So, there, if you dare miss this game cuz of all the FUD you see here, I'm really sorry for you.
I'm not missing out on NWN because of the FUD. I'm not buying it because I was a very happy little linux gamer when I paid tuxgames my $50 for the game about 2 weeks before it was due out. And then out came the Windows version, and the Linux version was "delayed". And kept being delayed. Finally, SIX MONTHS LATER, I cancelled my order and got my money back. Saying you're going to release the linux client simultaneously with the Windows and then not coming out with it for a year is not behavior I can accept. I am voting with my wallet. I will never buy NWN.
For years, many businesses didn't like employees to telecommute because of communication problems, and the boss couldn't keep an eye on you to make sure you were working.... And yet many of these same places have no problem outsourcing the same work half-way around the globe.
Do you really think that companies are outsourcing to some guy sitting in his home in Bangalore? They're not. They're in contact with upper management at a company that does this, they have a regular office that all of the programmers come into while managers do what managers do. It's not at all the same as telecommuting, it's much more like opening a new office just for the programmers. I guarantee you, the companies handling the outsourcing are very very sure that their programmers are earing that $20 an hour and not, say, posting to Slashdot all day.
Carmack, noted chemist that he is, just wants to start up a company to make peroxide. Where's he going to put the factory? Most towns don't want it, and even then it'll take a while to build. How's he going to get the permits? The EPA, not to mention whatever local authorities exist, won't be too happy about you just setting up a heavy chemical shop. Setting up a major chemical supply business is a major undertaking. This isn't the sort of thing richboys can do on a whim. Even his offer to do a guaranteed $100,000 a year isn't going to cover the startup costs. Sorry, guy, try again.
Let's sum up the OP's question: I don't know anything about what I'm asking, so I'm going to pull some numbers out of my ass and then state that they clearly prove the point I wanted to prove.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the idea that albums currently are overpriced, but there are about a billion (okay, I made that number up) better ways to demonstrate it.
If you read my next sentence, you'll see I agree with you that this is a horrible idea. I was merely pointing out the logical conclusion from these types of arguments.
If parents don't vaccinate their children, the state takes them out of school. If a dog consistently attacks people, the authorities put it down. If someone commits three felonies, they are put away for life. This is because the rights of the many outweigh the rights of the one.
This is an interesting point, because it shows the essential flaw in this logic. In all of these examples, who is acting? "The authorities", namely, the government. In this absurb "strikeback" proposal, who is acting? Vigilante sysadmins. If anything, his examples prove that we need a national cybersecurity enforcement agency, which is responsible for taking machines offline when they get virus-infected. Clearly, this is a bad idea, and that's why strikeback will never work.
For example, nobody is quite sure what Mohammed looked like because the artists of the time weren't allowed to paint his face.
Yeah, and Christians today have a wonderful idea of what Christ looked like. Let's see... he was Jewish, lived in the middle east, in the desert... he must have been tall, blond, blue-eyed, and white!
For this kind of thing to really work right, I think it needs to be "TiVo-ized". That way you could sit down at your TV, pick the movie you want to watch and download it.
This exists, in New York anyway. Time Warner is rolling out what they call In-Demand digital cable. A friend of mine works for the company that provides the service and gave me a description. basically it's pay-per-view, except you select from a huge menu of movies, when you want to watch, and you can pause, rewind, fast-forward, whatever, all over your cable line. Sounds very cool.
You can download certain videos that are probably like the "new release" section at the video store, but also some classics (examples- A beautiful mind, harry potter,..)
Y'know, I remember when the phase 'Classics' meant 'movies people enjoy watching year after year' and not 'stuff we put out two years ago that a few people might decide to watch again'. Once again, the movie industry disgusts me.
When I bring my laptop just about anywhere, I can feel confident I'll be able to find an outlet to plug it into.
Almost anywhere. Try finding a 110V outlet on your next 6 hour cross-country flight. Sure, you can get work done for the first half of the flight, but after that, hope you brought a book.
Why shouldn't companies slap whatever restrictions they want on their products? Microsoft's EULA could state that by opening the wrapper I agree to eat the contents. If I don't agree to that, I don't buy the product.
Two problems with this. First, what if Microsoft stated in their EULA that, if I want to run Windows, I have to go find a Linux-using hippy, break into his house, reformat his hard drive, and install Windows on his computer? This is fairly clearly illegal. So such a EULA would also be illegal.
Also, just try and get a copy of the EULA to software (especially from Microsoft) before buying it. It's not on the box. It's not on the website. While I've never tried myself, I've heard tell that people calling up or emailling Microsoft to ask for a copy were denied. It's not until after you've paid your money that you get asked if you want to accept the EULA. And find a software store that will accept a return of an opened box.
Gravitational waves may travel only at the speed of light, but the effect of gravity is instantaneous.
Where did you get this information? Gravity waves (if they exist) will propogate at the speed of light, like light waves. And if the gravity wave isn't there yet, there's no gravity effect. If you could somehow instantaneously transport the sun to a different solar system, it'd take the Earth 8.5 minutes to find out and start heading for interstellar space.
You might not have ever checked out a book. But what about that grad student slaving away in the lab behind you? I guarantee he goes to the library at least once a day, reads a few recent journal articles, a few 10-year old articles, and a few 50-year old articles (which all reference each other, natch), then photocopies them all to take back to his desk to re-read. Are they going to digitize all this content? Newer stuff may already be available, but I doubt anyone will ever bother OCRing the 1949 Journal of Organometallic Studies.
I may be mistaken, but I think that people from the UK prefer to be called British, Irish, Scottish (etc) and actually take offense to the term "English."
That's because you have your groups mixed up. Most everyone from the UK is British. People from England (the southeastern bit of that funny triangly island) are English. Etc etc Scottish and Welsh and Irish. The reason most of the British resent being called English is because their ancestors tended to fight long wars with the English, which they then lost, making them now part of the same country.
BTW, does anybody know what happened to the name "Monday"? I thought PWC consulting was changing it's name to "Monday". Am I wrong?
No, you're not. The timing on this is odd, since PwCC was scheduled to change it's name to Monday on August 1st, and go IPO on the 18th. Everyone working there already has monday.com email addresses and Monday business cards. Smacks of last-ditch desparation, no?
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Let's take, for instance, a system like they
have in hotels, where you have to log into a
web page before you are even routed.
People are way ahead of you. Just check out NoCatAuth, at www.nocat.net
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Just because someone's science is motivated by pre-existing beliefs doesn't automatically make his science bad.
The problem here is not having pre-existing beliefs. It's having pre-existing beliefs and then using them to filter what you observe. Science is about observation. If your beliefs keep you from observing accurately, then yes, that is bad science. And when people who habitually practice bad science (yes, I'm looking at you, creationists and flat-earthers) try and horn in on other fields, it's quite justified for others to warn people to watch their science just a little bit more.
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Infinite free energy, along with infinite free labor, = socialism/communism, just like the P2P networks.
SO you've perfected a way to turn energy into food? I don't think these printers will make a nice juicy steak as well as they make blenders.
So, there, if you dare miss this game cuz of all the FUD you see here, I'm really sorry for you.
I'm not missing out on NWN because of the FUD. I'm not buying it because I was a very happy little linux gamer when I paid tuxgames my $50 for the game about 2 weeks before it was due out. And then out came the Windows version, and the Linux version was "delayed". And kept being delayed. Finally, SIX MONTHS LATER, I cancelled my order and got my money back. Saying you're going to release the linux client simultaneously with the Windows and then not coming out with it for a year is not behavior I can accept. I am voting with my wallet. I will never buy NWN.
For years, many businesses didn't like employees to telecommute because of communication problems, and the boss couldn't keep an eye on you to make sure you were working. ... And yet many of these same places have no problem outsourcing the same work half-way around the globe.
Do you really think that companies are outsourcing to some guy sitting in his home in Bangalore? They're not. They're in contact with upper management at a company that does this, they have a regular office that all of the programmers come into while managers do what managers do. It's not at all the same as telecommuting, it's much more like opening a new office just for the programmers. I guarantee you, the companies handling the outsourcing are very very sure that their programmers are earing that $20 an hour and not, say, posting to Slashdot all day.
People wouldn't notice the difference between that 2.4ghz P4 and a $50 AMD Athlon XP 1700+
Until their pants catch on fire, anyways.
The only thing this left out: what the hell is Single Sourcing?
Carmack, noted chemist that he is, just wants to start up a company to make peroxide. Where's he going to put the factory? Most towns don't want it, and even then it'll take a while to build. How's he going to get the permits? The EPA, not to mention whatever local authorities exist, won't be too happy about you just setting up a heavy chemical shop. Setting up a major chemical supply business is a major undertaking. This isn't the sort of thing richboys can do on a whim. Even his offer to do a guaranteed $100,000 a year isn't going to cover the startup costs. Sorry, guy, try again.
That's what I do.. I hate getting email from somebody I don't know...
Hi, just wanted to send you an email to say how much I agree. Whoops, you didn't get it, cause you don't know me!
Let's sum up the OP's question: I don't know anything about what I'm asking, so I'm going to pull some numbers out of my ass and then state that they clearly prove the point I wanted to prove.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the idea that albums currently are overpriced, but there are about a billion (okay, I made that number up) better ways to demonstrate it.
If you read my next sentence, you'll see I agree with you that this is a horrible idea. I was merely pointing out the logical conclusion from these types of arguments.
If parents don't vaccinate their children, the state takes them out of school. If a dog consistently attacks people, the authorities put it down. If someone commits three felonies, they are put away for life. This is because the rights of the many outweigh the rights of the one.
This is an interesting point, because it shows the essential flaw in this logic. In all of these examples, who is acting? "The authorities", namely, the government. In this absurb "strikeback" proposal, who is acting? Vigilante sysadmins. If anything, his examples prove that we need a national cybersecurity enforcement agency, which is responsible for taking machines offline when they get virus-infected. Clearly, this is a bad idea, and that's why strikeback will never work.
For example, nobody is quite sure what Mohammed looked like because the artists of the time weren't allowed to paint his face.
Yeah, and Christians today have a wonderful idea of what Christ looked like. Let's see... he was Jewish, lived in the middle east, in the desert... he must have been tall, blond, blue-eyed, and white!
For this kind of thing to really work right, I think it needs to be "TiVo-ized". That way you could sit down at your TV, pick the movie you want to watch and download it.
This exists, in New York anyway. Time Warner is rolling out what they call In-Demand digital cable. A friend of mine works for the company that provides the service and gave me a description. basically it's pay-per-view, except you select from a huge menu of movies, when you want to watch, and you can pause, rewind, fast-forward, whatever, all over your cable line. Sounds very cool.
You can download certain videos that are probably like the "new release" section at the video store, but also some classics (examples- A beautiful mind, harry potter, ..)
Y'know, I remember when the phase 'Classics' meant 'movies people enjoy watching year after year' and not 'stuff we put out two years ago that a few people might decide to watch again'. Once again, the movie industry disgusts me.
When I bring my laptop just about anywhere, I can feel confident I'll be able to find an outlet to plug it into.
Almost anywhere. Try finding a 110V outlet on your next 6 hour cross-country flight. Sure, you can get work done for the first half of the flight, but after that, hope you brought a book.
Why shouldn't companies slap whatever restrictions they want on their products? Microsoft's EULA could state that by opening the wrapper I agree to eat the contents. If I don't agree to that, I don't buy the product.
Two problems with this. First, what if Microsoft stated in their EULA that, if I want to run Windows, I have to go find a Linux-using hippy, break into his house, reformat his hard drive, and install Windows on his computer? This is fairly clearly illegal. So such a EULA would also be illegal.
Also, just try and get a copy of the EULA to software (especially from Microsoft) before buying it. It's not on the box. It's not on the website. While I've never tried myself, I've heard tell that people calling up or emailling Microsoft to ask for a copy were denied. It's not until after you've paid your money that you get asked if you want to accept the EULA. And find a software store that will accept a return of an opened box.
It still doesn't sound like a computer that I'd be interested in buying
:-)
What? I'm very interested in buying. $200 for a machine that'll be a kickass firewall, web server, DNS machine, and UT2K3 server? Where can I get one?
I suppose he'll go teach high school physics now or something.
Really, isn't the last thing we want a proven liar doing going to be teaching the impressionable young physicists of tomorrow?
If you've read Sundiver, go ahead and read the next 5 Uplift novels. Yes, they're worth reading.
:-)
Once you finish them, you can start on his other stuff, such as Earth, but it'll take you a while.
Gravitational waves may travel only at the speed of light, but the effect of gravity is instantaneous.
Where did you get this information? Gravity waves (if they exist) will propogate at the speed of light, like light waves. And if the gravity wave isn't there yet, there's no gravity effect. If you could somehow instantaneously transport the sun to a different solar system, it'd take the Earth 8.5 minutes to find out and start heading for interstellar space.
Those of us using VI are fine, tho.
You might not have ever checked out a book. But what about that grad student slaving away in the lab behind you? I guarantee he goes to the library at least once a day, reads a few recent journal articles, a few 10-year old articles, and a few 50-year old articles (which all reference each other, natch), then photocopies them all to take back to his desk to re-read. Are they going to digitize all this content? Newer stuff may already be available, but I doubt anyone will ever bother OCRing the 1949 Journal of Organometallic Studies.
I may be mistaken, but I think that people from the UK prefer to be called British, Irish, Scottish (etc) and actually take offense to the term "English."
That's because you have your groups mixed up. Most everyone from the UK is British. People from England (the southeastern bit of that funny triangly island) are English. Etc etc Scottish and Welsh and Irish. The reason most of the British resent being called English is because their ancestors tended to fight long wars with the English, which they then lost, making them now part of the same country.
BTW, does anybody know what happened to the name "Monday"? I thought PWC consulting was changing it's name to "Monday". Am I wrong?
No, you're not. The timing on this is odd, since PwCC was scheduled to change it's name to Monday on August 1st, and go IPO on the 18th. Everyone working there already has monday.com email addresses and Monday business cards. Smacks of last-ditch desparation, no?
Let's take, for instance, a system like they have in hotels, where you have to log into a web page before you are even routed.
People are way ahead of you. Just check out NoCatAuth, at www.nocat.net
Just because someone's science is motivated by pre-existing beliefs doesn't automatically make his science bad.
The problem here is not having pre-existing beliefs. It's having pre-existing beliefs and then using them to filter what you observe. Science is about observation. If your beliefs keep you from observing accurately, then yes, that is bad science. And when people who habitually practice bad science (yes, I'm looking at you, creationists and flat-earthers) try and horn in on other fields, it's quite justified for others to warn people to watch their science just a little bit more.