Let's see, I can farm out my company's grunt-work overseas, because there are no US federal regulators there enforcing employment, wage, standard, etc. laws.
Simultaneously, of course, there are no (enforceable) IP, trademark, copyright, security, reporting, or competition laws.
Seems distinctly like 2 sides of the same coin to me. Congratulations, you've just saved your company $500,000 in outsourcing your coding jobs to Indian programmers, while simultaneously bankrupting the firm of all future business because you have no trade secrets anymore.
FWIW Sen Coleman (R-MN) who is actually pushing the only effort AGAINST this sort of crap only got $2500 from TV/Movies/Music lobby, and that was probably a donor for a different purpose.
(same place as above but I'm too stupid to make inline links.)
Ego. A book. An author. A political viewpoint based on alienation, divisiveness, hate and envy. Dogma veiled as a documentary. Class warfare. A moral system in which success is measured by the degree of resentment it inspires, not facts and reason. All through the avenue of fear; fear for our children, fear of guns, fear of "those scary conservatives that are wrecking the country".
"I'd strongly suggest people watch "Bowling for Columbine", for [one point-of-view on]* fear mongering as part of the problem, reason, not just consequence."
multiple formats for videotapes - market grows but slowly. VHS wins - market explodes.
multiple competing OS's, systems - market grows slowly. Wintel becomes a dominant share of the market, ensuring wide compatibility - market explodes.
Matrox/Nvidia/ATI/Diamond/3dfx all fight over 3d video implementation - market grows slowly DirectX finally grows up to the point where it's a usable 3d API - 3d-accelerated games are everywhere.
True, but misleading. For the last several YEARS HL has been $10 in the bargain bin. Even at retail, is it better to pay $40 (once) or $10 (every month forever)? CS was free. TF (original) was free. TFClassic was FREE.
From VUGaming: "Planet HalfLife received an e-mail from VALVe's Gabe Newell that shows Half-Life 2's different prices and purchasing methods on buying Half-Life 2. For those of you gamers out there who are concerned about the pay to play Half-Life 2 rumors, you can purchase Half-Life 2 normally as a boxed item from a retailer of SIERRA or through Steam with one easy payment. This will allow you to enjoy the modifications, mulitiplayer mods, and most of all for you people on dial-up, you will be allowed to play this game offline so you will not have to bug over the phoneline all day. But, you must meet the requirements to play Half-Life 2, and its modifications for Half-Life2. When the new item is released by VALVe, such as expansions such as Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike 2, you will have to pay separately for these games.
Also, Gabe Newell went to talk about Steam's subscription service which does allow you to receive a new item as soon as it's out with no additional charge. For example, if you purchase Half-Life 2 as a game subscription via Steam, there will be a monthly charge to subscribe, most likely around $9.95 per month, but you will get FREE access to any other additional content such as the afore mentioned mods for Half-Life 2."
Tell me Gabe, when TF2 comes out, my February 1998 (I think) preorder be applied WITH INTEREST, right?
IMO the "multiplayer" aspect of HL2 only will work if you're a subscriber (read: NOT free (as in beer)) to Steam.
Cheats are only a big deal if a lot of people are playing it multiplayer. If you have to pay to play, it's not going to be that big a community/deal ANYWAY. Certainly nowhere near Counterstrike, etc.
Why let facts get in the way of a good leftist rant?
AFAIK the game has violence controls to remove even the slight violence. What little violence there IS in the game, can be password-locked OUT by a parent so that the only games the player can play are the MILES laser-simulations - instead of injuries, when hit you hear the MILES *beeeeeep* tone, and your guy takes off his helmet and sits down.
...that this little screed wasn't instantly modded "offtopic" and I have to read it even set at +5.
"i don't want to pay to train kids to kill" Then don't pay taxes. AFAIK the game is rated M, for 17+, and the Army's been teaching 18 year olds to kill for a LOOONG time. So they're a year early? BFD. Maybe a responsible parent will look at the game and make the judgement for their "kid".
Oh yeah, and if they say the kid can't play this game, they better not let them watch broadcast TV, cable, or movies, either.
So you're entirely, completely, and totally motivated by your own selfishness? At least that's clear. So the whole "I hate the rich/consumer/SUV-driving suburbanite" is pretty much completely hypocrisy then?
Why not change the envrionmentalist signs to say it more honestly:
"stop the pollution because I want to be comfortable!"
"use less energy so I can watch more TV!"
Why should we care about *your* comfort? I'm bringing this up at the next meeting of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
This is not a good development for the ecosystem of our planet.
Well, no. This may not be a good development for the HUMAN inhabitants of the planet, but the ecosystem will chug merrily along without noticing at all if the humans are all gone.
Is it not a fact that at least until the end of the 'dinosaur era' the planet's temperature was SIGNIFICANTLY warmer than it is now? So how is a increase or decrease in global temperature of tiny amounts going to affect the planet? The answer is, of course, it WON'T. It may affect humans. In fact, we may be losers in the next great die-off. So sad, too bad. THAT is the nature of fauna on this planet.
We could pave the Earth, light up two or threee thousand nuclear warheads, all drive SUV's until the oil is gone, even smoke unfiltered cigarettes and kill ourselves off and you know what? In about a million years, the Earth will look much like it did about a million years ago.
For every organism that I know of, as soon as it can outcompete other creatures in its niche, it will overpopulate until the population collapses. That's what humanity is doing now. Big deal, so we're acting like lemmings with thumbs, why is this SUCH a surprise? This is far more the 'natural cycle' of things than some silly effort by environmentalists to "stop time" so Earth remains forever a place perfectly-suited for OUR existence.
Ironically, environmentalists are simply species-centric humanists of the worst order.
"Lack of cooperation is what makes other people enemys instead of friendy"
Yeah, that's right. I can think of LOTS of neighboring ethnic groups that have been cooperating forever who live in peace & love: Jews/Arabs Chinese/Koreans Chinese/Vietna mese Bavarians/Austrians etc.
What's the bet that this "insight" on cooperation comes from someone on a continent of people who a) pretty much hate each other b) speak at least a dozen different languages c) can't agree on a single unit of currency d) has been the home to countless internecine, ethnic, and/or religious wars in the previous 1000 years.
I love(d) Monty Python, and entered adolescence sneaking into my parents' room to watch it from the doorway long past bedtime.
But I went and saw Eric Idle's show a year or two ago and, well, the whole schtick simply not aging gracefully. Maybe I've just reached saturation, but seeing this wizened 60 year old (feebly) jumping around singing the Philosopher's song or doing the Crunchy Frog bit just seemed....weak.
I fear the idea of a 'musical' just isn't very good. Michael Palin managed to move on to other things (a very good couple of series on PBS), Terry Gilliam has a great directing career, and John Cleese continues as ever.
I don't see any spark left in the old associations when they do show up together, either.
Heaven forbid a thread go by without some political diatribe. Do some of you people just walk around FILLED WITH HATE for people of different political beliefs?
You know, the world is full of people with whom you probably disagree. Doesn't that make the anger part pretty much futile?
You're right, this article is comparing apples to oranges.......because there's no way in h*ll that a music CD should cost more to produce than 1/10th the costs you stipulate are suffered in making a DVD.
Ergo, even if 90% of a movie's revenue is generated at the box office (not true at all anymore) the price of a music cd should be comparable.
Wow, Al Franken posts on these boards? LOL you're a riot.
"there isn't a major media organization in this country that has the slightest hint of a liberal leaning in at least 20 years." Holy Mother of God, I didn't realize/. reached that far. (I mean, to make a statement like this, you CAN'T be from this planet.)
To say things like "the whole gay marriage issue doesn't exist on the political spectrum" - maybe you need a little more oxygen?
Go on & keep defending him, I guess it depends on your standards of proof.
The codename for Oppenheimer was, AFAIK, (it's been a while since I read it) correlated to him based on conversations in the Venona docs that remarked about events in Veskel's life, etc. I don't believe it was even contested.
Oppenheimer had been a financial supporter of Communist causes in the 1930s and had social ties not only to party members but also to senior Communist operatives on the West Coast. Several members of his family--his brother, sister-in-law, and his wife--were Communists. His wife's first husband had been a Communist organizer killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and she was close to Steve Nelson, a party official with disturbingly close ties to Soviet intelligence. A number of Oppenheimer's graduate students and several of the people he hired to work on the Manhattan Project were known party members. In 1943 Oppenheimer had reluctantly told security officials a bizarre story about being approached to spy for the Russians. Even when the United States government withdrew his security clearance in 1954, however, it didn't claim that he was a Soviet agent, only that his behavior made him a security risk. FBI wiretaps declassified a few years ago revealed that Oppenheimer was himself a secret member of the Communist party.
Pavel Sudoplatov, the former Soviet spymaster claimed that Gregory Kheifitz, the KGB's resident in San Francisco, had met with Oppenheimer in December 1941, at which time the physicist had worried that the Nazis might build an atomic bomb before the Americans. Kheifitz allegedly introduced Elizabeth Zarubina, a KGB officer, to Oppenheimer's wife, through whom the Los Alamos director could stay in touch with the Russians; through this contact, Sudoplatov claimed, Oppenheimer facilitated Klaus Fuchs's arrival at Los Alamos. Sudoplatov also mentioned another point of entry Soviet intelligence used to get access to Oppenheimer: a Soviet mole, a Polish-born Jewish dentist, planted in California in the 1930s but long since out of touch and reactivated by Zarubina because of his close ties to Oppenheimer.
FURTHER, Sacred Secrets reprints a 1944 memo from Vsevelod Merkulov to Lavrenty Beria. It notes that Soviet agents obtained important atomic information through Comintern contacts in the United States with Kheifitz and Zarubina. The memo goes on: "In 1942 one of the leaders of scientific work on uranium in the USA, Professor R. Oppenheimer, while being an unlisted member of the apparatus of Comrade Browder, informed us about the beginning of work. On the request of Comrade Kheifitz, confirmed by Comrade Browder, he provided cooperation in access to research for several of our tested sources including a relative of Comrade Browder."
(large chunks of this post taken from various web sources, simply because I didn't have time to retype it all in my words)
Ultimately, it depends on your standards of proof. If you are CONVINCED that he was not a spy then simply nothing short of a poster-sized print of JRO handing a big red file marked "ATOMIC SECRETS" to Natasha and Boris figures with SPY in big white letters on their hats will convince you. Sorry, I don't think such a level of proof exists.
But to suggest that there is some question about Oppenheimer takes EITHER an assertive act of naivete or a political agenda.
Read the Venona transcripts. Teller was right, Oppenheimer *was* a communist sympathizer at the very least.
"...we can say for certain that Oppenheimer did in fact knowingly supply classified information on the atom bomb to the Soviet Union." While he directed the Manhattan Project, it was known that J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, brother, and sister-in-law were all members of the Communist Party. The fact that he regularly gave a large portion of his salary to the Communist Party was also common knowledge among government officials overseeing the project. This should have made him at the least a security risk for a project with such deep ramifications for national security. It didn't. In Venona, Oppenheimer is identified with the code-name "Veskel." One message instructs agents to "re-establish contact with 'Veskel'...as soon as possible." In 1994, a year before the deciphered Venona cables were released, the man in charge of Soviet spying on America's atom bomb project revealed that Oppenheimer had supplied the Soviets with classified reports on atom bomb development."
Teller was spot-on, and was/has been pilloried for DECADES by leftist sympathizers for his integrity.
(quoted from http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2000/novemb er_2000_4.html, but confirmed by reading it personally)
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Let's see, I can farm out my company's grunt-work overseas, because there are no US federal regulators there enforcing employment, wage, standard, etc. laws.
Simultaneously, of course, there are no (enforceable) IP, trademark, copyright, security, reporting, or competition laws.
Seems distinctly like 2 sides of the same coin to me. Congratulations, you've just saved your company $500,000 in outsourcing your coding jobs to Indian programmers, while simultaneously bankrupting the firm of all future business because you have no trade secrets anymore.
NICE JOB.
FWIW Sen Coleman (R-MN) who is actually pushing the only effort AGAINST this sort of crap only got $2500 from TV/Movies/Music lobby, and that was probably a donor for a different purpose.
(same place as above but I'm too stupid to make inline links.)
This is /., remember.
I'd say it's jealousy of a culture where:
- chicks are hot
- food is great
- body odor is not considered simply a disgusting lack of personal hygiene.
"...what would you consider it was peddling?"
Ego.
A book.
An author.
A political viewpoint based on alienation, divisiveness, hate and envy.
Dogma veiled as a documentary.
Class warfare.
A moral system in which success is measured by the degree of resentment it inspires, not facts and reason.
All through the avenue of fear; fear for our children, fear of guns, fear of "those scary conservatives that are wrecking the country".
Yup, good example of fearmongering to me.
"I'd strongly suggest people watch "Bowling for Columbine", for [one point-of-view on]* fear mongering as part of the problem, reason, not just consequence."
* Don't you mean "...one EXAMPLE OF..."?
Wouldn't want to post those scripts, would you?
The only part of SETI@home that I don't like is the constant drive accessing.
multiple formats for videotapes - market grows but slowly.
VHS wins - market explodes.
multiple competing OS's, systems - market grows slowly.
Wintel becomes a dominant share of the market, ensuring wide compatibility - market explodes.
Matrox/Nvidia/ATI/Diamond/3dfx all fight over 3d video implementation - market grows slowly
DirectX finally grows up to the point where it's a usable 3d API - 3d-accelerated games are everywhere.
Any lessons in this for the eBook guys?
"You have to pay to play online with HL."
True, but misleading. For the last several YEARS HL has been $10 in the bargain bin. Even at retail, is it better to pay $40 (once) or $10 (every month forever)? CS was free. TF (original) was free. TFClassic was FREE.
From VUGaming:
"Planet HalfLife received an e-mail from VALVe's Gabe Newell that shows Half-Life 2's different prices and purchasing methods on buying Half-Life 2. For those of you gamers out there who are concerned about the pay to play Half-Life 2 rumors, you can purchase Half-Life 2 normally as a boxed item from a retailer of SIERRA or through Steam with one easy payment. This will allow you to enjoy the modifications, mulitiplayer mods, and most of all for you people on dial-up, you will be allowed to play this game offline so you will not have to bug over the phoneline all day. But, you must meet the requirements to play Half-Life 2, and its modifications for Half-Life2. When the new item is released by VALVe, such as expansions such as Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike 2, you will have to pay separately for these games.
Also, Gabe Newell went to talk about Steam's subscription service which does allow you to receive a new item as soon as it's out with no additional charge. For example, if you purchase Half-Life 2 as a game subscription via Steam, there will be a monthly charge to subscribe, most likely around $9.95 per month, but you will get FREE access to any other additional content such as the afore mentioned mods for Half-Life 2."
Tell me Gabe, when TF2 comes out, my February 1998 (I think) preorder be applied WITH INTEREST, right?
IMO the "multiplayer" aspect of HL2 only will work if you're a subscriber (read: NOT free (as in beer)) to Steam.
Cheats are only a big deal if a lot of people are playing it multiplayer. If you have to pay to play, it's not going to be that big a community/deal ANYWAY. Certainly nowhere near Counterstrike, etc.
Why let facts get in the way of a good leftist rant?
AFAIK the game has violence controls to remove even the slight violence. What little violence there IS in the game, can be password-locked OUT by a parent so that the only games the player can play are the MILES laser-simulations - instead of injuries, when hit you hear the MILES *beeeeeep* tone, and your guy takes off his helmet and sits down.
About as violent as ping-pong.
...that this little screed wasn't instantly modded "offtopic" and I have to read it even set at +5.
"i don't want to pay to train kids to kill"
Then don't pay taxes. AFAIK the game is rated M, for 17+, and the Army's been teaching 18 year olds to kill for a LOOONG time. So they're a year early? BFD. Maybe a responsible parent will look at the game and make the judgement for their "kid".
Oh yeah, and if they say the kid can't play this game, they better not let them watch broadcast TV, cable, or movies, either.
So you're entirely, completely, and totally motivated by your own selfishness? At least that's clear. So the whole "I hate the rich/consumer/SUV-driving suburbanite" is pretty much completely hypocrisy then?
Why not change the envrionmentalist signs to say it more honestly:
"stop the pollution because I want to be comfortable!"
"use less energy so I can watch more TV!"
Why should we care about *your* comfort? I'm bringing this up at the next meeting of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Well, no. This may not be a good development for the HUMAN inhabitants of the planet, but the ecosystem will chug merrily along without noticing at all if the humans are all gone.
Is it not a fact that at least until the end of the 'dinosaur era' the planet's temperature was SIGNIFICANTLY warmer than it is now? So how is a increase or decrease in global temperature of tiny amounts going to affect the planet? The answer is, of course, it WON'T. It may affect humans. In fact, we may be losers in the next great die-off. So sad, too bad. THAT is the nature of fauna on this planet.
We could pave the Earth, light up two or threee thousand nuclear warheads, all drive SUV's until the oil is gone, even smoke unfiltered cigarettes and kill ourselves off and you know what? In about a million years, the Earth will look much like it did about a million years ago.
For every organism that I know of, as soon as it can outcompete other creatures in its niche, it will overpopulate until the population collapses. That's what humanity is doing now. Big deal, so we're acting like lemmings with thumbs, why is this SUCH a surprise? This is far more the 'natural cycle' of things than some silly effort by environmentalists to "stop time" so Earth remains forever a place perfectly-suited for OUR existence.
Ironically, environmentalists are simply species-centric humanists of the worst order.
"Lack of cooperation is what makes other people enemys instead of friendy"
a mese
Yeah, that's right. I can think of LOTS of neighboring ethnic groups that have been cooperating forever who live in peace & love:
Jews/Arabs
Chinese/Koreans
Chinese/Vietn
Bavarians/Austrians
etc.
What's the bet that this "insight" on cooperation comes from someone on a continent of people who
a) pretty much hate each other
b) speak at least a dozen different languages
c) can't agree on a single unit of currency
d) has been the home to countless internecine, ethnic, and/or religious wars in the previous 1000 years.
LOL
"I would think making everything absolutely accurate would simple confuse the average consumer."
Or, could lead to rampant value, efficiency, and fulfilled expectations. The horror!
The fact that this was modded 5, Interesting and not 5, Funny is pretty damn sad.
I love(d) Monty Python, and entered adolescence sneaking into my parents' room to watch it from the doorway long past bedtime.
But I went and saw Eric Idle's show a year or two ago and, well, the whole schtick simply not aging gracefully. Maybe I've just reached saturation, but seeing this wizened 60 year old (feebly) jumping around singing the Philosopher's song or doing the Crunchy Frog bit just seemed....weak.
I fear the idea of a 'musical' just isn't very good. Michael Palin managed to move on to other things (a very good couple of series on PBS), Terry Gilliam has a great directing career, and John Cleese continues as ever.
I don't see any spark left in the old associations when they do show up together, either.
Heaven forbid a thread go by without some political diatribe. Do some of you people just walk around FILLED WITH HATE for people of different political beliefs?
You know, the world is full of people with whom you probably disagree. Doesn't that make the anger part pretty much futile?
Couldn't they make a Faraday cage around the passenger compartment? Wouldn't that help? Or does a Faraday cage have to be grounded?
You're right, this article is comparing apples to oranges.... ...because there's no way in h*ll that a music CD should cost more to produce than 1/10th the costs you stipulate are suffered in making a DVD.
Ergo, even if 90% of a movie's revenue is generated at the box office (not true at all anymore) the price of a music cd should be comparable.
I'd also say that we've raised a generation of people who, when something tragic happens, look for someone to BLAME.
Wow, Al Franken posts on these boards?
/. reached that far. (I mean, to make a statement like this, you CAN'T be from this planet.)
LOL you're a riot.
"there isn't a major media organization in this country that has the slightest hint of a liberal leaning in at least 20 years."
Holy Mother of God, I didn't realize
To say things like "the whole gay marriage issue doesn't exist on the political spectrum" - maybe you need a little more oxygen?
If you are trying to make the feeble point that fox is conservative, what a shock.
I would point out that the New York Times has been slanting stories strongly to the left for what, a CENTURY more than Fox has even existed?
Or do you really think project Censored's 'list' is worth more than the tinfoil hat under which it was conceived?
#27: How to present a political agenda whilst masquerading as a news piece.
Go on & keep defending him, I guess it depends on your standards of proof.
The codename for Oppenheimer was, AFAIK, (it's been a while since I read it) correlated to him based on conversations in the Venona docs that remarked about events in Veskel's life, etc. I don't believe it was even contested.
Oppenheimer had been a financial supporter of Communist causes in the 1930s and had social ties not only to party members but also to senior Communist operatives on the West Coast. Several members of his family--his brother, sister-in-law, and his wife--were Communists. His wife's first husband had been a Communist organizer killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and she was close to Steve Nelson, a party official with disturbingly close ties to Soviet intelligence. A number of Oppenheimer's graduate students and several of the people he hired to work on the Manhattan Project were known party members. In 1943 Oppenheimer had reluctantly told security officials a bizarre story about being approached to spy for the Russians. Even when the United States government withdrew his security clearance in 1954, however, it didn't claim that he was a Soviet agent, only that his behavior made him a security risk. FBI wiretaps declassified a few years ago revealed that Oppenheimer was himself a secret member of the Communist party.
Pavel Sudoplatov, the former Soviet spymaster claimed that Gregory Kheifitz, the KGB's resident in San Francisco, had met with Oppenheimer in December 1941, at which time the physicist had worried that the Nazis might build an atomic bomb before the Americans. Kheifitz allegedly introduced Elizabeth Zarubina, a KGB officer, to Oppenheimer's wife, through whom the Los Alamos director could stay in touch with the Russians; through this contact, Sudoplatov claimed, Oppenheimer facilitated Klaus Fuchs's arrival at Los Alamos. Sudoplatov also mentioned another point of entry Soviet intelligence used to get access to Oppenheimer: a Soviet mole, a Polish-born Jewish dentist, planted in California in the 1930s but long since out of touch and reactivated by Zarubina because of his close ties to Oppenheimer.
FURTHER, Sacred Secrets reprints a 1944 memo from Vsevelod Merkulov to Lavrenty Beria. It notes that Soviet agents obtained important atomic information through Comintern contacts in the United States with Kheifitz and Zarubina. The memo goes on: "In 1942 one of the leaders of scientific work on uranium in the USA, Professor R. Oppenheimer, while being an unlisted member of the apparatus of Comrade Browder, informed us about the beginning of work. On the request of Comrade Kheifitz, confirmed by Comrade Browder, he provided cooperation in access to research for several of our tested sources including a relative of Comrade Browder."
(large chunks of this post taken from various web sources, simply because I didn't have time to retype it all in my words)
Ultimately, it depends on your standards of proof. If you are CONVINCED that he was not a spy then simply nothing short of a poster-sized print of JRO handing a big red file marked "ATOMIC SECRETS" to Natasha and Boris figures with SPY in big white letters on their hats will convince you. Sorry, I don't think such a level of proof exists.
But to suggest that there is some question about Oppenheimer takes EITHER an assertive act of naivete or a political agenda.
Read the Venona transcripts. Teller was right, Oppenheimer *was* a communist sympathizer at the very least.
"...we can say for certain that Oppenheimer did in fact knowingly supply classified information on the atom bomb to the Soviet Union." While he directed the Manhattan Project, it was known that J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, brother, and sister-in-law were all members of the Communist Party. The fact that he regularly gave a large portion of his salary to the Communist Party was also common knowledge among government officials overseeing the project. This should have made him at the least a security risk for a project with such deep ramifications for national security. It didn't. In Venona, Oppenheimer is identified with the code-name "Veskel." One message instructs agents to "re-establish contact with 'Veskel'...as soon as possible." In 1994, a year before the deciphered Venona cables were released, the man in charge of Soviet spying on America's atom bomb project revealed that Oppenheimer had supplied the Soviets with classified reports on atom bomb development."
Teller was spot-on, and was/has been pilloried for DECADES by leftist sympathizers for his integrity.
(quoted from http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2000/novem