Magic was the best game I ever played.. I started just as Revised was coming in..I'll never forget the excitement of looking through those packs of cards, wondering what new and exciting cards I hadn't seen yet, playing with friends and getting half the rules wrong, but having a great time anyway. I'd go to the game shop and pay big bucks for cards from old expansions and put them in my 200-cards decks. I remember when a more knowledgeable friend took my deck and trimmed it to 60 cards.. suddenly I was winning every game! Who knew Serendib Efreet was actually a good card, even with the damage every turn!
But like all good things, it came to an end. Somewhere between Garfield getting a patent on the game mechanics or WotC selling to Hasbro, it just became overproduced and too slick. I still buy a few cards from the new sets now and then, but the mechanics have gotten complicated, new cards have weird abilities, and it seems like the game doesn't have much more to go. I hope they give the game a graceful exit when the time comes.
Hmm, just thought of something, PayPal knows a shitload of personal information about me, and they also know my copious eBay buying and selling habits, and what subversive internet projects I donate to, and what online erotica sites are which I donate to, etc., etc. Kinda like a credit card company but without the pesky consumer protection laws. Could this cause me trouble someday?
Okay I just made a small donation (so far this month I have made four such small donations to various orgs, paypal is just so darn handy).
But remember kids, it ain't free speech if you have to hide it in freenet. If it was free speech you would be able to post it on your web page and the government would leave you alone.
I wish I could see a plot of the traffic on Napster over the last year or so. Does anyone know if there's a chart anywhere?
I bet the 60% drop is from the recent peak when people thought Napster was going to be shut down. Or maybe they are just saying 60% fewer files are being shared? Well duh if they are filtering them.
I tried searching for stuff like Eminem and Britney last night and it was all still there. A few spelling variations but not hard to find. In fact if I didn't know anything about the court battles I wouldn't even have noticed much.
I was going to post a pithy quip about how these guys are just like the old mob bosses. But then I read this quote:
The company's counsel of choice, a tough-talking trial attorney named Ray Niro, insists that he prefers not to sue, but that sometimes companies leave him with no alternative. "It's unfortunate that you have to litigate," he says. "But as Al Capone said, 'You go a long way in this world with a bouquet of roses. You go farther with a bouquet of roses and a gun.' "
Using cat to present on stdin isn't useless! What if, after running your command line, you discovered you had to run it through your special frob script:
Now if you use < you have to hit up arrow, and do some retyping, cutting and pasting..but with cat you can hit up arrow, move to the right place, and type frob and a pipe!
Those people who write emails have worked HARD and they deserve to be compensated for their efforts!
If you forward those emails you are a THIEF and a CRIMINAL, no different than if you went into a Border's and raped the cashier. How would you like if some gave away all your work for free? Communist!
It's about time the government cracked down on those freeloaders. If you think forwarding emails should be free, well let's see you write your own emails and give them away! If every one forwarded emails, no one would write new emails because there'd be no incentive! How would you like that! Commie!
Err, wait a minute, what was the discussion about again?
The result is perhaps mundane - when a painting was painted is not earth-shattering news.
Uhm, I hope the/. folks don't mind my pointing out that MOST SLASHDOT NEWS is not earth-shattering, or even interesting to probably 90% of the world's population.
Well since this is such a slow/. article, and because it may give you the false glimmer of hope that this world isn't quite as screwed up as you thought, here's something I read today:
Thanks for not using the Industry's propaganda terms like "copy protection". "Copy prevention" is more accurate, but the best term to use would be "access control".
Damn, I sound like RMS..but...everytime some writes or says those propaganda words, they are implicitly supporting the Industry's arguments!
That is a fuckin' creepy name.. very Orwellian. I bet they have special little red uniforms they wear when they make their phone calls and write their subpoenas. All we need is for them to become a branch of government and every little nightmare scenario we've imagined for copyright will come true.
Basically if open source gets out of hand, normal software development will cease, and the quality of software will go down. Why? Because the top programmers will no longer program, if they don't get paid.
I just don't see how you can refute this argument.
Easy to refute..faulty logic..you assume that no one will pay for software that is open source.
In a free market, things that need to be created will be created. And that goes for innovation too.
Honor systems have not yet worked - witness Stephen King's experiment last year
Check out the income/expense report at Stephen King's web page. He made $463,832.27. That's NET not gross. Sure that's peanuts for Stephen King but I'd say that's damn good for experiment #1. King tried to point this out to the publications that called it a failure, but they didn't publish his letters. Can you guess why?
Yeah this has nothing to do with copyright terms but I felt like pointing it out!
If the guy can't get a trademark because he's not engaging in commerce..then how he can he be infringing someone's trademark? TRADEmark? Get it? If he's not engaging in trade..then why would a company using the name complain?
Something doesn't jive..I think he can get a trademark for his project if he wants..
Open source doesn't undermine so-called intellectual property! Just because you let other people copy your work, or modify it, doesn't mean it's not yours any more!
The point of free software or open source is not to turn all copyrighted work into a mass chaotic soup of knowledge, but to explicitly allow the users to do the things that they naturally like to do.
As for the MS guy, well he has his head up Bill Gates' ass, this is just FUD, plain and simple. We just need to keep our eye on them and make sure they don't get themselves some stupid laws that make source code illegal or something.
"We think we should at least double our income," Mr. Depreter said.
Yes, I was thinking the other day how much I really need to double my income. It's just such a hassle that I have to work all day long. If I made twice as much, I could work half as long. And hey that's pretty cool. Now where's that congressional telephone book? If those wacky Europeans can do it, so can I.
I've been saving up, and I think I have enough to get a new law passed. Those things are expensive!
The OpenSSH folks should change the name. "Secure Shell" isn't descriptive anyway and that has always annoyed me. It's not a shell!
They should change the name to something remotely similar like SHCP (secure host connection protocol) or SC3 (secure computer-to-computer connection) and then the IETF (or whoever it is) should change the name of the PROTOCOL to match. In other words, completely discontinue use of SSH, including command names, etc.
It's not good to have the protocol name be a trademark.
If the original SSH becomes the odd man out, so to speak, it will quickly be forgotten and the free replacement will prevail.
I used to think this way. My reasoning was that a child should be exposed to role models of both genders. But after thinking about it I realized that having gay parents doesn't necessarily mean you don't get to have those role models.
In fact, having straight parents doesn't necessarily mean you get good role models either. And many children are raised by single parents.
I still believe that a child should spend time with a variety of people, and have role models of both genders. But I believe it is unfair to say that just because parents are gay (or single for that matter) that they will not raise a child properly. I don't think there is a correlation.
I have to agree with the other comments around here.. this dystopian future won't happen. At some point hardware and software hackers will make, build, and sell a parallel set of equipment that doesn't have content access controls, etc. It probably won't be compatible with the big media company equipment, but many people will prefer it. Artists will eventually start using it. Etc. Just like we have "lfree as in freedom" software, we'll have "free as in freedom" hardware. And regardless of what some of you think, I believe the government is on our side with this. They may be slow sometimes, but they'll protect private enterprise and competition if enough people raise a stink.
How stupid of us! All we have to do is get system crackers to sign NDA's.. man.. and here I am sweating my ass off every day to secure my systems, when a piece of paper will do the trick.
Actually, maybe I should just put a banner on my systems which is like "click-thru NDA".. so just by looking at it they have to follow it. Yeah.. Where's my patent lawyer?
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Magic was the best game I ever played.. I started just as Revised was coming in..I'll never forget the excitement of looking through those packs of cards, wondering what new and exciting cards I hadn't seen yet, playing with friends and getting half the rules wrong, but having a great time anyway. I'd go to the game shop and pay big bucks for cards from old expansions and put them in my 200-cards decks. I remember when a more knowledgeable friend took my deck and trimmed it to 60 cards.. suddenly I was winning every game! Who knew Serendib Efreet was actually a good card, even with the damage every turn!
But like all good things, it came to an end. Somewhere between Garfield getting a patent on the game mechanics or WotC selling to Hasbro, it just became overproduced and too slick. I still buy a few cards from the new sets now and then, but the mechanics have gotten complicated, new cards have weird abilities, and it seems like the game doesn't have much more to go. I hope they give the game a graceful exit when the time comes.
You guys posted this a little too early methinks..
Seriously, is ;-) part of the name? What's that all about?
Uhm, actually I don't know, what does that mean? flashlight? blowtorch? what turkeys? Just curious!
Hmm, just thought of something, PayPal knows a shitload of personal information about me, and they also know my copious eBay buying and selling habits, and what subversive internet projects I donate to, and what online erotica sites are which I donate to, etc., etc. Kinda like a credit card company but without the pesky consumer protection laws. Could this cause me trouble someday?
Okay I just made a small donation (so far this month I have made four such small donations to various orgs, paypal is just so darn handy).
But remember kids, it ain't free speech if you have to hide it in freenet. If it was free speech you would be able to post it on your web page and the government would leave you alone.
I wish I could see a plot of the traffic on Napster over the last year or so. Does anyone know if there's a chart anywhere?
I bet the 60% drop is from the recent peak when people thought Napster was going to be shut down. Or maybe they are just saying 60% fewer files are being shared? Well duh if they are filtering them.
I tried searching for stuff like Eminem and Britney last night and it was all still there. A few spelling variations but not hard to find. In fact if I didn't know anything about the court battles I wouldn't even have noticed much.
I was going to post a pithy quip about how these guys are just like the old mob bosses. But then I read this quote:
That's real inspirational. Al Capone.
Redirection doesn't have to go at the end of the arg list.
Damn, 10 years of shell usage and I never knew that... I have been enlightened!
Useless use of cat!!
Using cat to present on stdin isn't useless! What if, after running your command line, you discovered you had to run it through your special frob script:
Now if you use < you have to hit up arrow, and do some retyping, cutting and pasting..but with cat you can hit up arrow, move to the right place, and type frob and a pipe!cat is your friend..
Those people who write emails have worked HARD and they deserve to be compensated for their efforts!
If you forward those emails you are a THIEF and a CRIMINAL, no different than if you went into a Border's and raped the cashier. How would you like if some gave away all your work for free? Communist!
It's about time the government cracked down on those freeloaders. If you think forwarding emails should be free, well let's see you write your own emails and give them away! If every one forwarded emails, no one would write new emails because there'd be no incentive! How would you like that! Commie!
Err, wait a minute, what was the discussion about again?
The result is perhaps mundane - when a painting was painted is not earth-shattering news.
Uhm, I hope the /. folks don't mind my pointing out that MOST SLASHDOT NEWS is not earth-shattering, or even interesting to probably 90% of the world's population.
Personally I think this is pretty cool.
Well since this is such a slow /. article, and because it may give you the false glimmer of hope that this world isn't quite as screwed up as you thought, here's something I read today:
School Cracks Down on 'Hugging Epidemic'
Discuss amongst yourselves..
Thanks for not using the Industry's propaganda terms like "copy protection". "Copy prevention" is more accurate, but the best term to use would be "access control".
Damn, I sound like RMS..but...everytime some writes or says those propaganda words, they are implicitly supporting the Industry's arguments!
That is a fuckin' creepy name.. very Orwellian. I bet they have special little red uniforms they wear when they make their phone calls and write their subpoenas. All we need is for them to become a branch of government and every little nightmare scenario we've imagined for copyright will come true.
Basically if open source gets out of hand, normal software development will cease, and the quality of software will go down. Why? Because the top programmers will no longer program, if they don't get paid.
I just don't see how you can refute this argument.
Easy to refute..faulty logic..you assume that no one will pay for software that is open source.
In a free market, things that need to be created will be created. And that goes for innovation too.
Honor systems have not yet worked - witness Stephen King's experiment last year
Check out the income/expense report at Stephen King's web page. He made $463,832.27. That's NET not gross. Sure that's peanuts for Stephen King but I'd say that's damn good for experiment #1. King tried to point this out to the publications that called it a failure, but they didn't publish his letters. Can you guess why?
Yeah this has nothing to do with copyright terms but I felt like pointing it out!
If the guy can't get a trademark because he's not engaging in commerce..then how he can he be infringing someone's trademark? TRADEmark? Get it? If he's not engaging in trade..then why would a company using the name complain?
Something doesn't jive..I think he can get a trademark for his project if he wants..
Open source doesn't undermine so-called intellectual property! Just because you let other people copy your work, or modify it, doesn't mean it's not yours any more!
The point of free software or open source is not to turn all copyrighted work into a mass chaotic soup of knowledge, but to explicitly allow the users to do the things that they naturally like to do.
As for the MS guy, well he has his head up Bill Gates' ass, this is just FUD, plain and simple. We just need to keep our eye on them and make sure they don't get themselves some stupid laws that make source code illegal or something.
Yes, I was thinking the other day how much I really need to double my income. It's just such a hassle that I have to work all day long. If I made twice as much, I could work half as long. And hey that's pretty cool. Now where's that congressional telephone book? If those wacky Europeans can do it, so can I. I've been saving up, and I think I have enough to get a new law passed. Those things are expensive!
The OpenSSH folks should change the name. "Secure Shell" isn't descriptive anyway and that has always annoyed me. It's not a shell!
They should change the name to something remotely similar like SHCP (secure host connection protocol) or SC3 (secure computer-to-computer connection) and then the IETF (or whoever it is) should change the name of the PROTOCOL to match. In other words, completely discontinue use of SSH, including command names, etc.
It's not good to have the protocol name be a trademark.
If the original SSH becomes the odd man out, so to speak, it will quickly be forgotten and the free replacement will prevail.
We want everything for free but want to be over-paid at the same time.
*laff* That is a perfect description of capitalism. If things weren't that way, we wouldn't have cheaper and better products!
I don't think gay couples should be raising kids.
I used to think this way. My reasoning was that a child should be exposed to role models of both genders. But after thinking about it I realized that having gay parents doesn't necessarily mean you don't get to have those role models.
In fact, having straight parents doesn't necessarily mean you get good role models either. And many children are raised by single parents.
I still believe that a child should spend time with a variety of people, and have role models of both genders. But I believe it is unfair to say that just because parents are gay (or single for that matter) that they will not raise a child properly. I don't think there is a correlation.
I have to agree with the other comments around here.. this dystopian future won't happen. At some point hardware and software hackers will make, build, and sell a parallel set of equipment that doesn't have content access controls, etc. It probably won't be compatible with the big media company equipment, but many people will prefer it. Artists will eventually start using it. Etc. Just like we have "lfree as in freedom" software, we'll have "free as in freedom" hardware. And regardless of what some of you think, I believe the government is on our side with this. They may be slow sometimes, but they'll protect private enterprise and competition if enough people raise a stink.
How stupid of us! All we have to do is get system crackers to sign NDA's.. man.. and here I am sweating my ass off every day to secure my systems, when a piece of paper will do the trick.
Actually, maybe I should just put a banner on my systems which is like "click-thru NDA".. so just by looking at it they have to follow it. Yeah.. Where's my patent lawyer?