I can handle parts of the commercial development restriction, but I cannot handle the stripped to the bones environments.
Hence, Borland no longer gets a cent from me. They need to realize that they cannot exploit that money anymore. They are pricing themselves into irrelevance, if they haven't done so already.
All the coolest technologies are bound to be developed by those who either have a need for them or have the cash for them.
Combine this with a film industry and televsion industry that makes off with uber-fantastic items, usually military related, and it does tend to have an effect.
Yes, there is lots of nastiness coming from this quarter, but a big portion of it does an ample job of preventing its own use. Nothing like making the scenario really really messy to deter others from abusing technology.
Lastly, its probably a little easier to come up with new ways to blow things up, move things fast, and put it where you want it than mucking around in the human genome. (plus everyone expects you to fuck something up when the primary purpose of the invention is to go BOOM)
The bulk of problems that actually take place with MS related code occur well AFTER MS publically decalres it.
You also again failed to read my reply, instead performing the standard/. maneuvor of attacking anything related to MS to support your lack of facts.
Key to my message, people usually on this forum are not the type that have the problems, either Ms or Linux. The key here was, its the fact that when it does become popular the same people who routinely don't do patches on MS products won't patch their Linux products either. Hence, we end up in the same boat, except you won't be able to find the donkey to pin the tail on as easy.
First, why don't you do the work and prove that the vulnerabilities are dangerous or otherwise. Granted the off the cuff remark you threw back would gain karma on Slashdot.
However, the truth is, there is no public declaration of Linux vulnerabilities when found. We don't see much about those discovered because Linux still isn't that popular.
If Linux popularity does approach the levels needed to be noticed by the good virus writers who will take resposibility for notifying the public that they need a particular patch. Who will accept accountability for the problem? Worse, who is going to go through the myraid choices we have in releases and providers?
Its a constant that MS will get ridiculed here for telling people about issues, let alone when one occurs. Yet these same people have not one whit about what to do when it comes to Linux.
It isn't the readers here who are the problem, nor is the same true for Microsoft. Its all those people out there using the product who don't take the time to be informed.
I see the same old tired crap "excuse" is alive and present.
Repeat the mantra. If its bad for Microsoft, can be blamed on Microsoft, or through sleight of fact be pinned on Microsoft
IT MUST BE GOOD FOR LINUX!
A crime is a crime. Just because they catch only a few looters during a riot doesn't mean they should go easy on them. Sorry, going easy just because he is not the only guilty party is stupid.
I guess that if you only kill one person its fair to get 7 years, but if you kill many you life (or death)... unless they were really bad people???
Logic like yours is what makes this community look bad.
and you are forgetting the fact that they just as subject to fraud as punch ballots.
If the vote is not what someone wants how easily is it not distorted or lost?
Nothing short of confirmation of the voter is a sure thing in our elections, and we don't have that. We are closer with digital voting. We just now need to prove that the vote is secure.
Funny how the same standards people want to hold digital voting are not applied to paper?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but paper voting is rife with fraud, that is one of the major reasons it took so long to rid many of it.
Going to digital introduced a whole new system, whereby the exploiters of the previous lost their investment and are forced to start again.
Voter authentication needs to be taken further with the requirement of a picture ID, as it stands now, many dead vote on paper ballots, and many votes that are for one party or another are either lost or damaged so as to become invalid.
If Florida proved anything, it proved just how dangerous paper ballots were, and even how more dangerous subsequent handling of them was. Seems to me many stories of how the same box of ballots yieleded different results depending on who looked at them!!! How is that not an easier source of fraud? Especially when people start introducting "interpetation of intent" into the mix!
Sorry, digital voting will one day be the only true way to avoid fraudelent voting, however for that to come about we will had to shed some of our mickey mouse vanities. Something must be done to not only protect our vote from a fraud at the machine but to protect our vote from fraudelent voters (ie, the dead, the multi-voters, etc)
I want the justification that I or any other person should pay for YOUR wheel chair, let alone one of these damn over expensive machines destined only to be viable businesswise at the expense of tax payers.
Go to Florida, look at all those damn powered chairs/carts.... ALL FREE IF YOU QUALIFY. Free? I guess its free as the government takes it from producers at the point of a gun.
The innovation is a great thing, its just that the "entitlement" process is so over blown in this country that I know I will be paying for many of these things, even though I have no use for one, and there is little or no justification for others to have one; especially when good old fashioned chairs work fine.
Your a great example, oh your burden is so hard, having to go through that long drawn out process to take my money. So much easier than saving the money and paying for it yourself.
Segways are no more of a replacement for automobiles than bicycles. Face it, no one is going to put up with rain, cold, or other weather. Businesses sure don't put up with much of it in regards to employee availability unless it borders on life threatening.
Combine that with the fact you have no real storage, no protection from other hazards (read:dogs, etc), and zero phyiscal protection and its a dead issue.
We require children to wear helmets to ride bicycles, how long before we require Segway riders to have similar attire? Who pays for accidents on Segways?
All these elements conspire against this type of transportation. Seqway is an expensive toy that is only ideally suited for use by government employees. The government can void laws as well as create them to suit its needs, and it certainly doesn't care about costs.
One of the local radio channels here in Atlanta is forced to broadcast at very low signal strength from 6PM Eastern to 530AM Eastern because of the actions of Cuban stations.
The station is a news / talk-radio format on the FM side. If they go above a certain amount of power the Cuba stations just blanket the airwaves with noise.
At least then I won't be subjected to imprisonment for making a decision she did not approve of. You do recall that provision in her Healthcare reform attempt don't you? Go to a doctor of YOUR choice and you and your doctor can be put in jail.
Oh yeah, she's about freedom as much as Hitler is.
A.C.you can pass off some of her views as extreme without having to worry they will bite you in the ass because she isn't running for office. She makes her mark by people buying her stuff, good old fashioned capitalism, while the other makes a living off of giving your stuff away...
Shouting and cussing still doesn't make you right.
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Your still wrong, the original poster was correct. It has never been proven by the medical community. It is a medical crime being carried out by drug companies and backed by people who must place blame on others for their own problems.
After reading your reply I can only figure one of two things, one your not on your medicine, or two, your just an asshat who needs to shout an cuss to justify themself to the world.
The percentage versus the GDP is smaller. We are not comparing the interest required to maintain the debt, only the dollar amount of the debt.
The real problem that exist right now is that the Republicans in Congress act just like 80s Democrats, and the Democrats are more than happy to play along with them.... spend spend spend.
Bush isn't the problem, neither is his tax cut. It is Congress, always has been, and apparently always will be. Regardless of who is in power there the Senate is corrupt to the core.
Its our money, let us spend it. We, the people, know far better how to appropriately spend our money than the damnable politicians who only spend to keep their own jobs. They don't give a shit if we have one.
Sorry, but this cow doesn't moo. MOO3 could have been a great game however it fails miserably because of inadequate testing and no real documentation. Combine that with lackluster graphics, pitifully boring technology descriptions, and some amazing for this day an age limitations and you have the classic example of a game worked on for 3+ years rewritten in 6 months.
Some major game breaking issues. Multiplayer games cannot be resumed for the majority of people (apparently 2 player games can resume more than 50% of the time)
AI does not obey same colonization rules as human player, meaning it can freely colonize in your areas but the reverse is not true.
The build queues, which you must change for any serious military ships, is 5 clicks away from the main screen. Worse its only 3 deep.
The AI is a wimp, it will not fight, and when it does it can only win if it just happens to be so numerically superior that there is no other outcome.
Real time tactical combat. Essentially the only way to make it hard was to make the player have to click fast to make the ships pretend to do the right thing.
Strange limitations like 12 character ship names. No choice of player color. No ability to rename systems. Buidling of one 1 only at a time (at max 4 can be queued, build rate has no bearing on your empire size or capacity).
More wonderful bugs like broke Point defense, automatic colonizing sends all ships to same place, menus/screens don't remember your state, and that wonder no direct X surface error.
Finally, top if off with a "find the 5 Antarans secrets" that is so glued on its funny. Not only are the Xs not on the game map, you don't even see what happens! You get a cheesy animation for each X).
Not ready for primetime, they had to resort to threatening people who posted on their forums with bans if they would not quit attacking the game. The game's artist went to far to dismiss one reviewer as having a chip on his shoulder and allowing board mods to nuke anything the author said in explanation. Amazingly all the non-glitter review sites did not rate it favorably either.
A patch or two could save it, but unless it happens VERY soon; read before end of May; it will most likely be too late.
I understand the possibility of fraud and such... we had electronic voting here in Georgia this last election cycle and it did very well.
If your disabled you can get assistance, and the machines can voice the choices as well for vision impaired.
There is a review at the end of the voting processing asking you to verify the choices you made are accurately represented.
Votes are transmitted to a central site and kept in the voting machines. They have multiple ways to prevent loss of votes due to power outages as well.
What this all leading up to is, how can the suggestion of printing out votes at the end of the day be meaningful? If the voter isn't there to review their votes who decides that anything nefarious hasn't happened?
If anything, a paper trail AFTER any voters have left is more of a risk that not having one. Suddenly you get back into the days of ballot stuffing, but instead now you just invalidate votes as needed. (or call for a new election, hoping your side turns out more this time).
Electronic voting still doesn't stop dead people from voting either, they just file absentee ballots.
There are literally hunderds of programs that they should cut but they don't. However being the typical politician Gray has decided to piss people off into allowing him to tax ANYONE and EVERYONE by raising the spectre of nuking those prized programs.
In other words, Gray is doing what he has always done. There are two kinds of government employees. Essential and non-essential.
That should be an indicator of who needs cut.
For comparison, a local county is 67 million in the hole. They refused to cut their arts budget of 6 million, now tell me, whats more important? Buying art from people who can't sell it otherwise, or paying teachers?
That is the biggest difference between libertarians and those other two. Governments currently spend money on stuff they have no business doing so. But they have the guns to back them up, the idiocy of the general public to hide behind, and many cohorts in the press and special interest groups to run cover for them.
Re: Creative was a crutch, only losers used it.
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Basically, creative only works versus Computer opponents. Versus a human opponent you are toast if you wasted the 6 or 8 points on creative (depends on patch).
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because if I found you after the first before 150 turns and saw you had creative I knew you were toast.
Unification, Tolerant, +1 Production eats any creative race's lunch.
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I can handle parts of the commercial development restriction, but I cannot handle the stripped to the bones environments.
Hence, Borland no longer gets a cent from me. They need to realize that they cannot exploit that money anymore. They are pricing themselves into irrelevance, if they haven't done so already.
All the coolest technologies are bound to be developed by those who either have a need for them or have the cash for them.
Combine this with a film industry and televsion industry that makes off with uber-fantastic items, usually military related, and it does tend to have an effect.
Yes, there is lots of nastiness coming from this quarter, but a big portion of it does an ample job of preventing its own use. Nothing like making the scenario really really messy to deter others from abusing technology.
Lastly, its probably a little easier to come up with new ways to blow things up, move things fast, and put it where you want it than mucking around in the human genome. (plus everyone expects you to fuck something up when the primary purpose of the invention is to go BOOM)
The bulk of problems that actually take place with MS related code occur well AFTER MS publically decalres it.
/. maneuvor of attacking anything related to MS to support your lack of facts.
You also again failed to read my reply, instead performing the standard
Key to my message, people usually on this forum are not the type that have the problems, either Ms or Linux. The key here was, its the fact that when it does become popular the same people who routinely don't do patches on MS products won't patch their Linux products either. Hence, we end up in the same boat, except you won't be able to find the donkey to pin the tail on as easy.
First, why don't you do the work and prove that the vulnerabilities are dangerous or otherwise. Granted the off the cuff remark you threw back would gain karma on Slashdot.
However, the truth is, there is no public declaration of Linux vulnerabilities when found. We don't see much about those discovered because Linux still isn't that popular.
If Linux popularity does approach the levels needed to be noticed by the good virus writers who will take resposibility for notifying the public that they need a particular patch. Who will accept accountability for the problem? Worse, who is going to go through the myraid choices we have in releases and providers?
Its a constant that MS will get ridiculed here for telling people about issues, let alone when one occurs. Yet these same people have not one whit about what to do when it comes to Linux.
It isn't the readers here who are the problem, nor is the same true for Microsoft. Its all those people out there using the product who don't take the time to be informed.
I see the same old tired crap "excuse" is alive and present.
Repeat the mantra. If its bad for Microsoft, can be blamed on Microsoft, or through sleight of fact be pinned on Microsoft
IT MUST BE GOOD FOR LINUX!
A crime is a crime. Just because they catch only a few looters during a riot doesn't mean they should go easy on them. Sorry, going easy just because he is not the only guilty party is stupid.
I guess that if you only kill one person its fair to get 7 years, but if you kill many you life (or death)... unless they were really bad people???
Logic like yours is what makes this community look bad.
Figure it this way, except for the men and women we put up there most of what goes up stays up.
Shuttles are pie in the sky, looks good in movies, and works in novels type of technology that easier for the public to understand.
They are also a fraudulent waste of money. Buck Rogers looking tech may sell, but it doesn't get the job done efficiently.
Big Dumb Boosters are the best route.
and you are forgetting the fact that they just as subject to fraud as punch ballots.
If the vote is not what someone wants how easily is it not distorted or lost?
Nothing short of confirmation of the voter is a sure thing in our elections, and we don't have that. We are closer with digital voting. We just now need to prove that the vote is secure.
Funny how the same standards people want to hold digital voting are not applied to paper?
Better the evil you know than the evil you don't?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but paper voting is rife with fraud, that is one of the major reasons it took so long to rid many of it.
Going to digital introduced a whole new system, whereby the exploiters of the previous lost their investment and are forced to start again.
Voter authentication needs to be taken further with the requirement of a picture ID, as it stands now, many dead vote on paper ballots, and many votes that are for one party or another are either lost or damaged so as to become invalid.
If Florida proved anything, it proved just how dangerous paper ballots were, and even how more dangerous subsequent handling of them was. Seems to me many stories of how the same box of ballots yieleded different results depending on who looked at them!!! How is that not an easier source of fraud? Especially when people start introducting "interpetation of intent" into the mix!
Sorry, digital voting will one day be the only true way to avoid fraudelent voting, however for that to come about we will had to shed some of our mickey mouse vanities. Something must be done to not only protect our vote from a fraud at the machine but to protect our vote from fraudelent voters (ie, the dead, the multi-voters, etc)
I still prefered the summarized version of the 46 page counter suit.... (someone posted on that thread)
ARMONK, NY - Aug. 8, 2003 -- "Dodge this."
I want the justification that I or any other person should pay for YOUR wheel chair, let alone one of these damn over expensive machines destined only to be viable businesswise at the expense of tax payers.
.... ALL FREE IF YOU QUALIFY. Free? I guess its free as the government takes it from producers at the point of a gun.
Go to Florida, look at all those damn powered chairs/carts
The innovation is a great thing, its just that the "entitlement" process is so over blown in this country that I know I will be paying for many of these things, even though I have no use for one, and there is little or no justification for others to have one; especially when good old fashioned chairs work fine.
Your a great example, oh your burden is so hard, having to go through that long drawn out process to take my money. So much easier than saving the money and paying for it yourself.
Segways are no more of a replacement for automobiles than bicycles. Face it, no one is going to put up with rain, cold, or other weather. Businesses sure don't put up with much of it in regards to employee availability unless it borders on life threatening.
Combine that with the fact you have no real storage, no protection from other hazards (read:dogs, etc), and zero phyiscal protection and its a dead issue.
We require children to wear helmets to ride bicycles, how long before we require Segway riders to have similar attire? Who pays for accidents on Segways?
All these elements conspire against this type of transportation. Seqway is an expensive toy that is only ideally suited for use by government employees. The government can void laws as well as create them to suit its needs, and it certainly doesn't care about costs.
If anything it will contribute the laziness that pervades society, and worse, will further exaggerate that problem many government employees.
Too bad all agencies and programs of the Federal Government are not subjected to this question.
One of the local radio channels here in Atlanta is forced to broadcast at very low signal strength from 6PM Eastern to 530AM Eastern because of the actions of Cuban stations.
The station is a news / talk-radio format on the FM side. If they go above a certain amount of power the Cuba stations just blanket the airwaves with noise.
Real nice of them...
At least then I won't be subjected to imprisonment for making a decision she did not approve of. You do recall that provision in her Healthcare reform attempt don't you? Go to a doctor of YOUR choice and you and your doctor can be put in jail.
Oh yeah, she's about freedom as much as Hitler is.
A.C.you can pass off some of her views as extreme without having to worry they will bite you in the ass because she isn't running for office. She makes her mark by people buying her stuff, good old fashioned capitalism, while the other makes a living off of giving your stuff away...
Your still wrong, the original poster was correct. It has never been proven by the medical community. It is a medical crime being carried out by drug companies and backed by people who must place blame on others for their own problems.
After reading your reply I can only figure one of two things, one your not on your medicine, or two, your just an asshat who needs to shout an cuss to justify themself to the world.
Actually your wrong.
The percentage versus the GDP is smaller. We are not comparing the interest required to maintain the debt, only the dollar amount of the debt.
The real problem that exist right now is that the Republicans in Congress act just like 80s Democrats, and the Democrats are more than happy to play along with them.... spend spend spend.
Bush isn't the problem, neither is his tax cut. It is Congress, always has been, and apparently always will be. Regardless of who is in power there the Senate is corrupt to the core.
Its our money, let us spend it. We, the people, know far better how to appropriately spend our money than the damnable politicians who only spend to keep their own jobs. They don't give a shit if we have one.
Until the market really clamors for it it is still just some engineer's pipe dream.
The thing to note, these engineers apparently had the bucks to get it done.
Perhaps the real benefit is to make people think of new and more useful ways to employ robotic help around the house.
Sorry, but this cow doesn't moo. MOO3 could have been a great game however it fails miserably because of inadequate testing and no real documentation. Combine that with lackluster graphics, pitifully boring technology descriptions, and some amazing for this day an age limitations and you have the classic example of a game worked on for 3+ years rewritten in 6 months.
Some major game breaking issues.
Multiplayer games cannot be resumed for the majority of people (apparently 2 player games can resume more than 50% of the time)
AI does not obey same colonization rules as human player, meaning it can freely colonize in your areas but the reverse is not true.
The build queues, which you must change for any serious military ships, is 5 clicks away from the main screen. Worse its only 3 deep.
The AI is a wimp, it will not fight, and when it does it can only win if it just happens to be so numerically superior that there is no other outcome.
Real time tactical combat. Essentially the only way to make it hard was to make the player have to click fast to make the ships pretend to do the right thing.
Strange limitations like 12 character ship names. No choice of player color. No ability to rename systems. Buidling of one 1 only at a time (at max 4 can be queued, build rate has no bearing on your empire size or capacity).
More wonderful bugs like broke Point defense, automatic colonizing sends all ships to same place, menus/screens don't remember your state, and that wonder no direct X surface error.
Finally, top if off with a "find the 5 Antarans secrets" that is so glued on its funny. Not only are the Xs not on the game map, you don't even see what happens! You get a cheesy animation for each X).
Not ready for primetime, they had to resort to threatening people who posted on their forums with bans if they would not quit attacking the game. The game's artist went to far to dismiss one reviewer as having a chip on his shoulder and allowing board mods to nuke anything the author said in explanation. Amazingly all the non-glitter review sites did not rate it favorably either.
A patch or two could save it, but unless it happens VERY soon; read before end of May; it will most likely be too late.
So where is this mythical competition?
I surely haven't seen any. Everyone, from cable to DSL is the same damn price for similar service.
The only time its cheaper is when its a teaser rate.
I understand the possibility of fraud and such... we had electronic voting here in Georgia this last election cycle and it did very well.
If your disabled you can get assistance, and the machines can voice the choices as well for vision impaired.
There is a review at the end of the voting processing asking you to verify the choices you made are accurately represented.
Votes are transmitted to a central site and kept in the voting machines. They have multiple ways to prevent loss of votes due to power outages as well.
What this all leading up to is, how can the suggestion of printing out votes at the end of the day be meaningful? If the voter isn't there to review their votes who decides that anything nefarious hasn't happened?
If anything, a paper trail AFTER any voters have left is more of a risk that not having one. Suddenly you get back into the days of ballot stuffing, but instead now you just invalidate votes as needed. (or call for a new election, hoping your side turns out more this time).
Electronic voting still doesn't stop dead people from voting either, they just file absentee ballots.
There are literally hunderds of programs that they should cut but they don't. However being the typical politician Gray has decided to piss people off into allowing him to tax ANYONE and EVERYONE by raising the spectre of nuking those prized programs.
In other words, Gray is doing what he has always done. There are two kinds of government employees. Essential and non-essential.
That should be an indicator of who needs cut.
For comparison, a local county is 67 million in the hole. They refused to cut their arts budget of 6 million, now tell me, whats more important? Buying art from people who can't sell it otherwise, or paying teachers?
That is the biggest difference between libertarians and those other two. Governments currently spend money on stuff they have no business doing so. But they have the guns to back them up, the idiocy of the general public to hide behind, and many cohorts in the press and special interest groups to run cover for them.
damn my typing sucks :)
Basically, creative only works versus Computer opponents. Versus a human opponent you are toast if you wasted the 6 or 8 points on creative (depends on patch).
because if I found you after the first before 150 turns and saw you had creative I knew you were toast.
Unification, Tolerant, +1 Production eats any creative race's lunch.
Gee, typical.
Lets broaden the search to languages commoningly used in minis and mainframes. Perhaps the results will be more relevant?