After Microsoft started talking about how OSS was a 'cancer', they started trying to emulate it pretty quickly, thus their 'Shared Source' licensing. It makes one wonder what other 'innovations' that MS will stea... ahem... invent.
MPL - The microsoft public license allows you to use Microsoft code in any software, so long as that code is submitted to microsoft. Any code that uses MPL code, must also be submitted to microsoft.
MicroDot - A reader moderated message board that employs a fairly unique system of moderation and remoderation. All comments are, of course, owned and copyrighted by Microsoft.
MicroTux - Microsoft's charming new mascot, a uniformed Puffin, who carries a paperclip in one hand and a WinXP box in the other.
I scrounge Usenet and P2P networks for MP3's. If I find one that's interesting, I download (or even buy , if it's really good) the rest of the album.
Cons: Occasional MP3 distortion from a poorly encoded MP3
Benefits: No FM Station audio 'loudness' compression. Never wait for a song to come on. With my trusty CD-RW, I can listen to a song anywhere... Home, Work, Car. More variety: I had never seriously considered most tencho and electronica before downloading MP3's.
Radio stations, especially those who play top 40, distort music and play what the record companies want to be popular instead of what the listeners like. Most are owned by only a few companies. Hear of Cirrus Broadcasting? Before they deregulated broadcasting, there were several pop and rock stations in Amarillo. Now there is one rock, one pop, one r&b, and about 50 country and Tejano stations. Thanks, but I'll stick to Gnutella and Usenet!
"Don't be alarmed by the tone of my voice. Check out my new weapon, a weapon of choice" - Fatboy Slim.
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"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?"
"I think so, Brain, but how on earth are we ever going to convince a parrot to perch on a man's penis?"
"You need to turn the thermostat of your brain back up, Pinky. I was *reffering* to the fact that Mars is composed almost entirely of iron oxide, hence its bright red color. Using this coil of cheesewire, three Slashdot first-posters in a giant hamster wheel, the army of fleas that infest your mangy coat, and my Bill Gates automaton, we will turn the planet Mars into a giant, computer-controlled electromagnet!"
"POIT! But will it run Linux, Brain?"
"Hushup, you. Once the magnet is ready, we'll use it to pull the Earth out of its orbit, changing the seasons and altering the climate... That is unless the governments of Earth succumb to my demands and elect me GLOBAL RULER!!!"
"Oooohhh... That's really neat, Brain! But how are we ever going to get to Mars?"
Well, assuming that this *isn't* a complete and utter fabrication... like most software 'demos' I've seen... this has serious implications for the movie industry.
It's still fairly difficult for users to encode, post and/or download entire DVD movies. Most computer users wouldn't have a clue of where to being.
If this codec does what it proclaims to do, however, can you see this company *not* licensing encoders one way or the other? Real's Mpeg2-based compressor was pretty revolutionary at the time, yet they still offered a 'free' version.
DivX, which is free, but questionable, is even more revolutionary in terms of quality and filesize.
Both these codecs have drawn people into the whole movie/video trading scene.
If this codec *does* allow for compression of videos to make them the same size as the average MP3, (and think about that comparison... For this to work, they'll have to reliable encode video at a lower rate than MP3 audo), the movie trading scene will take off in a way that will make Valenti's asshole shrivel up.
Of course, this company can try to keep the codec and/or encryption secret. To that I have this to say... Jon Johansen and DeCSS
Aren't current desktop computers already majorly overpowered? What do average desktop users need 64 bits of unbelievable number crunching power for?
Two Words: Video Compression
Seriously, while 64 bit processors running at 1.x GHZ will be wasted on desktops, this power is just the sort of thing to beef up existing dual and quad CPU SQL servers.
Well, common sense will tell you that if you only need 1 or 2 HDD's and 1 or 2 CD/DVD's then IDE is the way to go if you are the least little bit concerned about price. You get something like 90% of the speed and 90% the reliability in a machine that will serve you well and cost possibly thousands less than a SCSI setup.
Even if you need another 9.9% reliability, IDE raids are becoming more and more commong.
Now, if you're doing 'mission critical' stuff (I hate that term.) you'll know that you'll get that extra reliance and speed, but you'll pay through the ass for it.
The same integration could be pursued with electricity usage, TV, cat litter boxes, aquariums and closets so we may more efficiently and better go about our lives
There will always be an "underground" on the net for people who want to go there.
I agree totally. While I may occasionally swing by Yahoo to get movie times or AOL/CNN to get world news, the vast majority of my time on the web is spent on 'private' sites. Sure, some of those sites may be hosted on AOL or Geocities, but they are administered by individuals rather than companies.
The vast majority of my packets don't come through HTTP at all, but from Usenet. I suspect that something like this is true for most 'advanced' users. They'll have a P2P client or some other form of unattended 'leech' going, especially now that cable and dsl connections are becoming ubiquitos... for those who haven't been bent over by their cable and DSL companies.
My 'Internet Time' goes roughly like this:
8:00 AM. Read news, see if world is still spinning.
8:02 - 8:30 Read comics like Sinfest, Exploitation Now, and Sluggy Freelance.
8:31 - 5:00 Work, taking frequent breaks to read fanfiction, download MP3's off Usenet, see if Anime News Network has published any thing that will change my world. Take 3-4 breaks a day to see if there's an interesting discussion here. I may check by CNet or ZDNet once a day to see if there's any interesting tech news. This doesn't happen every day.
5:30 - 11:30 Watch Anime Fansubs I've downloaded the night before off Usenet. Maybe game a little. Dinner. Family time. Go to the gym, etc. Almost 0 web browsing.
11:30 - Download headers for anime fansub newsgroups. Pick the episodes I want, start them downloading. These can be anywhere from 50 MB to 3 GB in size. While I sleep, my PC will leech for me.
95 percent of the content I get off the internetis generated by individuals rather than companies.
Remember that paper letters and faxes almost always count more in the eyes of elected officials than E-Mails.
Still, now's a good time to start carpet-bombing Washington with paper *and* Bits:
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Dear ,
I write you today in order to ask your support to help overturn the law known as the DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
This law is currently being used by the federal government to quash the Free Speech rights of a Russian computer programmer, Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested for using his programming skills to demonstrate that Adobe Corporation's E-Book security was flawed and held without bail for several weeks in the United States. This is despite the fact that what he did is a protected right in Russia, and many in the United States believe that this use of the DMCA violates the First Amendment to the constitution.
I don't know about you, but it's a pretty sad day when a Russian has more freedoms in his homeland than an American does in his. It's even sadder that a Russian was arrested in the United States for exercising his rights to Free Speech, something the United States fought for decades to promote in Communist-controlled Russia.
I'm not alone in my feelings. Thousands of individuals who share these beliefs are organizing protests and fundraising campaigns to help Dmitry, who is being unfairly prosecuted by the U.S. government.
Even the company who leveled charges at Sklyarov, Adobe, has since dropped its charges. Still, the Department of Justice continues to try to persecute this poor individual under a bad law.
As your constituent, I ask you to help overturn the DMCA so that it cannot be used as a bludgeon by profit-minded companies against individuals who chose to express their First Amendment rights in this manner.
It is your duty as an American to see that this man's basic rights are not trampled on.
Of course the perverts have made their posts. Yes, we all know this little guy has the power to land you in sexual harassment prosecution hell.
There is a use for this guy that you may not have considered.
Cabling. This is the number 1 most dangerous job that most techies will face, what with asbestos insulation and danger of falls etc. Putting a hook and a small light on this guy for cable running purposes will completely eliminate that small bit of danger and give techies more time to have fun doing things like rock-climbing, sky-diving, and bungee-jumping.
Sure everyone makes mistakes and I'm willing to allow for that to happen.
The sad thing about this is that when I make a mistake, it means that my web server crashes. It means some data gets corrupted. At the very worst, it means that money is wasted or lost. I could lose my job.
When cops makes mistakes, people are injured. Their lives can be ruined or ended.
I'm not saying that most cops out there aren't doing their level best in a world that is openly hostile to them. I'm not saying that cops don't die when they make mistakes.
The above, however, is damn good reason to limit cops' power and their ability to make such incredible mistakes. If we can take away powers from the police and keep 'mistakes' and 'accidents' from happening, then let's do so.
"41 shots they cut through the night
You?re kneeling over his body in the vestibule
Praying for his life..." - The Boss
Re:It's the logical move
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mmm...SD Zelda...that would be tasty...
That would be *very* fun to play and watch!
The art is kinda out there, but it looks like the engine is finished. I would expect multiple revisions of art, character design, and level design by the time the game actually shipped.
Name one that doesn't involved the cop pulling his gun. And if you think he shouldn't pull his gun in that situation, then you need to attend a few cop funerals. Hey, but it's only a dead policeman, right? They're better off dead.
Man, I could feed you trolls all day...
First of all, I'm sitting in my car making no threatening moves. Why did the cop pull his gun in the first place? Why did he point it at me? Why did he use it to force me to the ground? I didn't struggle. Frankly, I was too busy trying to keep from shitting myself because I had a gun in my face.
The cop could just as easily have asked me to exit the car with his loud speaker.
Let me ask you what's more tragic and senseless? A cop who is killed in the line of duty, whose friends and family all knew the risks he chose to make, or an innocent person who never invited any of those risks who is killed because a cop made a mistake.
Law enforcement brings the most force it has to bear 99% of the time. You've heard the expression 'Shoot first and ask questions later?'
Not really. I think it was funny, and sociallpertinent, especially since I too have a Sony camera and made that connection.
You might as well call the Smith and Wesson 'Peacemaker' a "SWP 45002", and see if it gets quite the same reaction. Better yet, lets call illegal wiretaps "IWS90210's" and see if they get as much attention as they deserve.
Damn right. I'd like to see the parent poster in the same situation facing a possibly armed, homicidal drive-byer, and have him politely ask the guy to step out of the car.
I might as well as you to put yourself in *my* position... wondering why there was a gun pressed in my face, knowing that all that stood between me and 'massive cranial trauma' was some fat cop's nerve. Heaven help me if I was black or hispanic and the cop happened to have a racist bent...
I could have twitched in the wrong direction. The cop's fingers could have gotten sweaty...
I was *this* close to being Amadou Diallo and you want to ask me how I would feel if my life was on the line?
There were dozens of ways the cop could have *not* violated my civil rights and put me in danger of being shot and losing my life. Instead, he chose to use the treath of deadly force on a person who had no clue what was going on.
The next time you think about cops wanting to protect them selves from 'possibly' violent individuals, why don't you spend a few minutes thinking about people like Diallo or any of the other perfectly innocent individuals who were killed because a cop thought they had to protect themselves. Think about Dmitry, who has been jailed under a bad law for a non-violent crime in a foreign government in clear violation of *our* bill of rights. Then ask yourself if we should be so quick to give *any* law enforcement agency more power.
Thank you, but when the cops ask for bigger guns, I'll pass.
Once upon a time, when I was sixteen years old and driving home from my girlfriend's house one evening, I was pulled over by a police officer in what could be called the bad side of the town. Although North Amarillo is still a fairly nice neighborhood, it does have a slightly higher crime rate and lower property values than the south side.
Thinking to my self... 'I wonder why I've been pulled over?' I remained calm because I had done nothing. What could I possibly have to fear from a uniformed law enforcement officer when I hadn't done anything wrong.
Said officer pulled me from the car at gunpoint and shoved my face into the asphalt... the gun pressed into the base of my skull... while he cuffed me and frisked me. He threw me into the back of his patrol car and then illegally searched my car.
I learned later that he did all this because there had been reports of a 'drive by shooting' in my girlfriend's neighborhood. My car matched the description, so in the cop's mind I was a dangerous unknown... dangerous enough to hold a gun to my head. He felt he had 'probable cause' to search my car for firearms based on an anonymous 911 call.
An attourney later told me candidly that I had very little chance to win a court case because the policeman released me after searching my car and the judges were all highly sympathetic to the police.
Now, what lessons should we all learn from this?
1. American criminal and police law is not designed to protect innocence. It's designed to punish the criminal.
2. Police will do their best to uphold that law out of honor, duty, hate, fear, or any other of a hundred positive or negative reasons.
3. Police don't care about innocents who get hurt or get their civil rights violated, so long as *they* aren't hurt and *their* jobs don't become any harder. There's a reason we have the term 'Police State'
4. Power breeds corruption. Any given law enforcement agency may have a policy against abuse, but almost all law enforcement officers will abuse their power in one way or the other.
I'm not the only one who things these things. There's a reason we have the fourth amendment, after all.
Mod this guy up, because this was my question as well.
Of course, it's possible that WINE, Win4Lin or one of the others will port or compile fairly easily under AtheOS.
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I agree. It's also important to note that Miyamoto comes from a culture where stylization is one of the key elements of entertainment. Look at Kabuki and Noh theater. Both forms of theater use massive quantities of makeup to completely hide the features of real people. Almost all anime and manga have characters stylized with huge eyes and pointed chins. The ultimate form of stylization in Anime and manga 'Superdeforming' removes hands and feet to make a super-cute characture of human anatomy. There are even characters on TV shows that wear costumes or makeup to alter their appearance.
That Shigeru-kun decided to go for a more stylized cartoon rather than a photo-realistic human character (ala Final Fantasy) was only to be expected. I'm wierded out by the style he chose to render Link in, but think that it's a good move nonetheless.
Notebooks and textbooks yes, but I have *yet* to see anyone that could write in palm-scribble whatever as fast as they could take notes.
Even if they hand out the folding keyboards, I think it will be problematic. Personally, I can't type on flat keyboards for anything. They have to have spring loaded keys, or else my hands don't work right.
YOU ARE. That's right, as the cost of Drugs in the US goes up, so does your insurance & deductables.. You are personally paying the world's social welfare. I hope you enjoy it...
Money is of no importance. Only life is important.
If have to pay $10 more a month in insurance, so be it. If I have to pay $10 more a month in taxes, well , Americans all got a tax refund that many more than half of us voted against.
It's funny how having world-threatening plagues will put your priorities in order, innit?
I hope everyone looks at this and makes the connection:
Patents == People Dying of AIDS
Hmmm... This could really piss Bill off.
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I've been playing Street Fighter Alpha 2 on my Athlon system for several days now. (I can almost beat Ryu with Rose...)
At any rate, one would expect Microsoft to be seeking relationships with Capcom and many other game developers. I *know* they've been courting Square. If Mame X-Box kits that can play the arcade versions of Capcom (and other) games are available on the internet... and let's be honest, despite the fact that they constitute copyright infringement, it's so easy to get Mame roms its laughable... Capcom might not be so willing to do business or release new games for Xbox.
Even if the good folks at Capcom could care less, MS has proven that they're willing to fight copyright infringement every step of the way.
A little while back when rumours that the complete source of Windows 2k had made it 'into the wild', many open source developers were faced with the daunting proposition of keeping an eye out to avoid any Microsoft-originated source code.
Since he works for Apple, I have to wonder if Hubbard is not 'contaminating' any Open Source code he puts his fingers on.
The arguement goes as so... The way I understand it, Hubbard is working on Darwin, Apple's 'open source' OS. Darwin is equivalent to FreeBSD with a command shell. X and your choice of window managers can be installed on top of it, but it won't be OSX. Now, presumably, Hubbard must be exposed to a *lot* of proprietary code in order to best optimize Darwin to run the OSX user interface. Does this invalidate his open source efforts? Does he have a special contract with Apple so that any OSS can be released under (I'm assuming) the BSD license? Does Hubbard safeguard himelf from seeing any non-OSS code while at work?
It's possible, but somehow I doubt it. Anyone else know?
Why is MS reaping the benifits of OSS security?
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A monopoly is a scary thing.
Despite the fact that MS beleives very firmly in a security through obscurity model of business, they have both benevolent and malcious hackers and crackers world wide working to expose as many of their security holes as possible, thereby forcing MS to patch those holes. Code Red would still be unpatched if eEye hadn't released it's exploit POC. This exploit would still be out in the open and freely abuseable if it hadn't been released.
Since MS is the 'standard' for most internet users, it's also the recipient of all the world's security unsolicited security advice.
Slashdot Mirror
After Microsoft started talking about how OSS was a 'cancer', they started trying to emulate it pretty quickly, thus their 'Shared Source' licensing. It makes one wonder what other 'innovations' that MS will stea... ahem... invent.
MPL - The microsoft public license allows you to use Microsoft code in any software, so long as that code is submitted to microsoft. Any code that uses MPL code, must also be submitted to microsoft.
MicroDot - A reader moderated message board that employs a fairly unique system of moderation and remoderation. All comments are, of course, owned and copyrighted by Microsoft.
MicroTux - Microsoft's charming new mascot, a uniformed Puffin, who carries a paperclip in one hand and a WinXP box in the other.
I scrounge Usenet and P2P networks for MP3's. If I find one that's interesting, I download (or even buy , if it's really good) the rest of the album.
Cons: Occasional MP3 distortion from a poorly encoded MP3
Benefits: No FM Station audio 'loudness' compression. Never wait for a song to come on. With my trusty CD-RW, I can listen to a song anywhere... Home, Work, Car. More variety: I had never seriously considered most tencho and electronica before downloading MP3's.
Radio stations, especially those who play top 40, distort music and play what the record companies want to be popular instead of what the listeners like. Most are owned by only a few companies. Hear of Cirrus Broadcasting? Before they deregulated broadcasting, there were several pop and rock stations in Amarillo. Now there is one rock, one pop, one r&b, and about 50 country and Tejano stations. Thanks, but I'll stick to Gnutella and Usenet!
"Don't be alarmed by the tone of my voice. Check out my new weapon, a weapon of choice" - Fatboy Slim.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?"
"I think so, Brain, but how on earth are we ever going to convince a parrot to perch on a man's penis?"
"You need to turn the thermostat of your brain back up, Pinky. I was *reffering* to the fact that Mars is composed almost entirely of iron oxide, hence its bright red color. Using this coil of cheesewire, three Slashdot first-posters in a giant hamster wheel, the army of fleas that infest your mangy coat, and my Bill Gates automaton, we will turn the planet Mars into a giant, computer-controlled electromagnet!"
"POIT! But will it run Linux, Brain?"
"Hushup, you. Once the magnet is ready, we'll use it to pull the Earth out of its orbit, changing the seasons and altering the climate... That is unless the governments of Earth succumb to my demands and elect me GLOBAL RULER!!!"
"Oooohhh... That's really neat, Brain! But how are we ever going to get to Mars?"
"I have an idea..."
Well, assuming that this *isn't* a complete and utter fabrication... like most software 'demos' I've seen... this has serious implications for the movie industry.
It's still fairly difficult for users to encode, post and/or download entire DVD movies. Most computer users wouldn't have a clue of where to being.
If this codec does what it proclaims to do, however, can you see this company *not* licensing encoders one way or the other? Real's Mpeg2-based compressor was pretty revolutionary at the time, yet they still offered a 'free' version.
DivX, which is free, but questionable, is even more revolutionary in terms of quality and filesize.
Both these codecs have drawn people into the whole movie/video trading scene.
If this codec *does* allow for compression of videos to make them the same size as the average MP3, (and think about that comparison... For this to work, they'll have to reliable encode video at a lower rate than MP3 audo), the movie trading scene will take off in a way that will make Valenti's asshole shrivel up.
Of course, this company can try to keep the codec and/or encryption secret. To that I have this to say... Jon Johansen and DeCSS
Aren't current desktop computers already majorly overpowered? What do average desktop users need 64 bits of unbelievable number crunching power for?
Two Words: Video Compression
Seriously, while 64 bit processors running at 1.x GHZ will be wasted on desktops, this power is just the sort of thing to beef up existing dual and quad CPU SQL servers.
Well, common sense will tell you that if you only need 1 or 2 HDD's and 1 or 2 CD/DVD's then IDE is the way to go if you are the least little bit concerned about price. You get something like 90% of the speed and 90% the reliability in a machine that will serve you well and cost possibly thousands less than a SCSI setup.
Even if you need another 9.9% reliability, IDE raids are becoming more and more commong.
Now, if you're doing 'mission critical' stuff (I hate that term.) you'll know that you'll get that extra reliance and speed, but you'll pay through the ass for it.
Price versus quality, folks.
The same integration could be pursued with electricity usage, TV, cat litter boxes, aquariums and closets so we may more efficiently and better go about our lives
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Uh... We've got litter boxes covered:
http://www.members.accessus.net/~dejay/archive.ht
There will always be an "underground" on the net for people who want to go there.
I agree totally. While I may occasionally swing by Yahoo to get movie times or AOL/CNN to get world news, the vast majority of my time on the web is spent on 'private' sites. Sure, some of those sites may be hosted on AOL or Geocities, but they are administered by individuals rather than companies.
The vast majority of my packets don't come through HTTP at all, but from Usenet. I suspect that something like this is true for most 'advanced' users. They'll have a P2P client or some other form of unattended 'leech' going, especially now that cable and dsl connections are becoming ubiquitos... for those who haven't been bent over by their cable and DSL companies.
My 'Internet Time' goes roughly like this:
8:00 AM. Read news, see if world is still spinning.
8:02 - 8:30 Read comics like Sinfest, Exploitation Now, and Sluggy Freelance.
8:31 - 5:00 Work, taking frequent breaks to read fanfiction, download MP3's off Usenet, see if Anime News Network has published any thing that will change my world. Take 3-4 breaks a day to see if there's an interesting discussion here. I may check by CNet or ZDNet once a day to see if there's any interesting tech news. This doesn't happen every day.
5:30 - 11:30 Watch Anime Fansubs I've downloaded the night before off Usenet. Maybe game a little. Dinner. Family time. Go to the gym, etc. Almost 0 web browsing.
11:30 - Download headers for anime fansub newsgroups. Pick the episodes I want, start them downloading. These can be anywhere from 50 MB to 3 GB in size. While I sleep, my PC will leech for me.
95 percent of the content I get off the internetis generated by individuals rather than companies.
I have to deal with VLB Every time I have to service an old, but usuable 486 machine.
Remember that paper letters and faxes almost always count more in the eyes of elected officials than E-Mails.
Still, now's a good time to start carpet-bombing Washington with paper *and* Bits:
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Dear ,
I write you today in order to ask your support to help overturn the law known as the DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
This law is currently being used by the federal government to quash the Free Speech rights of a Russian computer programmer, Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested for using his programming skills to demonstrate that Adobe Corporation's E-Book security was flawed and held without bail for several weeks in the United States. This is despite the fact that what he did is a protected right in Russia, and many in the United States believe that this use of the DMCA violates the First Amendment to the constitution.
I don't know about you, but it's a pretty sad day when a Russian has more freedoms in his homeland than an American does in his. It's even sadder that a Russian was arrested in the United States for exercising his rights to Free Speech, something the United States fought for decades to promote in Communist-controlled Russia.
I'm not alone in my feelings. Thousands of individuals who share these beliefs are organizing protests and fundraising campaigns to help Dmitry, who is being unfairly prosecuted by the U.S. government.
Even the company who leveled charges at Sklyarov, Adobe, has since dropped its charges. Still, the Department of Justice continues to try to persecute this poor individual under a bad law.
As your constituent, I ask you to help overturn the DMCA so that it cannot be used as a bludgeon by profit-minded companies against individuals who chose to express their First Amendment rights in this manner.
It is your duty as an American to see that this man's basic rights are not trampled on.
Do your duty, .
Of course the perverts have made their posts. Yes, we all know this little guy has the power to land you in sexual harassment prosecution hell.
There is a use for this guy that you may not have considered.
Cabling. This is the number 1 most dangerous job that most techies will face, what with asbestos insulation and danger of falls etc. Putting a hook and a small light on this guy for cable running purposes will completely eliminate that small bit of danger and give techies more time to have fun doing things like rock-climbing, sky-diving, and bungee-jumping.
Sure everyone makes mistakes and I'm willing to allow for that to happen.
The sad thing about this is that when I make a mistake, it means that my web server crashes. It means some data gets corrupted. At the very worst, it means that money is wasted or lost. I could lose my job.
When cops makes mistakes, people are injured. Their lives can be ruined or ended.
I'm not saying that most cops out there aren't doing their level best in a world that is openly hostile to them. I'm not saying that cops don't die when they make mistakes.
The above, however, is damn good reason to limit cops' power and their ability to make such incredible mistakes. If we can take away powers from the police and keep 'mistakes' and 'accidents' from happening, then let's do so.
"41 shots they cut through the night
You?re kneeling over his body in the vestibule
Praying for his life..." - The Boss
mmm...SD Zelda...that would be tasty...
That would be *very* fun to play and watch!
The art is kinda out there, but it looks like the engine is finished. I would expect multiple revisions of art, character design, and level design by the time the game actually shipped.
Name one that doesn't involved the cop pulling his gun. And if you think he shouldn't pull his gun in that situation, then you need to attend a few cop funerals. Hey, but it's only a dead policeman, right? They're better off dead.
Man, I could feed you trolls all day...
First of all, I'm sitting in my car making no threatening moves. Why did the cop pull his gun in the first place? Why did he point it at me? Why did he use it to force me to the ground? I didn't struggle. Frankly, I was too busy trying to keep from shitting myself because I had a gun in my face.
The cop could just as easily have asked me to exit the car with his loud speaker.
Let me ask you what's more tragic and senseless? A cop who is killed in the line of duty, whose friends and family all knew the risks he chose to make, or an innocent person who never invited any of those risks who is killed because a cop made a mistake.
Law enforcement brings the most force it has to bear 99% of the time. You've heard the expression 'Shoot first and ask questions later?'
Ok...bad joke.
Not really. I think it was funny, and sociallpertinent, especially since I too have a Sony camera and made that connection.
You might as well call the Smith and Wesson 'Peacemaker' a "SWP 45002", and see if it gets quite the same reaction. Better yet, lets call illegal wiretaps "IWS90210's" and see if they get as much attention as they deserve.
Let's call a spy a spy, shall we?
Damn right. I'd like to see the parent poster in the same situation facing a possibly armed, homicidal drive-byer, and have him politely ask the guy to step out of the car.
I might as well as you to put yourself in *my* position... wondering why there was a gun pressed in my face, knowing that all that stood between me and 'massive cranial trauma' was some fat cop's nerve. Heaven help me if I was black or hispanic and the cop happened to have a racist bent...
I could have twitched in the wrong direction. The cop's fingers could have gotten sweaty...
I was *this* close to being Amadou Diallo and you want to ask me how I would feel if my life was on the line?
There were dozens of ways the cop could have *not* violated my civil rights and put me in danger of being shot and losing my life. Instead, he chose to use the treath of deadly force on a person who had no clue what was going on.
The next time you think about cops wanting to protect them selves from 'possibly' violent individuals, why don't you spend a few minutes thinking about people like Diallo or any of the other perfectly innocent individuals who were killed because a cop thought they had to protect themselves. Think about Dmitry, who has been jailed under a bad law for a non-violent crime in a foreign government in clear violation of *our* bill of rights. Then ask yourself if we should be so quick to give *any* law enforcement agency more power.
Thank you, but when the cops ask for bigger guns, I'll pass.
Heh...
This attitude never ceases to amaze me.
Once upon a time, when I was sixteen years old and driving home from my girlfriend's house one evening, I was pulled over by a police officer in what could be called the bad side of the town. Although North Amarillo is still a fairly nice neighborhood, it does have a slightly higher crime rate and lower property values than the south side.
Thinking to my self... 'I wonder why I've been pulled over?' I remained calm because I had done nothing. What could I possibly have to fear from a uniformed law enforcement officer when I hadn't done anything wrong.
Said officer pulled me from the car at gunpoint and shoved my face into the asphalt... the gun pressed into the base of my skull... while he cuffed me and frisked me. He threw me into the back of his patrol car and then illegally searched my car.
I learned later that he did all this because there had been reports of a 'drive by shooting' in my girlfriend's neighborhood. My car matched the description, so in the cop's mind I was a dangerous unknown... dangerous enough to hold a gun to my head. He felt he had 'probable cause' to search my car for firearms based on an anonymous 911 call.
An attourney later told me candidly that I had very little chance to win a court case because the policeman released me after searching my car and the judges were all highly sympathetic to the police.
Now, what lessons should we all learn from this?
1. American criminal and police law is not designed to protect innocence. It's designed to punish the criminal.
2. Police will do their best to uphold that law out of honor, duty, hate, fear, or any other of a hundred positive or negative reasons.
3. Police don't care about innocents who get hurt or get their civil rights violated, so long as *they* aren't hurt and *their* jobs don't become any harder. There's a reason we have the term 'Police State'
4. Power breeds corruption. Any given law enforcement agency may have a policy against abuse, but almost all law enforcement officers will abuse their power in one way or the other.
I'm not the only one who things these things. There's a reason we have the fourth amendment, after all.
Mod this guy up, because this was my question as well.
Of course, it's possible that WINE, Win4Lin or one of the others will port or compile fairly easily under AtheOS.
I agree. It's also important to note that Miyamoto comes from a culture where stylization is one of the key elements of entertainment. Look at Kabuki and Noh theater. Both forms of theater use massive quantities of makeup to completely hide the features of real people. Almost all anime and manga have characters stylized with huge eyes and pointed chins. The ultimate form of stylization in Anime and manga 'Superdeforming' removes hands and feet to make a super-cute characture of human anatomy. There are even characters on TV shows that wear costumes or makeup to alter their appearance.
That Shigeru-kun decided to go for a more stylized cartoon rather than a photo-realistic human character (ala Final Fantasy) was only to be expected. I'm wierded out by the style he chose to render Link in, but think that it's a good move nonetheless.
Notebooks and textbooks yes, but I have *yet* to see anyone that could write in palm-scribble whatever as fast as they could take notes.
Even if they hand out the folding keyboards, I think it will be problematic. Personally, I can't type on flat keyboards for anything. They have to have spring loaded keys, or else my hands don't work right.
YOU ARE. That's right, as the cost of Drugs in the US goes up, so does your insurance & deductables.. You are personally paying the world's social welfare. I hope you enjoy it...
Money is of no importance. Only life is important.
If have to pay $10 more a month in insurance, so be it. If I have to pay $10 more a month in taxes, well , Americans all got a tax refund that many more than half of us voted against.
I'll say amen to that.
It's funny how having world-threatening plagues will put your priorities in order, innit?
I hope everyone looks at this and makes the connection:
Patents == People Dying of AIDS
I've been playing Street Fighter Alpha 2 on my Athlon system for several days now. (I can almost beat Ryu with Rose...)
At any rate, one would expect Microsoft to be seeking relationships with Capcom and many other game developers. I *know* they've been courting Square. If Mame X-Box kits that can play the arcade versions of Capcom (and other) games are available on the internet... and let's be honest, despite the fact that they constitute copyright infringement, it's so easy to get Mame roms its laughable... Capcom might not be so willing to do business or release new games for Xbox.
Even if the good folks at Capcom could care less, MS has proven that they're willing to fight copyright infringement every step of the way.
A little while back when rumours that the complete source of Windows 2k had made it 'into the wild', many open source developers were faced with the daunting proposition of keeping an eye out to avoid any Microsoft-originated source code.
Since he works for Apple, I have to wonder if Hubbard is not 'contaminating' any Open Source code he puts his fingers on.
The arguement goes as so... The way I understand it, Hubbard is working on Darwin, Apple's 'open source' OS. Darwin is equivalent to FreeBSD with a command shell. X and your choice of window managers can be installed on top of it, but it won't be OSX. Now, presumably, Hubbard must be exposed to a *lot* of proprietary code in order to best optimize Darwin to run the OSX user interface. Does this invalidate his open source efforts? Does he have a special contract with Apple so that any OSS can be released under (I'm assuming) the BSD license? Does Hubbard safeguard himelf from seeing any non-OSS code while at work?
It's possible, but somehow I doubt it. Anyone else know?
A monopoly is a scary thing.
Despite the fact that MS beleives very firmly in a security through obscurity model of business, they have both benevolent and malcious hackers and crackers world wide working to expose as many of their security holes as possible, thereby forcing MS to patch those holes. Code Red would still be unpatched if eEye hadn't released it's exploit POC. This exploit would still be out in the open and freely abuseable if it hadn't been released.
Since MS is the 'standard' for most internet users, it's also the recipient of all the world's security unsolicited security advice.