Nerds of the world unite! As long as we allow the lawyers (aristocrats) of the world to exploit us, they will continue to rape us for every penny they can. However, the time has come for every Nerd of the world to go on strike. Just think how long it will take for the entire infratructer to fail? It won't take long for the masses to rally and demand action if they can't get email, check their porn, buy gas, use electricity, make phone calls, or any of the other 1000 mundane tasks they take for granted but would seize to function without our work. It shouldn't take more than two weeks for them to come crawling on their knees and give into any demand if the striking population is large enough.
Now, we can only dream of a world without DMCAs and shrink wrap EULs. But tomorrow it could be a reality.
I want to see current games like Tomb Raider 4, or Civ_Call_to_Power when it came out. If you only port 2 or 3 year old (or older) games I don't think your going to get your money back out of them. I can only buy so many of the games I've already played to death.
With that said, I would love to see a port of Day of the Tenticale. Why? Because it depends on legacy hardware. It was a great game I can't play or show off anymore.
It's time to start hitting these people where it hurts. The pocket book.
I think we need to start an offical boycott of all DVD products (at least anything with the offical DVD logo on it).
What about an "offical" boycott webpage that keeps track of the big guy screwing the little guys. Anyone interested in building one? I think it would be fun.
Every pop book on Physics I've read for the past 20 years (sorry, I studied accounting in College) states that we are on the verge of a breakthrough that will allow an understanding of the Grand Unified Theory of Everything [GUT].
Speaking of pop physics books, anyone have suggestions as to what are some good, current pop science books. All the ones I've had recomended to me and read are from the 80's. A lot has happened in the past 15 or so years. I would like to find an easy to read book (That is not so simplified as to be wrong) that would help explain what has happened over the past 10 years and how it all fits in with General Relativity, Quantium Mechanics, String Theory, Partical Science, etc...
I guess something like "A Brief History of Time, Part II". *smile*
It's not perfect. And yeah, that's a major mess up. And with the volume of dynamic data out there, it's rather hard to set up a program or database that is 100% accurate.
Not being 100% accurate is when they block something like www.4skin.com thinking it is a porn sight and not a dermatologist's site. (I know a doctor with the license plate 4-skin. He thinks its funny since he is a skin doctor. He's for skin. *smile*)
Blocking something like Yahoo.com is intentional. It gets more hits than most any other site on the web. How can that be a mistake? However, if it is just a mistake, why don't they open up their blocking list so the library can delete non-objectionable sites from the blocked list? The reason is simple. They don't want you knowing what you can't see.
I don't understand the hostility people seem to have with contract vs permanent status.
From what I have seen over the past six years there is little difference. In the Engineering construction field, they can use over 50% contractors depending on the size of the job. As the job winds down, they will start letting go of people. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to whom they let go. They let go of some contractors and lay off employees depending on the tasks they were doing. Therefore in this industry, stability doesn't seem to be an issue. Noone has stability.
However, pay is different. Contract employees make 30 to 50% more per hour. However they don't get benefits. It's your choice. Money or benefits. Money or paid vacations and holidays. Money or health insurance.
With the current corporate attitude of maximizing today's bottom line at the expense of tomorrows, I don't think anyone should believe they have more stability as a permanent employee. Companies are not inclined to pay you for a month of down time to ride out a lull in the market. Most seem to think they can hire a replacement person in a month or two with no effect on the bottom line.
Everyone needs to make the decision that is correct for them. However, they should not look to the world of yesteryear for guidance today. Company's don't care about us. The only care about money. Once you realize that, and can start not caring about the company but rather for yourself, and then you start to have the advantage.
Early in the game, the mind worms don't seem that effective. However, everytime I enter the end game, all I need is a few well developed mindworms on the attack and a couple of high defense land units to move in after the attack, and I'm able to quickly slice thru a computer's nation as if it where butter. This is especially true if you have a couple of para-droping units to drop behind the front lines to split the computers forces.
Civ:CTP suffered from bad AI. But the multiplayer function (when it worked) made up for it. If you want a game similar to civ, but one level beyond, get Civ:CTP.
AC has better AI to a point. It will make strange attacks at times or ignor units at times. I think AC is a better game save I hate the end game. It allows for units that can attack anywhere in the world. Thus, the first person to get these units win. They can attack you where you arn't and destroy your industial base. I also think the worms can be too powerful of a unit. They win 2/3's of all attacks regardless of the units strength. It makes taking out cities rather easy in the end game. If you don't mind the endgame, get AC. The ideas of politically controled zones and elections I found to be excellent.
Since when does preforming a stock split when the stock is trading for 200$ plus set a company up for ruin? All they have done is doubled the number of stocks out there.
I day trade. It make no differenct to me if I have 200 shares of a 100$ company or 100 shares of a 200$ company. I have invested 20000$ into each of them and I will make the same amount of money when the stock doubles.
If an employer has to provide me with furniture, will they also have the right/duty to prevent smokeing at home? Drinking at home? Sex at home? These are three things I would get fired for if I did them at the office.
I am also not suppose to read slashdot from the office (yeah right!... but they never said anything about posting. *smile*). Does this mean they have to right to tell me I can't balance my check book or browse the web using equipment they provide? Even during non-work hours?
If I choose to work at home, then all the employer should be concerned about is the quality of my work and prompt payment for services rendered.
Strickly speaking, you don't need the subscription to enjoy the TIVO. However, with that said, the TIVO loses most of it's power if you don't have the subscription. The features such as, automatically record every Simpsons, Futurama, and Southpark that ever comes out, even if they change thier timeslot would not be possible. Neither would haveing the TIVO find the 4:35am showing of HeavyMetal on the off satelitte channel noone ever tunes into.
The TIVO has some minor problems. However, I would find my 300+ channel DirecTV pretty much worthless with it.
Anyone interested in purchasing a TIVO, I know of four different rebates out there.
1) $100 christmas rebate. Buy unit between dec 15 and dec 31 and you qualify!
2) $100 DirecTV rebate. You have DirecTV? Then you get $100 back.
3) Referral. $50 for you, $50 for existing customer. Anyone want me to refer them, send me (steven-tivorebate@evatt.com) some email and we can each make $50!
4) $20 rebate if you get the lifetime membership. I didn't do this, so I don't know the details. Check out www.tivo.com for more info.
I don't know about all the rebates, but I do know that the Christmas rebate can be used with any other rebate with upto $500 in total rebates.
I love the TIVO and would highly suggest it to anyone with a dish or more than basic cable.
And why do you think an 'assult rifle' is not a self-defense weapon? Often times the only difference in a hunting rifle and an assult rifle is color. And it doesn't matter if I kill you with a rifle or a spoon. In the end, your still dead. And it is not the rifle's or spoon's manufacturers responsibility. The only reason people are bringing these lawsuits about are that you can sue anyone for anything and they are attempting to put the gun manufacturers out of busines because they haven't been able to convince enough people do outlaw the products. Rather sad if you ask me. I think when these people lose thier lawsuits, they should be 100% responsible for the leagle fees of the manufactures. These preditory lawsuits will be the undoing of busines as we know it.
I would be so bold as to suggest that maybe the it's not the computer sentencing that is too strict, but rather the violent crime that is too lax? I agree something is out of wack. I think his punishment is too great. However, if that is going to be the punishment, we should push (and I already do) push for greater punishment for most other crimes.
I think everyone is missing an interesting point here. Is Yahoo, by reviewing and deleteing messages setting themselves up to be legally responsible for every message they don't review? Are they on the verge of surrendering thier common carrier status?
If I were Yahoo, I'd really think long and hard on this one. It seems like a very large task to rake through every board, every day, for questionable materials.
Final thought to ponder? Will this lead to Yahoo getting over zealous in their deleteing of message with a "better safe than sorry" type policy?
Re:The Great Telephone Number Explosion...
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The answer is simple. Add one more digit to the phone number. Its happened before. It'll happen again. However, this time we could make a realitively easily switch if the phone company just required all new phone systems to accept both 10 digit numbers and 11 digit numbers. Then give people five years to upgrade thier hardware/software. So what if it costs money. That is why we pay bills. Anyways, it will cost more if we wait.
Quack
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The answer is simple. Add one more digit to the phone number. Its happened before. It'll happen again. However, this time we could make a realitively easily switch if the phone company just required all new mail systems to accept both 10 digit numbers and 11 digit numbers. Then give people five years to upgrade thier hardware/software. So what if it costs money. That is why we pay bills. Anyways, it will cost more if we wait.
I can't believe how stupid these thieves were. Who in thier right mind would connect a stolen computer to a local net/the internet without first formating the HD? You have no idea what's on there. What type of viruses it has? What is shared? What programs it run?
With the way that most websites use cookies, I'm sure there are any number of websites that the thieves could have visited that would have been able to give the owners the same data. Then there are programs likes netscape which can send all your information back to netscape with every click of the mouse if your not careful.
Bottom line, they were very stupid thieves.
I wonder what OS these laptops where running? Must have been Win9x...
All you need is a good heat sink/fan combo. I have a dual celeron 366 running at 550 MHz 24/7 and I have yet to have any problems. My motherboard (ABIT) has TCs to monitor the temp of the CPUs and they claims my CPUs are under 100 degrees F each. I'm not too worried about smoking these puppies.
If you are worried about smoking your chips, you can always buy your Celerons from a place like computernerd.com who will give you a year guarentee they won't smoke.
BTW. The heatsink/fans I use are awsome. They are the cool-it-dudes! from computernerd.com.
Humm.. Let's see. How about Yahoo message boards? Usenet? IM Chat rooms? IRC?
Futile discussions seem to be everywhere. One bonus for going elsewhere for futile discussions is that I've never seen a "first post" anywhere else. But alas, I'm not looking to hard either.
I don't understand why so many people are getting upset with slashdot announcing the release of cool software for the linux community. As far as I've been able to tell, this site is for the news geeks (namely Commander Taco) like, especially geeks who like linux.
News is not limited to a new smaller version of the keyboard, or a 60 mile balloon collecting anti-matter to make bombs, or even a new all "open" female porn site.
I find it interesting when a new version of the kernel is released. I also like to hear about the release of major applications like Apache, KDE, Gnome, etc, and cool games like Civ:Call to Power, et.al.
Sure, this overlaps a bit with Freshmeat. And I go to freshmeat if I want to find new versions smaller applications.
However, if you want to get rid of all overlapping from slashdot, then slashdot would not exist. Everything they post, save John Katz articles, can easily be found elsewhere. But the point of slashdot is so we don't have to go elsewhere to find the cool news.
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Nerds of the world unite! As long as we allow the lawyers (aristocrats) of the world to exploit us, they will continue to rape us for every penny they can. However, the time has come for every Nerd of the world to go on strike. Just think how long it will take for the entire infratructer to fail? It won't take long for the masses to rally and demand action if they can't get email, check their porn, buy gas, use electricity, make phone calls, or any of the other 1000 mundane tasks they take for granted but would seize to function without our work. It shouldn't take more than two weeks for them to come crawling on their knees and give into any demand if the striking population is large enough.
Now, we can only dream of a world without DMCAs and shrink wrap EULs. But tomorrow it could be a reality.
Quack
I want to see current games like Tomb Raider 4, or Civ_Call_to_Power when it came out. If you only port 2 or 3 year old (or older) games I don't think your going to get your money back out of them. I can only buy so many of the games I've already played to death.
With that said, I would love to see a port of Day of the Tenticale. Why? Because it depends on legacy hardware. It was a great game I can't play or show off anymore.
Quack
It's time to start hitting these people where it hurts. The pocket book.
I think we need to start an offical boycott of all DVD products (at least anything with the offical DVD logo on it).
What about an "offical" boycott webpage that keeps track of the big guy screwing the little guys. Anyone interested in building one? I think it would be fun.
Quack
steven@SLASHDOTevatt.com
Humm.. I don't seem to recall Linus's lawyers getting in the way of the auction of linux.com for a lot of money. What's the differnce?
And by his own admittion, does this mean they don't have a leg to stand on this time?
quack
Every pop book on Physics I've read for the past 20 years (sorry, I studied accounting in College) states that we are on the verge of a breakthrough that will allow an understanding of the Grand Unified Theory of Everything [GUT].
Speaking of pop physics books, anyone have suggestions as to what are some good, current pop science books. All the ones I've had recomended to me and read are from the 80's. A lot has happened in the past 15 or so years. I would like to find an easy to read book (That is not so simplified as to be wrong) that would help explain what has happened over the past 10 years and how it all fits in with General Relativity, Quantium Mechanics, String Theory, Partical Science, etc...
I guess something like "A Brief History of Time, Part II". *smile*
Thanks
Quack
It's not perfect. And yeah, that's a major mess up. And with the volume of dynamic data out there, it's rather hard to set up a program or database that is 100% accurate.
Not being 100% accurate is when they block something like www.4skin.com thinking it is a porn sight and not a dermatologist's site. (I know a doctor with the license plate 4-skin. He thinks its funny since he is a skin doctor. He's for skin. *smile*)
Blocking something like Yahoo.com is intentional. It gets more hits than most any other site on the web. How can that be a mistake? However, if it is just a mistake, why don't they open up their blocking list so the library can delete non-objectionable sites from the blocked list? The reason is simple. They don't want you knowing what you can't see.
Quack
I don't understand the hostility people seem to have with contract vs permanent status.
From what I have seen over the past six years there is little difference. In the Engineering construction field, they can use over 50% contractors depending on the size of the job. As the job winds down, they will start letting go of people. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to whom they let go. They let go of some contractors and lay off employees depending on the tasks they were doing. Therefore in this industry, stability doesn't seem to be an issue. Noone has stability.
However, pay is different. Contract employees make 30 to 50% more per hour. However they don't get benefits. It's your choice. Money or benefits. Money or paid vacations and holidays. Money or health insurance.
With the current corporate attitude of maximizing today's bottom line at the expense of tomorrows, I don't think anyone should believe they have more stability as a permanent employee. Companies are not inclined to pay you for a month of down time to ride out a lull in the market. Most seem to think they can hire a replacement person in a month or two with no effect on the bottom line.
Everyone needs to make the decision that is correct for them. However, they should not look to the world of yesteryear for guidance today. Company's don't care about us. The only care about money. Once you realize that, and can start not caring about the company but rather for yourself, and then you start to have the advantage.
Quack
Early in the game, the mind worms don't seem that effective. However, everytime I enter the end game, all I need is a few well developed mindworms on the attack and a couple of high defense land units to move in after the attack, and I'm able to quickly slice thru a computer's nation as if it where butter. This is especially true if you have a couple of para-droping units to drop behind the front lines to split the computers forces.
Quack
I have both. Enjoyed both. But play neither now.
Civ:CTP suffered from bad AI. But the multiplayer function (when it worked) made up for it. If you want a game similar to civ, but one level beyond, get Civ:CTP.
AC has better AI to a point. It will make strange attacks at times or ignor units at times. I think AC is a better game save I hate the end game. It allows for units that can attack anywhere in the world. Thus, the first person to get these units win. They can attack you where you arn't and destroy your industial base. I also think the worms can be too powerful of a unit. They win 2/3's of all attacks regardless of the units strength. It makes taking out cities rather easy in the end game. If you don't mind the endgame, get AC. The ideas of politically controled zones and elections I found to be excellent.
Quack
Give me a break!
Since when does preforming a stock split when the stock is trading for 200$ plus set a company up for ruin? All they have done is doubled the number of stocks out there.
I day trade. It make no differenct to me if I have 200 shares of a 100$ company or 100 shares of a 200$ company. I have invested 20000$ into each of them and I will make the same amount of money when the stock doubles.
This is all FUD.
Quack
If an employer has to provide me with furniture, will they also have the right/duty to prevent smokeing at home? Drinking at home? Sex at home? These are three things I would get fired for if I did them at the office.
I am also not suppose to read slashdot from the office (yeah right!... but they never said anything about posting. *smile*). Does this mean they have to right to tell me I can't balance my check book or browse the web using equipment they provide? Even during non-work hours?
If I choose to work at home, then all the employer should be concerned about is the quality of my work and prompt payment for services rendered.
quack
Seeing it's the lawyer's who make the law, then if there is a fault with the system, it is indeed the lawyer's fault.
quack
Strickly speaking, you don't need the subscription to enjoy the TIVO. However, with that said, the TIVO loses most of it's power if you don't have the subscription. The features such as, automatically record every Simpsons, Futurama, and Southpark that ever comes out, even if they change thier timeslot would not be possible. Neither would haveing the TIVO find the 4:35am showing of HeavyMetal on the off satelitte channel noone ever tunes into.
The TIVO has some minor problems. However, I would find my 300+ channel DirecTV pretty much worthless with it.
Quack
Anyone interested in purchasing a TIVO, I know of four different rebates out there.
1) $100 christmas rebate. Buy unit between dec 15 and dec 31 and you qualify!
2) $100 DirecTV rebate. You have DirecTV? Then you get $100 back.
3) Referral. $50 for you, $50 for existing customer. Anyone want me to refer them, send me (steven-tivorebate@evatt.com) some email and we can each make $50!
4) $20 rebate if you get the lifetime membership. I didn't do this, so I don't know the details. Check out www.tivo.com for more info.
I don't know about all the rebates, but I do know that the Christmas rebate can be used with any other rebate with upto $500 in total rebates.
I love the TIVO and would highly suggest it to anyone with a dish or more than basic cable.
Quack
And why do you think an 'assult rifle' is not a self-defense weapon? Often times the only difference in a hunting rifle and an assult rifle is color. And it doesn't matter if I kill you with a rifle or a spoon. In the end, your still dead. And it is not the rifle's or spoon's manufacturers responsibility. The only reason people are bringing these lawsuits about are that you can sue anyone for anything and they are attempting to put the gun manufacturers out of busines because they haven't been able to convince enough people do outlaw the products. Rather sad if you ask me. I think when these people lose thier lawsuits, they should be 100% responsible for the leagle fees of the manufactures. These preditory lawsuits will be the undoing of busines as we know it.
Quack
I would be so bold as to suggest that maybe the it's not the computer sentencing that is too strict, but rather the violent crime that is too lax? I agree something is out of wack. I think his punishment is too great. However, if that is going to be the punishment, we should push (and I already do) push for greater punishment for most other crimes.
Quack
I think everyone is missing an interesting point here. Is Yahoo, by reviewing and deleteing messages setting themselves up to be legally responsible for every message they don't review? Are they on the verge of surrendering thier common carrier status?
If I were Yahoo, I'd really think long and hard on this one. It seems like a very large task to rake through every board, every day, for questionable materials.
Final thought to ponder? Will this lead to Yahoo getting over zealous in their deleteing of message with a "better safe than sorry" type policy?
Who knows...
Quack
Fight Metric, We don't need a foreign Ruler!
Quack
The answer is simple. Add one more digit to the phone number. Its happened before. It'll happen again. However, this time we could make a realitively easily switch if the phone company just required all new phone systems to accept both 10 digit numbers and 11 digit numbers. Then give people five years to upgrade thier hardware/software. So what if it costs money. That is why we pay bills. Anyways, it will cost more if we wait.
Quack
The answer is simple. Add one more digit to the phone number. Its happened before. It'll happen again. However, this time we could make a realitively easily switch if the phone company just required all new mail systems to accept both 10 digit numbers and 11 digit numbers. Then give people five years to upgrade thier hardware/software. So what if it costs money. That is why we pay bills. Anyways, it will cost more if we wait.
Quack
I can't believe how stupid these thieves were. Who in thier right mind would connect a stolen computer to a local net/the internet without first formating the HD? You have no idea what's on there. What type of viruses it has? What is shared? What programs it run?
With the way that most websites use cookies, I'm sure there are any number of websites that the thieves could have visited that would have been able to give the owners the same data. Then there are programs likes netscape which can send all your information back to netscape with every click of the mouse if your not careful.
Bottom line, they were very stupid thieves.
I wonder what OS these laptops where running? Must have been Win9x...
Quack
All you need is a good heat sink/fan combo. I have a dual celeron 366 running at 550 MHz 24/7 and I have yet to have any problems. My motherboard (ABIT) has TCs to monitor the temp of the CPUs and they claims my CPUs are under 100 degrees F each. I'm not too worried about smoking these puppies.
If you are worried about smoking your chips, you can always buy your Celerons from a place like computernerd.com who will give you a year guarentee they won't smoke.
BTW. The heatsink/fans I use are awsome. They are the cool-it-dudes! from computernerd.com.
later...
Quack
ps. Did I mention deal celerons rock?
My favorite addiction is the addiction to Oxygen.
Apparently, Oxygen is so addictive; that a single breath makes on addicted for life.
However, Oxygen is extremly toxic. It has been found to kill people when its presence is measured at only 1 part per Million.
It is extremly flammable. 100% of all fires since 1965 have been reported in the presence of oxygen.
etc....
But I don't see anyone trying to ban Oxygen!?!
Quack
Where would I find such futile discussions? :-)
Humm.. Let's see. How about Yahoo message boards? Usenet? IM Chat rooms? IRC?
Futile discussions seem to be everywhere. One bonus for going elsewhere for futile discussions is that I've never seen a "first post" anywhere else. But alas, I'm not looking to hard either.
Quack
I don't understand why so many people are getting upset with slashdot announcing the release of cool software for the linux community. As far as I've been able to tell, this site is for the news geeks (namely Commander Taco) like, especially geeks who like linux.
News is not limited to a new smaller version of the keyboard, or a 60 mile balloon collecting anti-matter to make bombs, or even a new all "open" female porn site.
I find it interesting when a new version of the kernel is released. I also like to hear about the release of major applications like Apache, KDE, Gnome, etc, and cool games like Civ:Call to Power, et.al.
Sure, this overlaps a bit with Freshmeat. And I go to freshmeat if I want to find new versions smaller applications.
However, if you want to get rid of all overlapping from slashdot, then slashdot would not exist. Everything they post, save John Katz articles, can easily be found elsewhere. But the point of slashdot is so we don't have to go elsewhere to find the cool news.
Oh well...
Quack