I thought it was terrible. Maybe terrible is too over-stated. When I walked out of the theater I felt violated and robbed. But, after watching it on video a few times with my nephew, it grew on me. Maybe I'm naive or just really wanting for this film to be good (probably both) but, I think I started to take it for what it was.
If one were to think of it as the first in a series of films, difficult to do when you have the middle part of the story firmly ingrained in you head, they would notice introduction to characters as well as character development, plot setting, as opposed to plot handling and a nice unfulfilling ending that leaves you yearning for more (although that did happen, I don't quite think it happened for the reasons intended).
Maybe in time, after the three prequels are finished, when we can look back, be dorks, watch the epic in its entirety and maybe, just maybe, see Episode I for what it weas inteded to be.
people hadn't abused Napster like they have. This whole situation might not have existed.
I work in my schools computer lab doing the menial tasks like helping students with the formatting of their papers and telling people just what power the key has. My most asked help, though, is aiding students in converting Mp3 files to CDA so they can burn the music they just downloaded and play it on their CD players and stereos. I do my best to tell them that they should probably save themselves a lot of time and trouble and just buy the damn album. The usual response is, "But this is what Napster's for!" Hmmm... Is it really?
Am I one of the seemingly very few that uses Napster in a responsible way? Do people think the RIAA would have had a problem with Napster if users were getting a few songs from an artist or band that they heard of to see if they were really something worth buying (radio really doesn't cut it.)? I use Napster regularly, without any sign of conscience. Why? Because I get songs that I either own already or songs by artists that I'm planning on buying. I must say that more times than not, I'm happy with what I heard and a do make the purchase, while on the other hand, I've been thwarted by the music that I heard (Wait, that's it, the RIAA is worried they're going to lose money because of all the tired meaningless pop they're putting out! Sorry.).
I have to say that when (If is out of the question by now isn't it?) the free fun stops, all in all, it would have been brought upon by the very users that are screaming that their "freedom" is being taken away, so what good will an off-shore Napster server really do? People will still abuse it. People will still act like vultures and try to worm not their way around a system (College kids:o) but around a pocketbook.
Since people are granted the "flimsy" protection of an envelope, without really having to worry about their privacy being invaded, would it be far-fetched if we were granted "flimsy" encryption as well?
What I mean is, envelopes aren't the most protective of barriers for the ingegrity of our letters, but it suits the purpose for general mail. I don't hear of many drug lords sending kilos of heroine in an envelope (and if they do, then they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law on the principle of being a dumb-ass-at-large alone). If goverments think that sending email with a not-so-heavy-encryption is a sign of wrong doing than envelopes should give off the same feeling.
If people were given the opprotunity to know that they could send messages with a low-level encryption, I seriously doubt it would do the unlawful abiding citizens any good to use it as well. There has to be some sort of privacy granted to the people that use it for that sake of it, as opposed to those who just want to cover their tracks. Instead of taking rights away from people, goverments should be trying to make sure that there are ways to protect ourselves (which, they say, this is all about anyhow, right?). If I could be guaranteed that my email sent using PGP was safe enough to fly across this vaste open network of computers and be safe from prying eyes, as well as the prying eyes of the goverment, I would be pretty darn content. I mean, that is the same feeling one gets when they drop a letter into the mail box, right?
Something else to think of is that, if one were to play the devil's advocate, and believe that all of this controversy was the goverments trying to keep the law abiding citizens safe, than it really shouldn't matter. That is, unless it's in the case of one of the other posters that used encryption to send root passwds. I think back to the story about the U.S.P.S. and what they would and wouldn't send. More specifically the fact that they opened up a package because the weight seemed ill-proportioned to the size of the package (it was a brick wrapped in gift-wrap). If the anaology of the envelope would hold true, than doesn't the same for encryption?
I'm not saying that I agree with invasion of privacy for the sake of it, but, if you're really not doing anything that's wrong, why worry about it? Maybe people have to stop watching Conspiracy Theory and actually do something to help goverments embrace encrytion for the rights of citizens.
I'm with Americrap now. They've made great strides, like, from not being able to log on for a week at a time to "just" getting dropped a coupla times a week:o\ As much as they've gotten "better", I'd still love to give 'em the ole "heave-ho-get-the-f*ck-outta-my-life."
You said you were in Chi any info on some better ISPs?
...there were rumours (I know, I know, we all know about rumours) that there was going to be a chip popped in the HDTVs that would only allow only a set amount of recording time per month. This was made known not long after the DeCSS verdict came out (about 2 or 3 weeks after if I'm not mistaken).
While I realize that know one really needs to tape all that much hellevision a month (gotta get away from that confounded machine!) this does have repercussions on teachers that rely on PBS for teaching aides.
If this is true what implications could that have on the the news that's in the parent post?
I currently attend a college in Illinois that's not known for it's IT program as much as it's Culinary. I work in the computer lab for my work-study requirements. Given my "job description" calls for no more than making sure the lab is kept in order and helping users (who im surrounded by at this moment) to figure out why "all of a sudden as I typed my, errr, words were disappearing for no reason.", I found it pretty cool that the new "admin" - very loose term there - decided that it would be good to call on the aide of the student-workers to assist building the schools network from scratch. Oh dear/god!!! After about two days of working with this guy it dawned on me that he has no idea of what a network is outside of the MS box and that he went to your basic lets-go-to-four-weeks-of-classes-and-turn-out-more -paper-mcse's-than-mcdonalds-sells-fries. Because I have no certifications and no "formal" training outside of this school, he felt it was necassary to take every idea I had and throw it out the window (or transform it into some sort of windows implementation).
He said he was on a budget, so I suggested running a Linux based network. Nope. He said he couldn't get into the RedHat server, so I did for him, then doubted that I was "actually in it. He said he needed to cut down the spending of the new boxes he was going to get. but insisted that he needed to get PIIIs. Doh. So then it came time to find a software based firewall. After i told him about SmoothWall he said that there was no way he was going to use a firewall based on free software. Then he read an article on his own (that was probably his biggest revelation ever!). I'll be installing this firewall next week on a PII350 with 128M and a 10GHDD, whatta goof.
This guy's no more than 27 years old, has a sleek lil volvo ride and dresses pretty damn hip (the later two are probably the things that got him hired), so i can't begin to believe that the age of a boss has anything to do with the treatment of the people under him when listening skills are involved.
What it comes down to IMHO is how much knowledge and forward thinking the person has. Also, how much is someone really willing to leave their ego at the testing center and be ready to learn from someone else once they acheive certificate status.
BTW Kendall will probably be looking for a new admin soon.
and I thought that it was very entertaining (not in the same sense as wrestling, which I don't watch) for what it was. I wasn't looking for NFL calibre play, so I new I was there looking for some type of game. I have to admit, I was very pleasently surprised.
The few things that stuck out with me were:
Yes, the camera work is a great idea - I can't say it was done well because, well, it wasn't, but, we are talking about the first weekend of this. Having a couple of camermen (read: targets) ON the field during play was a great idea, I liked being able to "be in the tackle" and I also liked the view from the camera suspended above the field behind the Quarterback (while a columnist from The Chicago Tribune said that "there's a reason why people want tickets on the fifty yard line").
As for play, well, the opener wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. The televized game was (this is also a segue into a con) The New York / New Jersey Hitmen vs. The Las Vegas Outlaws, it was a trouncing!!! The game ended up being 19-0 LV. In the 4th quarter they switched games over to The Orlando Rage vs. The Chicago Enforcers. This was what seemed to be a very decent game. But, the question that was running through my mind the whole night was - "I'm from Chicago. I live in Chicago. Why the hell am i watching NY/NJ play LV when my home team is playing?!?!?!"
Granted there are pure hard-core football fans but those fans are more of a fan for their home team so one of the many things that will have to be looked over is the regionalizing of games. I watched the first games because I wanted to see if the XFL was going to be football, not a show of tits and ass and wrestling hoaxes. I'm going to stay a fan NOT because of the XFL but because of the teams and The Enforcers in particular. Yes, there was a huge showing of tits and ass and in most cases, thats a good thing. But, if i want to see half-naked women on a saturday night or sunday afternoon, I'd give my girlfriend a kiss on the cheek and see a fully-naked woman infront of me (and her breasts aren't fake)
The trips into the locker room (which were heavily hyped) were less than spectacular. The miking up of more than 20 people made for quintessential four-star-five-second-delay-goofs (maybe they need seven). They also have to get betterannouncers. There was virtually no insight into the game or who the players were. But I did have the opprotunity to have Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura scream at me for over 2 hours.
If you were/are a fan of old-school football when guys actually got popped this may be for you 'cause the rules made the game. I'm not trying to say this is some hard-core rough-nose football that is sure as hell going to impress everyone (I've seen Lawrence Taylor play live) but these guys are out to win. The starting salary for Quarterbacks is $50,000, Kickers get $35,000 and everyone else gets $45,000. The incentive is that with every regular season game, the winning team splits a pot of $100,000. The championship pays a pot of $1,000,000. So in fact, they arent paid all that much to play - but they do get paid more to win.
Other noteworthy rules are:
No fair catches. Recievers are given a 5 yard "halo" that can't be breached until he catches the ball. I can tell you now, as long as its only a five yard penalty for breaching it, the kicking team is going to do all they can to kill the poor-lame-duck-reciever.
One man-in-motion towards the line of scrimmage before the snap.
Bump-and-run all the way down the field. If the Defensive End can, they can have their hands on the wide reciever throughout the entire play with a few exceptions. 1) Until the ball is in the air 2) The Reciever passes him (no hitting from the side or from the back). This can maked timed plays (eg. 12 and In) very difficult.
No coin toss. The ball is set in the middle of the field and one player from each team run 20 yds and fight for posession of the ball. Kinda cool but, a player from Orlando (I believe) seperated his shoulder during this and was out of the game before it even began.
The four games (eight teams) are played on seperate nights, two on saturday and two on sunday.
The ratings showed that people were definitely interested but that was the first weekend, let's see what happens in the weeks to come and if they can keep their fan-base. All in all *I* thought it was an enjoyable weekend of football and seeing how it is in its infancy - I'm sure it'll only get better.
Granted, this may not be entirely related but...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is playing at the IMAX in Chicago. Check your local listings to see if you can see the splendor of this film on a bigger big screen (redundancy is a gift from the/gods:o)
"Only, if one wishes to use Linux, then one needs the patience of a stone to find all the functionality of it."
With how-many-years since win95 has been around I can find it very easy to understand that people forget what it was like for "ordinary people" to learn the windows GUI. I can also appreciate the fact that people still dont know how to use it and if they do, they dont know what good they are doing. I'm not talking about people that can open up Word or play a cd after they accidently closed CDPlayer. I'm talkin' about the people that say "Man, my computer sucks rotten worm turds, but it used to be so nice." You know, the people that havent defragged their win95 box since they upgraded from 3.1.
"There seems to be no integration of design in the system, only a bunch of utilities that do not match, or work well together."
Hmmm, maybe you should take a look at the inner-workings (or non-workings) of win2k (wow, is the entire OS a bug?). The entire active directory setup sucks major crud outta a garden hose their is no discerning between it and other major players in DNS (sounds like an analogy between the win kernel and the GUI). Now granted, im talking about a Server supposedly made for geeks, but, in responce to "However, the usefulness of Linux must derive from total introverts all coding in separate parts of the world, and trying to put a OS together with bubble gum, and tooth picks." it seems as though a bunch of introverts residing in a plant that houses billions of dollars of hard and software cant put an OS together that doesn't need to be patched with the aformentioned bubble gum and toothpicks.
That makes about as much sense as the MPAA saying that DeCSS takes whatever astronomical over-blown bullshit figure they can come up with away from them.
I have to believe that most all of the numbers that are floating around out there are based on hypotheticals and conjecture (as well as a little hopefulness [is that a word?] to sway people into thinking that the figure has some sort of real significance).
If the idea is to have a game that doesn't have a win/lose (thats assuming that it's the same as victory/defeat) then i would have to say that puzzles are the crowning glory of all zero-sum games.
As well as not having a win/loss streak going on, with the "players", there is a community factor because puzzles are usually done with the help of others.
"The more information becomes availble, the more empowered the disenfranchised will become. The more powerful the disenfranchised become, the more responsible corporations and governments will need to be."
Wait 'till they figure out DeCSS. Oh wait, they would need a HDD for that.
Is this the official official release?
I'm hoping vendors are taking their time. I'm thinking a lot of people were waiting to get 2.4.x in a distro all to itself and I'd like to believe no corners have been cut. And uhmmm we are talking about redhat arent we?
More than a few years ago in my days of running around town with a can of spraypaint, i was caught jumping the turnstiles to catch a free ride on the train (i know - that in and of itself deserves flaming : ).
The crime was Theft of Service. The idea was that i was taking money away from the CTA (Chicago Transportation Agency). While at the time i was a youngster and my only thought was "damn - is this a felony or misdemeanor?" now with all the MPAA and RIAA things going on I have a seperate outlook (I wish M$ did too).
Regardless of whether or not I was going to pay for the train ride, the train was still going to come. Regardless if no one got on a single train that day, they were going to run.
Does that constitute theft? No. But i did break an unwritten "known" agreement that everyone else on the planet knows. Did i steal from the "Service"? No. I've gotten away with it countless times before and after as well as countless other people, and the train system is still running as well (subjective) as ever.
Did i take $$$ out of the pockets of the tellers, engineers, repairmen etc.? Definitly.
"You own the CDs. You don't own the right to do what the hell you like with them."
If i can't do what the hell I want with them, then apparently "owning" needs a new definition.
More times than not no one has a Owners License - they have a User Lease Agreement.
As for the money taken away from artists, well, you're right to an extent.
If I were to burn a CD and sell that CD to people I am definitely taking money away. But, (this is a wire I'm walking on here) if i were to grab an Mp3 burn it to a disk and give it to someone, chances are that person is going to a) listen not like it and burn something else over it, or, b) love it, want a better quality copy plus the artwork that goes with the original and head out and buy it.
Grabbing Mp3s for the sole intention of listening to music that you may not otherwise pay attention to does only good for the artists trying to get noticed. The irony is that as long as the Record Cos dont see it that way the artists will get screwed. Mp3s are going to be as much of a destructive force in the recording industry as blank tapes were.
In the wake of the DeCSS trial something has been running through my mind (catch'im! catch'im!). The outcome of the trial wasn't my main concern when compared to why the judgement came. I truly believe that in this "New Age" there is a place not just for more "tech savvy" lawyers, but judges as well.
What happened at the DeCSS trial was more of a mockery than anything. If someone is able to pull the covers over the eyes of the law then anything will remain possible. I'm not arguing the point for or against DeCSS, I'm not really even caring (I'd rather watch DVD on Hellevision).
When a lawyer can totally mangle the information of a case to suit his clients purposes I really think that an obstruction of justice has occured. Granted, I didn't hear the entire trial (I only got the two days that Emmanuel Goldstien was on the stand) but, it was apparent to me that the prosecuting attorney was using the judges lack of knowledge to his cases interest.
While its nice to know that there are well studied lawyers out there that are willing to learn what they need to better their understanding of technology, I think that judges that could/will be presiding over the cases should at the very least take it upon themselves to RTFM so they can better serve the people that they are paid to.
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If one were to think of it as the first in a series of films, difficult to do when you have the middle part of the story firmly ingrained in you head, they would notice introduction to characters as well as character development, plot setting, as opposed to plot handling and a nice unfulfilling ending that leaves you yearning for more (although that did happen, I don't quite think it happened for the reasons intended).
Maybe in time, after the three prequels are finished, when we can look back, be dorks, watch the epic in its entirety and maybe, just maybe, see Episode I for what it weas inteded to be.
Or, maybe I'm still being naive.
I work in my schools computer lab doing the menial tasks like helping students with the formatting of their papers and telling people just what power the key has. My most asked help, though, is aiding students in converting Mp3 files to CDA so they can burn the music they just downloaded and play it on their CD players and stereos. I do my best to tell them that they should probably save themselves a lot of time and trouble and just buy the damn album. The usual response is, "But this is what Napster's for!" Hmmm... Is it really?
Am I one of the seemingly very few that uses Napster in a responsible way? Do people think the RIAA would have had a problem with Napster if users were getting a few songs from an artist or band that they heard of to see if they were really something worth buying (radio really doesn't cut it.)? I use Napster regularly, without any sign of conscience. Why? Because I get songs that I either own already or songs by artists that I'm planning on buying. I must say that more times than not, I'm happy with what I heard and a do make the purchase, while on the other hand, I've been thwarted by the music that I heard (Wait, that's it, the RIAA is worried they're going to lose money because of all the tired meaningless pop they're putting out! Sorry.).
I have to say that when (If is out of the question by now isn't it?) the free fun stops, all in all, it would have been brought upon by the very users that are screaming that their "freedom" is being taken away, so what good will an off-shore Napster server really do? People will still abuse it. People will still act like vultures and try to worm not their way around a system (College kids :o) but around a pocketbook.
What I mean is, envelopes aren't the most protective of barriers for the ingegrity of our letters, but it suits the purpose for general mail. I don't hear of many drug lords sending kilos of heroine in an envelope (and if they do, then they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law on the principle of being a dumb-ass-at-large alone). If goverments think that sending email with a not-so-heavy-encryption is a sign of wrong doing than envelopes should give off the same feeling.
If people were given the opprotunity to know that they could send messages with a low-level encryption, I seriously doubt it would do the unlawful abiding citizens any good to use it as well. There has to be some sort of privacy granted to the people that use it for that sake of it, as opposed to those who just want to cover their tracks. Instead of taking rights away from people, goverments should be trying to make sure that there are ways to protect ourselves (which, they say, this is all about anyhow, right?). If I could be guaranteed that my email sent using PGP was safe enough to fly across this vaste open network of computers and be safe from prying eyes, as well as the prying eyes of the goverment, I would be pretty darn content. I mean, that is the same feeling one gets when they drop a letter into the mail box, right?
Something else to think of is that, if one were to play the devil's advocate, and believe that all of this controversy was the goverments trying to keep the law abiding citizens safe, than it really shouldn't matter. That is, unless it's in the case of one of the other posters that used encryption to send root passwds. I think back to the story about the U.S.P.S. and what they would and wouldn't send. More specifically the fact that they opened up a package because the weight seemed ill-proportioned to the size of the package (it was a brick wrapped in gift-wrap). If the anaology of the envelope would hold true, than doesn't the same for encryption?
I'm not saying that I agree with invasion of privacy for the sake of it, but, if you're really not doing anything that's wrong, why worry about it? Maybe people have to stop watching Conspiracy Theory and actually do something to help goverments embrace encrytion for the rights of citizens.
You said you were in Chi any info on some better ISPs?
While I realize that know one really needs to tape all that much hellevision a month (gotta get away from that confounded machine!) this does have repercussions on teachers that rely on PBS for teaching aides.
If this is true what implications could that have on the the news that's in the parent post?
Go ahead mod me down.
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Upgradable GPU Slide Bay
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100 Mbps Ethernet Port
1 S-Video In, 1 Out
1 Component HD Out
1 Stereo In, 1 Out (L/R)
1 Digital Audio Out (Optical)
4 USB Universal Ports
Integrated DVD Player
Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Option
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Supports Mesa 3D, OpenAL and OpenStream(tm)
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Integrated Gecko Browser and E-mail
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Well worth lookin' into
He said he was on a budget, so I suggested running a Linux based network. Nope. He said he couldn't get into the RedHat server, so I did for him, then doubted that I was "actually in it. He said he needed to cut down the spending of the new boxes he was going to get. but insisted that he needed to get PIIIs. Doh. So then it came time to find a software based firewall. After i told him about SmoothWall he said that there was no way he was going to use a firewall based on free software. Then he read an article on his own (that was probably his biggest revelation ever!). I'll be installing this firewall next week on a PII350 with 128M and a 10GHDD, whatta goof.
This guy's no more than 27 years old, has a sleek lil volvo ride and dresses pretty damn hip (the later two are probably the things that got him hired), so i can't begin to believe that the age of a boss has anything to do with the treatment of the people under him when listening skills are involved.
What it comes down to IMHO is how much knowledge and forward thinking the person has. Also, how much is someone really willing to leave their ego at the testing center and be ready to learn from someone else once they acheive certificate status.
BTW Kendall will probably be looking for a new admin soon.
The few things that stuck out with me were:
Yes, the camera work is a great idea - I can't say it was done well because, well, it wasn't, but, we are talking about the first weekend of this. Having a couple of camermen (read: targets) ON the field during play was a great idea, I liked being able to "be in the tackle" and I also liked the view from the camera suspended above the field behind the Quarterback (while a columnist from The Chicago Tribune said that "there's a reason why people want tickets on the fifty yard line").
As for play, well, the opener wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. The televized game was (this is also a segue into a con) The New York / New Jersey Hitmen vs. The Las Vegas Outlaws, it was a trouncing!!! The game ended up being 19-0 LV. In the 4th quarter they switched games over to The Orlando Rage vs. The Chicago Enforcers. This was what seemed to be a very decent game. But, the question that was running through my mind the whole night was - "I'm from Chicago. I live in Chicago. Why the hell am i watching NY/NJ play LV when my home team is playing?!?!?!"
Granted there are pure hard-core football fans but those fans are more of a fan for their home team so one of the many things that will have to be looked over is the regionalizing of games. I watched the first games because I wanted to see if the XFL was going to be football, not a show of tits and ass and wrestling hoaxes. I'm going to stay a fan NOT because of the XFL but because of the teams and The Enforcers in particular. Yes, there was a huge showing of tits and ass and in most cases, thats a good thing. But, if i want to see half-naked women on a saturday night or sunday afternoon, I'd give my girlfriend a kiss on the cheek and see a fully-naked woman infront of me (and her breasts aren't fake)
The trips into the locker room (which were heavily hyped) were less than spectacular. The miking up of more than 20 people made for quintessential four-star-five-second-delay-goofs (maybe they need seven). They also have to get betterannouncers. There was virtually no insight into the game or who the players were. But I did have the opprotunity to have Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura scream at me for over 2 hours.
If you were/are a fan of old-school football when guys actually got popped this may be for you 'cause the rules made the game. I'm not trying to say this is some hard-core rough-nose football that is sure as hell going to impress everyone (I've seen Lawrence Taylor play live) but these guys are out to win. The starting salary for Quarterbacks is $50,000, Kickers get $35,000 and everyone else gets $45,000. The incentive is that with every regular season game, the winning team splits a pot of $100,000. The championship pays a pot of $1,000,000. So in fact, they arent paid all that much to play - but they do get paid more to win.
Other noteworthy rules are:
No fair catches. Recievers are given a 5 yard "halo" that can't be breached until he catches the ball. I can tell you now, as long as its only a five yard penalty for breaching it, the kicking team is going to do all they can to kill the poor-lame-duck-reciever.
One man-in-motion towards the line of scrimmage before the snap.
Bump-and-run all the way down the field. If the Defensive End can, they can have their hands on the wide reciever throughout the entire play with a few exceptions. 1) Until the ball is in the air 2) The Reciever passes him (no hitting from the side or from the back). This can maked timed plays (eg. 12 and In) very difficult.
No coin toss. The ball is set in the middle of the field and one player from each team run 20 yds and fight for posession of the ball. Kinda cool but, a player from Orlando (I believe) seperated his shoulder during this and was out of the game before it even began.
The four games (eight teams) are played on seperate nights, two on saturday and two on sunday.
The ratings showed that people were definitely interested but that was the first weekend, let's see what happens in the weeks to come and if they can keep their fan-base. All in all *I* thought it was an enjoyable weekend of football and seeing how it is in its infancy - I'm sure it'll only get better.
With how-many-years since win95 has been around I can find it very easy to understand that people forget what it was like for "ordinary people" to learn the windows GUI. I can also appreciate the fact that people still dont know how to use it and if they do, they dont know what good they are doing. I'm not talking about people that can open up Word or play a cd after they accidently closed CDPlayer. I'm talkin' about the people that say "Man, my computer sucks rotten worm turds, but it used to be so nice." You know, the people that havent defragged their win95 box since they upgraded from 3.1.
"There seems to be no integration of design in the system, only a bunch of utilities that do not match, or work well together."
Hmmm, maybe you should take a look at the inner-workings (or non-workings) of win2k (wow, is the entire OS a bug?). The entire active directory setup sucks major crud outta a garden hose their is no discerning between it and other major players in DNS (sounds like an analogy between the win kernel and the GUI). Now granted, im talking about a Server supposedly made for geeks, but, in responce to "However, the usefulness of Linux must derive from total introverts all coding in separate parts of the world, and trying to put a OS together with bubble gum, and tooth picks." it seems as though a bunch of introverts residing in a plant that houses billions of dollars of hard and software cant put an OS together that doesn't need to be patched with the aformentioned bubble gum and toothpicks.
I have to believe that most all of the numbers that are floating around out there are based on hypotheticals and conjecture (as well as a little hopefulness [is that a word?] to sway people into thinking that the figure has some sort of real significance).
Or maybe ma bell was telling the truth
If the idea is to have a game that doesn't have a win/lose (thats assuming that it's the same as victory/defeat) then i would have to say that puzzles are the crowning glory of all zero-sum games.
As well as not having a win/loss streak going on, with the "players", there is a community factor because puzzles are usually done with the help of others.
Wait 'till they figure out DeCSS. Oh wait, they would need a HDD for that.
No, I didn't miss it... so again, I'm hoping that they take their time (ie. the changes in beta2, beta3 etc).
"Fools rush in."
Is this the official official release? I'm hoping vendors are taking their time. I'm thinking a lot of people were waiting to get 2.4.x in a distro all to itself and I'd like to believe no corners have been cut. And uhmmm we are talking about redhat arent we?
kudos. nice reply.
More than a few years ago in my days of running around town with a can of spraypaint, i was caught jumping the turnstiles to catch a free ride on the train (i know - that in and of itself deserves flaming : ).
The crime was Theft of Service. The idea was that i was taking money away from the CTA (Chicago Transportation Agency). While at the time i was a youngster and my only thought was "damn - is this a felony or misdemeanor?" now with all the MPAA and RIAA things going on I have a seperate outlook (I wish M$ did too).
Regardless of whether or not I was going to pay for the train ride, the train was still going to come. Regardless if no one got on a single train that day, they were going to run.
Does that constitute theft? No. But i did break an unwritten "known" agreement that everyone else on the planet knows. Did i steal from the "Service"? No. I've gotten away with it countless times before and after as well as countless other people, and the train system is still running as well (subjective) as ever.
Did i take $$$ out of the pockets of the tellers, engineers, repairmen etc.? Definitly.
It's an analogy, use it as you see fit.
"You own the CDs. You don't own the right to do what the hell you like with them."
If i can't do what the hell I want with them, then apparently "owning" needs a new definition.
More times than not no one has a Owners License - they have a User Lease Agreement.
As for the money taken away from artists, well, you're right to an extent.
If I were to burn a CD and sell that CD to people I am definitely taking money away. But, (this is a wire I'm walking on here) if i were to grab an Mp3 burn it to a disk and give it to someone, chances are that person is going to a) listen not like it and burn something else over it, or, b) love it, want a better quality copy plus the artwork that goes with the original and head out and buy it.
Grabbing Mp3s for the sole intention of listening to music that you may not otherwise pay attention to does only good for the artists trying to get noticed. The irony is that as long as the Record Cos dont see it that way the artists will get screwed. Mp3s are going to be as much of a destructive force in the recording industry as blank tapes were.
In the wake of the DeCSS trial something has been running through my mind (catch'im! catch'im!). The outcome of the trial wasn't my main concern when compared to why the judgement came. I truly believe that in this "New Age" there is a place not just for more "tech savvy" lawyers, but judges as well.
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What happened at the DeCSS trial was more of a mockery than anything. If someone is able to pull the covers over the eyes of the law then anything will remain possible. I'm not arguing the point for or against DeCSS, I'm not really even caring (I'd rather watch DVD on Hellevision).
When a lawyer can totally mangle the information of a case to suit his clients purposes I really think that an obstruction of justice has occured. Granted, I didn't hear the entire trial (I only got the two days that Emmanuel Goldstien was on the stand) but, it was apparent to me that the prosecuting attorney was using the judges lack of knowledge to his cases interest.
While its nice to know that there are well studied lawyers out there that are willing to learn what they need to better their understanding of technology, I think that judges that could/will be presiding over the cases should at the very least take it upon themselves to RTFM so they can better serve the people that they are paid to.
Wait, maybe that already happened
actually youre very correct
"...the financial responsibility of selling their goods."
duh
I didn't know we were into that kind of redundancy.
In all honesty, I'm really thinking this post was intended to be a joke, but...
Wait wait wait, I know. You and Mr. "Financial Responsibility" are buddies right?