Nope, wasn't aware of it. Unlike print and broadcast news, news aggregators online let me filter out entertainment and sports "news," so I had no idea, and I can't say I mind. I look forward to the day when some "famous" actor or athlete dies and I'm able to say "Who?"
"How do you write an analysis of Shakespeare (a derived work that's covered by Fair Use, btw) without deriving it somewhat from Shakespeare?"
Nit-pick: his works are in the public domain.
"Furthermore, the university should be protecting these students"
Ah, to be young and foolish.
"If the book maker's going to be anal about this, they're going to be anal about something else that's important to the university."
There is one and only one thing important to the university: to make money. If anything, I'm sure the university is quite happy to have this publisher rigorously pursue that which threatens the school's cut of the profits from the scheme.
"Why do university students always forget that the professors are their employees?"
The word you're looking for is "tenure."
"It works, at my alma mater I saw a professor let go when his classes dropped to zero enrollment because he had sufficiently pissed off his students."
And in mine I saw a university resort to either marking classes taught by "staff" or "accidentally" reversing which professors taught which sections, all to ensure that the students had already committed to their schedule before they stroll into class on the first day to see who will really be teaching them.
Worst case scenario: put him on sabbatical for a little bit. Students move on, either by graduating or dropping out, so the collective memory of the student body only goes back so far.
Actually, you should be listening to your own advice: the professor is the university's employee, so this money-making tactic probably has the implicit consent (if not the explicit endorsement) of the higher-ups in the continuing quest to milk money from the students.
A college professor trying to sell an ebook of notes and students trying to sell theirs. Why, exactly, must college be both the center and the promoter of so much bullshit?
"yet stating that you want the State to enforce, through violence (the only way to enforce a law, including those against "hate crimes") when you are unable or unwilling to use violence yourself."
So... you're bitching about European Muslims seeking the same legal protections afforded to other religious and ethnic minorities because they're not being violent enough? It would be better for them to seize control in a bloody coup?
You lecture about what is and is not illegal (in the United States), about when forcible action is and is not justified, but then follow it with an assertion that all forcible action is inherently wrong, and he's the hypocrite?
Tell me, AK Marc, where's your bloody insurrection to justify the pork sent to Alaska?
"Everything is "hate crime" and suddenly we must go to some sort of doublespeak sensitivity training to accomodate that. "
Assuming you're in Europe ("we"), it's your countries and your laws.
"anything anyone wants to say that displeases you should be considered hate crime, and as such forbidden. It sounds remarkably as a first step towards state-sanctioned Sharia law."
And it also describes laws in Europe in the past few decades, even predating the current influx of Islamic immigrants. Protected speech in Europe doesn't include, for example, Holocaust denial.
With your command of English, it seems safe to assume that you've spent a great deal of time immersed in American media and American pop culture, and American views on what "freedom of speech" means. However, simply because you feel something should be does not make it so, and your own duly elected representatives have crafted your own laws shaping what speech is and is not protected. But you would choose to blame the newly-arrived Islamic immigrant for seeking the protection of laws that you the native-born have crafted for yourselves long before his arrival? Because it goes against the ideals of a foreign-produced television drama?
"I suggest you do a little research on the meaning of "freedom of speech.""
I suggest you do a little research on European law. This isn't the United States we're talking about, and most countries in post-Holocaust Europe have laws against "hate speech."
Really? Got a decent poll of a representative sample of the general population that says "We are unhappy with warrantless wiretaps?" Has it been shown to be important enough to be included in, say, a major presidential candidate's talking points? Did McCain or Clinton vote against retroactive immunity for the phone companies? Has the Democratic Congress appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the wiretaps?
A large portion of the population doesn't care. An even larger portion doesn't even know, but wouldn't care if they did. If anything, the general environment is apathetic and the legislative environment is downright encouraging such behavior from major corporations.
There's at least one application on this HP notebook for which the "uninstall" button has been grayed out. Additionally, there are other applications that don't even appear on the list. We're talking about shit that's designed to be difficult to remove.
"if you are like me and must have wireless working out of the box to be able to download anything its not much help if drivers are available online."
If you "need" wireless working out of the box, why are you bothering to deal with Linux? In my past attempts at Ubuntu, the only time wireless "just worked" was when I turned on the SSID broadcast and turned off the encryption.
With Windows, if the NIC (wireless or otherwise) is newer than the operating system, you may need some cat5e to download drivers. With Linux, you need the same cat5e cable to spend an hour with Google to find a somewhat relevant bulletin board where the only offered solution is "Modify the.conf file, n00b!"
"most people will get the modded and download "backup" games,
I'd wager it's easier to find a Wii sitting on a store shelf than it is to find ten^Wfive such modded consoles in the same ZIP code. Just because it's a popular "feature" on your local Warez board doesn't mean it's popular with the general population.
"Before the Neo-Cons, there was a time when the Republican party was actually conservative."
And before that, the Republicans were liberal.
With both parties, ideologies come and go; the only thing that matters is winning elections.
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You do so by continuing to read the rest of the sentence: "and talking up the service's access to a wide audience" The Wii has something the industry refers to as 'an installed base.'
Inheritors of perpetual intellectual property created by long-dead author continue to milk the cash cow, proudly joining the ranks of such luminaries as Brian Herbert.
If it's Mickey Mouse, it's evil, but if it vaguely resembles geek fare it gets a pass?
That's the funny thing: the few times I'm browsing without AdBlock, I see those ads, and I ask myself "Why would I want to meet sexy singles that live over an hour away from me?" I'm sorry, fly-by-night singles service, but no sex is worth spending that much time on I-4 just to get it.
In the same vein as the 9/11 commission, too. The very same one that promptly got ignored by both the White House and Congress and has been doing nothing but collecting dust since its release.
Investigations? Lawsuits? Independent prosecutors? Impeachment hearings? Oh no, that's too much like work.
And the Democrats are wondering why their Congress is about as popular as the previous Republican one, and why some new guy whose barely made a name for himself, whose only real defining point is that he wasn't involved with any of this six years ago, is able to seriously challenge a party big-wig who's been around for 20 years for their presidential nomination?
That only interests a small segment of the audiophile population, which is itself a small segment of the consumer population in general. If that truly was a major deciding factor in the purchase, then the MPAA's piracy numbers are accurate. You can't have it both ways.
Of course, I'd wager you also foresaw the failure of Apple's iTunes because of its DRM format and still wonder how the Virtual Console can possibly make money with ZSNES available for free.
Wait... you're saying the UK actually has domestic flights? Their country is actually big enough to actually justify the hassle of flying from time to time?
I'm sure glad Hillary Clinton took the time out of her presidential campaign to vote against the effort to grant the phone companies retroactive immunity. Oh, wait...
I was under the impression that movies haven't made a profit since shortly before the introduction of talkies. How can the movie industry "lose" that which their accountants deny existed in the first place?
Slashdot Mirror
"Even on Slashdot, we have seen people writing purple prose"
Nah, that's just the color of hypertext here in the games section.
"at least Everquest and Everquest 2 makes it more realistic and believable."
Yes, because I want realistic elves casting believable magic spells.
And here we have the fanboae rabidicus in its natural environment...
"As you're probably already aware, Charlton Heston passed away yesterday."
Nope, wasn't aware of it. Unlike print and broadcast news, news aggregators online let me filter out entertainment and sports "news," so I had no idea, and I can't say I mind. I look forward to the day when some "famous" actor or athlete dies and I'm able to say "Who?"
"How do you write an analysis of Shakespeare (a derived work that's covered by Fair Use, btw) without deriving it somewhat from Shakespeare?"
Nit-pick: his works are in the public domain.
"Furthermore, the university should be protecting these students"
Ah, to be young and foolish.
"If the book maker's going to be anal about this, they're going to be anal about something else that's important to the university."
There is one and only one thing important to the university: to make money. If anything, I'm sure the university is quite happy to have this publisher rigorously pursue that which threatens the school's cut of the profits from the scheme.
"Why do university students always forget that the professors are their employees?"
The word you're looking for is "tenure."
"It works, at my alma mater I saw a professor let go when his classes dropped to zero enrollment because he had sufficiently pissed off his students."
And in mine I saw a university resort to either marking classes taught by "staff" or "accidentally" reversing which professors taught which sections, all to ensure that the students had already committed to their schedule before they stroll into class on the first day to see who will really be teaching them.
Worst case scenario: put him on sabbatical for a little bit. Students move on, either by graduating or dropping out, so the collective memory of the student body only goes back so far.
Actually, you should be listening to your own advice: the professor is the university's employee, so this money-making tactic probably has the implicit consent (if not the explicit endorsement) of the higher-ups in the continuing quest to milk money from the students.
A college professor trying to sell an ebook of notes and students trying to sell theirs. Why, exactly, must college be both the center and the promoter of so much bullshit?
Mega Man.
"At noon today (Eastern Standard Time)"
It happened at 13:00 Eastern Daylight Time?
(Just a pet peeve of mine)
"Anti-Semitism is not a crime."
In many European countries, you have.
"I can hate all the Jews I want because they are Jewish and I've committed no crime."
Deny that the Holocaust happened and you have.
"That's the core of the Freedom of Speech, to say that which everyone hates and thinks is wrong."
This isn't the United States.
"yet stating that you want the State to enforce, through violence (the only way to enforce a law, including those against "hate crimes") when you are unable or unwilling to use violence yourself."
So... you're bitching about European Muslims seeking the same legal protections afforded to other religious and ethnic minorities because they're not being violent enough? It would be better for them to seize control in a bloody coup?
You lecture about what is and is not illegal (in the United States), about when forcible action is and is not justified, but then follow it with an assertion that all forcible action is inherently wrong, and he's the hypocrite?
Tell me, AK Marc, where's your bloody insurrection to justify the pork sent to Alaska?
"Everything is "hate crime" and suddenly we must go to some sort of doublespeak sensitivity training to accomodate that. "
Assuming you're in Europe ("we"), it's your countries and your laws.
"anything anyone wants to say that displeases you should be considered hate crime, and as such forbidden. It sounds remarkably as a first step towards state-sanctioned Sharia law."
And it also describes laws in Europe in the past few decades, even predating the current influx of Islamic immigrants. Protected speech in Europe doesn't include, for example, Holocaust denial.
With your command of English, it seems safe to assume that you've spent a great deal of time immersed in American media and American pop culture, and American views on what "freedom of speech" means. However, simply because you feel something should be does not make it so, and your own duly elected representatives have crafted your own laws shaping what speech is and is not protected. But you would choose to blame the newly-arrived Islamic immigrant for seeking the protection of laws that you the native-born have crafted for yourselves long before his arrival? Because it goes against the ideals of a foreign-produced television drama?
"I suggest you do a little research on the meaning of "freedom of speech.""
I suggest you do a little research on European law. This isn't the United States we're talking about, and most countries in post-Holocaust Europe have laws against "hate speech."
"After the recent warrentless wiretap fiasco,"
Really? Got a decent poll of a representative sample of the general population that says "We are unhappy with warrantless wiretaps?" Has it been shown to be important enough to be included in, say, a major presidential candidate's talking points? Did McCain or Clinton vote against retroactive immunity for the phone companies? Has the Democratic Congress appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the wiretaps?
A large portion of the population doesn't care. An even larger portion doesn't even know, but wouldn't care if they did. If anything, the general environment is apathetic and the legislative environment is downright encouraging such behavior from major corporations.
There's at least one application on this HP notebook for which the "uninstall" button has been grayed out. Additionally, there are other applications that don't even appear on the list. We're talking about shit that's designed to be difficult to remove.
They don't call it "nagware" for nothing.
"if you are like me and must have wireless working out of the box to be able to download anything its not much help if drivers are available online."
.conf file, n00b!"
If you "need" wireless working out of the box, why are you bothering to deal with Linux? In my past attempts at Ubuntu, the only time wireless "just worked" was when I turned on the SSID broadcast and turned off the encryption.
With Windows, if the NIC (wireless or otherwise) is newer than the operating system, you may need some cat5e to download drivers. With Linux, you need the same cat5e cable to spend an hour with Google to find a somewhat relevant bulletin board where the only offered solution is "Modify the
"Other than the fact that PC users can download and run games released as free software,"
Oooh, ahhh, Tux Racer.
"freeware,"
Worth every penny.
"or shareware,"
Now there's something I haven't seen for fifteen years...
"produced by any developer with a copy of Windows and a copy of GCC?"
Yeah, and FrontPage makes me a fantastic website designer.
People pay money for games because they're worth it. If any random gratis code would satisfy them, they wouldn't get any farther than Minesweeper.
"most people will get the modded and download "backup" games,
I'd wager it's easier to find a Wii sitting on a store shelf than it is to find ten^Wfive such modded consoles in the same ZIP code. Just because it's a popular "feature" on your local Warez board doesn't mean it's popular with the general population.
"Before the Neo-Cons, there was a time when the Republican party was actually conservative."
And before that, the Republicans were liberal.
With both parties, ideologies come and go; the only thing that matters is winning elections.
You do so by continuing to read the rest of the sentence: "and talking up the service's access to a wide audience" The Wii has something the industry refers to as 'an installed base.'
Inheritors of perpetual intellectual property created by long-dead author continue to milk the cash cow, proudly joining the ranks of such luminaries as Brian Herbert.
If it's Mickey Mouse, it's evil, but if it vaguely resembles geek fare it gets a pass?
"Meet sexy singles in [your town]."
That's the funny thing: the few times I'm browsing without AdBlock, I see those ads, and I ask myself "Why would I want to meet sexy singles that live over an hour away from me?" I'm sorry, fly-by-night singles service, but no sex is worth spending that much time on I-4 just to get it.
In the same vein as the 9/11 commission, too. The very same one that promptly got ignored by both the White House and Congress and has been doing nothing but collecting dust since its release.
Investigations? Lawsuits? Independent prosecutors? Impeachment hearings? Oh no, that's too much like work.
And the Democrats are wondering why their Congress is about as popular as the previous Republican one, and why some new guy whose barely made a name for himself, whose only real defining point is that he wasn't involved with any of this six years ago, is able to seriously challenge a party big-wig who's been around for 20 years for their presidential nomination?
"can be backed up to a computer"
That only interests a small segment of the audiophile population, which is itself a small segment of the consumer population in general. If that truly was a major deciding factor in the purchase, then the MPAA's piracy numbers are accurate. You can't have it both ways.
Of course, I'd wager you also foresaw the failure of Apple's iTunes because of its DRM format and still wonder how the Virtual Console can possibly make money with ZSNES available for free.
Wait... you're saying the UK actually has domestic flights? Their country is actually big enough to actually justify the hassle of flying from time to time?
I'm sure glad Hillary Clinton took the time out of her presidential campaign to vote against the effort to grant the phone companies retroactive immunity. Oh, wait...
I was under the impression that movies haven't made a profit since shortly before the introduction of talkies. How can the movie industry "lose" that which their accountants deny existed in the first place?