So, did you purchase your Dewey Decimal licence, or do we have to send the Library Police after you? Hint: the Dewey Decimal System is not free to use...
Oh come on, get serious. And I suppose you would go downtown and apply for an electrical permit if you wanted to move a wall outlet (because if you don't, you are breaking the law).
If I shred my personal mail by running it through a shredder, it's gone. Why is it that if I "delete forever" my email, it's not gone?
Same universe. When you shred your mail it's gone, but when you tell someone else to shred it for you, it might or might not be gone. Why Google has a "delete forever" button that doesn't delete forever is a good question to ask Google, but it doesn't have anything to do with the court ruling. Judges can subpoena mail, whether it's the kind you thought you shredded or the kind you thought you deleted.
Google will be teh suxorz. We will be fondly remembering the good old Windows/Linux golden age, when you had apps and data on your own machine instead of hotnetting on your rights-managed, government monitored Googlepod cranial implant.
I think the Book of Armaments says: "Give a man a stick of gum and he'll chew for a day. Teach him to scrape gum off things and he'll chew for a lifetime." - Armaments 14:22
Conjures up an image of a zany band of fun-loving haxxorz sticking it to The Man. And they would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those Meddling Kids!
Maybe I'm missing something, but since when does email exist in a different universe than any other kind of mail? Courts have always had the power to subpoena (or whatever the legal term is) personal correspondence. This new ruling doesn't require Google to keep anybody's email forever, Google already does that on their own. The court is simply demanding to see specific correspondence during a specific time period. Same as it could demand a stack of love letters in someone's dresser drawer. People who want to keep their mail secret forever should burn it, and those same people shouldn't use GMail.
Last year I bought my 15-year-old daughter a cheapo Dell for $450 that is virtually silent. There is plastic ducting inside the case that seems to achieve better cooling with lower airflow. It's the quietest desktop I've ever not heard. Though not a performance monster, it isn't a bad machine to begin with, and I imagine somebody who knew their hardware could beef up the specs for a lot less than $2500, and no foam.
The article documents the history of the cubicle and the fact that people tend to hate them, but it doesn't say anything about cubes being more or less productive than anything else, let alone why. It mentions that the original Action Office shrank to the present cubicle as companies wanted to pack as many people as possible into a given space. But it seems to me that an array of desks in a big room would achieve even denser packing than cubes. Maybe I missed the point of this whole post.
Ironic indeed... almost NO musicians make money from sales of recordings, because in a standard recording contract all the expenses of producing, manufacturing, packaging and marketing are deducted from the musician's supposed royalties before any payout. So the payout is usually zero, even years and years after a record is made. The exceptions are the very few artists like Madonna who not only sell a ton of records but negotiate smarter deals as they go along.
In almost all cases the only way recording benefits musicians is that it gives them exposure, which generates bigger and better live gigs, which is how they actually make a living. The vast majority of musicians do not have recording contracts and never will. It's ironic that most of the public has enjoyed the benefits of recording technology but almost no musicians have.
In my case, I'd rather spend $50 a week to have some service come to my place and do all the crap stuff around here...
Fine, then pay somebody to clean your house. Who cares? Your feelings about housework have absolutely nothing to do with whether buying gold in a game world is cheating or not. You might as well say a baseball team should buy homeruns because they just don't like physically running around the bases.
If you don't enjoy the way the game is played don't play it.
When you consider power supply requirements, maneuverability, size-to-weight ratio and other factors, I think 1.5 x 3 cm is about the minimum size required to look for Sarah Connor.
They may have to keep all that information, but at least it's legal to keep it in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying, "Beware of the Leopard."
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Looks more like a candidate for the "huge fucking lawsuit dept".
So, did you purchase your Dewey Decimal licence, or do we have to send the Library Police after you?
Hint: the Dewey Decimal System is not free to use...
Oh come on, get serious.
And I suppose you would go downtown and apply for an electrical permit if you wanted to move a wall outlet (because if you don't, you are breaking the law).
no-one's going to use dewey decimal outside of an institutional setting, that's just dumb
Because... ??
Explain why it would be dumb to use the same system used by thousands of libraries. If I had 3500 books that's EXACTLY the system I would use.
If I shred my personal mail by running it through a shredder, it's gone. Why is it that if I "delete forever" my email, it's not gone?
Same universe. When you shred your mail it's gone, but when you tell someone else to shred it for you, it might or might not be gone. Why Google has a "delete forever" button that doesn't delete forever is a good question to ask Google, but it doesn't have anything to do with the court ruling. Judges can subpoena mail, whether it's the kind you thought you shredded or the kind you thought you deleted.
Google will be teh suxorz. We will be fondly remembering the good old Windows/Linux golden age, when you had apps and data on your own machine instead of hotnetting on your rights-managed, government monitored Googlepod cranial implant.
I think the Book of Armaments says:
"Give a man a stick of gum and he'll chew for a day. Teach him to scrape gum off things and he'll chew for a lifetime."
- Armaments 14:22
Beer lowers your risk of heart disease and stroke, hot peppers kill cancer...
The world just keeps getting better and better!
Conjures up an image of a zany band of fun-loving haxxorz sticking it to The Man. And they would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those Meddling Kids!
Maybe I'm missing something, but since when does email exist in a different universe than any other kind of mail? Courts have always had the power to subpoena (or whatever the legal term is) personal correspondence. This new ruling doesn't require Google to keep anybody's email forever, Google already does that on their own. The court is simply demanding to see specific correspondence during a specific time period. Same as it could demand a stack of love letters in someone's dresser drawer. People who want to keep their mail secret forever should burn it, and those same people shouldn't use GMail.
The Next Big Thing won't be half as big as the Big Thing After Next.
A lack of big things is the Next Big Thing.
Last year I bought my 15-year-old daughter a cheapo Dell for $450 that is virtually silent. There is plastic ducting inside the case that seems to achieve better cooling with lower airflow. It's the quietest desktop I've ever not heard. Though not a performance monster, it isn't a bad machine to begin with, and I imagine somebody who knew their hardware could beef up the specs for a lot less than $2500, and no foam.
Just saying.
My ideal futuristic home would consist of a big bed with Seven of Nine in it.
The article documents the history of the cubicle and the fact that people tend to hate them, but it doesn't say anything about cubes being more or less productive than anything else, let alone why. It mentions that the original Action Office shrank to the present cubicle as companies wanted to pack as many people as possible into a given space. But it seems to me that an array of desks in a big room would achieve even denser packing than cubes. Maybe I missed the point of this whole post.
Ironic indeed... almost NO musicians make money from sales of recordings, because in a standard recording contract all the expenses of producing, manufacturing, packaging and marketing are deducted from the musician's supposed royalties before any payout. So the payout is usually zero, even years and years after a record is made. The exceptions are the very few artists like Madonna who not only sell a ton of records but negotiate smarter deals as they go along.
In almost all cases the only way recording benefits musicians is that it gives them exposure, which generates bigger and better live gigs, which is how they actually make a living. The vast majority of musicians do not have recording contracts and never will. It's ironic that most of the public has enjoyed the benefits of recording technology but almost no musicians have.
"Styrofoam is a dish best served cold."
In my case, I'd rather spend $50 a week to have some service come to my place and do all the crap stuff around here...
Fine, then pay somebody to clean your house. Who cares? Your feelings about housework have absolutely nothing to do with whether buying gold in a game world is cheating or not. You might as well say a baseball team should buy homeruns because they just don't like physically running around the bases.
If you don't enjoy the way the game is played don't play it.
People who live in Australia are lucky. They have 999 years.
Virtual cable to simulate line delay and perhaps errors between hosts
I knew a guy at Sierra who did that back in 98, to simulate problems like latency and packet dropping between game clients.
Well now I know what I'm gonna name my band.
Now that we have Battlestar Galactica how can there possibly be a science fictional gap?
We rule.
When you consider power supply requirements, maneuverability, size-to-weight ratio and other factors, I think 1.5 x 3 cm is about the minimum size required to look for Sarah Connor.
They may have to keep all that information, but at least it's legal to keep it in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying, "Beware of the Leopard."
At least I think so.
I remember when memory cost $100 per meg. Now at $40/512Mb it's less than a dime. Maybe we don't have jetpacks and undersea cities, but hey.
How does this square with Ballmer's ranting about the evils of people giving away their work for free? I guess he meant to say "unless we do it."