The federal law is that you can't access a computer you don't have authorization to access. Presumably, in the EULA, the user authorizes AOL to access their computer. Therefore, AOL's actions don't violate the law (of course, I've never read the AOL EULA, so I'm just talking out of my ass here).
You can be both nearsighted and farsighted at the same time. That's what bifocals are for. If you don't want to need them, I wouldn't go courting farsightedness just yet.
Generally, the very poor pay no income tax, and the mildly poor pay very little. It can still be argued that income tax isn't fair, but it's much better than a sales tax.
GTA is not a multiplayer game, and so there's no problem with letting the user fuck it up however they want. Doom III is, and it's important that the physics are consistant on all computers.
And really, whether or not some site uses it for hardware benchmarks has absolutely nothing with how "relevant" a game is to gamers, who generally want to play a game more than they want to benchmark it.
Freenet is basically that system now. It chokes on almost anything bigger than a 10K text file (come to think of it, it chokes on most 10K text files too).
The great thing about tabbed browsing is that you can set up the middle mouse button to open a link in a background tab while you're still reading the current tab. Sure, this could work just as well with an "open window in background" feature, but IE doesn't do that either (although I think Opera might).
Poor people generally spend close to 100% of their income, whereas rich people spend a significantly smaller percentage. Therefore, the poor are taxed more (proportionally speaking) with sales tax than with an income tax.
35000 random internet users might be significant, but 35000 Dilbert.com readers aren't, because Dilbert readers are not a representative sample of the US population.
The only problems being that there currently is no Linux for newer iPods, and Tremor (the vorbis decoder) can't run in realtime on the older ones (at least, not without more optimization).
In fact, this was one of the two big reasons we went with the Zaurus for this app instead of Pocket PC, since that's not really possible with Pocket PC
What do you mean? I'm ssh'd into my iPaq right now.
You're smoking crack. FAAD2 cannot decrypt encrypted AAC from the music store. Standard iTunes-ripped AAC, sure, but Apple's encrypted AAC is proprietary, undocumented, and illegal under the DMCA to reverse-engineer.
The only closed-source thing it still needs is the CodeWeavers QuickTime plug-in, sadly (AFAIK -- I'd be happy to find I'm wrong on
mplayer and Xine both have Mozilla plug-ins supporting most Internet audio/video. They're not quite as slick as Crossover, and they don't do Shockwave or other Windows plugins, but they can be quite handy.
So... what innovations exactly were you saying have taken place? I'm not saying Linux hasn't innovated in other areas, but I don't think that being able to play 3D games counts as innovation.
You're completely missing the point. The great-great-great-grandparent's point was that Apple is perceived as cool because they get many new technologies and innovations (like iTMS, 802.11g, etc.) before any other platform. As I said, none of those games was originally exclusively Linux game that was then ported to Windows. They were all Windows games that happened to have Linux ports. The only first-to-Linux game I've ever seen is TuxRacer, which is really not relevent these days.
None of those games were first on Linux. NWN was so massively delayed we got about 50/. articales about it. Linux apps, yes, but they're not Linux innovations, which is what the parent was getting at.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but in case you're not, I'd just like to point out that I played all the way through GTA3 and Vice City several times without ever realizing that you can pick up a hooker. It's really not an important part of the game.
It's not he violence, it's the sex/nudity and language that really gives it the "M" rating
What? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've run through the entire Vice City storyline, and I've never seen any nudity and only occasionally heard some relatively mild language (certainly nothing that every 10-year-old in the country hasn't heard). If there was any reason that young kids shouldn't play this game, it'd be the violence.
Would you buy porn for your 14 year old?
I doubt I'd ever buy porn for anyone, because there's so much free stuff available. But, if I had a 14-year-old, I wouldn't have a problem with them looking at porn of their own accord. If you think seeing images of naked humans is going to cause irreperable harm to a child's psyche, I'd be interested to hear your logic.
An official installer for Firebird is in the works (there's an unoffical one already), and I've never heard of anyone having "troubles" installing Flash. What exactly doesn't work?
Hmmm. I've seen polls showing 90%+ in favor of leaving the Pledge as-is. I haven't seen any polls in favor of abolishing it.
Of course if you ask people, "Should the pledge be abolished?", they're going to say no. However, if it suddenly ceased to exist, probably very few would care.
Is there anything wrong with the Pledge?
Yes, it has the words "under God" in it.
Is there anything wrong with saying it? Is there anything wrong with believing what you are saying? Is there anything wrong with having pride in your country, even if you don't agree with its government sometimes?
No, no, and no. However, there is something wrong with strongly suggesting to schoolchildren (and Americans in general) that the official view of the USA is that there is a God and that America is under it. If people want to believe that, that's fine with me, but the state shouldn't have a part in it.
It was a hypothetical situation. No one said you had an XBox. The same thing would be true of any console - if I port Linux to my Gamecube, yours is unaffected.
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The federal law is that you can't access a computer you don't have authorization to access. Presumably, in the EULA, the user authorizes AOL to access their computer. Therefore, AOL's actions don't violate the law (of course, I've never read the AOL EULA, so I'm just talking out of my ass here).
I doubt what AOL's doing is illegal. Presumably their EULA allows them to do this sort of stuff.
You can be both nearsighted and farsighted at the same time. That's what bifocals are for. If you don't want to need them, I wouldn't go courting farsightedness just yet.
Generally, the very poor pay no income tax, and the mildly poor pay very little. It can still be argued that income tax isn't fair, but it's much better than a sales tax.
And really, whether or not some site uses it for hardware benchmarks has absolutely nothing with how "relevant" a game is to gamers, who generally want to play a game more than they want to benchmark it.
Freenet is basically that system now. It chokes on almost anything bigger than a 10K text file (come to think of it, it chokes on most 10K text files too).
Correction: there is no such thing as a good email forward.
The great thing about tabbed browsing is that you can set up the middle mouse button to open a link in a background tab while you're still reading the current tab. Sure, this could work just as well with an "open window in background" feature, but IE doesn't do that either (although I think Opera might).
Poor people generally spend close to 100% of their income, whereas rich people spend a significantly smaller percentage. Therefore, the poor are taxed more (proportionally speaking) with sales tax than with an income tax.
35000 random internet users might be significant, but 35000 Dilbert.com readers aren't, because Dilbert readers are not a representative sample of the US population.
The only problems being that there currently is no Linux for newer iPods, and Tremor (the vorbis decoder) can't run in realtime on the older ones (at least, not without more optimization).
What do you mean? I'm ssh'd into my iPaq right now.
You're smoking crack. FAAD2 cannot decrypt encrypted AAC from the music store. Standard iTunes-ripped AAC, sure, but Apple's encrypted AAC is proprietary, undocumented, and illegal under the DMCA to reverse-engineer.
Mplayer can't decode encrypted AAC files, no matter what DLL's you use.
mplayer and Xine both have Mozilla plug-ins supporting most Internet audio/video. They're not quite as slick as Crossover, and they don't do Shockwave or other Windows plugins, but they can be quite handy.
So... what innovations exactly were you saying have taken place? I'm not saying Linux hasn't innovated in other areas, but I don't think that being able to play 3D games counts as innovation.
You're completely missing the point. The great-great-great-grandparent's point was that Apple is perceived as cool because they get many new technologies and innovations (like iTMS, 802.11g, etc.) before any other platform. As I said, none of those games was originally exclusively Linux game that was then ported to Windows. They were all Windows games that happened to have Linux ports. The only first-to-Linux game I've ever seen is TuxRacer, which is really not relevent these days.
None of those games were first on Linux. NWN was so massively delayed we got about 50 /. articales about it. Linux apps, yes, but they're not Linux innovations, which is what the parent was getting at.
Try rhythmbox. It's not quite at iTunes level yet, and the UI is a blatant Apple ripoff, but it's pretty good nonetheless.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but in case you're not, I'd just like to point out that I played all the way through GTA3 and Vice City several times without ever realizing that you can pick up a hooker. It's really not an important part of the game.
What? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've run through the entire Vice City storyline, and I've never seen any nudity and only occasionally heard some relatively mild language (certainly nothing that every 10-year-old in the country hasn't heard). If there was any reason that young kids shouldn't play this game, it'd be the violence.
Would you buy porn for your 14 year old?
I doubt I'd ever buy porn for anyone, because there's so much free stuff available. But, if I had a 14-year-old, I wouldn't have a problem with them looking at porn of their own accord. If you think seeing images of naked humans is going to cause irreperable harm to a child's psyche, I'd be interested to hear your logic.
An official installer for Firebird is in the works (there's an unoffical one already), and I've never heard of anyone having "troubles" installing Flash. What exactly doesn't work?
KaZaA, bittorrent, etc. don't check ID. If a (reasonably smart) kid can't get what they want one way, they'll get it another way.
Of course if you ask people, "Should the pledge be abolished?", they're going to say no. However, if it suddenly ceased to exist, probably very few would care.
Is there anything wrong with the Pledge?
Yes, it has the words "under God" in it.
Is there anything wrong with saying it? Is there anything wrong with believing what you are saying? Is there anything wrong with having pride in your country, even if you don't agree with its government sometimes?
No, no, and no. However, there is something wrong with strongly suggesting to schoolchildren (and Americans in general) that the official view of the USA is that there is a God and that America is under it. If people want to believe that, that's fine with me, but the state shouldn't have a part in it.
It was a hypothetical situation. No one said you had an XBox. The same thing would be true of any console - if I port Linux to my Gamecube, yours is unaffected.