I disagree. Now, it seems like you don't ever "own" any of your devices, your phone is somehow tied into your cell provider, your computer is the *AA's if you don't use Linux, the makers of game consoles constantly try to brick you if you use a modchip, and all your media you haven't pirated or downloaded off of a DRM-Free site is tied to your account. So no, it isn't the greatest time, because now, you don't own a single thing.
This is total tripe and pessimism! One of the defining characteristics of a geek in this age is that they are able to discern what a load of garbage this stuff is. They use unlocked GSM phones, they avoid DRM like they've been born to do so, and they do all these things with the full knowledge of what makes Quality.
And this wonderful Internet that lets us discuss this, allows them to share their ideas and feelings with similar-minded people from around the globe!
Do you really think these guys care about "our moderate Arab allies" and Israel?
Yeah, I do. The WMD angle is absolute garbage but Saudi Arabia and Israel are SOLID allies of the United States. The big antagonist in the middle east now that Saddam is gone is Iran, but the USA has Iraq, Israel, and the Saudis on their side.
Wouldn't paying more if you're more at risk defeat the purpose of insurance in the first place?
No. If you choose to drive a vehicle with more risk of being stolen, the insurance company charges you more to be insured. You've assumed a voluntary risk and the insurance company dings you.
When you sign up for life insurance, if you're a 63 year old smoker you won't get as favourable rates as if you were a healthy 18 year old.
The part that makes people uncomfortable about genetic discrimination is the eugenic angle. Nobody is able to control the genes that they are born with, and discriminating against groups of people based on factors beyond their control is usually a pretty crappy thing to do.
anyone wondering where on earth these horrible conditions came from, consult wikipedia for the history of the company. they went bankrupt in the 80s, following the massive asbestos strike in french canada.
And the worst professors will have "lectures" where they recite word-for-word the information contained in the textbook, making the students feel like they've wasted time, money, and their own sense of worth.
a friend of mine who is a fellow bookworm were talking several years back, and i told him about how i hadn't been touched by the plot of final fantasy 7 in the way that a lot of other people had (there's a touching bit where the female lead character dies and i had heard from several people who had said they'd been deeply moved by it).
he looked at me and said "maybe you and i aren't as affected by it because we actually read".
the cinema, theatre, and music can all be as deeply stirring as a good novel. comic books don't seem to get it most of the time, but there are "graphic novels" that attempt to speak in an adult way about adult situations.
games are just another popular art form, for better or for worse.
Axl has been touring in support of this album since approx 2003. Most people who have seen the shows will tell you the new songs are actually quite good.
I'd love to hear the album if it ever sees the light of day. It seems Axl has some bizarre legal issues keeping him from putting it out there.
Why exactly does the summary's headline say "Rootkit"? If you are running WoW in administrator mode, it has full access to your machine. This is not new knowledge. It is also not new that WoW contains code to scan your machine for cheating programs.
The neat thing about the commercially available botting programs for WoW is that they leverage Windows security permissions to try to sandbox WoW from peering into the rest of your machine. That's correct, the botters and cheaters have more privacy when running WoW than you do, because you've got nothing to hide, right?
The article linked in the summary is very whiny. It looks like Blizzard is now using a different hash for every client that connects to the service, and it's making things troublesome for people to identify which "version" of Warden is being run on their machines. There's no obvious change in the functionality of Warden, and there is no evidence of a Rootkit.
This is a neat story, but the term "Rootkit" is being mis-applied. When the Sony DRM dug itself into your system files and cloaked itself, that was a rootkit. This is a program that runs with your user priviledges whenever you decide you want to run it.
what's funny is that i read somewhere last week that the supersonic Concorde airplane used fully electronic sticks for control, and the engineers had to spend a lot of time rigging artificial feedback because pilots need information through touch.
Wow, that's really neat. My old 8738 card is in the hand-me-down machine I gave my parents, but it's neat to see new drivers expanding it's capabilities:)
I remember watching a movie and the English line was something like "the pain doesn't hurt" and the Dutch translation was "Pijn is nicht pijn" - Pain is not pain.
I believe this was from the American art film Road House. A breathtaking performance by respected actor Patrick Swayze, in which his hard-bitten character utters the now legendary line: "Pain don't hurt."
I am a little bothered by the Jobs apologists commenting on this article. The term "lip service" is being used to justify Jobs attempting to tell them what they can do with their toys.
He's supposed to be a hip, outspoken leader in the technology sector. His "Thoughts on Music" essay was lucid despite being an elaborate way of saying "blame DRM on the record industry". Why are people putting up with him telling everyone that he's involved in a "cat and mouse" game with people that are making post-sale iPhones a better product?
People who had paid for Half-Life 2 were playing the game a full day before the pirates, which was a landmark in my estimation because usually pirated versions of games are flooding the internet a full week before the discs arrive on store shelves.
My regard has changed a little bit with the Steam version of Bioshock arriving with Securom (this mystifies me).
I love this idea if it could be worked out. My first character was a priest because I wanted to be one of the characters restoring order to the world. There were only two quests I recall that really gave the impression you were helping put things back together:
1) Priest epic staff quest -- involves healing dozens of NPCs while defending them from harm 2) First Aid artisan quest -- involves performing triage on injured NPCs
It seems like 99% of the other quests in the game involve destroying things.
The education system is really trying to deal with this.. they are trying to make is so that an A grade is an A grade regardless of which school the student attended. The obvious way to do this is to implement standardized testing across a region. Sadly, we end up hearing about crap like this where schools are ditching dumb kids to make their average scores go up. Stupid, stupid people.
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I disagree. Now, it seems like you don't ever "own" any of your devices, your phone is somehow tied into your cell provider, your computer is the *AA's if you don't use Linux, the makers of game consoles constantly try to brick you if you use a modchip, and all your media you haven't pirated or downloaded off of a DRM-Free site is tied to your account. So no, it isn't the greatest time, because now, you don't own a single thing.
This is total tripe and pessimism! One of the defining characteristics of a geek in this age is that they are able to discern what a load of garbage this stuff is. They use unlocked GSM phones, they avoid DRM like they've been born to do so, and they do all these things with the full knowledge of what makes Quality.
And this wonderful Internet that lets us discuss this, allows them to share their ideas and feelings with similar-minded people from around the globe!
How is this not a golden age?!
Do you really think these guys care about "our moderate Arab allies" and Israel?
Yeah, I do. The WMD angle is absolute garbage but Saudi Arabia and Israel are SOLID allies of the United States. The big antagonist in the middle east now that Saddam is gone is Iran, but the USA has Iraq, Israel, and the Saudis on their side.
Wouldn't paying more if you're more at risk defeat the purpose of insurance in the first place?
No. If you choose to drive a vehicle with more risk of being stolen, the insurance company charges you more to be insured. You've assumed a voluntary risk and the insurance company dings you.
When you sign up for life insurance, if you're a 63 year old smoker you won't get as favourable rates as if you were a healthy 18 year old.
The part that makes people uncomfortable about genetic discrimination is the eugenic angle. Nobody is able to control the genes that they are born with, and discriminating against groups of people based on factors beyond their control is usually a pretty crappy thing to do.
anyone wondering where on earth these horrible conditions came from, consult wikipedia for the history of the company. they went bankrupt in the 80s, following the massive asbestos strike in french canada.
And the worst professors will have "lectures" where they recite word-for-word the information contained in the textbook, making the students feel like they've wasted time, money, and their own sense of worth.
Christ, university can be soul crushing.
a friend of mine who is a fellow bookworm were talking several years back, and i told him about how i hadn't been touched by the plot of final fantasy 7 in the way that a lot of other people had (there's a touching bit where the female lead character dies and i had heard from several people who had said they'd been deeply moved by it).
he looked at me and said "maybe you and i aren't as affected by it because we actually read".
the cinema, theatre, and music can all be as deeply stirring as a good novel. comic books don't seem to get it most of the time, but there are "graphic novels" that attempt to speak in an adult way about adult situations.
games are just another popular art form, for better or for worse.
Do other news sources in the US have this slant?
Yes. You'll also notice anti-Iranian stories coming from the States. They're just prepping the people mentally for a future conflict.
Axl has been touring in support of this album since approx 2003. Most people who have seen the shows will tell you the new songs are actually quite good.
I'd love to hear the album if it ever sees the light of day. It seems Axl has some bizarre legal issues keeping him from putting it out there.
Why exactly does the summary's headline say "Rootkit"? If you are running WoW in administrator mode, it has full access to your machine. This is not new knowledge. It is also not new that WoW contains code to scan your machine for cheating programs.
The neat thing about the commercially available botting programs for WoW is that they leverage Windows security permissions to try to sandbox WoW from peering into the rest of your machine. That's correct, the botters and cheaters have more privacy when running WoW than you do, because you've got nothing to hide, right?
The article linked in the summary is very whiny. It looks like Blizzard is now using a different hash for every client that connects to the service, and it's making things troublesome for people to identify which "version" of Warden is being run on their machines. There's no obvious change in the functionality of Warden, and there is no evidence of a Rootkit.
This is a neat story, but the term "Rootkit" is being mis-applied. When the Sony DRM dug itself into your system files and cloaked itself, that was a rootkit. This is a program that runs with your user priviledges whenever you decide you want to run it.
what's funny is that i read somewhere last week that the supersonic Concorde airplane used fully electronic sticks for control, and the engineers had to spend a lot of time rigging artificial feedback because pilots need information through touch.
i wish i had mod points, mod parent up, this is the direction these farcical laws are going.
Wow, that's really neat. My old 8738 card is in the hand-me-down machine I gave my parents, but it's neat to see new drivers expanding it's capabilities :)
I remember watching a movie and the English line was something like "the pain doesn't hurt" and the Dutch translation was "Pijn is nicht pijn" - Pain is not pain.
I believe this was from the American art film Road House. A breathtaking performance by respected actor Patrick Swayze, in which his hard-bitten character utters the now legendary line: "Pain don't hurt."
Have you got a link for the 8738 drivers?
The XBOX is the prototype for this.
I am a little bothered by the Jobs apologists commenting on this article. The term "lip service" is being used to justify Jobs attempting to tell them what they can do with their toys.
He's supposed to be a hip, outspoken leader in the technology sector. His "Thoughts on Music" essay was lucid despite being an elaborate way of saying "blame DRM on the record industry". Why are people putting up with him telling everyone that he's involved in a "cat and mouse" game with people that are making post-sale iPhones a better product?
Steam.
People who had paid for Half-Life 2 were playing the game a full day before the pirates, which was a landmark in my estimation because usually pirated versions of games are flooding the internet a full week before the discs arrive on store shelves.
My regard has changed a little bit with the Steam version of Bioshock arriving with Securom (this mystifies me).
I love this idea if it could be worked out. My first character was a priest because I wanted to be one of the characters restoring order to the world. There were only two quests I recall that really gave the impression you were helping put things back together:
1) Priest epic staff quest -- involves healing dozens of NPCs while defending them from harm
2) First Aid artisan quest -- involves performing triage on injured NPCs
It seems like 99% of the other quests in the game involve destroying things.
The education system is really trying to deal with this.. they are trying to make is so that an A grade is an A grade regardless of which school the student attended. The obvious way to do this is to implement standardized testing across a region. Sadly, we end up hearing about crap like this where schools are ditching dumb kids to make their average scores go up. Stupid, stupid people.
And to prove the sincerity of the offer, I invite you to my house for dinner. I'll cook, you bring the wine.
most.. awkward.. date.. ever.
what happened to logo?
It has locked up a few times.
unacceptable
Today's Captain America would carry an assault rifle and defend oil pipelines from insurgents.
They've been fighting for citizen privacy also with the authorities wanting to check library records..
This is a summary of an interview conducted by Game Informer.