If the US declares it illegal for US citizens, while in the US, to do online gambling, then what the flying holy bloody fark does that have to do with the WTO? Nothing. Is someone being mutilated, tortured, killed, blah, etc.
Local bookstores for example are starting to massively suffer from online competition. Customers walk in, browse, leave and order the book from amazon.com for 10-20% less. How do you combat this? Retail cannot lower their prices to the same level online companies can -- they have prime real-estate leases vs a warehouse in some grungy commercial district. They deal in hundreds of books per week in stead of per hour, etc, etc.
And the problem is?
I personally would really, really like to see fewer buildings across the landscape. Not only is it inefficient to have several dozen bookstores in a single city, when you take into consideration this and all the other redundant markets, you come up with a hell of a lot of wasted real estate. I for one would rather see trees there, not stores.
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a small world, that doesn't have 100,000 people per server instance? If there were only 500 or so, 100 at any given time, then everyone becomes extraordinary.
Not that I'd want such a thing myself, but I stopped playing MMORPGS years ago.
Whether stuff grows well decades after an eruption (ignoring the decades part) that doesn't mean that the soil will be useful for what it was previously growing. Tomatoes require different things than grasses, which require different things than squash...
I had great service, worked well when my net connection worked (and my net connection was indeed flaky), but I still canceled after a month and a half for various complicated reasons. They happily canceled, told me to keep the router, and said if I changed my mind to give them a call again. Was absolutely painless.
My (true) anecdotal story conflicts with yours. Neither shows a trend.
I was thinking about how to ask this sort of question myself. I like your wording. Unfortunately, I doubt any WW question will get mod'd up enough to matter, because everyone will be too busy with silly questions and stuff that they actually know/care about - which isn't WW;)
if the 1000 games lasted 10 minutes average, that's a full month at a normal job. If one *only* played 2 hours a night, every night, 7 days a week, it would still take them almost 3 months.
After analysis, I have this to say to you: go outside. Read a book, go jogging, do something.
I was an electrician for a while working in new home construction; spent most of my day with my arms in the air, turning a screwdriver, etc. Was it tiring for the first few weeks? Sure. After that, no prob.
They're called deltoids. Deltoids are a member of an anatomical system called the "muscular system." Just because the submitter and the writer of the artical haven't heard of such a thing as muscles, doesn't make it impossible.
and you don't think that IBM and AMD could solve that in a *snap* with compilers they already own? AMD putting together something that makes code SCREAM on their cpus? The only reason they haven't done it already is there's already a free, decent/good compiler out there (gcc) so why bother. If gcc becomes less...usable...then I can promise you that within months (ie - the gpl2 versions of gcc will still be just fine) several big hammers will have pounded out a compiler. Compilers were a big deal back in the days of small companies, bad standards, and few people in IT. It's not something to be concerned with today.
"free trade infringement" - if it's being made illegal in general, then the same opportunities exist outside the US as do inside the US. Thus, "free trade."
Sortof like the Supreme Court case a couple years ago that said if a state allows wineries within the state to ship wine to indivual people, they have to allow other states to ship wine into the state to individual people.
yeah, because Oracle cracked Linux. So did Veritas (which I was personally running products from on Linux servers as much as 5 years ago).
Bullsh*t. By putting this on the front page of/. taco, you're merely assisting MS's propaganda machine further demonize the GPL and Linux in general. I don't suppose you made charitable donations to SCO too, did you?
Something shorter that can actually be read in less than an hour or some crap.
The real question is whether the company should be held liable for how much software companies (ie - someone else) have diluted the value of license agreements.
err...nope. Six-figure income from a company I enjoy working at and against which I'm not morally opposed, house on the beach...I rent out my basement in my second house to a young coed though. Does that count?
That being said, two things: honestly ask yourself which side you fall on the Palestinian/Israeli issue. Palestinian plants a bomb in a cafe' because that's all they can do, they can't attack non-civs with actual military success (note the "military" limit to the word "success"). By the same token, if corporation X deprives someone of their life, liberty, and persuit of happiness...do you really think the courts are going to care in this extreme capitalism world we live in? The side with the bigger lawyers wins. Little guy that lost $500 to paypal fraud can't do anything; the cost of any action to reclaim damages would far exceed the original damages themselves.
Second thing: "You're not responsible for corporate policy" - wrong. Refuse to work there. If you work there, you should be held culpable for the actions of the company; at the very least, you should be held liable for any action of which you are aware. I've left places because I didn't agree with their corporate policy, business model, etc. Don't like what the Republicans are doing? Don't be a Republican, don't vote Republican. Don't like what Paypal is doing? Don't work at Paypal, don't use Paypal. Patronization of a product or service, or involvement in the production of the product or service, counts you as partially responsible for the ramifications of that product or service. Don't like factory farming? Then don't buy factory farmed meat. Think we are causing global warming? Stop driving cars and wasting electricity. Be responsible. If nothing else, thermodynamics; if you're willing to add energy to a closed system (like paypal) then you must be willing to accept the heat, as it were.
If Paypal's offices were located in some small farming community, and you really had no other employment options that paid enough so you could take care of your wife who was dying of cancer, then fine, your responsibility is limited. However, we're talking about a bomb outside offices in San Jose...with thousands of other employment opportunities within walking distance.
um, except you're contributing to the economic viability of CDI, enabling them to hire more people. People that will be available for other jobs.
Sortof like when you buy a steak at the grocery store, you're contributing to the economics of killing a cow. Not that particular cow - it's already dead. But you just paid for some grain for the next cow.
and my example was a single example, not 2. "init 2" and then logging in as root. That you would think one would need to go to the trouble of editing anything to go to runlevel 2 is the exact reason I don't think Ubuntu should be used in a server environment.
Can you actually discredit what I'm saying? Am I saying there aren't ways around it? No. I'm saying I don't want to have to use ways around it. If I'm in a disaster situation, I don't want to have to muck around with a non-POSIX compliant hand-holding distro. I want to get in and fix the problem, in a way I would expect it to be doable in nearly any POSIX-compliant UNIX-like system. We're having a server failure here (hypothetical) and I don't have the time to deal Clippie popping up and saying "oh! it looks like you're rebooting! Did you try eating a pickle?"
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If the US declares it illegal for US citizens, while in the US, to do online gambling, then what the flying holy bloody fark does that have to do with the WTO? Nothing. Is someone being mutilated, tortured, killed, blah, etc.
Local bookstores for example are starting to massively suffer from online competition. Customers walk in, browse, leave and order the book from amazon.com for 10-20% less. How do you combat this? Retail cannot lower their prices to the same level online companies can -- they have prime real-estate leases vs a warehouse in some grungy commercial district. They deal in hundreds of books per week in stead of per hour, etc, etc. And the problem is? I personally would really, really like to see fewer buildings across the landscape. Not only is it inefficient to have several dozen bookstores in a single city, when you take into consideration this and all the other redundant markets, you come up with a hell of a lot of wasted real estate. I for one would rather see trees there, not stores.
a small world, that doesn't have 100,000 people per server instance? If there were only 500 or so, 100 at any given time, then everyone becomes extraordinary.
Not that I'd want such a thing myself, but I stopped playing MMORPGS years ago.
you don't know much about plants, do you.
Whether stuff grows well decades after an eruption (ignoring the decades part) that doesn't mean that the soil will be useful for what it was previously growing. Tomatoes require different things than grasses, which require different things than squash...
I had great service, worked well when my net connection worked (and my net connection was indeed flaky), but I still canceled after a month and a half for various complicated reasons. They happily canceled, told me to keep the router, and said if I changed my mind to give them a call again. Was absolutely painless.
My (true) anecdotal story conflicts with yours. Neither shows a trend.
you may want to ponder what sort of impact even half an inch of ash would have on the chemical composition of the topsoil.
That being said, it's not happening any time soon.
my main computer is a p3 laptop from 1999. I get by just fine.
I make $150k/yr, so it's not like I can't buy a new one...I just don't need to.
I was thinking about how to ask this sort of question myself. I like your wording. Unfortunately, I doubt any WW question will get mod'd up enough to matter, because everyone will be too busy with silly questions and stuff that they actually know/care about - which isn't WW ;)
if the 1000 games lasted 10 minutes average, that's a full month at a normal job. If one *only* played 2 hours a night, every night, 7 days a week, it would still take them almost 3 months.
After analysis, I have this to say to you: go outside. Read a book, go jogging, do something.
name an impartial scientist. A single one in the last 200 years that has had any money to actually do any studies. Go for it. //married to a scientist
because this isn't the farking 1700's.
artical? Wow, show me for typing a response while nursing a hangover ;)
I was an electrician for a while working in new home construction; spent most of my day with my arms in the air, turning a screwdriver, etc. Was it tiring for the first few weeks? Sure. After that, no prob.
They're called deltoids. Deltoids are a member of an anatomical system called the "muscular system." Just because the submitter and the writer of the artical haven't heard of such a thing as muscles, doesn't make it impossible.
wonder what "emotiflags" the penis-enlargement spammers would use...
8)
and you don't think that IBM and AMD could solve that in a *snap* with compilers they already own? AMD putting together something that makes code SCREAM on their cpus? The only reason they haven't done it already is there's already a free, decent/good compiler out there (gcc) so why bother. If gcc becomes less...usable...then I can promise you that within months (ie - the gpl2 versions of gcc will still be just fine) several big hammers will have pounded out a compiler. Compilers were a big deal back in the days of small companies, bad standards, and few people in IT. It's not something to be concerned with today.
"free trade infringement" - if it's being made illegal in general, then the same opportunities exist outside the US as do inside the US. Thus, "free trade."
Sortof like the Supreme Court case a couple years ago that said if a state allows wineries within the state to ship wine to indivual people, they have to allow other states to ship wine into the state to individual people.
yes...yes, it would.
yeah, because Oracle cracked Linux. So did Veritas (which I was personally running products from on Linux servers as much as 5 years ago).
/. taco, you're merely assisting MS's propaganda machine further demonize the GPL and Linux in general. I don't suppose you made charitable donations to SCO too, did you?
Bullsh*t. By putting this on the front page of
The author of the Telegraph piece is Christopher Monckton, a retired journalist
That writes. Like. James T Kirk. Speaks.
The question is -- what replaces them?
Something shorter that can actually be read in less than an hour or some crap.
The real question is whether the company should be held liable for how much software companies (ie - someone else) have diluted the value of license agreements.
yes yes yes yes yes accept accept accept.
err...nope. Six-figure income from a company I enjoy working at and against which I'm not morally opposed, house on the beach...I rent out my basement in my second house to a young coed though. Does that count?
agreed that planting bomb isn't appropriate.
That being said, two things: honestly ask yourself which side you fall on the Palestinian/Israeli issue. Palestinian plants a bomb in a cafe' because that's all they can do, they can't attack non-civs with actual military success (note the "military" limit to the word "success"). By the same token, if corporation X deprives someone of their life, liberty, and persuit of happiness...do you really think the courts are going to care in this extreme capitalism world we live in? The side with the bigger lawyers wins. Little guy that lost $500 to paypal fraud can't do anything; the cost of any action to reclaim damages would far exceed the original damages themselves.
Second thing: "You're not responsible for corporate policy" - wrong. Refuse to work there. If you work there, you should be held culpable for the actions of the company; at the very least, you should be held liable for any action of which you are aware. I've left places because I didn't agree with their corporate policy, business model, etc. Don't like what the Republicans are doing? Don't be a Republican, don't vote Republican. Don't like what Paypal is doing? Don't work at Paypal, don't use Paypal. Patronization of a product or service, or involvement in the production of the product or service, counts you as partially responsible for the ramifications of that product or service. Don't like factory farming? Then don't buy factory farmed meat. Think we are causing global warming? Stop driving cars and wasting electricity. Be responsible. If nothing else, thermodynamics; if you're willing to add energy to a closed system (like paypal) then you must be willing to accept the heat, as it were.
If Paypal's offices were located in some small farming community, and you really had no other employment options that paid enough so you could take care of your wife who was dying of cancer, then fine, your responsibility is limited. However, we're talking about a bomb outside offices in San Jose...with thousands of other employment opportunities within walking distance.
Only in a county like the US can we have...a foreing president jealous of a rapist
Er...wait, how is it the US's fault that Putin said that? Isn't that taking US-bashing just a weeee bit too far?
um, except you're contributing to the economic viability of CDI, enabling them to hire more people. People that will be available for other jobs.
Sortof like when you buy a steak at the grocery store, you're contributing to the economics of killing a cow. Not that particular cow - it's already dead. But you just paid for some grain for the next cow.
two more thing - using sudo isn't "logging in as"
and my example was a single example, not 2. "init 2" and then logging in as root. That you would think one would need to go to the trouble of editing anything to go to runlevel 2 is the exact reason I don't think Ubuntu should be used in a server environment.
Can you actually discredit what I'm saying? Am I saying there aren't ways around it? No. I'm saying I don't want to have to use ways around it. If I'm in a disaster situation, I don't want to have to muck around with a non-POSIX compliant hand-holding distro. I want to get in and fix the problem, in a way I would expect it to be doable in nearly any POSIX-compliant UNIX-like system. We're having a server failure here (hypothetical) and I don't have the time to deal Clippie popping up and saying "oh! it looks like you're rebooting! Did you try eating a pickle?"