RIAA also has no interest in acting in the interest of society as a whole. it's a private entity. it has no obligation or reason to act beyond its own interest
While I agree with the correctness of your statement, is it just me that sees something wrong with this situation? Shouldn't every person be concerned with the interests of society as a whole? Aren't we all a part of society, and therefore should be concerend about it? I think this is a fundamental problem.... in a whole lot of different areas. Everyone's out for themselves, always trying to make that next buck and get "ahead".
It probably also comes down to ease of administration. To give someone a static IP address, you have to find an address that's not in use, and assign it to the person, and make sure it gets put into a "used" list so that it doesn't get used by someone else. To do a dynamic IP address, you just assign a pool of IP addresses, and you don't have to fuck w/it until you run out of IP's in the pool, and then all you have to do is add more to the pool. (and if you're paying attention, you should notice that your customers are outnumbering your IP addresses in your dynamic pool before it becomes a problem... at least that would be the preferred method I imagine:)
I would imagine that the extra work involved w/a static IP (even though it doesn't seem like much, i'm sure it adds up when you have 1000's of customers) is why they like to go dynamic. Just easier administration...
I just can't wait for this stuff to find it's way on national television, so we can hear the heartbreaking defeat or unlikely success stories of robots.
Hmmmm, I think they had that... Something called BattleBots. It was great (minus the dumbass commentary), until Comedy Central canned it..
Looks like some of the robots we saw in BB are competing in this competition too. I recognize SOW and Nightmare right off, and there were a few other ones that looked familiar too. (Although I can't believe that ladybug sandbox hasn't been retired and redesigned by now. I mean come on. I realize it's being built by a 14 yr old girl (I'm sure she's older than that by now...), but she needs to start making some changes or innovations if she wants to go anywhere other than back to the pits with a busted bot...)
Too bad this won't be televised... I'd love to see SOW in action again. That robot is usually fun to watch.
It's true. We've been using a combination of MailScanner, Spamassassin, and ClamAV on ours and a number of customer mailservers for a little over a year now. Don't seem to remember any viruses getting through, and many times Clam has an update before the commercial vendors. It's also got _great_ support through the mailing list(s). I would recommend ClamAV wholeheartedly.
"The whole thing about "free software" is a lie. It's a dream created and made popular by people who have a keen interest in having cheap software so that they can drive down their own cost and profit more or by people who can easily demand it, because they make their money out of speaking at conferences or write books about how nice it is to have free software. At the bottom of the food chain are people like you, who are easily fooled by the "let's make the world a better place" rhetoric and who are so enthusiastic about technology that writing open-source - or any source for that matter - is the absolutely best imaginable way to spend their time. It doesn't matter whether you love what you are doing and consider this the hobby you want to spend 110% of your time on: It's exploitation by companies who are not at all interested in creating stuff. They want to use your stuff for free. That's why they trick you into doing it."
Can become:
The whole thing about "closed software" is a lie. It's a dream created and made popular by people who have a financial interest in having software produced cheaply so that they can drive down their own cost and profit more. At the bottom of the food chain are the developers like you, who are easily fooled by the "let's make the world a better place" rhetoric and who are so enthusiastic about technology that writing closed-source - or any source for that matter - is the absolutely best imaginable way to spend their time, while the people at the top make big bucks off their hard work. It doesn't matter whether you love what you are doing and consider this the hobby you want to spend 110% of your time on: It's exploitation by companies who are not at all interested in creating stuff. They want to use your stuff for free and have complete control over the software so they can get an "edge" over the competition. That's why they trick you into doing it.
So I think the argument can easily be made either way. Anyone that thinks "all software should be open source" is just as wrong as anybody that thinks "all software should be closed source". The beauty of it all is that whoever creates it (or the company that they're being paid to write it for) can decide for themself what license they want. Only time will tell which way ends up working out better... we're seeing a large clash right now as open source gets more popularity and MS loses (especially in countries outside Coporate America), but it's too early to tell how it'll all settle out.
But aren't the electoral votes based on the states population? Meaning that larger states _still_ have a larger voice? Sure, rhode island is guaranteed their 2 votes or whatever they get, but does that really compare to the 50 something that CA gets?
(I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass, BTW, in case you were wondering.)
Argh, google has so far been one of those "good" and "nice" companies...
Is someone _really_ going to mistake the booble site for google? C'mon, it's pretty obvious that it's not google. I guess they're pissed that booble knocked off the look of the google page or something. But then they should just have booble chagne it so it's obviously different. Taking down the site name is just too much... I've always though booble was kinda funny:)
I guess google is just trying to protect their trademark or something, but really... is it that confusing?
I guess nobody's told Yahoo about yourmom.com yet... that site is organize pretty much like yahoo.com... they even mimic the logo. Hmmm, hope yahoo doesn't read slashdot, cuz I may have just alerted them... dammit!
This patent is fucking ridiculous.. How can the USPTO actually approve something like this? I sure hope that his patent gets struck down quickly in court, because if not, I'm an infringer. I own the domain that corresponds to my last name, and I've set up email addresses for people in my family in this exact fashion.
Like, I have: wife@myname.com and she also has wife.myname.com as a web site...
Unfortunately, I didn't register my domain until a few years ago (not as far back as '99), so I can't be counted as prior art I guess.
It just baffles my mind that they can actually award a patent on something like this....
Heh... Kaypro II was the first computer I (well, technically, my parents) had. Spent a lot of time using that thing and making programs in basic (GWBasic, IIRC).
My parents still have the thing, and it still works. In fact, I'm pretty sure that they pull it out once a year to print out labels for christmas card envelopes...
Ok, Ok, here's the OT content that I should've put in that previous one:
I like boxes too. Pretty much the same reasons that everyone else has stated... I still have a lot of old games sittting on a shelf. And, I actually pulled out and used the journal from Pool of Radiance a month or two ago when I was playing the PoR module for NWN. The map of the city that they included in the original journal came in quite handy..
And the boxes look nice on the shelf all lined up:P
Thats why people still carry cash around. They want more assurence, then jsut some faceless machine telling them what they have.
Slightly OT, but... The reason that I still carry cash around is actually completely different. It has nothing to do with needing to "feel that I have something". Rather, I use cash whenever I can because I am tired of every aspect of my life being tracked.... and cash is still anonymous:)
(uh-oh, i must have something to hide!! call the anti-terrorist hotline:)
Most laptops will drive both an external monitor and the onboard LCD... I use that to get a dual monitor setup @ work. And w/the larger screens that they have on laptops nowadays, you don't lose much real estate w/the LCD as you used to..
YMMV
(but just for the record, I like a desktop as my primary and a laptop as secondary or auxilliary..)
You don't get it, do you... Just because they can do it, doesn't mean they will do it.
More like: If they can, they will. Power will be abused, plain and simple. I don't care if it's US, UK, or Uganda (just another U country there, nothing against Uganda per-se:) -- If you give people the power to abuse the system, eventually they'll realize it, and start abusing. That's why laws and whatnot need to be much more specific, so that there isn't any room for abuse.
It might not be the intention of the current lawmakers, but who's to say what's going to happen a few years down the road? If you leave that door open, someone will come along that will take advantage of it.
Do you support Iraqi citizens being empowered to carry AK-47s...
Haven't you seen any of the pictures from Iraq? From what I can see in the pictures it looks like it's pretty normal for just about everyone to have and carry around an AK47 on a regular basis:)
My Fellowship of the Ring extended edition had problems too... Just when it got to the part with Galadriel (sp?), the picture would freeze, the player would make funky noises for a while, and then it would stop. If I skipped to the next chapter, I could watch the rest of the moovie fine. Took it back to Best Buy for an exchange, and got one that works. It was an almost hassle free exchange -- Best Buy I guess wanted to watch it or something to confirm... so I had to wait a couple minutes while they put it in one of their players. And then they opened the replacement one for me, so that I couldn't try to return it for cash or something strange like that....
If it was only a few bucks to share an existing license with a second machine I think that most people would pay and MS would have even more money.
I think that statement right there says pretty much what most people think.... If the software was priced reasonably, people would be much more willing to pay for it. I know, set the price to what the market will bear, right? Well, if the market was bearing the price so well... then why is there this "rampant" piracy?
Uhhh... yeah. RTFA... It says that the burning man pire is included, and users can set it ablaze as well. It also mentions that it's one of (if not the only) things that you can't crash into -- "out of reverence" for The Man:)
I can't think of any good reason to spend the money upgrading his 400Mhz K6-2.
I have an old P133 laptop w/like 40MB of memory on it that runs windows 2000 just fine. I put 2000 on it (even though it is "technically" below the required specs) because I was tired of re-loading win98 every few months.
It runs Win2k wonderfully, even better than Win98 in my opinion.. And I haven't had to reload it since:)
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that in my experience, if it runs Win98, it'll run Win2k. Don't listen to what MS tells you Win2k requires...
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Hmmm, google yielded this: Scorched 3D. Maybe that's the one he's talking aboot...? Says it's an OpenGL remake of the original. I may just have to check that out....
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Why, right here, of course.
RIAA also has no interest in acting in the interest of society as a whole. it's a private entity. it has no obligation or reason to act beyond its own interest
While I agree with the correctness of your statement, is it just me that sees something wrong with this situation? Shouldn't every person be concerned with the interests of society as a whole? Aren't we all a part of society, and therefore should be concerend about it? I think this is a fundamental problem.... in a whole lot of different areas. Everyone's out for themselves, always trying to make that next buck and get "ahead".
meh...
It probably also comes down to ease of administration. To give someone a static IP address, you have to find an address that's not in use, and assign it to the person, and make sure it gets put into a "used" list so that it doesn't get used by someone else. To do a dynamic IP address, you just assign a pool of IP addresses, and you don't have to fuck w/it until you run out of IP's in the pool, and then all you have to do is add more to the pool. (and if you're paying attention, you should notice that your customers are outnumbering your IP addresses in your dynamic pool before it becomes a problem... at least that would be the preferred method I imagine :)
I would imagine that the extra work involved w/a static IP (even though it doesn't seem like much, i'm sure it adds up when you have 1000's of customers) is why they like to go dynamic. Just easier administration...
I just can't wait for this stuff to find it's way on national television, so we can hear the heartbreaking defeat or unlikely success stories of robots.
Hmmmm, I think they had that... Something called BattleBots. It was great (minus the dumbass commentary), until Comedy Central canned it..
Looks like some of the robots we saw in BB are competing in this competition too. I recognize SOW and Nightmare right off, and there were a few other ones that looked familiar too. (Although I can't believe that ladybug sandbox hasn't been retired and redesigned by now. I mean come on. I realize it's being built by a 14 yr old girl (I'm sure she's older than that by now...), but she needs to start making some changes or innovations if she wants to go anywhere other than back to the pits with a busted bot...)
Too bad this won't be televised... I'd love to see SOW in action again. That robot is usually fun to watch.
It's true. We've been using a combination of MailScanner, Spamassassin, and ClamAV on ours and a number of customer mailservers for a little over a year now. Don't seem to remember any viruses getting through, and many times Clam has an update before the commercial vendors. It's also got _great_ support through the mailing list(s). I would recommend ClamAV wholeheartedly.
With a little creative editing, his point of:
:)
"The whole thing about "free software" is a lie. It's a dream created and made popular by people who have a keen interest in having cheap software so that they can drive down their own cost and profit more or by people who can easily demand it, because they make their money out of speaking at conferences or write books about how nice it is to have free software. At the bottom of the food chain are people like you, who are easily fooled by the "let's make the world a better place" rhetoric and who are so enthusiastic about technology that writing open-source - or any source for that matter - is the absolutely best imaginable way to spend their time. It doesn't matter whether you love what you are doing and consider this the hobby you want to spend 110% of your time on: It's exploitation by companies who are not at all interested in creating stuff. They want to use your stuff for free. That's why they trick you into doing it."
Can become:
The whole thing about "closed software" is a lie. It's a dream created and made popular by people who have a financial interest in having software produced cheaply so that they can drive down their own cost and profit more. At the bottom of the food chain are the developers like you, who are easily fooled by the "let's make the world a better place" rhetoric and who are so enthusiastic about technology that writing closed-source - or any source for that matter - is the absolutely best imaginable way to spend their time, while the people at the top make big bucks off their hard work. It doesn't matter whether you love what you are doing and consider this the hobby you want to spend 110% of your time on: It's exploitation by companies who are not at all interested in creating stuff. They want to use your stuff for free and have complete control over the software so they can get an "edge" over the competition. That's why they trick you into doing it.
So I think the argument can easily be made either way. Anyone that thinks "all software should be open source" is just as wrong as anybody that thinks "all software should be closed source". The beauty of it all is that whoever creates it (or the company that they're being paid to write it for) can decide for themself what license they want. Only time will tell which way ends up working out better... we're seeing a large clash right now as open source gets more popularity and MS loses (especially in countries outside Coporate America), but it's too early to tell how it'll all settle out.
Should be good to watch though
But aren't the electoral votes based on the states population? Meaning that larger states _still_ have a larger voice? Sure, rhode island is guaranteed their 2 votes or whatever they get, but does that really compare to the 50 something that CA gets?
(I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass, BTW, in case you were wondering.)
We did it! It works!
Ummm... no it didn't: Give it a shot
I'm confused... I've seen a few other places claiming that it worked too. Most notably is www.litigiousbastards.com where they say that it worked too.
So if it works so well, why doesn't it work when I try it? Anyone know?
Argh, google has so far been one of those "good" and "nice" companies...
:)
Is someone _really_ going to mistake the booble site for google? C'mon, it's pretty obvious that it's not google. I guess they're pissed that booble knocked off the look of the google page or something. But then they should just have booble chagne it so it's obviously different. Taking down the site name is just too much... I've always though booble was kinda funny
I guess google is just trying to protect their trademark or something, but really... is it that confusing?
I guess nobody's told Yahoo about yourmom.com yet... that site is organize pretty much like yahoo.com... they even mimic the logo. Hmmm, hope yahoo doesn't read slashdot, cuz I may have just alerted them... dammit!
This patent is fucking ridiculous.. How can the USPTO actually approve something like this? I sure hope that his patent gets struck down quickly in court, because if not, I'm an infringer. I own the domain that corresponds to my last name, and I've set up email addresses for people in my family in this exact fashion.
Like, I have: wife@myname.com and she also has wife.myname.com as a web site...
Unfortunately, I didn't register my domain until a few years ago (not as far back as '99), so I can't be counted as prior art I guess.
It just baffles my mind that they can actually award a patent on something like this....
If I had mod points, I'd mod this one up. Too bad I don't...
Heh... Kaypro II was the first computer I (well, technically, my parents) had. Spent a lot of time using that thing and making programs in basic (GWBasic, IIRC).
My parents still have the thing, and it still works. In fact, I'm pretty sure that they pull it out once a year to print out labels for christmas card envelopes...
dammit! should've re-read that before posting (that's what I get for not previewing, eh?). Guess that should've said: "here's the non-OT content"...
bleh
Ok, Ok, here's the OT content that I should've put in that previous one:
:P
I like boxes too. Pretty much the same reasons that everyone else has stated... I still have a lot of old games sittting on a shelf. And, I actually pulled out and used the journal from Pool of Radiance a month or two ago when I was playing the PoR module for NWN. The map of the city that they included in the original journal came in quite handy..
And the boxes look nice on the shelf all lined up
Thats why people still carry cash around. They want more assurence, then jsut some faceless machine telling them what they have.
:)
:)
Slightly OT, but...
The reason that I still carry cash around is actually completely different. It has nothing to do with needing to "feel that I have something". Rather, I use cash whenever I can because I am tired of every aspect of my life being tracked.... and cash is still anonymous
(uh-oh, i must have something to hide!! call the anti-terrorist hotline
Most laptops will drive both an external monitor and the onboard LCD... I use that to get a dual monitor setup @ work. And w/the larger screens that they have on laptops nowadays, you don't lose much real estate w/the LCD as you used to..
YMMV
(but just for the record, I like a desktop as my primary and a laptop as secondary or auxilliary..)
You don't get it, do you... Just because they can do it, doesn't mean they will do it.
:) -- If you give people the power to abuse the system, eventually they'll realize it, and start abusing. That's why laws and whatnot need to be much more specific, so that there isn't any room for abuse.
More like: If they can, they will. Power will be abused, plain and simple. I don't care if it's US, UK, or Uganda (just another U country there, nothing against Uganda per-se
It might not be the intention of the current lawmakers, but who's to say what's going to happen a few years down the road? If you leave that door open, someone will come along that will take advantage of it.
Do you support Iraqi citizens being empowered to carry AK-47s...
:)
Haven't you seen any of the pictures from Iraq? From what I can see in the pictures it looks like it's pretty normal for just about everyone to have and carry around an AK47 on a regular basis
I bet those antennas would make a nice little target for some kid with a bb gun.... :)
My Fellowship of the Ring extended edition had problems too... Just when it got to the part with Galadriel (sp?), the picture would freeze, the player would make funky noises for a while, and then it would stop. If I skipped to the next chapter, I could watch the rest of the moovie fine. Took it back to Best Buy for an exchange, and got one that works. It was an almost hassle free exchange -- Best Buy I guess wanted to watch it or something to confirm... so I had to wait a couple minutes while they put it in one of their players. And then they opened the replacement one for me, so that I couldn't try to return it for cash or something strange like that....
If it was only a few bucks to share an existing license with a second machine I think that most people would pay and MS would have even more money.
I think that statement right there says pretty much what most people think.... If the software was priced reasonably, people would be much more willing to pay for it. I know, set the price to what the market will bear, right? Well, if the market was bearing the price so well... then why is there this "rampant" piracy?
Uhhh... yeah. RTFA... It says that the burning man pire is included, and users can set it ablaze as well. It also mentions that it's one of (if not the only) things that you can't crash into -- "out of reverence" for The Man :)
I can't think of any good reason to spend the money upgrading his 400Mhz K6-2.
:)
I have an old P133 laptop w/like 40MB of memory on it that runs windows 2000 just fine. I put 2000 on it (even though it is "technically" below the required specs) because I was tired of re-loading win98 every few months.
It runs Win2k wonderfully, even better than Win98 in my opinion.. And I haven't had to reload it since
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that in my experience, if it runs Win98, it'll run Win2k. Don't listen to what MS tells you Win2k requires...
Hmmm, google yielded this: Scorched 3D. Maybe that's the one he's talking aboot...? Says it's an OpenGL remake of the original. I may just have to check that out....
is that if you go into an IRC channel for any non main-stream OS (os/2, linux, mac, etc) and ask a question, you're going to get beaten up by assholes
:)
Uhhh.... I think that's just IRC, dude.