Yes, but look on the side of any product and you will see "patent pending." You're supposed to warn people. Some companies like rambus don't warn people and then jump on them when enought of them are using patented technology.
Restricting guns? No! Not going to do anything. Sorry.
No gun has ever jumped up off of a table and shot someone. They require a human operator. The human operator is controlled by their own mind. Guns are just a method. If you want to kill someone there are a thousand different ways.
They could have snuck poison into the entire schools lunch supply. They could have created a simple death chamber reaction and sent it through air conditioning system. They could have still made bombs out of fertilizer. They could have somehow locked all the doors and set the school on fire.
The simple fact is that humans are always capable of more destruction than good. The only thing that determines our path is ourselves. But people don't want to hear that, because we don't want to change ourselves. We want to be happy and do what we want to do. Parents don't want their children to hate them so they don't look in their rooms. Their too busy with jobs that they don't really need. The United States is not a 3rd world country. I know this will come as a shock to some, but you really only need one person working in a household. I am upper poor and only one of my parents works. The other is disabled. We may not have the latest greatest things, but I think you'll find that those really aren't important.
Guns are a necessary evil of democracy. They are the implied threat. Our right to ownership of guns represents something that was fundamental to the constitution. The belief that the true power of any nation resides in the people who live in it. A right is also a responsibility. Rights given in the constitution are there to ensure that the democratic process set in place will be preserved.
And the GameCube does NOT use cartridges. They use custom CDs.
Actually, it is a custom dvd. It's one quarter the size of a regular dvd. There are technical and cost advantages to using that over regular dvds. Also, it will make it easier to prevent copying.
The game industry is different from the computer industry. People can't give up windows, because all of the world uses it for interoperability. If you want to send someone a word file, you have to use windows. Games are purely for entertainment. I opt-out any time.
Those 1/4 dvds will have a greater capacity than cds. They also have some technical advantages over regular size dvds, and I seem to remember that they will be cheaper to produce. Plus they just look coool!. Don't ever discount that factor.
I agree. Final Fantasy III was one of my most loved games. I've never played a better rpg. Then they went to the PS. That was the end of the fun game. Most of the games for PS are mature in the b-rated tit-flick way.
I'll never play a playstation because of their "mature". Nintendo has plenty of mature games. They just aren't vulgar. Look what happened to final fantasy when they went to ps. What reason does any game have to insert words like whore. The great thing about Nintendo is that their games were fun. They aimed at the kid in you, and they appealed to adults too. If anyone wants a mature game for Nintendo then look at something like mechwarriors or turok.
What's sad is that this article has 934 posts as of now. I loaded it up at +5 and all I got was 6 comments. That's bad for a slashdot story. Must be a lot of angry people down there.:)
I was aware of the fact that GTK+ was developed for the gimp. I was just kind of holding out for a qt port. I really get annoyed when I hear people say that the gimp is as good as photoshop. I would love it if it was. It's just not. Most of it's problems are UI too. Moving around in it is just a pain. Sometimes I get the feeling the developers put in features just so the list would sound like photoshop. It has bezier curves, but you know what I'm talking about if you've ever tried to use them. I'm not trying to discourage them. I know I couldn't write a graphics program.
I like your idea personally. It was the basis of the QPL. Basically, they said that if they ever stopped supporting the software for longer than a certain period of time you could consider it GPLed. RMS took one look at it and crapped in his pants. He couldn't take the fact that people weren't using his saintly licence.
These companies would make money if they released some proprietary software. It's great to give away the free stuff, but you should have some commercial software to subsidize what I consider community service. Make some cool app like a WYSIWYG html editor, a real browser, or a really good photo editor. Despite what many people say and all the furious replies this is bound to generate, the gimp is not a good image editor. It can do the tasks, but it just sucks on user interface.
If they would just sell a little bit of proprietary software, they could stay afloat. I'm talking $20 dollar apps here. No one would pay much more than that for linux apps. And apps are what linux needs. It's great that linux has a nice desktop. Gnome and Kde are wonderful, but what linux really needs is lots of useless apps. Stuff that you don't need, but everyone wants.
OT. Is it possible to redo the gimp with qt? Or is the UI too deeply embedded into the program?
I not putting themes down, but most of the ones I've seen aren't very good. Artistically, yes! In a practical sense though, they tend to mess up the UI. I don't think I should have to re-maximize my windows after installing a them. What's even worse is when a theme makes the borders so thick that I can't see part of the app even when it's maximized. I haven't used any of the themes for the new KDE yet. I just upgraded from mandrake 7.1 to 8.0. I hope they've fixed these things.
IBM can afford to throw money on a hopeful cause. Their not like linux companies. They have a stable business that isn't likely to go down the tube anytime soon.
That was what I was suggesting. I just didn't spell it out. It would definitely stimulate science. Also, there are drugs like interferon that can be made in high orbit. The problem with the US is that we haven't had a challenge is so long. The internet makes for a poor frontier.
The problem is that most people would rather worry about the content of their program than the inanities of style. As long as you have a recognizable style, why should you worry if it's 4 spaces or 8? The point is to write a program isn't it?
I don't know of any case where a high school student was psychologically bullied using internet porn. At the school I went to intimidating a girl was very serious. If you said anything too suggestive you probably wouldn't come back. If your case is that porn is bullying in all situations then I have to say that you are wrong. There are almost as many women interested in porn as there are men. It suprises me how many.
Why stuff like this doesn't get posted on Slashdot's front page is beyond me.
The front page is reserved for rob's latest tech show and fight the man stuff. I've started to look in the slashboxes more often. They've got the real meat. Plus you actually get a chance to say something here and get heard. I hate logging in and seeing a good article with 600 posts.
O positive btw. I think that it's actually supposed to be the rarest type. You would think O negative would be the rarest.
Have you ever looked at how much money our government spent to build a toilet for the space station? They could easily give a billion dollar prize for a cure to just one type of cancer. Once the discovery was released, we could mass manufacture it cheaply. The high prices for aids drugs are artificial. They aren't that expensive to make.
Which would you rather have? The government forks over a couple million now, or everyone pays millions of dollars for those drugs over and over. Do you know how many billions of dollars are spent on medicare? In the last year, the press revealed that doctors were prescribing higher cost drugs over generics to scam medicare. The drug companies convinced them to.
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Yes, but look on the side of any product and you will see "patent pending." You're supposed to warn people. Some companies like rambus don't warn people and then jump on them when enought of them are using patented technology.
Yeah, I love this part:
the company believes the patent may apply to currently in-use multi-user games
Isn't that the definition of prior art?
Restricting guns? No! Not going to do anything. Sorry.
No gun has ever jumped up off of a table and shot someone. They require a human operator. The human operator is controlled by their own mind. Guns are just a method. If you want to kill someone there are a thousand different ways.
They could have snuck poison into the entire schools lunch supply. They could have created a simple death chamber reaction and sent it through air conditioning system. They could have still made bombs out of fertilizer. They could have somehow locked all the doors and set the school on fire.
The simple fact is that humans are always capable of more destruction than good. The only thing that determines our path is ourselves. But people don't want to hear that, because we don't want to change ourselves. We want to be happy and do what we want to do. Parents don't want their children to hate them so they don't look in their rooms. Their too busy with jobs that they don't really need. The United States is not a 3rd world country. I know this will come as a shock to some, but you really only need one person working in a household. I am upper poor and only one of my parents works. The other is disabled. We may not have the latest greatest things, but I think you'll find that those really aren't important.
Guns are a necessary evil of democracy. They are the implied threat. Our right to ownership of guns represents something that was fundamental to the constitution. The belief that the true power of any nation resides in the people who live in it. A right is also a responsibility. Rights given in the constitution are there to ensure that the democratic process set in place will be preserved.
And the GameCube does NOT use cartridges. They use custom CDs.
Actually, it is a custom dvd. It's one quarter the size of a regular dvd. There are technical and cost advantages to using that over regular dvds. Also, it will make it easier to prevent copying.
The game industry is different from the computer industry. People can't give up windows, because all of the world uses it for interoperability. If you want to send someone a word file, you have to use windows. Games are purely for entertainment. I opt-out any time.
Those 1/4 dvds will have a greater capacity than cds. They also have some technical advantages over regular size dvds, and I seem to remember that they will be cheaper to produce. Plus they just look coool!. Don't ever discount that factor.
I agree. Final Fantasy III was one of my most loved games. I've never played a better rpg. Then they went to the PS. That was the end of the fun game. Most of the games for PS are mature in the b-rated tit-flick way.
I'll never play a playstation because of their "mature". Nintendo has plenty of mature games. They just aren't vulgar. Look what happened to final fantasy when they went to ps. What reason does any game have to insert words like whore. The great thing about Nintendo is that their games were fun. They aimed at the kid in you, and they appealed to adults too. If anyone wants a mature game for Nintendo then look at something like mechwarriors or turok.
What's sad is that this article has 934 posts as of now. I loaded it up at +5 and all I got was 6 comments. That's bad for a slashdot story. Must be a lot of angry people down there. :)
The reason it's so slow is that not many people are actually using it and hosting nodes. If it ever became popular, you would see a speed increase.
If your looking for a file-sharing client that uses encryption, easy UI, and bouncer servers, then you should probably look at filetopia.
Ha! I didn't even see the sarcasm till you pointed it out. Flew right over my head.
I was aware of the fact that GTK+ was developed for the gimp. I was just kind of holding out for a qt port. I really get annoyed when I hear people say that the gimp is as good as photoshop. I would love it if it was. It's just not. Most of it's problems are UI too. Moving around in it is just a pain. Sometimes I get the feeling the developers put in features just so the list would sound like photoshop. It has bezier curves, but you know what I'm talking about if you've ever tried to use them. I'm not trying to discourage them. I know I couldn't write a graphics program.
Custom made software usually is that way. I worked at a hotel for a while. Our software crashed continuously. Of course, they were using NT too.
I like your idea personally. It was the basis of the QPL. Basically, they said that if they ever stopped supporting the software for longer than a certain period of time you could consider it GPLed. RMS took one look at it and crapped in his pants. He couldn't take the fact that people weren't using his saintly licence.
These companies would make money if they released some proprietary software. It's great to give away the free stuff, but you should have some commercial software to subsidize what I consider community service. Make some cool app like a WYSIWYG html editor, a real browser, or a really good photo editor. Despite what many people say and all the furious replies this is bound to generate, the gimp is not a good image editor. It can do the tasks, but it just sucks on user interface.
If they would just sell a little bit of proprietary software, they could stay afloat. I'm talking $20 dollar apps here. No one would pay much more than that for linux apps. And apps are what linux needs. It's great that linux has a nice desktop. Gnome and Kde are wonderful, but what linux really needs is lots of useless apps. Stuff that you don't need, but everyone wants.
OT. Is it possible to redo the gimp with qt? Or is the UI too deeply embedded into the program?
I not putting themes down, but most of the ones I've seen aren't very good. Artistically, yes! In a practical sense though, they tend to mess up the UI. I don't think I should have to re-maximize my windows after installing a them. What's even worse is when a theme makes the borders so thick that I can't see part of the app even when it's maximized. I haven't used any of the themes for the new KDE yet. I just upgraded from mandrake 7.1 to 8.0. I hope they've fixed these things.
IBM can afford to throw money on a hopeful cause. Their not like linux companies. They have a stable business that isn't likely to go down the tube anytime soon.
That was what I was suggesting. I just didn't spell it out. It would definitely stimulate science. Also, there are drugs like interferon that can be made in high orbit. The problem with the US is that we haven't had a challenge is so long. The internet makes for a poor frontier.
The problem is that most people would rather worry about the content of their program than the inanities of style. As long as you have a recognizable style, why should you worry if it's 4 spaces or 8? The point is to write a program isn't it?
I don't know of any case where a high school student was psychologically bullied using internet porn. At the school I went to intimidating a girl was very serious. If you said anything too suggestive you probably wouldn't come back. If your case is that porn is bullying in all situations then I have to say that you are wrong. There are almost as many women interested in porn as there are men. It suprises me how many.
Why stuff like this doesn't get posted on Slashdot's front page is beyond me.
The front page is reserved for rob's latest tech show and fight the man stuff. I've started to look in the slashboxes more often. They've got the real meat. Plus you actually get a chance to say something here and get heard. I hate logging in and seeing a good article with 600 posts.
O positive btw. I think that it's actually supposed to be the rarest type. You would think O negative would be the rarest.
Have you ever looked at how much money our government spent to build a toilet for the space station? They could easily give a billion dollar prize for a cure to just one type of cancer. Once the discovery was released, we could mass manufacture it cheaply. The high prices for aids drugs are artificial. They aren't that expensive to make.
Which would you rather have? The government forks over a couple million now, or everyone pays millions of dollars for those drugs over and over. Do you know how many billions of dollars are spent on medicare? In the last year, the press revealed that doctors were prescribing higher cost drugs over generics to scam medicare. The drug companies convinced them to.
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Doh!
Rather than right the same thing twice, here's a link to my other comment