One reason they are contining to go slow is so that peoples remains can be recovered. Many people value retrieving what they can of their loved ones that died in the collapse. If they simply used heavy equipment to truck it all away many bodies would be scooped up. The rubble and muck is almost being sifted to recover small remains like teeth, which hopefully will allow the victims to be identified, and bring a bit of closure to their families.
And lets pass a law against manufacturing weapons that can harm people while we are at it. All freedom loving Americans will only buy the new non-harmful weapons - it must be done for security! I'm sure the world's bad guys ALL get their arms only from the good 'ol US of A and will soon only have non-harmful weapons. This one simple law will make all the world safe for consumerism, once again.
Just like the bad guys will only use crypto with back doors, thus making evil conspiracies impossible.
Road-blocks are OK because the cops are not singling out any one person. Generally a road-block has to have a specific purpose, eg DUI, they can't just search every car.
The Mars Trilogy was Ok, but the best books by Kim Stanley Robinson are the 'Coast' series:
The Wild Shore
The Gold Coast
Pacific Edge
Can be read in any order, as they are seperate explorations, in different times and settings of life on the California coast. Listed in order published.
Windows XP has built in support for many new 'copyright protection' features. Why buy an OS that ASSUMES you are a software pirate?
SAP - Secure Audio Path, adds static to music if not 'authenticated.
WPA - Windows Product Activation - can deativate software if it thinks its running on the 'wrong' computer.
No Java, MS takes its toys home
Built in support for Passport - let the spam begin.
Before the Hard-drive manufactures came to their senses it was rumoured that XP would fully support the 'copyright' protection scheme IBM thought up for HDs. Anyone have info?
28 not old enough to be a boss? Of course it is. There are any number of 50 year olds we do not have the skills to be a boss, just as there are 28 years who do have the skills. Your statement that a 28 year old cannot possibley be mature enough to be trusted is pure, mindless, discrimination.
I worked for a 25 year old once (I was a fair bit older) because he had worked his butt off and built up a business that I wanted to be part of. I always got paid. He always let me know how things were going. He made all his employees part of the team. In short, he was a better manager/boss than a few 40 plus aged people I have worked for.
Only once a month? I admin a large app running on NT. We aren't sure if its NT, the app or both together, but we reboot once a week or performance starts to degrade.
NT4 enterprise, dual processor 4Gb of RAM, and its still slow.
For large networks I prefer Novells NDS and netware for file/print and directory services.
Far as I can tell the only reason NT is so popular as an application server is that it is easy to develop for.
You use the stolen credit card numbers to turn your BLANK cards into useable cards, and the owner won't notice until he gets his bill. This happens all the time and the credit card people are constantly fighting the smuggling and manufacture of illegal blank credit cards. Until a year or two ago it was legal to import blank credit cards into Canada!
Even peole you don't like have rights to prevent abuses of governemnt authority. Ever hear of McCarchyism?
I've heard that certain people think people who are the wrong (race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic backgroung, IQ, likes computers, listens to the wrong music....) shouldn't have any rights because they are sub-normal scum. It is particularly important to make sure that the rights all citizens have are protected at all times - especially when they are unpopular. It might you who is uppopular next.
Spying will stop being a problem once people abolish Nation States - nothing but a bunch of right squelching meglo-maniacs.
Proof? What proof? Oh, you mean all those innocent kids that starve to death every day. Yeah, that really proves there is an all powerful, loving God.
Evolution is not random. Mutation is random. The random mutations that survive are kept, the mutations that fail to breed die. This is how evolution 'chooses' good designs.
In fact, there are 'Satanists' that have in fact picked that name just to be annoying who are actually only Secular Humanists. Bit of a joke at the expense of religious folk. Not quite the same as 'Satanists' who whoship Satan who I wouldn't want to have as neighbors.
Its time for the USA to stop lecturing the world about human rights, and start spreading the one true gospel: Profit is the one true ideal.
All countries should follow the USA's lead and revise all their laws to maximise the profits of large corporations. Small corporations may also make money if it doesn't impact any large corporations. The one obligation of all good citizens is to be good consumers. Each new technology must be embraced. CD's replace vinyl, DVD's replace VHS, you must upgrade.
As has been pointed out by the most important part of society, large corporations, current copyright laws which include archaic concepts like 'fair use' are preventing maximal profits. New laws like the DMCA rectify these glaring loopholes thus moving society towards a more ideal state.
As corporations move to improve the social contract we can look forward to new, enlightened, laws like:
Infinite copyright. Why go to all the trouble of extending copyright laws every twenty years when we can get it right with one change - infinite duration copyright.
Pay per view for all media. This whole idea of 'buying' stuff really cuts into profits. All media will be metered and paid for monthly directly from your pay-check. Manufactures of durable goods will add metering capabilities via wireless (and mandatory) Internet connections so these good corporate citizens who have so long suffered under the penalty of actually selling their goods can share in the new profitability of enlightened American society.
A surtax will be added to all transactions to pay for piracy. We all know that despite the best efforts of good corporate citizens a large percentage of wrong minded consumers will subvert the ideals of the profit driven society. This surtax will help defray the cost of this piracy. To keep paper work to a minimum it will be applied to all transactions.
Minimum consumer quotas will be set. Consumers who fail to meet their quotas will be sent to re-education camps where they will be gently taught the error of their ways. (Special thanks to the Chinese for pioneering this technique).
Anonymous speech will be eliminated. If you're innocent, you have nothing to hide.
Unless you've got a family or other oblgations you really should just go for it. Find out what you need to know to get hired. Learn it. Write a demo game, brush up your resume and fire it off to everyone.
Writing games is HARD work. Interesting work if you can get a project you like. On the other hand, you'll probably start out at a fairly low level job and not have much say on what you work on - could get stuck doing little black boxes. Games almost always involves crazy amounts of over-time as dead-lines approuch.
Still, the couple of years I worked on commercial games was the most interesting programming I ever did. Didn't make much money, but glad I did it.
As already pointed out, you don't just say 'HI', you send everything at once. But the main point of discovering life is to prove that there IS life besides that on the Earth. Finding one example of life outside of the Earth will be a huge indication that life is plentiful throughout the Universe. This will have huge implications for religion and science.
Why would anyone think that just because some discovery will not grant you immediate benefits it shouldn't be pursued? You wouldn't be reading this on a computer if the people working on batteries and that new fangled, but completely useless, electricity 300 years ago had decided it wasn't worth it as there was no obvious short term payoff. A hundred years is a blink compared to even the short history of humanity.
We are not going to be stuck on the Earth forever. Mars will be terra-formed, people will fill up the solar system, and eventually move to other star systems. This may seem far fetched, but I'm sure the idea that men would walk on the moon seemed far fetched even 500 years ago.
Copying copyrighted material might not theft in your mind, but it certainly is copyright infringement.
If you want to argue that copying is morally OK, you'll have to come up something better than a meaningless sematic ploy.
I'm all for copyright, I'm against extending copyright somuch that once you buy the material you can't do with it as you please. I'm against copyrights that never end. I'm against copyrights that limit my ability to view legally purchased material: DVD regional code, proprietary formats, encryption, etc...
Ever since the Nicene Creed (Ad 325)the organized Christian church has been much more concerned with power than religion. Compare the Nicene Creed to the Jesus's (a great guy, but not the son of god)Sermon on the Mount. Just a wee bit different. (Google is your friend if not familar with these two famous works)
The organized church in Europe most certainly held back science, but the organized Chrsitian church is as close to Christ's teachings as a fundamentalist is to a scientist. The organized church was so concerned with holding onto power that the first person to publish a bible in English was burned at the stake for his trouble. Couldn't have all those unwashed peasants actually going to source and cutting out the middle man.
I always thought the morons paying twice as much to get from a to b were the schmucks. Do you think shallow idiots who base their self-worth on the cost of their toys are succesful? Do you judge people by the cost of their toys?
Capitalism is a great system for allocating resources, consumerism (keep up with the Jones, sucked in by advertising) is a poor way to make a buying decision.
The original Planet of the Apes was a movie, not a spectacle, which seems to be what you want. The original was meant to teach a minor truth about prejudice, not entertain teenage males for 120 minutes. Obviously the original went right over your head.
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Why would foriegner's be exempt? Don't they get forced to get passports or visa's?
The USA can force whatever stupid laws it wants on visitors.
One reason they are contining to go slow is so that peoples remains can be recovered. Many people value retrieving what they can of their loved ones that died in the collapse. If they simply used heavy equipment to truck it all away many bodies would be scooped up. The rubble and muck is almost being sifted to recover small remains like teeth, which hopefully will allow the victims to be identified, and bring a bit of closure to their families.
Just like the bad guys will only use crypto with back doors, thus making evil conspiracies impossible.
Road-blocks are OK because the cops are not singling out any one person. Generally a road-block has to have a specific purpose, eg DUI, they can't just search every car.
The Mars Trilogy was Ok, but the best books by Kim Stanley Robinson are the 'Coast' series:
The Wild Shore
The Gold Coast
Pacific Edge
Can be read in any order, as they are seperate explorations, in different times and settings of life on the California coast. Listed in order published.
I've been having a real hard time making the transition from 'young guy' to 'dirty old man', personally.
SAP - Secure Audio Path, adds static to music if not 'authenticated.
WPA - Windows Product Activation - can deativate software if it thinks its running on the 'wrong' computer.
No Java, MS takes its toys home
Built in support for Passport - let the spam begin.
Before the Hard-drive manufactures came to their senses it was rumoured that XP would fully support the 'copyright' protection scheme IBM thought up for HDs. Anyone have info?
For more info see these fun loving fanatics:
XP and Privacy/Copyright
I worked for a 25 year old once (I was a fair bit older) because he had worked his butt off and built up a business that I wanted to be part of. I always got paid. He always let me know how things were going. He made all his employees part of the team. In short, he was a better manager/boss than a few 40 plus aged people I have worked for.
NT4 enterprise, dual processor 4Gb of RAM, and its still slow.
For large networks I prefer Novells NDS and netware for file/print and directory services.
Far as I can tell the only reason NT is so popular as an application server is that it is easy to develop for.
You use the stolen credit card numbers to turn your BLANK cards into useable cards, and the owner won't notice until he gets his bill. This happens all the time and the credit card people are constantly fighting the smuggling and manufacture of illegal blank credit cards. Until a year or two ago it was legal to import blank credit cards into Canada!
I've heard that certain people think people who are the wrong (race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic backgroung, IQ, likes computers, listens to the wrong music....) shouldn't have any rights because they are sub-normal scum. It is particularly important to make sure that the rights all citizens have are protected at all times - especially when they are unpopular. It might you who is uppopular next.
Spying will stop being a problem once people abolish Nation States - nothing but a bunch of right squelching meglo-maniacs.
Slashdot readers aren't Linux whores; they're more like Linux groupies.
I think this series of replies pretty much proves the Netslave point: say anything bad about Linux and get flamed.
Ir should be winable because the dmca is unconstitutional.
I have bad news for you. God didn't write down all those sacred rules. A bunch of well meaning men did. Good men, but still fallible men.
Evolution is not random. Mutation is random. The random mutations that survive are kept, the mutations that fail to breed die. This is how evolution 'chooses' good designs.
In fact, there are 'Satanists' that have in fact picked that name just to be annoying who are actually only Secular Humanists. Bit of a joke at the expense of religious folk. Not quite the same as 'Satanists' who whoship Satan who I wouldn't want to have as neighbors.
All countries should follow the USA's lead and revise all their laws to maximise the profits of large corporations. Small corporations may also make money if it doesn't impact any large corporations. The one obligation of all good citizens is to be good consumers. Each new technology must be embraced. CD's replace vinyl, DVD's replace VHS, you must upgrade.
As has been pointed out by the most important part of society, large corporations, current copyright laws which include archaic concepts like 'fair use' are preventing maximal profits. New laws like the DMCA rectify these glaring loopholes thus moving society towards a more ideal state.
As corporations move to improve the social contract we can look forward to new, enlightened, laws like:
Infinite copyright. Why go to all the trouble of extending copyright laws every twenty years when we can get it right with one change - infinite duration copyright.
Pay per view for all media. This whole idea of 'buying' stuff really cuts into profits. All media will be metered and paid for monthly directly from your pay-check. Manufactures of durable goods will add metering capabilities via wireless (and mandatory) Internet connections so these good corporate citizens who have so long suffered under the penalty of actually selling their goods can share in the new profitability of enlightened American society.
A surtax will be added to all transactions to pay for piracy. We all know that despite the best efforts of good corporate citizens a large percentage of wrong minded consumers will subvert the ideals of the profit driven society. This surtax will help defray the cost of this piracy. To keep paper work to a minimum it will be applied to all transactions.
Minimum consumer quotas will be set. Consumers who fail to meet their quotas will be sent to re-education camps where they will be gently taught the error of their ways. (Special thanks to the Chinese for pioneering this technique).
Anonymous speech will be eliminated. If you're innocent, you have nothing to hide.
Welcome to the new United States of Corporations.
Unless you've got a family or other oblgations you really should just go for it. Find out what you need to know to get hired. Learn it. Write a demo game, brush up your resume and fire it off to everyone.
Writing games is HARD work. Interesting work if you can get a project you like. On the other hand, you'll probably start out at a fairly low level job and not have much say on what you work on - could get stuck doing little black boxes. Games almost always involves crazy amounts of over-time as dead-lines approuch.
Still, the couple of years I worked on commercial games was the most interesting programming I ever did. Didn't make much money, but glad I did it.
Why would anyone think that just because some discovery will not grant you immediate benefits it shouldn't be pursued? You wouldn't be reading this on a computer if the people working on batteries and that new fangled, but completely useless, electricity 300 years ago had decided it wasn't worth it as there was no obvious short term payoff. A hundred years is a blink compared to even the short history of humanity.
We are not going to be stuck on the Earth forever. Mars will be terra-formed, people will fill up the solar system, and eventually move to other star systems. This may seem far fetched, but I'm sure the idea that men would walk on the moon seemed far fetched even 500 years ago.
The water holds it UP.
If you want to argue that copying is morally OK, you'll have to come up something better than a meaningless sematic ploy.
I'm all for copyright, I'm against extending copyright somuch that once you buy the material you can't do with it as you please. I'm against copyrights that never end. I'm against copyrights that limit my ability to view legally purchased material: DVD regional code, proprietary formats, encryption, etc...
The organized church in Europe most certainly held back science, but the organized Chrsitian church is as close to Christ's teachings as a fundamentalist is to a scientist. The organized church was so concerned with holding onto power that the first person to publish a bible in English was burned at the stake for his trouble. Couldn't have all those unwashed peasants actually going to source and cutting out the middle man.
I always thought the morons paying twice as much to get from a to b were the schmucks. Do you think shallow idiots who base their self-worth on the cost of their toys are succesful? Do you judge people by the cost of their toys?
Capitalism is a great system for allocating resources, consumerism (keep up with the Jones, sucked in by advertising) is a poor way to make a buying decision.
The original Planet of the Apes was a movie, not a spectacle, which seems to be what you want. The original was meant to teach a minor truth about prejudice, not entertain teenage males for 120 minutes. Obviously the original went right over your head.
and for the goat shy...
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/lascool1. html
Use the jet to make electricty to power a laser and get VERY cold beer...