This is the same sort of reasoning I use when it comes to the "Roll your own Vs. Camel" debate. Let's say you make $20/hr... and it takes you half an hour each day to roll your own smokes... saving you $15. Where as a Carton of smokes costs $35 (add your own state's insane tax where applicable). For me this is a no brainer... nothing is more valuable to me than time. But others I've argued this point to seem to think that saving a buck is more important. I guess some people are just the 'cup is half empty' sort and others are 'time is money'.
I would recomend you keep this little tidbit to yourself, and out of your commentary. People might wonder for your sanity and glaze over the rest of your post, as this does not inspire a tremendous amount of confidence in things to come.
(This is a joke, not a flame... deal with it, move on please)
The criminal penalties are: "(1) shall be fined not more than $500,000 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both, for the first offense; and (2) shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both, for any subsequent offense." Only someone who violates the law "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" can be convicted.
Okay... so it's big and nasty, but you won't do time for it if you're not a privateer. Piracy is still okay, just not privateering.. fair enough... but how unamerican is that? The United States of America would still be in the hands of Great Britain if it weren't for Privateering funding our revolution!
At any rate, I personally will be going down to make an appointment with my congressman on monday.
I meant to suggest that people with Photoshop already can just import into GoLive and won't need Illustrator... but if you do not have Photoshop and want to get into SVG, Illustrator would be my recommendation as it is a Vector program on it's own and can export SVG without the aid of GoLive. Photoshop on the otherhand, is pixel based, so you need to import to Go Live before you can export to SVG.
What the hell did they put in his wheaties? First he castrates Stem Cell research, now he's putting his nose in the MS case... Do they require urine screening for this job or can any coke-head be president?
In all seriousness folks, I'm not surprised that MS won't be broken up (we already know how well that worked with the Baby Bells) but I'm shocked that Bush decided to put his nose in that mess! Considering how politically safe he walked the Stem-Cell research line... this is just out of left field!
Adobe GoLive 5.0 and Illustrator 9.0 are the choice options for professional development.
I've been playing with GoLive 5.0 for about 2 months since I first heard about SVG and I've played with Illustrator. I'd have to say I prefer GoLive 5.0... but only slightly. If you already have a PhotoShop license get GoLive. If you don't have a Photoshop licesne get Illustrator.
"(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. The Napster battle is over)"
So presumably you stopped buying CDs because the RIAA was picking on the little guy and you were showing your support by boycotting their products... but the RIAA won, so now you're going to suppot them again? What the hell kind of stance is that. I'm personally pretty displeased with the RIAA still. And the MPAA! You buying DVDs Taco? For shame... I personally have vowed never to support these tyrants again.
Exactly, I shot off an Email to:
Jason Cooper - jason@battlebots.com
Creative Director
BattleBots Inc.
http://www.BattleBots.com
(The only Battlebot.com guy who had the balls to directly contact him.)
Explaining to him that most geeks are fans, and picking on one geek has already gotten them bad press. If they successfully bully him out of the domain I bet their viewership will drop sharply. I for one will stop watching.
You're thinking of sponsorships in prisons... not corporate run prisons. In corporate owned and operated prisons inmates are lucky to get $0.50/hr for work that would usually be in the $9-15/hr range. The thought behind it is that it gets inmates used to working for a living... doing the 8 hours a day thing like all good bricks do... while also giving them skills they can use once they get out. I am unaware of any studies that can confirm or deny this theory...
but it seems like a fairly logical way to go about things.
It is an abuse of the system to some degree, as the corporate run prisons are already making money off each body they hold for the governmnet... and then they make those bodies produce goods for retail. But I don't feel particularly inclined to cry for rapists and other felons, do you? Unfortunatly these jobs are being given to inmates at $0.50/hr instead of paying people who don't get 3 free meals a day.
While it is true that this is just another hysterical/. story in which the poster saw a headline and just put it up without reading the article...
I think Carnivore is alot larger than a "miniscule possibility of abuse"... it represents an "actuall violation of privacy". I would not ban law enforcement because of this, I just want law enforcement to play fair. How would you like to play Cops & Robbers where the cops get to have unfair advantages like not having to play by the rules they are supposed to be enforcing? That's no fun, that's cheating! Criminals are people too, stop taking away all their fun.
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Ahhh... I see. I suppose it comes down to taste then.
I still think 8 year olds will enjoy a game that looks like their saturday morning cartoons more than they would if they had stuck with the original idea... because the original idea, isn't very original... every other game already looks like that.
Where is this "change" everyone's bitching about?
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Is the "change" that Zelda is now a cartoony game as upposed to a realistic game?... uh no, Zelda has always been cartoony.
Is the "change" that Zelda is now aimed at young children... uh no, Nintendo's target audience has always been young children.
Is the "change" that Zelda is now in 3d with the latest 3d technology powering it... uh no, Zelda 64 had the latest 3d technology powering it too.
I can't understand why anyone is in a huff... there is NOTHING different here from all the other Zeldas.
Personally I loved the Zelda games on my NES when I was 8... and I expect the 8 year olds of the world in 2002 will love this incarnation.
If I've got the trademark "Slashdot" in Malaysia that is prior to the inital purchase of the domain Slashdot.org... do I have some right to Slashdot.org?
I can't believe anyone is seriously trying to bring some sort of order to this mess. That is the absolute definition of futility!
Here is an example: WHOIS lookup for LoanCityAtemyballs.com... LoanCity.com was smart.. they squated every concievable name out there. Now maybe you disagree with them for some reason and you want LoanCitySucks.com... that's understanble, you have your right to say whatever you want on the internet, unfortunatly that's already taken by LoanCity.com. Now how do you make a fair decision in this case? I want my freedom to say LoanCitySuck.com... but LoanCity owns the trade mark... You don't! You just leave it as first come first serve.
But here you are whining about your misfortune. Are you mad you were suckered in too? Are you bitter because you feel it was "owed" to you? Do you think you have it hard?
Not everyone in this mess was fool hearty "new economy entrepreneur"... Many of us were just working for them because they were paying the bills and they appreciated geek talent more than any brick and mortar ever had. Seriously, have you ever worked at a brick and mortar? 9 times out of a 10 IT is synonymous with asshole, and that's exactly how you're treated.
Find yourself a "decent" job (you know, those kind that pay real money, not future riches). Try civil service. Perhaps the police, fire department, military, IRS, FBI, etc. They're not going away any time soon.
I'm confident you are not in America's work force at this time, as you would know how absurd this comment is. And again... everyone wasn't after future riches, you watch too much ZDTV.
If you can't find a job locally, it's time to move.
After being unemployed for months on end... it's impossible to afford to move. Again... I think this is an indication that you are are not a member of the working class.
It's really bad out there, and your comments here aren't helping anyone.
I work for a small New England SDSL provider, with COs in all 13 New England States and partnerships that extend our reach into most of the lower 48. The only way we're staying afloat (and just barely) is by NOT going with companies claiming to do new and zany things.
How is it that major projects such as Vitts, Covad, etc. are going down when they had such increadible backing from obscenely rich VCs... while us small timers are staying in business? Because we don't do new and zany things. Most of the major players were actually giving away $300-500 SDSL modems... and expecting to make their money back down the road from reoccuring service charges. This sounds like a wonderful deal to the consumer, but when your SDSL provider can't even last long enough to make back the loss COs get shut down there is no one to save you.
Take New Hampshire and Maine for instance. Both have growing technology markets with companies eager to get into the 21st century. Unless those companies are in 3 or 4 major cities they are shit out of luck, because Vitts went down and took all it's COs with it! Verizon can't even service the majority of New Hampshier and Maine. So lots of people went with the new and zany company offering free hardware... and now that new and zany company has left them and they are running dial-up. Can you imagine the torment of having a 50-100 employee location sharing dial-up connections! Forget local hosting, forget reliable email, and kiss any new technology good-bye... your ass is stuck in the 20th century.
I'm not ragging on your idea, I think it's viable... but the people (and money) attracted to these ideas are usually not business savy.
It's been 4 months since Vitts went down, and there are still thousands of businesses noone can help... and in 4 months from now there will no doubt be hundreds of thousands with Rythums and Covad tanking... so there is definetly a market for a new infrastructure... but paying for it and keeping in business are 2 considerable hurdles.
IANANE (I am not a Naval Expert) but I'm pretty sure the exhaust in diesel subs is just being expelled into the ocean. 50 years ago when they started building them they weren't worrying about the ozone layer or the environment at all...
This little robot cannot possibly be consuming as much fuel as your 2 ton car. Now if we can make your 2 ton car consume as much as the little robot, we're in business...
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I'm sure there will be a way for consumers to decide which over-priced console they will pre-order. If "Merchant A" wants $1200 from me, but "Merchant B" wants $499... I'm going to go with "Merchant B"... you may decide to go with "C none of the above". That right there is the consumer's power to decide.
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How is it anti-competitive... when the compition did this 12 years ago?
Most slashdotters wouldn't have been around for this so let me give ya'll a history lesson...
When the NES originally came out in the US it was bundled with Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt... (two Nintendo produced games)and peripherals (the duck hunter gun) which jacked up the price to cover their loss on hardware. Later a stipped down unbundled package was offered at $50-75 cheaper.
This has happened with every single console to date... the only reason you all are bitching is because it's r33t to bash MicroSoft.
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
Untill these numbers change, Microsoft can do whatever it likes... and I don't need to worry about some 0.25% of average users using Mozilla.
I cringe every time I read one of these storys. We have already had a browser war, let us not have a second one... or god help me, I will take hostages this time.
Seriously though guys, what is the need for this program to exsist other than to cause new problems and incompatibilites? I don't think Mozilla will ever be a widely accepted browser that I will have to write pages that are compatible with it, but if these attempts to make the "Uber-Browser" continue eventually someone will pull it off. Then we (web developers) will need to start supporting it, which will cause M$ to become even more aggressive in the browser market.
Perhaps those of you so intent on making browsers could find something else to make that we don't need.
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This is the same sort of reasoning I use when it comes to the "Roll your own Vs. Camel" debate. Let's say you make $20/hr... and it takes you half an hour each day to roll your own smokes... saving you $15. Where as a Carton of smokes costs $35 (add your own state's insane tax where applicable). For me this is a no brainer... nothing is more valuable to me than time. But others I've argued this point to seem to think that saving a buck is more important. I guess some people are just the 'cup is half empty' sort and others are 'time is money'.
...and I'm a big fish guy
I would recomend you keep this little tidbit to yourself, and out of your commentary. People might wonder for your sanity and glaze over the rest of your post, as this does not inspire a tremendous amount of confidence in things to come.
(This is a joke, not a flame... deal with it, move on please)
The criminal penalties are: "(1) shall be fined not more than $500,000 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both, for the first offense; and (2) shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both, for any subsequent offense." Only someone who violates the law "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" can be convicted.
Okay... so it's big and nasty, but you won't do time for it if you're not a privateer. Piracy is still okay, just not privateering.. fair enough... but how unamerican is that? The United States of America would still be in the hands of Great Britain if it weren't for Privateering funding our revolution!
At any rate, I personally will be going down to make an appointment with my congressman on monday.
I don't know about Live Motion, but I know Go Live 5.0 does SVG, because I use it. (But don't take my word for it...)
I meant to suggest that people with Photoshop already can just import into GoLive and won't need Illustrator... but if you do not have Photoshop and want to get into SVG, Illustrator would be my recommendation as it is a Vector program on it's own and can export SVG without the aid of GoLive. Photoshop on the otherhand, is pixel based, so you need to import to Go Live before you can export to SVG.
What the hell did they put in his wheaties? First he castrates Stem Cell research, now he's putting his nose in the MS case... Do they require urine screening for this job or can any coke-head be president?
In all seriousness folks, I'm not surprised that MS won't be broken up (we already know how well that worked with the Baby Bells) but I'm shocked that Bush decided to put his nose in that mess! Considering how politically safe he walked the Stem-Cell research line... this is just out of left field!
Adobe GoLive 5.0 and Illustrator 9.0 are the choice options for professional development.
I've been playing with GoLive 5.0 for about 2 months since I first heard about SVG and I've played with Illustrator. I'd have to say I prefer GoLive 5.0... but only slightly. If you already have a PhotoShop license get GoLive. If you don't have a Photoshop licesne get Illustrator.
"(Yes, I'm buying CDs again. The Napster battle is over)"
So presumably you stopped buying CDs because the RIAA was picking on the little guy and you were showing your support by boycotting their products... but the RIAA won, so now you're going to suppot them again? What the hell kind of stance is that. I'm personally pretty displeased with the RIAA still. And the MPAA! You buying DVDs Taco? For shame... I personally have vowed never to support these tyrants again.
Exactly, I shot off an Email to:
Jason Cooper - jason@battlebots.com
Creative Director
BattleBots Inc.
http://www.BattleBots.com
(The only Battlebot.com guy who had the balls to directly contact him.)
Explaining to him that most geeks are fans, and picking on one geek has already gotten them bad press. If they successfully bully him out of the domain I bet their viewership will drop sharply. I for one will stop watching.
You're thinking of sponsorships in prisons... not corporate run prisons. In corporate owned and operated prisons inmates are lucky to get $0.50/hr for work that would usually be in the $9-15/hr range. The thought behind it is that it gets inmates used to working for a living... doing the 8 hours a day thing like all good bricks do... while also giving them skills they can use once they get out. I am unaware of any studies that can confirm or deny this theory...
but it seems like a fairly logical way to go about things.
It is an abuse of the system to some degree, as the corporate run prisons are already making money off each body they hold for the governmnet... and then they make those bodies produce goods for retail. But I don't feel particularly inclined to cry for rapists and other felons, do you? Unfortunatly these jobs are being given to inmates at $0.50/hr instead of paying people who don't get 3 free meals a day.
Probably the non-stop arrogance.
Yea really... This is about as usefull as the classic BBS text file on how to assemble a nuclear weapon.
"Step 3) Okay, now you need to do is steal some weapons grade plutonium"
yea, okay... Thanks for that tid bit.
While it is true that this is just another hysterical /. story in which the poster saw a headline and just put it up without reading the article...
... it represents an "actuall violation of privacy". I would not ban law enforcement because of this, I just want law enforcement to play fair. How would you like to play Cops & Robbers where the cops get to have unfair advantages like not having to play by the rules they are supposed to be enforcing? That's no fun, that's cheating! Criminals are people too, stop taking away all their fun.
I think Carnivore is alot larger than a "miniscule possibility of abuse"
Uhhh I just finished Debt of Honor... and without giving away the ending to anyone that hasn't read it yet I'll post in pig-latin.
reay ouyay uggestingsay eway illkay hetay ongresscay? Tiay ouldway akemay orfay oodgay elevisiontay, nday CNN ouldway ebay ovelay ouya orfay tiay... utbay hey'lltay ustjay eplaceray 'em.
So what does that accomplish?
Ahhh... I see. I suppose it comes down to taste then.
I still think 8 year olds will enjoy a game that looks like their saturday morning cartoons more than they would if they had stuck with the original idea... because the original idea, isn't very original... every other game already looks like that.
Is the "change" that Zelda is now a cartoony game as upposed to a realistic game? ... uh no, Zelda has always been cartoony.
Is the "change" that Zelda is now aimed at young children... uh no, Nintendo's target audience has always been young children.
Is the "change" that Zelda is now in 3d with the latest 3d technology powering it... uh no, Zelda 64 had the latest 3d technology powering it too.
I can't understand why anyone is in a huff... there is NOTHING different here from all the other Zeldas.
Personally I loved the Zelda games on my NES when I was 8... and I expect the 8 year olds of the world in 2002 will love this incarnation.
If I've got the trademark "Slashdot" in Malaysia that is prior to the inital purchase of the domain Slashdot.org... do I have some right to Slashdot.org?
... LoanCity.com was smart.. they squated every concievable name out there. Now maybe you disagree with them for some reason and you want LoanCitySucks.com ... that's understanble, you have your right to say whatever you want on the internet, unfortunatly that's already taken by LoanCity.com. Now how do you make a fair decision in this case? I want my freedom to say LoanCitySuck.com ... but LoanCity owns the trade mark... You don't! You just leave it as first come first serve.
I can't believe anyone is seriously trying to bring some sort of order to this mess. That is the absolute definition of futility!
Here is an example: WHOIS lookup for LoanCityAtemyballs.com
But here you are whining about your misfortune. Are you mad you were suckered in too? Are you bitter because you feel it was "owed" to you? Do you think you have it hard?
... Many of us were just working for them because they were paying the bills and they appreciated geek talent more than any brick and mortar ever had. Seriously, have you ever worked at a brick and mortar? 9 times out of a 10 IT is synonymous with asshole, and that's exactly how you're treated.
Not everyone in this mess was fool hearty "new economy entrepreneur"
Find yourself a "decent" job (you know, those kind that pay real money, not future riches). Try civil service. Perhaps the police, fire department, military, IRS, FBI, etc. They're not going away any time soon.
I'm confident you are not in America's work force at this time, as you would know how absurd this comment is. And again... everyone wasn't after future riches, you watch too much ZDTV.
If you can't find a job locally, it's time to move.
After being unemployed for months on end... it's impossible to afford to move. Again... I think this is an indication that you are are not a member of the working class.
It's really bad out there, and your comments here aren't helping anyone.
I work for a small New England SDSL provider, with COs in all 13 New England States and partnerships that extend our reach into most of the lower 48. The only way we're staying afloat (and just barely) is by NOT going with companies claiming to do new and zany things.
How is it that major projects such as Vitts, Covad, etc. are going down when they had such increadible backing from obscenely rich VCs... while us small timers are staying in business? Because we don't do new and zany things. Most of the major players were actually giving away $300-500 SDSL modems... and expecting to make their money back down the road from reoccuring service charges. This sounds like a wonderful deal to the consumer, but when your SDSL provider can't even last long enough to make back the loss COs get shut down there is no one to save you.
Take New Hampshire and Maine for instance. Both have growing technology markets with companies eager to get into the 21st century. Unless those companies are in 3 or 4 major cities they are shit out of luck, because Vitts went down and took all it's COs with it! Verizon can't even service the majority of New Hampshier and Maine. So lots of people went with the new and zany company offering free hardware... and now that new and zany company has left them and they are running dial-up. Can you imagine the torment of having a 50-100 employee location sharing dial-up connections! Forget local hosting, forget reliable email, and kiss any new technology good-bye... your ass is stuck in the 20th century.
I'm not ragging on your idea, I think it's viable... but the people (and money) attracted to these ideas are usually not business savy.
It's been 4 months since Vitts went down, and there are still thousands of businesses noone can help... and in 4 months from now there will no doubt be hundreds of thousands with Rythums and Covad tanking... so there is definetly a market for a new infrastructure... but paying for it and keeping in business are 2 considerable hurdles.
IANANE (I am not a Naval Expert) but I'm pretty sure the exhaust in diesel subs is just being expelled into the ocean. 50 years ago when they started building them they weren't worrying about the ozone layer or the environment at all...
Can it be applied to low emission vehicles
Eventually... maybe, forseeably... no.
This little robot cannot possibly be consuming as much fuel as your 2 ton car. Now if we can make your 2 ton car consume as much as the little robot, we're in business...
I'm sure there will be a way for consumers to decide which over-priced console they will pre-order. If "Merchant A" wants $1200 from me, but "Merchant B" wants $499 ... I'm going to go with "Merchant B"... you may decide to go with "C none of the above". That right there is the consumer's power to decide.
How is it anti-competitive... when the compition did this 12 years ago?
Most slashdotters wouldn't have been around for this so let me give ya'll a history lesson...
When the NES originally came out in the US it was bundled with Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt... (two Nintendo produced games)and peripherals (the duck hunter gun) which jacked up the price to cover their loss on hardware. Later a stipped down unbundled package was offered at $50-75 cheaper.
This has happened with every single console to date... the only reason you all are bitching is because it's r33t to bash MicroSoft.
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
Untill these numbers change, Microsoft can do whatever it likes... and I don't need to worry about some 0.25% of average users using Mozilla.
You're right this does sound rediculous.
I cringe every time I read one of these storys. We have already had a browser war, let us not have a second one... or god help me, I will take hostages this time. Seriously though guys, what is the need for this program to exsist other than to cause new problems and incompatibilites? I don't think Mozilla will ever be a widely accepted browser that I will have to write pages that are compatible with it, but if these attempts to make the "Uber-Browser" continue eventually someone will pull it off. Then we (web developers) will need to start supporting it, which will cause M$ to become even more aggressive in the browser market. Perhaps those of you so intent on making browsers could find something else to make that we don't need.