Actually, in my experiance (KOTOR I & II, WoW) games run faster and with fewer crashes (again for the games I've played). I had nearly constant mouse issues with KOTOR I under Windows; mouse not moving correctly, double clicks when a button was only single clicked, etc. Never once did I have one of those problems under Cedega. I also got higher frame rates under Cedega for all games mentioned, and was able to run WoW at higher settings than under Windows.
Bottom line: I really have NO reason to use Windows now. At home at least. I've not been able to get Remedy (ticketing system) to work fully under Cedega yet...
Perhaps I'm not understanding this argument, and I see it all the time on slashdot.
Has everyone in the world gotten a crappy cell phone except me? I've always had samsungs and never had a problem with them - good mic and good speaker. I really don't know what else you want a phone to do to qualify as "being a phone!".
There are 2 Micro Centers here in Atlanta. While I prefer to shop at the "mom and pop" hardware houses I shop quite frequently at Micro Center. The staff tends to be somewhat knowledgeable, especially when compared to the retail drones at CompUSA and Best Buy.
The biggest reason I shop at Micro Center however is their book/magazine section. It's easily 3 times as big as the tech section at a Barnes and Noble, and it's quite encompassing subject wise.
The deal bins also are nice. Deeply discounted hardware and software. They also put their books on clearence when a new edition comes out. I love getting Oreilly books for 2 or 3 bucks.
Hrm, thats really odd. I have 7 tattoos, the largest covering most of my back. To date I've had 4 MRI, 2 CAT scans and several x-rays. No burns here. No radiologist even mentioned my tats...
Urban legend. BTW, AFAIK there are NO metals in tattoo ink. Plastics, yes. Metal, no.
The article states that capturing Airplanes landing is pretty rare, so I was pretty suprised to see one landing at Atlantas Hearts Field Airport. I'm too lazy to link, but a plane is coming into land on the southernmost runway, from the west. It's easily viewable if you zoom in but more difficult to see if your zoomed out as it's over a parking lot when the shot was taken.
Haha, isn't that the point of slashdot? To argue pointlessly?
Not to keep this thread going, as your correct, intention defines whether it's art or not, but there are certainly many examples of art that do just exactly what you say Rockstar was doing, creating controversy, wanting to make money, and providing a fun diversion. See Andy Warhol.
You know, on any other day I wouldn't comment on this, but I'm bored so why not.
"GTA isn't a great work of art. Don't pretend that it is."
I'd argue that people have also applied that argument to other things that YOU probably would deem "art" like the statue of David, or perhaps The Birth of Venus.
Just because YOU don't consider GTA art doesn't mean it's not. Art, and art appreciation is subjective. So, basically, your argument is invalid.
Nice reply. I agree that both Ghandi and MLK were successful in using non-violent means to secure their goals. However, I would argue that non-violent strategies bring more of an evolution rather than a revolution.
In the case of Dr. King, a large portion of the US already knew that racism was wrong. Lots of people in the south knew it was wrong, but it was so ingraned that it took an outside catalist to evolve the thinking of the youth. However, the divide between black and white in the US is still as alive in 2005 as it was 40 years ago. True, overt discrimination is illegal, but the hate -of both groups- tword the other is still very alive.
While Ghandi certainly promoted peaceful civil disobediance I believe the straw that broke the camels back was his Quit India proclamation. This resulted in quite a bit of violence. Further the British had to worry about the Japanese coming to the aide of India against the British. All in all the fight for Indian independance took nearly 100 years. A strong case could be made stating that it would have continued if not for the violence of the Quit India movement and the fear of having to fight the Japanese.
Contrast both of these to our own revolution. Just because a revolution is violent does not mean it does not hold the high ground. Nor does it mean that a group of thugs will rule once the revolution is through.
As a counter to your argument, I'd say that a group of thugs have come to power in the black community after the tragic death of Dr. King. While Dr. King preached unity, it seems his friends like Jesse Jackson enjoy the emnity between the races. Its provided him a job for the past 40 some odd years. Why would he want there to be an amecable resolution?
Social evolution takes the will of the masses. Do you think Americans currently have enough will to put down the remote and Big Mac and say "enough is enough!"? I don't. Not anymore. We've for the most part, given up our means of violent revolution. Currently we're being bled of our means of non-violent revolution. Maybe abject, 3rd world poverity will shock Americans enough to do something. I don't think it will happen in my lifetime though.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
The difference between nobel men like Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, George Washington and the like is simple: most Americans today prefer comfort to freedom. As a whole we prefer lethargy to action, ignorance to knowlege, and the status quo so that we can catch the latest reality show.
The time of America being a bastion of freedom and democracy is over, thanks in large part to our success. We've grow fat and lazy, both literally and figuratively.
Whats more, we're never going to change. We've well passed the point of no return. Government will continue to grow un-abated. Taxes will continue to climb. We'll become more and more of a consumer society as opposed to a production society. And eventally we'll either become a totallitarian state, or we'll be taken over by the corporate world sort of like the government in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
The citizenry will never ever rise up. We're too far removed from revolution. Not only that, but we have whackos who continue to think that giving up our right to bear arms is a good idea. What are we supposed to overthrow anyone with? Rocks and sharp sticks? What do we have to defend our own homes with? Oh yea, thats right, we prefer comfort rather than confrontation. Call the police, that armed robber will only have time to shoot 2 or 3 people before they can get here... Never mind that criminals don't care if guns are illegal being that their criminals. But of course I can't have a gun to defend my family because I obey the law. Stick a fork in us. We're done.
Seriously, this post has less than 20 comments in it and 3 are already blaming Bush or Big Oil.
The eviromentalists need to realize something: people like driving big gas guzzeling cars. Despite them being bad for the enviroment people will continue to drive gas powered cars. Realize that the public you're trying to convert is the public that stuffs itself with McDonalds. If the public won't take care of their own bodies what makes you think they give a hoot about the enviroment? The people (for the most part) won't buy them, hence the car manufactures won't make them.
Also, people keep hawking on hybrid/electric cars. What about trucks/suv? They hold the market share. Those puny hybrid/electrics won't haul a boat, or a trailer, or a load of 2x4s. Yes I know Ford has 1 hybrid SUV out. Big deal, what's its market share?
Further, the handeling/performance of electric vehicles suck. Yes, I know about the amazing electric sports car that can do 0-60 quicker than a porshe, but guess what, it also costs as much as a porshe. You want the American public to embrace electric cars? Make an electric Mustang that has the exact performance specs as it's gas powered brother, and at the same price. Until some R&D department can do this the majority of the public won't convert to electric.
I'm not saying it's right, but enviromentalists need to wake up and realize their fighting this battle all wrong. You'd think they'd take a queue from the food industry. A majority of the public is under the impression that "fat-free" foods taste like crap. Never mind they might be better for you. Never mind your HCL is through the roof, Americans want a fat-free meal that tastes EXACTLY like a full-fat meal, if it doesn't, fuck it we'll die fat and happy.
Hrmm, I don't know anyone that associates electronic music with the gay scene. Now "disco" maybe. But in the US disco and electronic are completely different things.
And yes there was a backlash against disco, mainly because most disco sucks. It was synthesized pop. Pop music sucks. But "disco" kept evolving here as well. I'm sure if your a fan you know of the constant bickering about whether techno was "invented" in Detroit/Chichago or in Europe. Either way it invalidates your point. While electronic music might not enjoy as much of the mainstream as it does in Europe, to say it has no roots in the US is just plain wrong.
I don't usually feed the trolls, but I have to bite on this one.
"Spoken like a true desk-job inhabitant."
This is probably one of the dumbest comments I have ever read on/. . I've worked both manual labor and as "desk-job". Both can be hard, but in totally different ways. I worked in a factory up until I was 22 to pay for college. My dad is an electrician and I've spent countless saturdays in my teens helping him on the side-jobs he used to take. Both jobs would send me home compleatly physically exhausted.
Today I work a desk job. I go home compleatly mentally exhausted. I pretty much always have a head-ache from staring at a computer screen all day. I go home and veg out in front of the TV.
In fact I sometimes really envy my dad because he gets to be out in the fresh air, sunshine, and is being physically active. OTOH he sometimes really envies me because I'm in where it's warm, dry, and I sit on my ass all day.
The point being is, work, if your actually working and not just sitting around, is hard. If it wasn't it would be called happy fun time or something. But it's not. It's called work for a reason.
This is a really easy question. Government (at the federal level) doesn't need to provide ANYTHING aside for a military to defend us from Attack and secure our intrests abroad (no, I'm not talking about imperialism, but rather securing things we own and our citizens in other countries) and a federal police force to protect federal law. Instead Americans in general expect the government to provide all kinds of things we should be providing for ourselves, but don't because by and large we're lazy as shit. Take social security and medicare. I'm forced by the Fed to pay for some one else's retirement (don't make me laugh by saying I'm paying for MY retirement. SS will be long dead by then.) I'm also forced to pay for other people's health care, food, etc. Now I'm a pretty charitable person. But forcing me to pay for wellfare isn't charity. It's wealth re-distribution.
Military spending could easily be paid for with a small defense tax levied on the populace. Income tax IS unconstitutional, despite what the Supreme Court says. Remeber, the Supreme Court gets paid thanks to your taxes. Saying the income tax is unconstitutional is tantamount to giving themselves a paycut. Who's gonna do that?
Until Americans wake up and realize that all our problems stem from the fact that we let the government walk all over it's citizenship we'll continue to have big government, big spending, and a divided nation screaming that the other half is a bunch of idiots.
While a VAST majority of blogs are just as you describe (poorly written and dull) saying that they are all like that, and saying that they haven't had an impact on the internet is short-sighted and foolish.
Lets take for instance the Drudge Report. Despite what you think of Matt Drudge or his writing more people know his name than the name of many of the talking head pundits that inhabit more traditional means of communication.
Further than just simple name recognition blogs are a great way to share information. Again, most are dull and poorly written, but that doesn't mean that the blogger is stupid, or hasn't managed to dig up some information that I've not heard. I don't check any particular blog very much, but I read forums like slashdot all the time. And if you check slashdot on any given day, many of the articles and links off the front page - and more importantly in my opinion - in the comments, are pointed a blogs of various and sundry types.
Most blogs are about as exciting as reading a 14 year old girls diary. But then again, so is IRC, MMORPGS and countless other human-interactive internet interfaces.
One last point. As the internet becomes more and more enconsed in our daily lives, as we become increasingly connected and increasingly rely on our internet connections I believe blogs will mutate and become a one stop shop for personal connectivity. It's already starting to happen. People photoblog their day to day lives. Not intresting for most, but if your best friend happens to live 1000 miles away a photo set of last nights bar crawl might be incredibly intresting to you.
I imagine blogs becoming a web portal of sorts for the average joe, but in reverse. Instead of having numerous links to various sites and services a la yahoo one would have numerous links to all kinds of personal stuff for the rest of the internet to rifle through. Or not. Password protection or some sort of advanced pgp function could limit the content to people you decide need access. I imagine in the future blogs will become to the average citizen what the.com site has become to the major coporation.
Further, a 9mm has no stopping power. A 9mm can be stopped at distance with a heavy leather jacket. If a hit is scored, the round (unless fragmented) tends to pass through the target. OTOH a.45 say, or a 12 gauge slug can kill without inflicting a critical wound due to its shock force. The proverbial arm/leg kill shot from a high caliger weapons is quite real.
Some might disagree, but in my opinion the 9mm round is only useful in combat in the sense that it has very little recoil thus creates less fatiuge in the arm bearer than a higher caliber round.
You obviously don't know much about weapons. Specifically military grade weapons. Automatic shotguns have been around for some time. Further than that, semi-auto shotguns are redily available to the general public. In fact, the only reason to use a pump shot gun is they are slightly lighter and the *schick-schick* noise the pump makes when actuated will end most (civilian and/or police) conflicts without actually having to fire the weapon.
Bah! Damn my lack of mod points; other wise I'd mod you up as this is nearly the exact question I would have asked.
I played CoH since the beta, and after about 4 months after the release I just totally quit, because the game had gone from one of the most fun games I'd ever played to nothing but level grind to the next cool power. That being said, I did play something like 40+ hours a week (sysadmin, so I played at work alot;-) ) so I probably burnt out alot quicker than your average joe.
It's pretty simple to see why MS, Bill, et all will never admit fault. It would open them up to a HUGE amount of lawsuits.
It's kind of like the tobacco industry. They won't admit shit until it becomes financially viable to do so. Once the tobacco industry figured out a jury was going to stick it to them if they stuck by their "Our product is perfectly safe" line they (in outward appearence) switched to "our products are harmful and should only be enjoyed by consenting adults. "
I would imagine that it would take something of catastrophic magnatude, like a battleship accidentatly launching missles at a US city because of a security problem in the Windows software it was running for MS to own up to their security problems.
(apologies for spelling and grammer errors. It's late)
As a US company (or citizen) abroad, not only are you under the jurisdiction of the country you are in, but you are still subject to the laws of the US. I don't know if other countries do this.
The data on the hard-drives DOES belong to indymedia. However, those drives are not owned by indymedia. As such the warrant is served to the owner of the drives. It's the same case in houses (and I believe from leased cars as well). If your not home and a police agency has a warrant for your apartment, they serve the apartment manager with the warrant. AFAIK, you don't even have to be made aware of the warrant.
So the harder I work, and the better I do the more I am punished by having MORE of my money taken away. Yep that makes all kind of sense. Why should I bother to work hard if I am penalized more because of it?
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Actually, in my experiance (KOTOR I & II, WoW) games run faster and with fewer crashes (again for the games I've played). I had nearly constant mouse issues with KOTOR I under Windows; mouse not moving correctly, double clicks when a button was only single clicked, etc. Never once did I have one of those problems under Cedega. I also got higher frame rates under Cedega for all games mentioned, and was able to run WoW at higher settings than under Windows.
Bottom line: I really have NO reason to use Windows now. At home at least. I've not been able to get Remedy (ticketing system) to work fully under Cedega yet...
Perhaps I'm not understanding this argument, and I see it all the time on slashdot.
Has everyone in the world gotten a crappy cell phone except me? I've always had samsungs and never had a problem with them - good mic and good speaker. I really don't know what else you want a phone to do to qualify as "being a phone!".
There are 2 Micro Centers here in Atlanta. While I prefer to shop at the "mom and pop" hardware houses I shop quite frequently at Micro Center. The staff tends to be somewhat knowledgeable, especially when compared to the retail drones at CompUSA and Best Buy.
The biggest reason I shop at Micro Center however is their book/magazine section. It's easily 3 times as big as the tech section at a Barnes and Noble, and it's quite encompassing subject wise.
The deal bins also are nice. Deeply discounted hardware and software. They also put their books on clearence when a new edition comes out. I love getting Oreilly books for 2 or 3 bucks.
Hrm, thats really odd. I have 7 tattoos, the largest covering most of my back. To date I've had 4 MRI, 2 CAT scans and several x-rays. No burns here. No radiologist even mentioned my tats...
Urban legend. BTW, AFAIK there are NO metals in tattoo ink. Plastics, yes. Metal, no.
It's nothing new. It's the Z Machine (to lazy to post wikipedia link, if you complain your more lazy than I am) put to a new use.
Sorry thats Hartsfield not Hearts Field.
The article states that capturing Airplanes landing is pretty rare, so I was pretty suprised to see one landing at Atlantas Hearts Field Airport. I'm too lazy to link, but a plane is coming into land on the southernmost runway, from the west. It's easily viewable if you zoom in but more difficult to see if your zoomed out as it's over a parking lot when the shot was taken.
Haha, isn't that the point of slashdot? To argue pointlessly?
Not to keep this thread going, as your correct, intention defines whether it's art or not, but there are certainly many examples of art that do just exactly what you say Rockstar was doing, creating controversy, wanting to make money, and providing a fun diversion. See Andy Warhol.
You know, on any other day I wouldn't comment on this, but I'm bored so why not.
"GTA isn't a great work of art. Don't pretend that it is."
I'd argue that people have also applied that argument to other things that YOU probably would deem "art" like the statue of David, or perhaps The Birth of Venus.
Just because YOU don't consider GTA art doesn't mean it's not. Art, and art appreciation is subjective. So, basically, your argument is invalid.
Nice reply. I agree that both Ghandi and MLK were successful in using non-violent means to secure their goals. However, I would argue that non-violent strategies bring more of an evolution rather than a revolution.
In the case of Dr. King, a large portion of the US already knew that racism was wrong. Lots of people in the south knew it was wrong, but it was so ingraned that it took an outside catalist to evolve the thinking of the youth. However, the divide between black and white in the US is still as alive in 2005 as it was 40 years ago. True, overt discrimination is illegal, but the hate -of both groups- tword the other is still very alive.
While Ghandi certainly promoted peaceful civil disobediance I believe the straw that broke the camels back was his Quit India proclamation. This resulted in quite a bit of violence. Further the British had to worry about the Japanese coming to the aide of India against the British. All in all the fight for Indian independance took nearly 100 years. A strong case could be made stating that it would have continued if not for the violence of the Quit India movement and the fear of having to fight the Japanese.
Contrast both of these to our own revolution. Just because a revolution is violent does not mean it does not hold the high ground. Nor does it mean that a group of thugs will rule once the revolution is through.
As a counter to your argument, I'd say that a group of thugs have come to power in the black community after the tragic death of Dr. King. While Dr. King preached unity, it seems his friends like Jesse Jackson enjoy the emnity between the races. Its provided him a job for the past 40 some odd years. Why would he want there to be an amecable resolution?
Social evolution takes the will of the masses. Do you think Americans currently have enough will to put down the remote and Big Mac and say "enough is enough!"? I don't. Not anymore. We've for the most part, given up our means of violent revolution. Currently we're being bled of our means of non-violent revolution. Maybe abject, 3rd world poverity will shock Americans enough to do something. I don't think it will happen in my lifetime though.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
The difference between nobel men like Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, George Washington and the like is simple: most Americans today prefer comfort to freedom. As a whole we prefer lethargy to action, ignorance to knowlege, and the status quo so that we can catch the latest reality show.
The time of America being a bastion of freedom and democracy is over, thanks in large part to our success. We've grow fat and lazy, both literally and figuratively.
Whats more, we're never going to change. We've well passed the point of no return. Government will continue to grow un-abated. Taxes will continue to climb. We'll become more and more of a consumer society as opposed to a production society. And eventally we'll either become a totallitarian state, or we'll be taken over by the corporate world sort of like the government in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
The citizenry will never ever rise up. We're too far removed from revolution. Not only that, but we have whackos who continue to think that giving up our right to bear arms is a good idea. What are we supposed to overthrow anyone with? Rocks and sharp sticks? What do we have to defend our own homes with? Oh yea, thats right, we prefer comfort rather than confrontation. Call the police, that armed robber will only have time to shoot 2 or 3 people before they can get here... Never mind that criminals don't care if guns are illegal being that their criminals. But of course I can't have a gun to defend my family because I obey the law. Stick a fork in us. We're done.
Seriously, this post has less than 20 comments in it and 3 are already blaming Bush or Big Oil.
The eviromentalists need to realize something: people like driving big gas guzzeling cars. Despite them being bad for the enviroment people will continue to drive gas powered cars. Realize that the public you're trying to convert is the public that stuffs itself with McDonalds. If the public won't take care of their own bodies what makes you think they give a hoot about the enviroment? The people (for the most part) won't buy them, hence the car manufactures won't make them.
Also, people keep hawking on hybrid/electric cars. What about trucks/suv? They hold the market share. Those puny hybrid/electrics won't haul a boat, or a trailer, or a load of 2x4s. Yes I know Ford has 1 hybrid SUV out. Big deal, what's its market share?
Further, the handeling/performance of electric vehicles suck. Yes, I know about the amazing electric sports car that can do 0-60 quicker than a porshe, but guess what, it also costs as much as a porshe. You want the American public to embrace electric cars? Make an electric Mustang that has the exact performance specs as it's gas powered brother, and at the same price. Until some R&D department can do this the majority of the public won't convert to electric.
I'm not saying it's right, but enviromentalists need to wake up and realize their fighting this battle all wrong. You'd think they'd take a queue from the food industry. A majority of the public is under the impression that "fat-free" foods taste like crap. Never mind they might be better for you. Never mind your HCL is through the roof, Americans want a fat-free meal that tastes EXACTLY like a full-fat meal, if it doesn't, fuck it we'll die fat and happy.
Not that anyone doesn't know this already, but I'm pretty sure Jack Chick is Satan.
Hrmm, I don't know anyone that associates electronic music with the gay scene. Now "disco" maybe. But in the US disco and electronic are completely different things.
And yes there was a backlash against disco, mainly because most disco sucks. It was synthesized pop. Pop music sucks. But "disco" kept evolving here as well. I'm sure if your a fan you know of the constant bickering about whether techno was "invented" in Detroit/Chichago or in Europe. Either way it invalidates your point. While electronic music might not enjoy as much of the mainstream as it does in Europe, to say it has no roots in the US is just plain wrong.
I don't usually feed the trolls, but I have to bite on this one.
/. . I've worked both manual labor and as "desk-job". Both can be hard, but in totally different ways. I worked in a factory up until I was 22 to pay for college. My dad is an electrician and I've spent countless saturdays in my teens helping him on the side-jobs he used to take. Both jobs would send me home compleatly physically exhausted.
"Spoken like a true desk-job inhabitant."
This is probably one of the dumbest comments I have ever read on
Today I work a desk job. I go home compleatly mentally exhausted. I pretty much always have a head-ache from staring at a computer screen all day. I go home and veg out in front of the TV.
In fact I sometimes really envy my dad because he gets to be out in the fresh air, sunshine, and is being physically active. OTOH he sometimes really envies me because I'm in where it's warm, dry, and I sit on my ass all day.
The point being is, work, if your actually working and not just sitting around, is hard. If it wasn't it would be called happy fun time or something. But it's not. It's called work for a reason.
This is a really easy question. Government (at the federal level) doesn't need to provide ANYTHING aside for a military to defend us from Attack and secure our intrests abroad (no, I'm not talking about imperialism, but rather securing things we own and our citizens in other countries) and a federal police force to protect federal law. Instead Americans in general expect the government to provide all kinds of things we should be providing for ourselves, but don't because by and large we're lazy as shit. Take social security and medicare. I'm forced by the Fed to pay for some one else's retirement (don't make me laugh by saying I'm paying for MY retirement. SS will be long dead by then.) I'm also forced to pay for other people's health care, food, etc. Now I'm a pretty charitable person. But forcing me to pay for wellfare isn't charity. It's wealth re-distribution.
Military spending could easily be paid for with a small defense tax levied on the populace. Income tax IS unconstitutional, despite what the Supreme Court says. Remeber, the Supreme Court gets paid thanks to your taxes. Saying the income tax is unconstitutional is tantamount to giving themselves a paycut. Who's gonna do that?
Until Americans wake up and realize that all our problems stem from the fact that we let the government walk all over it's citizenship we'll continue to have big government, big spending, and a divided nation screaming that the other half is a bunch of idiots.
While a VAST majority of blogs are just as you describe (poorly written and dull) saying that they are all like that, and saying that they haven't had an impact on the internet is short-sighted and foolish.
.com site has become to the major coporation.
Lets take for instance the Drudge Report. Despite what you think of Matt Drudge or his writing more people know his name than the name of many of the talking head pundits that inhabit more traditional means of communication.
Further than just simple name recognition blogs are a great way to share information. Again, most are dull and poorly written, but that doesn't mean that the blogger is stupid, or hasn't managed to dig up some information that I've not heard. I don't check any particular blog very much, but I read forums like slashdot all the time. And if you check slashdot on any given day, many of the articles and links off the front page - and more importantly in my opinion - in the comments, are pointed a blogs of various and sundry types.
Most blogs are about as exciting as reading a 14 year old girls diary. But then again, so is IRC, MMORPGS and countless other human-interactive internet interfaces.
One last point. As the internet becomes more and more enconsed in our daily lives, as we become increasingly connected and increasingly rely on our internet connections I believe blogs will mutate and become a one stop shop for personal connectivity. It's already starting to happen. People photoblog their day to day lives. Not intresting for most, but if your best friend happens to live 1000 miles away a photo set of last nights bar crawl might be incredibly intresting to you.
I imagine blogs becoming a web portal of sorts for the average joe, but in reverse. Instead of having numerous links to various sites and services a la yahoo one would have numerous links to all kinds of personal stuff for the rest of the internet to rifle through. Or not. Password protection or some sort of advanced pgp function could limit the content to people you decide need access. I imagine in the future blogs will become to the average citizen what the
Further, a 9mm has no stopping power. A 9mm can be stopped at distance with a heavy leather jacket. If a hit is scored, the round (unless fragmented) tends to pass through the target. OTOH a .45 say, or a 12 gauge slug can kill without inflicting a critical wound due to its shock force. The proverbial arm/leg kill shot from a high caliger weapons is quite real.
Some might disagree, but in my opinion the 9mm round is only useful in combat in the sense that it has very little recoil thus creates less fatiuge in the arm bearer than a higher caliber round.
You obviously don't know much about weapons. Specifically military grade weapons. Automatic shotguns have been around for some time. Further than that, semi-auto shotguns are redily available to the general public. In fact, the only reason to use a pump shot gun is they are slightly lighter and the *schick-schick* noise the pump makes when actuated will end most (civilian and/or police) conflicts without actually having to fire the weapon.
Bah! Damn my lack of mod points; other wise I'd mod you up as this is nearly the exact question I would have asked.
;-) ) so I probably burnt out alot quicker than your average joe.
I played CoH since the beta, and after about 4 months after the release I just totally quit, because the game had gone from one of the most fun games I'd ever played to nothing but level grind to the next cool power. That being said, I did play something like 40+ hours a week (sysadmin, so I played at work alot
It's pretty simple to see why MS, Bill, et all will never admit fault. It would open them up to a HUGE amount of lawsuits.
It's kind of like the tobacco industry. They won't admit shit until it becomes financially viable to do so. Once the tobacco industry figured out a jury was going to stick it to them if they stuck by their "Our product is perfectly safe" line they (in outward appearence) switched to "our products are harmful and should only be enjoyed by consenting adults. "
I would imagine that it would take something of catastrophic magnatude, like a battleship accidentatly launching missles at a US city because of a security problem in the Windows software it was running for MS to own up to their security problems.
(apologies for spelling and grammer errors. It's late)
Ob quote:
Alcohol is the cause and the
solution to many of life's problems. - Homer J. Simpson
As a US company (or citizen) abroad, not only are you under the jurisdiction of the country you are in, but you are still subject to the laws of the US. I don't know if other countries do this.
The data on the hard-drives DOES belong to indymedia. However, those drives are not owned by indymedia. As such the warrant is served to the owner of the drives. It's the same case in houses (and I believe from leased cars as well). If your not home and a police agency has a warrant for your apartment, they serve the apartment manager with the warrant. AFAIK, you don't even have to be made aware of the warrant.
I really hope that your being sarcastic.
So the harder I work, and the better I do the more I am punished by having MORE of my money taken away. Yep that makes all kind of sense. Why should I bother to work hard if I am penalized more because of it?