It doesn't cost money, but it's still using a patented algorithm and you can't legally use it without a license.
And when has that stopped us before?
I'm serious. For every user of "patent-issue-free" software, there are 50 who could(n't) care less. Ideology and legality mean very little to most casual users, and casual users are the ones who determine what standards gain wide acceptance.
My High School government teacher, Mr. Barnabo, was a big advocate of this. He was very blunt about the way the US government actually functions, and it comforts me to know that every year he enlightens another couple hundred high school seniors with his wisdom. ^_^
Of course, he also knows who shot JFK. (It was the driver of the Limo, a secret service officer. Watch the Zapruder film, and you can see him turn and point something at the pres, there's a muzzle flash, the pres's head explodes, Jackie screams and tries to get away, and another officer grabs her and keeps her in the car as it speeds off. You need to watch the original: most tv documentaries zoom in on the pres and crop out most of the driver at the critical moment)
Granted, Mr. Barnabo was a little cookier than most of my other teachers...;^)
fight the RIAA? what a novel concept! I have no idea why no one in the history of the earth has ever tried this. obviously, as you say, it will be so easy since they have pussy lawyers.
Every day we don't fight them, the next day's fight will be that much harder.
The biggest problem I've had is that no candidate supports my position. If I disagree with everyone, who the FSCK should I vote for? The lesser of several evils?
I'd run myself, but even disregarding the money issues I'd have, there are minimum ages for members of Congress...
Show me a candidate who represents me, and I'll vote for him.
My roomate (Apreche) and I went dumpster diving a few times last year. We were short on cash, and we thought we could make a quick buck.
We found a lot of smelly things that useless things. We also found a lot of stores that secure their dumpsters (which sucked. Best Buy and Media Play were our primary targets... Guess they don't want people stealing their trash).
We eventually hit Toys R Us, where we found a dumpster full of perfectly good bicycle parts. We loaded the car full of them and vowed to sell them on E-bay. We figured we could sell them cheap as hell, since our net investment was zero and any profit was pure profit.
But, being lazy college students, we forgot all about the boxes of parts sitting in our foyer. Ended up throwing them all away when we moved out of the place...
I am 100% sure that someone would in short order find a way around this. The only people who would suffer in the end would be...
I don't know. The taxpayers? The terrorists? The CHILDREN?
Overly complex systems allow people who are willing to properly milk them to do just that, and the more complex they are, the harder the milking is to catch/prevent. Consider the US income tax system an a prime example.
My freshman year, I had a printer. My roomate had a printer. Everyone I knew with one exception had a printer. We were all amazed that the guy didn't have one. Printers are necessary things to us, like keyboards or monitors.
Of course, p2p apps now fall under that category as well. ^_^
I'm a senior at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology), and I can't say I've learned ANYTHING that wouldn't have been obvious after a few minutes of research.
I'm paying $26 000 a year for 5 years for a little piece of paper that tells the big boys that it's ok to hire me (and to have fun in college). I'm NOT paying for an education.
I want the ad moguls and networks to know what I watch, because they might just notice that my viewing habits, like those of many people, are nothing like what they believe them to be.
I don't watch ads. Period. I watch a few good shows, and I ignore the rest.
On a larger scale, my dream would be for the entire system of free-but-with-forced-ad-watching television to fall to pieces. Sure, it might mean the end of television as mass-media, but it would also force a lot of mouth-breathers to do something other than watch TV every night.
Of course, I'm pretty tired right now, so make what you will of the preceding. ^_~
NPR did a piece on it. To verify the results, there was a second study, wherein non-gamers were "trained" for 10 hours (playing Medal of Honour) and then tested. Their scores, while not quite as good as gamers, were significantly better than non-gamers, as well as better than their own scores before the training.
People at my (former) office would huddle around the monitor and watch the little bastard perform. Never believed me when I told them what it was, and yet constantly complained that their PCs were too slow.
Of course, now I work for IBM (work.. Yet I'm somehow posting on/. at 2:30pm), and I've no doubt that if anyone were caught with Bonzi installed on their machine, they would be laughed out of the department.
Not just Bonzai, but all of those ads that try to 'trick' users into clicking through: fake 'X' buttons, bogus radio buttons, etc...
How many people, once fooled into the company's web site, decide "Hey, I'm already here. Why not give them my credit card number for some useless piece of shit I don't need."
?
I'm serious. Has there ever been a study on this sort of thing?
They don't actually want their characters to be able to die. They just want to gain levels and powers at a regular rate, so that they will be more powerful than everyone who joined the game after them.
MMORPG players today are losers of the highest calibre. They consider their wasted time an "investment" in their character. I know several who don't actually enjoy playing the game at all, but they want to get the "Deluxe Two-Handed Sword of Power" before some other loser gets one.
And woe betide the day when one of them dies in combat and loses some XP or an item. -That's- when you hear about another dorm-room suicide.
I'm not trying to be flamebait, I'm just bitter. I knew a guy at RIT who pretty-much sat in his room 24/7 playing Asheron's Call. Only left to attend class and occaisionally eat (he would bring the food back with him to keep playing). He was vacant. Away from the game, he had no way of interacting with normal people. We often considered nuking his box just to push him off the deep end.
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It doesn't cost money, but it's still using a patented algorithm and you can't legally use it without a license.
And when has that stopped us before?
I'm serious. For every user of "patent-issue-free" software, there are 50 who could(n't) care less. Ideology and legality mean very little to most casual users, and casual users are the ones who determine what standards gain wide acceptance.
My High School government teacher, Mr. Barnabo, was a big advocate of this. He was very blunt about the way the US government actually functions, and it comforts me to know that every year he enlightens another couple hundred high school seniors with his wisdom. ^_^
;^)
Of course, he also knows who shot JFK. (It was the driver of the Limo, a secret service officer. Watch the Zapruder film, and you can see him turn and point something at the pres, there's a muzzle flash, the pres's head explodes, Jackie screams and tries to get away, and another officer grabs her and keeps her in the car as it speeds off. You need to watch the original: most tv documentaries zoom in on the pres and crop out most of the driver at the critical moment)
Granted, Mr. Barnabo was a little cookier than most of my other teachers...
fight the RIAA? what a novel concept! I have no idea why no one in the history of the earth has ever tried this.
obviously, as you say, it will be so easy since they have pussy lawyers.
Every day we don't fight them, the next day's fight will be that much harder.
The biggest problem I've had is that no candidate supports my position. If I disagree with everyone, who the FSCK should I vote for? The lesser of several evils?
I'd run myself, but even disregarding the money issues I'd have, there are minimum ages for members of Congress...
Show me a candidate who represents me, and I'll vote for him.
Boy did -I- misread that topic...
-_-
We don't need the play-by-play for this anymore than we needed it for the OJ Simpson trial...
IBM throws the pitch.
SCO swings... pop fly! He broke the bat!
Novell jumps for the catch... ERROR! He dropped it!
SCO makes it to first.. but wait! Is that cork in hs bat?
My roomate (Apreche) and I went dumpster diving a few times last year. We were short on cash, and we thought we could make a quick buck.
We found a lot of smelly things that useless things. We also found a lot of stores that secure their dumpsters (which sucked. Best Buy and Media Play were our primary targets... Guess they don't want people stealing their trash).
We eventually hit Toys R Us, where we found a dumpster full of perfectly good bicycle parts. We loaded the car full of them and vowed to sell them on E-bay. We figured we could sell them cheap as hell, since our net investment was zero and any profit was pure profit.
But, being lazy college students, we forgot all about the boxes of parts sitting in our foyer. Ended up throwing them all away when we moved out of the place...
And that's all I have to say about that.
Paying for *the miles you drive* encourages you to DRIVE LESS.
I do pay for the miles I drive. I buy gas for every one of those miles. Unless people are somehow getting their gas for free...
I am 100% sure that someone would in short order find a way around this. The only people who would suffer in the end would be...
I don't know. The taxpayers? The terrorists? The CHILDREN?
Overly complex systems allow people who are willing to properly milk them to do just that, and the more complex they are, the harder the milking is to catch/prevent. Consider the US income tax system an a prime example.
If you don't watch any advertiing at all, then how do you know when a new show is on?
I often don't. I pick through the listings sometimes for things that interest me, and I'll sometimes hear about a "new show" from others who watch it.
If something's worth seeing, I'll find out about it eventually. I'm in no hurry.
My freshman year, I had a printer. My roomate had a printer. Everyone I knew with one exception had a printer. We were all amazed that the guy didn't have one. Printers are necessary things to us, like keyboards or monitors.
Of course, p2p apps now fall under that category as well. ^_^
I'm a senior at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology), and I can't say I've learned ANYTHING that wouldn't have been obvious after a few minutes of research.
I'm paying $26 000 a year for 5 years for a little piece of paper that tells the big boys that it's ok to hire me (and to have fun in college). I'm NOT paying for an education.
I want the ad moguls and networks to know what I watch, because they might just notice that my viewing habits, like those of many people, are nothing like what they believe them to be.
I don't watch ads. Period. I watch a few good shows, and I ignore the rest.
On a larger scale, my dream would be for the entire system of free-but-with-forced-ad-watching television to fall to pieces. Sure, it might mean the end of television as mass-media, but it would also force a lot of mouth-breathers to do something other than watch TV every night.
Of course, I'm pretty tired right now, so make what you will of the preceding. ^_~
That's all I have to say about that.
More to the point, is there anyone, ANYONE at all who thinks this is a good idea besides the peeps at the top who stand to get more money?
On Soviet Mars...
Ha! The -red- planet! Ha!
Someone had to carve that giant face !
Seriously, though... no, I got nothing. I'm a hack.
Mandrake is the bomb-digity. Our OS of choice for all the CS and PVK servers scattered about the room.
Gentoo IS THE BEST DISTRO EVAR
The best distro ever is functional AND simple to install.
SIMPLE to INSTALL.
East Fishkill New York. I'm in FCMS engineering. SNA and old VTAM stuffs.
NPR did a piece on it. To verify the results, there was a second study, wherein non-gamers were "trained" for 10 hours (playing Medal of Honour) and then tested. Their scores, while not quite as good as gamers, were significantly better than non-gamers, as well as better than their own scores before the training.
Oh gods.
/. at 2:30pm), and I've no doubt that if anyone were caught with Bonzi installed on their machine, they would be laughed out of the department.
People at my (former) office would huddle around the monitor and watch the little bastard perform. Never believed me when I told them what it was, and yet constantly complained that their PCs were too slow.
Of course, now I work for IBM (work.. Yet I'm somehow posting on
Not just Bonzai, but all of those ads that try to 'trick' users into clicking through: fake 'X' buttons, bogus radio buttons, etc...
How many people, once fooled into the company's web site, decide "Hey, I'm already here. Why not give them my credit card number for some useless piece of shit I don't need."
?
I'm serious. Has there ever been a study on this sort of thing?
They don't actually want their characters to be able to die. They just want to gain levels and powers at a regular rate, so that they will be more powerful than everyone who joined the game after them.
MMORPG players today are losers of the highest calibre. They consider their wasted time an "investment" in their character. I know several who don't actually enjoy playing the game at all, but they want to get the "Deluxe Two-Handed Sword of Power" before some other loser gets one.
And woe betide the day when one of them dies in combat and loses some XP or an item. -That's- when you hear about another dorm-room suicide.
I'm not trying to be flamebait, I'm just bitter. I knew a guy at RIT who pretty-much sat in his room 24/7 playing Asheron's Call. Only left to attend class and occaisionally eat (he would bring the food back with him to keep playing). He was vacant. Away from the game, he had no way of interacting with normal people. We often considered nuking his box just to push him off the deep end.
I point out that I mostly pirate that music. They still don't get my money, it's just harder for them to litigate against me.
IP violations != stealing. We have different laws for each.