film developed normally (especially if my mother is any indication, because she can't use a computer to save her life). My generation is more likely to use printers, but judging by the/. crowd, is more likely to be aware of just how much the current batch of printers suck.
The next generation? Eh, who knows. It probably won't be too long before some radical breakthrough in technology occurs and we'll all be able to have darkroom-quality professional produced photos created by something that will cost $200-$300 and sit on the computer table, and not suck ink cartridges dry in a matter of minutes.
I'm still planning on going through Symantec for AV stuff. I mean, let's face it:
1) It updates regularly and fairly quickly in the face of new threats. MS has let known bugs and security problems go on for how long?
2) It's inexpensive. Sure, I have to buy a new subscription every year, but how much is Vista going to cost me? Even if it's just the XP->Vista upgrade? And considering that I'm not planning on upgrading to Vista, divide the cost of Vista by the cost of the Symantec AV yearly cost, and wow... it's probably going to pay for itself for a few years.
3) I don't trust MS software until a minimum of 6 months to a year after it's been released. MS has a shoddy record when it comes to stability of it's early market software, while Symantec doesn't. I expect the MS security package in Vista to be about as useful as a chocolate hammer. Hell, I'm still at the point where I'm tweaking XP to get the crap I don't want to run to stop running all the time so the things I do want to do run faster.
1) I hate to break it to you, but Earth is a celestial body. So you're already wrong.
2) Yeah, that wonderous idyllic statement will stand up just about as well as tissue paper in front of a flamethrower in the event that anyone from Earth ever colonizes Mars. Sure, if China gets there first (as an example) they probably wouldn't claim the entire planet, but they would have rights to the chunk of land that their colony is on.
Yeah, but the grandparent's kvetch and whine was about what/. choose to focus on about Katrina/NOLA, etc. and, let's face it... msnbc.com is far more likely to contain news stories about that then/. is.
Now, normally, I only go there for the comics page, but it is a news site as well.
Right, because there are no other online news sources with anything on Katrina/NOLA or Iraq. Because cnn.com, headlinenews.com, msnbc.com, etc. just don't exist any more.
Because when I think about news stories that might have a significant non-geek factor, the first news site that pops to mind is slashdot.
Get a little perspective. I don't like the stories about any flavour of BSD, but I don't bitch about it when they post them on the front page.
Yes, but first they have to know that you refilled their ink cartridges in an infringing manner. Unless you're planning on telling them, putting up a banner outside your home, or devoting webspace to the "hur, hur, I'm fucking over Lexmark by refilling their ink cartridges" movement... THEY WILL NEVER KNOW.
but if it's actually Open Source (and not just something that claims to be Open Source and then isn't), wouldn't it be self-defeating, as anyone, in theory, could look at the source and then figure out how to engineer an anti-DRM?
No, but that would be where the "kids and teenagers" part comes in.
Seriously, what is the big fucking deal here? GTA:SA does not come with the code pre-loaded, or flashing on a billboard in the game, or anything like that. You have to know about it (and thanks to the overwhelming, panicky response, everyone knows about it now), and that either involves talking to someone else who knows about it, or searching for it on the Interweb.
And I would submit that if this hypothetical 13-year old has access to the interweb, looking up a cheat code to see virtual titties should be the least of anyone's concerns, based on what other porn is available at the touch of a few keys and a decent search engine.
I know what you mean. Everyone at my store had to go to a training class (not all on the same day, thankfully) which was being held about an hour and a half drive away. MapQuest was fine for getting us to the rough location of the training center, but then it seemed to have issues where the directions would have us turn the wrong way down one-way streets.
Slashdot Mirror
So an an exercise for the reader, how many 2-liter bottles of soda would it take to bankrupt Wal-Mart?
Kierthos
No it doesn't. But then, I'm mimicking the moderators.
Kierthos
So, how brisk are the sales of "I am not a terrorist bomber. Please don't shoot me." t-shirts, then?
Kierthos
Actually, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if one of the reasons this judge is holding the bill for consideration is that he realized how much of an in-state loss of revenue it would be if this bill was active before the majority of the Christmas shopping season. I mean, considering that the average price per game is probably 40-45 dollars, and the Michigan sales tax is 6%, that's $2.40 per game, times the number of games purchased... and with a population of almost 10 million, even if only 1% of the state population purchased a single game, that's still around a quarter of a million dollars to the state, and four million in sales.
Of course, he could have held it back because it's a silly damn law too...
Kierthos
Wrongo. Unless they have a warrant to search, they can't come in unless you let them. However, if you let them in, and they happen to see guns and drugs lying out in the open, yeah, you're screwed.
I don't see what the problem is with Warden. It's a real simple solution to deal with it.
1) Don't cheat.
2) Don't run anything else at the same time as WoW.
3) If it bugs you that much, stop playing. (But give me all your items and gold.)
Kierthos
In that case, either ask for a raise, or a head start.
Kierthos
From your point of view, yes. But they're going where the money is, so it will enable them to eventually produce LCDs that work the way you want. If they filled the smaller market's demands first, sure, they might be the only ones out there who have photo production quality (or whatever you want to call it) with all the other companies focused on the gamer market, but they'd sell a lot less of them. I mean, you only have to look at the number of subscribers of games like World of Warcraft to see why.
Kierthos
But you don't have to pay anything to access the Onion specifically. There is no registration fee, and you aren't required to buy anything from the advertisements.
Genetic engineering is a young science. Mistakes were made. Hell, we're still trying to engineer a /. poster who will RTFA.
Kierthos
It doesn't mention his Batman fetish at all.
Kierthos
I think the point is, though, that anyone who already wanted Jack's e-mail and phone # and whatnot, easily had it already from the aforementioned VG Cats link because the creator of VG Cats made no bones about publishing it weeks ago. Bloody hell, Thompson makes a point of attaching it to practically everything he sends out, so it's not like he's trying to hide it to begin with.
Kierthos
No, no. He has not just crossed that line. He crossed it a long time ago.
Kierthos
And if you had continued to quote the header on the article, you would have seen the "down from 64 percent from the previous 12 months."
/. crowd, is more likely to be aware of just how much the current batch of printers suck.
A one-quarter drop in a year? My gosh, could that be even more insightful then a snide throwaway comment? (Yes, one-quarter. It was at 64%. It is now at 48%. 64-48=16. 16/64=0.25, which is 25%. Thank you. Drive through. Don't forget your fries.)
I really can't see those numbers going up any time soon. Most everyone in my parent's generation still goes to get film developed normally (especially if my mother is any indication, because she can't use a computer to save her life). My generation is more likely to use printers, but judging by the
The next generation? Eh, who knows. It probably won't be too long before some radical breakthrough in technology occurs and we'll all be able to have darkroom-quality professional produced photos created by something that will cost $200-$300 and sit on the computer table, and not suck ink cartridges dry in a matter of minutes.
Kierthos
I'm still planning on going through Symantec for AV stuff. I mean, let's face it:
1) It updates regularly and fairly quickly in the face of new threats. MS has let known bugs and security problems go on for how long?
2) It's inexpensive. Sure, I have to buy a new subscription every year, but how much is Vista going to cost me? Even if it's just the XP->Vista upgrade? And considering that I'm not planning on upgrading to Vista, divide the cost of Vista by the cost of the Symantec AV yearly cost, and wow... it's probably going to pay for itself for a few years.
3) I don't trust MS software until a minimum of 6 months to a year after it's been released. MS has a shoddy record when it comes to stability of it's early market software, while Symantec doesn't. I expect the MS security package in Vista to be about as useful as a chocolate hammer. Hell, I'm still at the point where I'm tweaking XP to get the crap I don't want to run to stop running all the time so the things I do want to do run faster.
Kierthos
1) I hate to break it to you, but Earth is a celestial body. So you're already wrong.
2) Yeah, that wonderous idyllic statement will stand up just about as well as tissue paper in front of a flamethrower in the event that anyone from Earth ever colonizes Mars. Sure, if China gets there first (as an example) they probably wouldn't claim the entire planet, but they would have rights to the chunk of land that their colony is on.
Kierthos
Yeah, but the grandparent's kvetch and whine was about what /. choose to focus on about Katrina/NOLA, etc. and, let's face it... msnbc.com is far more likely to contain news stories about that then /. is.
Now, normally, I only go there for the comics page, but it is a news site as well.
Kierthos
Tell him, "Fred, quit fucking around and get back to work."
Kierthos
Right, because there are no other online news sources with anything on Katrina/NOLA or Iraq. Because cnn.com, headlinenews.com, msnbc.com, etc. just don't exist any more.
Because when I think about news stories that might have a significant non-geek factor, the first news site that pops to mind is slashdot.
Get a little perspective. I don't like the stories about any flavour of BSD, but I don't bitch about it when they post them on the front page.
Kierthos
And it sucked. It was also a TV movie, not a theater movie, as I recall.
Kierthos
Yes, but first they have to know that you refilled their ink cartridges in an infringing manner. Unless you're planning on telling them, putting up a banner outside your home, or devoting webspace to the "hur, hur, I'm fucking over Lexmark by refilling their ink cartridges" movement... THEY WILL NEVER KNOW.
Kierthos
but if it's actually Open Source (and not just something that claims to be Open Source and then isn't), wouldn't it be self-defeating, as anyone, in theory, could look at the source and then figure out how to engineer an anti-DRM?
Kierthos
Assume one beer or one shot of liquor per 3 degrees of tilt. The rest of the math is left as an exercise for the reader.
Kierthos
No, but that would be where the "kids and teenagers" part comes in.
Seriously, what is the big fucking deal here? GTA:SA does not come with the code pre-loaded, or flashing on a billboard in the game, or anything like that. You have to know about it (and thanks to the overwhelming, panicky response, everyone knows about it now), and that either involves talking to someone else who knows about it, or searching for it on the Interweb.
And I would submit that if this hypothetical 13-year old has access to the interweb, looking up a cheat code to see virtual titties should be the least of anyone's concerns, based on what other porn is available at the touch of a few keys and a decent search engine.
Kierthos
I know what you mean. Everyone at my store had to go to a training class (not all on the same day, thankfully) which was being held about an hour and a half drive away. MapQuest was fine for getting us to the rough location of the training center, but then it seemed to have issues where the directions would have us turn the wrong way down one-way streets.
Kierthos
Because morons are allowed to moderate.
Kierthos