No it doesn't. It reads as shades of grey. "Here, let's discount all the big problems/hacks that are affecting Windows. My, now it looks much more secure then Linux."
Furthermore, given how quickly a potential problem can be fixed in Linux, as opposed to the "wait, and wait, and wait some more" approach to the MS Service Packs, I'd have to say that the methodology used to reach at least some of the conclusions in the article is seriously flawed.
No, no... the actor would duck the thrown gun because getting hit in the face with a gun hurts, but the 'bullets' were just blanks and special effects for the ricochets.
As far as your statement goes, shooting Superman in the face wouldn't work either.
Actually, if you've picked up some of the comics in the last few years, it does get torn up all the time. As I recall, he's got a bunch of the capes, all made by his mother.
Yeah, I'd feel sorry for the record companies if they didn't regularly take songs that they've already paid for once, overlaid a "dance track" and released it either as a 'dance single' or stick it on a compilation album of 'dance hits'.
I'd feel sorry for the record companies if they actually used proper accounting techniques so the artists (you know, the people who actually create the works?) are compensated for what they do instead of generally being hung out to dry.
Frankly, the record companies complaining about this is kettle->black territory.
Furthemore, it's hardly diluting the trademark of the Beatles or Jay-Z. It's 3000 albums. More pirated albums of Jay-Z get sold on street corners of New York in one day then this.
Replace "high tech" with lawsuits and you've got it. Seems every time I read about some multi-million dollar class action suit getting settled, the lawyers end up with millions, and the people affected end up with a buck and change each.
This could all be solved by a careful and considered destruction of the current US Patent Office, and it's replacement by something that actually works.
Yes, but Court Martials only apply to people in the Armed Forces. Jimmy Joe Six-Pack, who is not a member of the Armed Forces, cannot face a court martial.
And, btw, the UCMJ is not exempt from wacky laws either. It's a one year jail term and an honorable discharge for dueling, but it's 20 years and a dishonorable discharge for arranging a duel (setting it up, acting as the impartial referee/judge).
Tell me about it. I mean, if video games did cause violence, there should have been two Polynesian guys in my dorm enacting Mortal Kombat out on Humanities majors at least once a day. I can't recall a day in two whole semesters where I didn't see them playing that game.
Some of us are required to us IE at work because the bosses won't let us install anything else. Of course, having said that, I really wonder if the bosses would notice...
Yeah, but for ever Everquest, or Dark Age of Camelot, or UO, you have a Shadowbane (overly hyped, and the worst launch in years) or City of Heroes (finally entering beta after 2+ years of hype, and no one is sure how it will do), or the large number of other MMORPGs coming out.
Sure, a lot, hell, most of these games have monthly fees, which is where the lion's share of their income comes from. But they also have costs beyond the programmers. How many servers has EQ added since it launched? How much hardware have they had to purchase or replace? Same with every online game out there.
It is incredibly easy to waste a lot of money on a game that will do nothing more then tank. (Daikatana anyone?)
At least with business software, there is a better chance at a guarenteed market. (Maybe not much better, but it has to be somewhat more profitable in terms of man hours spent coding...)
Nothing, per se, but you notice how much bad press the RIAA got for suing a little girl, right? Besides, they're probably much happier to find the leak (Caridi), and have the "mad copier" (Sprague) in custody.
Sprague will, no doubt, see some jail time, but he's just as likely to plea bargain his time down if he can provide the Feds and the MPAA with any more names or information.
Caridi, however... let's see, career ruined, good name ruined... sure, they could throw him in jail, but if he sticks to his story, he's likely to get off with little time or punishment other then being ostracized by the major players in Hollywood.
Come on.... we're talking about a company that is saying "We haven't proven a damn thing yet, but nonetheless, we want you to give us money." This is a corporate version of a schoolyard bully. Being polite has it's place, but quite frankly, the statement is not, IMAO, infantile.
Now, "Fuck you. Strong letter to follow.", that's infantile.
1) Not all online games have a monthly fee. Some are free.
2) Some online games have set-ups which allow something other then credit card payments. I can't think of any right off-hand that will take cash if mailed to them, but I have heard of ones that will accept checks or money orders. For the former, it's unusual but not uncommon for teenagers to have checking accounts, but practically anyone can get a money order.
3) Some kids do have credit cards.
4) Some kids use mommy or daddy's card without letting them know. Sure, if they get caught, the game (ha-ha) is over, but for upper-class/rich parents, who could conceivably have hundreds to thousands of dollars of credit card purchases per month, it could go unnoticed for quite some time.
5) Filters work both ways. On many MMOPRGs, it not only keeps "impressionable young minds" from seeing some other character swearing like a sailor, but given the ToS on many (if not all) of these games, it also keeps the offending player from losing his or her account. (And lost accounts mean lost cash for the company running the game.)
6) Most online games do not fall under the "I paid my monthly fee, now I get to do whatever the heck I want!" setting. There are responsibilities and rules to follow, aka the Terms of Service. The company running the game can (and in many cases) and has changed these to reflect changes in the way the game is played, or to stop new cheating programs, or to deal with existing problems.
Because if Excite had not said "yes, we'll sell you these ads under these terms", then the purchaser wouldn't have been able to get the ads (at least through Excite).
The concept is that Excite is culpable because they could have refused or redefined the terms of the ads to be non-infringing, and they were the last ones that had the option to do so.
Man, my brothers and I had a few sets of "Tente" as well. My dad saw a bunch for sale when he was in Florida and got them for us as Christmas gifts...
They were great. And they did, as I recall, hold together firmer then Legos... never had to pry them apart with a flatblade screwdriver, but solid enough to make all kinds of things.
It's the difference between the bootleggers downloading the movie themselves, or being handed/mailed a DVD master copy. It's all about the time involved. It may takes hours or days, depending on connection speed to get the entire movie, but you can overnight ship a master disk to someone easily.
Yes. Because the rest of us, who are reading the information on this web page, can go to those web pages he mentioned, see what he's talking about, and gain information, and perhaps a bit of understanding.
Whereas the farmers who still don't have an internet connection will still be completely clueless as to even the existence of/., and therefore, it isn't ironic that it's not more useful to them. The information was provided to us, not them, as an attempt to go "Hrm. Maybe if we did this instead of giving them a computer, they'd see more benefit." Yes, I know it goes against the "common wisdom" here on/., that once everyone has a computer (and is running Linux), the world will be a much better place, but there you go.
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No it doesn't. It reads as shades of grey. "Here, let's discount all the big problems/hacks that are affecting Windows. My, now it looks much more secure then Linux."
Furthermore, given how quickly a potential problem can be fixed in Linux, as opposed to the "wait, and wait, and wait some more" approach to the MS Service Packs, I'd have to say that the methodology used to reach at least some of the conclusions in the article is seriously flawed.
Kierthos
Not just that... it's because Bush wants to put a man on Mars, and NASA only has so much money, so something has to get cut.
Now I'm wishing I hadn't sent that e-mail about there being oil on Mars...
Kierthos
No, no... the actor would duck the thrown gun because getting hit in the face with a gun hurts, but the 'bullets' were just blanks and special effects for the ricochets.
As far as your statement goes, shooting Superman in the face wouldn't work either.
Kierthos
Actually, if you've picked up some of the comics in the last few years, it does get torn up all the time. As I recall, he's got a bunch of the capes, all made by his mother.
Kierthos
Yeah, I'd feel sorry for the record companies if they didn't regularly take songs that they've already paid for once, overlaid a "dance track" and released it either as a 'dance single' or stick it on a compilation album of 'dance hits'.
I'd feel sorry for the record companies if they actually used proper accounting techniques so the artists (you know, the people who actually create the works?) are compensated for what they do instead of generally being hung out to dry.
Frankly, the record companies complaining about this is kettle->black territory.
Furthemore, it's hardly diluting the trademark of the Beatles or Jay-Z. It's 3000 albums. More pirated albums of Jay-Z get sold on street corners of New York in one day then this.
Kierthos
No, it's just pining for the fjords.
Kierthos
Oh, so you've played Star Wars: Galaxies then?
Kierthos
Replace "high tech" with lawsuits and you've got it. Seems every time I read about some multi-million dollar class action suit getting settled, the lawyers end up with millions, and the people affected end up with a buck and change each.
"First, kill all the lawyers."
Kierthos
This could all be solved by a careful and considered destruction of the current US Patent Office, and it's replacement by something that actually works.
Kierthos
Yes, but Court Martials only apply to people in the Armed Forces. Jimmy Joe Six-Pack, who is not a member of the Armed Forces, cannot face a court martial.
And, btw, the UCMJ is not exempt from wacky laws either. It's a one year jail term and an honorable discharge for dueling, but it's 20 years and a dishonorable discharge for arranging a duel (setting it up, acting as the impartial referee/judge).
Kierthos
But lawyers are all bound by the ethics of their profession. They would never do anything wrong.
hahahahahahaha...
Okay, now you tell one.
Kierthos
Tell me about it. I mean, if video games did cause violence, there should have been two Polynesian guys in my dorm enacting Mortal Kombat out on Humanities majors at least once a day. I can't recall a day in two whole semesters where I didn't see them playing that game.
Kierthos
Some of us are required to us IE at work because the bosses won't let us install anything else. Of course, having said that, I really wonder if the bosses would notice...
Kierthos
Yeah, but for ever Everquest, or Dark Age of Camelot, or UO, you have a Shadowbane (overly hyped, and the worst launch in years) or City of Heroes (finally entering beta after 2+ years of hype, and no one is sure how it will do), or the large number of other MMORPGs coming out.
Sure, a lot, hell, most of these games have monthly fees, which is where the lion's share of their income comes from. But they also have costs beyond the programmers. How many servers has EQ added since it launched? How much hardware have they had to purchase or replace? Same with every online game out there.
It is incredibly easy to waste a lot of money on a game that will do nothing more then tank. (Daikatana anyone?)
At least with business software, there is a better chance at a guarenteed market. (Maybe not much better, but it has to be somewhat more profitable in terms of man hours spent coding...)
Kierthos
I'm waiting (more like dreading) the /. post that says:
Your Rights Online: You don't have any.
Can't be too far off...
Kierthos
Nothing, per se, but you notice how much bad press the RIAA got for suing a little girl, right? Besides, they're probably much happier to find the leak (Caridi), and have the "mad copier" (Sprague) in custody.
Sprague will, no doubt, see some jail time, but he's just as likely to plea bargain his time down if he can provide the Feds and the MPAA with any more names or information.
Caridi, however... let's see, career ruined, good name ruined... sure, they could throw him in jail, but if he sticks to his story, he's likely to get off with little time or punishment other then being ostracized by the major players in Hollywood.
Kierthos
Come on.... we're talking about a company that is saying "We haven't proven a damn thing yet, but nonetheless, we want you to give us money." This is a corporate version of a schoolyard bully. Being polite has it's place, but quite frankly, the statement is not, IMAO, infantile.
Now, "Fuck you. Strong letter to follow.", that's infantile.
Kierthos
1) Not all online games have a monthly fee. Some are free.
2) Some online games have set-ups which allow something other then credit card payments. I can't think of any right off-hand that will take cash if mailed to them, but I have heard of ones that will accept checks or money orders. For the former, it's unusual but not uncommon for teenagers to have checking accounts, but practically anyone can get a money order.
3) Some kids do have credit cards.
4) Some kids use mommy or daddy's card without letting them know. Sure, if they get caught, the game (ha-ha) is over, but for upper-class/rich parents, who could conceivably have hundreds to thousands of dollars of credit card purchases per month, it could go unnoticed for quite some time.
5) Filters work both ways. On many MMOPRGs, it not only keeps "impressionable young minds" from seeing some other character swearing like a sailor, but given the ToS on many (if not all) of these games, it also keeps the offending player from losing his or her account. (And lost accounts mean lost cash for the company running the game.)
6) Most online games do not fall under the "I paid my monthly fee, now I get to do whatever the heck I want!" setting. There are responsibilities and rules to follow, aka the Terms of Service. The company running the game can (and in many cases) and has changed these to reflect changes in the way the game is played, or to stop new cheating programs, or to deal with existing problems.
It may not be perfect, but hardly anything is.
Kierthos
Well, of course. I mean, doesn't everyone want to give their family members CDs of mp3s for Christmas instead of going out and actually buying a gift?
Kierthos
Coming soon: The Irish Potato Virus!
Kierthos
Because if Excite had not said "yes, we'll sell you these ads under these terms", then the purchaser wouldn't have been able to get the ads (at least through Excite).
The concept is that Excite is culpable because they could have refused or redefined the terms of the ads to be non-infringing, and they were the last ones that had the option to do so.
Kierthos
Man, my brothers and I had a few sets of "Tente" as well. My dad saw a bunch for sale when he was in Florida and got them for us as Christmas gifts...
They were great. And they did, as I recall, hold together firmer then Legos... never had to pry them apart with a flatblade screwdriver, but solid enough to make all kinds of things.
Kierthos
It's the difference between the bootleggers downloading the movie themselves, or being handed/mailed a DVD master copy. It's all about the time involved. It may takes hours or days, depending on connection speed to get the entire movie, but you can overnight ship a master disk to someone easily.
Kierthos
Yes. Because the rest of us, who are reading the information on this web page, can go to those web pages he mentioned, see what he's talking about, and gain information, and perhaps a bit of understanding.
/., and therefore, it isn't ironic that it's not more useful to them. The information was provided to us, not them, as an attempt to go "Hrm. Maybe if we did this instead of giving them a computer, they'd see more benefit." Yes, I know it goes against the "common wisdom" here on /., that once everyone has a computer (and is running Linux), the world will be a much better place, but there you go.
Whereas the farmers who still don't have an internet connection will still be completely clueless as to even the existence of
Kierthos
No, no. She's a blithering idiot who didn't actually live in the state she ran for office in, therefore her book is gibberish.
Republicans are not immune from writing crapola either, btw...
Kierthos