Since I understand that Postal is a tad aged (circa 1998 IIRC), and the name of the game is Postal Plus, rather than simply Postal, is it possible that the version of the game that we see on Linux could be significantly updated from the 1998 version? For my money, I'd love to see a commercial entertainment package with mainstream appeal that comes out for Linux and not Windows...
Actually, at least one major land grabbed was planned by Israel. Israel attacked Egypt, claiming that Egypt had attacked them. Their sole objective was to gain land. In the process of doing this, they systematically slaughtered Egyptian POWs, in a manner eerily reminiscent of the Holocaust.
While I hardly think that the Arab side in this conflict has been on the side of right, I also have no illusions about Israel.
No, but If it's only reported by one source, and not by any others, I have to take it with a grain of salt. What was reported were things that should have been fairly major news items. The fact that other news outlets did not report the same casts doubt upon it. I merely mentioned the U.S. news channels because, being in Philadelphia, they happen to be the only ones on my TV.
Update... According to msnbc teh story about Osama bin Laden's hosue arrest is false, being spread by a report in an Arab newspaper. The Taliban has denied this.
this British News Site is reporting both that the body of a terrorist and a stewardess have been found, and that the Taleban is holding Osama bin Laden under house arrest in Afghanistan.
I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, since I haven't seen either of these things mentioned on any U.S. news channels today, and this is the first I've heard of these things.
As an adjunct... It seems a bit odd to me that there is some very obvious evidence in some cases pointing to a Middle Eastern influence. (There was an arabic language flight manual for flying large planes found in a car near Boston's Logan airport)
Given the degree of organization evident in the act, it seems very unlinkely to me that the terrorists would simply leave something like that in plain view. It seems quite possible to me (I am very cautious about using the word "likely") that whoever was responsible for this is doing their best to point us towards Bin Laden as the culprit here...
What really scares me about this is the fact that there could be a large well organized group out there that we've never heard of, and who are our enemies...
If there is an effort to implicate a Middle Eastern group in this, who did it? It seems that the objective of terrorism is to scare people into giving in... But by implicating another group what is the aim of whoever is behind this?
It seems like things may be a good deal more complicated than they have seemed earlier. If a Middle Eastern terrorist group isn't behind this, then WHO wants us to believe that one is? Is it as simple as the group wanting to avoid reprisals, or is it something more sinister... Some reason why they would want the U.S. to strike out at the Middle East again...
MSNBC (The TC channel) was saying that two suspects had apparantly attended flight school in Florida last summer. It didn't have any more information on WHO the suspects were however.
Here is a related story there.
JK Rowling has stated that she writes the books for herself, not for children. There were complaints that Goblet of Fire was too "dark" for children, and was getting scary. Her response was that she wrote the books for herself, and that they would get darker before the series ended.
As someone earlier pointed out, the argument ESR makes is not predicated on Copyright or IP whatsoever. It focuses on a contract between the developer and the consumer. I don't think he meant to address either Copyright or IP at all in the essay.
If you look at it from an economic perspective, a law disallowing proprietary licenses would in fact incur a cost to him (Flerbage point #2 - an additional cost is taking away property) because he would no longer have the money that he would have gained from the distribution of his software.
Thus in the two worlds (One in which Proprietary licenses are allowed, and one in which they aren't), in one he has more property (Physical, not Intellectual) while if he was not allowed to choose his license, he would have less. Thus a reduction in flerbage.
(Note that I feel that removal of opportunity to produce income is identical to removal of property)
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At my school a subportion of the students are trained to help with computer problems. These students are usually work-study students, and also usually have a decent amount of computer background.
While most of them are completely inequipped to deal with any serious technical problems, the student base providing top level support frees those who are more competent to deal with the real issues.
In order to make sure that the students who are the "Information Technology Advisors"(ITAs) (Who don't necessarily have much prior technical experience) are qualified, they all have to come in a week and a half early, and are given training courses.
While I don't have a behind the scenes perspective, the system does seem to work pretty well, and although the ITAs are very busy at the start of the year, nobody seems overwhelmed.
(Plus the people who do the REAL work and who aren't students don't have to deal with individual problems and are free to run around dealing with all the problems generated by the newfound network load of thousands of mp3s and movies being traded over the network all at once...)
Of course I want to keep my new system clean! Those guys told me how Linux was a cancer and all.. And I don't want my machine to get a virus or anything, so I'll stick to Microsoft!
The way that I see it, the proper path to head upon is continuing nuclear disarmament. It hardly seems "un-American" to believe that there are better diplomatic paths to pursue than ones that focus on our offensive and defensive capabilities.
In a world in which exists increasing communication between the peoples of various nations (If not perhaps their governments...) I think that it is far more feasible than ever to imagine someplace, eventually, where for the most part the weapons of mass distruction can be discarded.
True, I am utterly idealistic. True, there will always be someone, somewhere who believes that "might makes right". But I really think that the fundamental changes in the world in the past 10 years or so (particularly with respect to the internet and international communications) make total nuclear disarmament possible.
Yes, there would always be the threat of terrorists... But you can't use a nuke to enact revenge against them.
Ya know, this world of ours actually has some potential, if we can just not kill each other in the next decade or so...
It appears that the BBC is publishing a book about what goes on behind the scenes at the show.
In its third year, "Scraphead Challenge" is one of Channel 4's most successful Sunday evening series, with a regular audience of over three million viewers. It's a knockout competition for amateur engineers - each week, two new teams of madcap mechanics have to work against the clock to build a specific machine from whatever junk they can scavenge. "Behind the Scenes at Scrapheap Challenge" looks at what goes on behind the camera as well as on screen, using six case studies from the series and scores of colour photographs. The teams have just ten hours to come up with the goods and get one step nearer to the season finale. The book follows the would-be engineers and presenters Robert Llewellyn and Cathy Rodgers' progress as the competition hots up. Through the interviews with the cast and crew, we discover what it's really like to take up the "Scrapheap Challenge".
Appears quite interesting... Author is listed as Robert Llewellyn, hopefully not ghostwritten...
Now if only they'd show the first season episodes on TLC sometime soon...
You haven't known many surgeons, have you? The above sounds like a fairly typical heart surgeon. Surgery attracts MDs that don't like people, since the patient is out cold when they do their work.
Ever watched St. Elsewhere? That Chief Surgeon IS Dr. Craig...
(I'd be dating myself, I suppose.. If I wasn't twenty...)
On the other hand, with regards to AO, they've stated that they aren't going to start charging yet. (When they will is a mystery still: "Until further notice" I believe. Presumably this means: "You can start paying when the game is playable")
Statement Here
Again, Funcom would like to apologize to all of our customers who have been troubled by these various issues. We would like to inform you that the first included month of playtime will not start until further notice. Funcom can also assure you that most of these issues will be solved in the near future that we will work very hard to prove that Anarchy Online is the very best online there is!:-)
Personally, I think I'll be satisfied with it. The design (IMO) has some major improvements over EQ (I haven't played AC) in the mission system and a skill system that requires a bit more choice and should result in a bit more individuality at higher levels. What I disliked most about EQ was that two characters of the same race, class, and level were essentially identical, apart from equipment. To my mind, an RPG ought to offer multiple ways for each class to accomplish things. Right now, it seems like AO may do this. Of course, I haven't been able to play it for more than 20 minutes without it crashing.... But perhaps someday!
-Daniel
The primary difference here is that Kodak is placing their service within a product that the consumer must already have chosen. i.e. The user has already chosen to use Kodak to take photos, and presumably to edit them too.
Microsoft is leveraging the fact that Windows XP was chosen as the operating system of the user into the Camera field. The user has not asked to use any of Microsoft's affiliates, whereas they have already implicitly "chosen" Kodak.
-Daniel
A relative of mine is a lawyer for someone who is involved in a lawsuit (Along with someone at MIT) for patent infringement on noise reducing technology against Seagate and Compaq (And possibly some others I am not aware of.) His client was apparantly to have been involved with selling the technology, which was developed at MIT. I am not sure if it is the same technology in question here, (My relative is covering a matrimonial dispute, and not this! And to be honest, I don't really know the details) but if it is it makes me wonder whether the technology will see the light, (under Seagate auspices at least)
-Daniel
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Since I understand that Postal is a tad aged (circa 1998 IIRC), and the name of the game is Postal Plus, rather than simply Postal, is it possible that the version of the game that we see on Linux could be significantly updated from the 1998 version? For my money, I'd love to see a commercial entertainment package with mainstream appeal that comes out for Linux and not Windows...
Actually, at least one major land grabbed was planned by Israel. Israel attacked Egypt, claiming that Egypt had attacked them. Their sole objective was to gain land. In the process of doing this, they systematically slaughtered Egyptian POWs, in a manner eerily reminiscent of the Holocaust.
While I hardly think that the Arab side in this conflict has been on the side of right, I also have no illusions about Israel.
And here I thought that was the number of the Beast computed by the original Pentium...
No, but If it's only reported by one source, and not by any others, I have to take it with a grain of salt. What was reported were things that should have been fairly major news items. The fact that other news outlets did not report the same casts doubt upon it. I merely mentioned the U.S. news channels because, being in Philadelphia, they happen to be the only ones on my TV.
Update... According to msnbc teh story about Osama bin Laden's hosue arrest is false, being spread by a report in an Arab newspaper. The Taliban has denied this.
this British News Site is reporting both that the body of a terrorist and a stewardess have been found, and that the Taleban is holding Osama bin Laden under house arrest in Afghanistan.
I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, since I haven't seen either of these things mentioned on any U.S. news channels today, and this is the first I've heard of these things.
As an adjunct... It seems a bit odd to me that there is some very obvious evidence in some cases pointing to a Middle Eastern influence. (There was an arabic language flight manual for flying large planes found in a car near Boston's Logan airport)
Given the degree of organization evident in the act, it seems very unlinkely to me that the terrorists would simply leave something like that in plain view. It seems quite possible to me (I am very cautious about using the word "likely") that whoever was responsible for this is doing their best to point us towards Bin Laden as the culprit here...
What really scares me about this is the fact that there could be a large well organized group out there that we've never heard of, and who are our enemies...
If there is an effort to implicate a Middle Eastern group in this, who did it? It seems that the objective of terrorism is to scare people into giving in... But by implicating another group what is the aim of whoever is behind this?
It seems like things may be a good deal more complicated than they have seemed earlier. If a Middle Eastern terrorist group isn't behind this, then WHO wants us to believe that one is? Is it as simple as the group wanting to avoid reprisals, or is it something more sinister... Some reason why they would want the U.S. to strike out at the Middle East again...
MSNBC (The TC channel) was saying that two suspects had apparantly attended flight school in Florida last summer. It didn't have any more information on WHO the suspects were however. Here is a related story there.
JK Rowling has stated that she writes the books for herself, not for children. There were complaints that Goblet of Fire was too "dark" for children, and was getting scary. Her response was that she wrote the books for herself, and that they would get darker before the series ended.
A quick reference for that assertion:
Salon article
Another article
As someone earlier pointed out, the argument ESR makes is not predicated on Copyright or IP whatsoever. It focuses on a contract between the developer and the consumer. I don't think he meant to address either Copyright or IP at all in the essay.
If you look at it from an economic perspective, a law disallowing proprietary licenses would in fact incur a cost to him (Flerbage point #2 - an additional cost is taking away property) because he would no longer have the money that he would have gained from the distribution of his software.
Thus in the two worlds (One in which Proprietary licenses are allowed, and one in which they aren't), in one he has more property (Physical, not Intellectual) while if he was not allowed to choose his license, he would have less. Thus a reduction in flerbage.
(Note that I feel that removal of opportunity to produce income is identical to removal of property)
At my school a subportion of the students are trained to help with computer problems. These students are usually work-study students, and also usually have a decent amount of computer background. While most of them are completely inequipped to deal with any serious technical problems, the student base providing top level support frees those who are more competent to deal with the real issues. In order to make sure that the students who are the "Information Technology Advisors"(ITAs) (Who don't necessarily have much prior technical experience) are qualified, they all have to come in a week and a half early, and are given training courses. While I don't have a behind the scenes perspective, the system does seem to work pretty well, and although the ITAs are very busy at the start of the year, nobody seems overwhelmed. (Plus the people who do the REAL work and who aren't students don't have to deal with individual problems and are free to run around dealing with all the problems generated by the newfound network load of thousands of mp3s and movies being traded over the network all at once...)
Yep. That's one of the few reasons while I still have windows on my main machine.
Of course I want to keep my new system clean! Those guys told me how Linux was a cancer and all.. And I don't want my machine to get a virus or anything, so I'll stick to Microsoft!
At the risk of sounding anal... 4 legs good, 2 legs bad happens to be from Orwell's Animal Farm rather than 1984.
The way that I see it, the proper path to head upon is continuing nuclear disarmament. It hardly seems "un-American" to believe that there are better diplomatic paths to pursue than ones that focus on our offensive and defensive capabilities.
In a world in which exists increasing communication between the peoples of various nations (If not perhaps their governments...) I think that it is far more feasible than ever to imagine someplace, eventually, where for the most part the weapons of mass distruction can be discarded.
True, I am utterly idealistic. True, there will always be someone, somewhere who believes that "might makes right". But I really think that the fundamental changes in the world in the past 10 years or so (particularly with respect to the internet and international communications) make total nuclear disarmament possible. Yes, there would always be the threat of terrorists... But you can't use a nuke to enact revenge against them.
Ya know, this world of ours actually has some potential, if we can just not kill each other in the next decade or so...
Why am I not surprised? Another /. reader neglecting to read the actual article...
Oops, you're right. Stupid American mistake =)
Appears quite interesting... Author is listed as Robert Llewellyn, hopefully not ghostwritten...
Now if only they'd show the first season episodes on TLC sometime soon...
Ever watched St. Elsewhere? That Chief Surgeon IS Dr. Craig... (I'd be dating myself, I suppose.. If I wasn't twenty...)
Personally, I think I'll be satisfied with it. The design (IMO) has some major improvements over EQ (I haven't played AC) in the mission system and a skill system that requires a bit more choice and should result in a bit more individuality at higher levels. What I disliked most about EQ was that two characters of the same race, class, and level were essentially identical, apart from equipment. To my mind, an RPG ought to offer multiple ways for each class to accomplish things. Right now, it seems like AO may do this. Of course, I haven't been able to play it for more than 20 minutes without it crashing.... But perhaps someday!
-Daniel
The primary difference here is that Kodak is placing their service within a product that the consumer must already have chosen. i.e. The user has already chosen to use Kodak to take photos, and presumably to edit them too. Microsoft is leveraging the fact that Windows XP was chosen as the operating system of the user into the Camera field. The user has not asked to use any of Microsoft's affiliates, whereas they have already implicitly "chosen" Kodak.
-Daniel
A relative of mine is a lawyer for someone who is involved in a lawsuit (Along with someone at MIT) for patent infringement on noise reducing technology against Seagate and Compaq (And possibly some others I am not aware of.) His client was apparantly to have been involved with selling the technology, which was developed at MIT. I am not sure if it is the same technology in question here, (My relative is covering a matrimonial dispute, and not this! And to be honest, I don't really know the details) but if it is it makes me wonder whether the technology will see the light, (under Seagate auspices at least)
-Daniel