I can't differentiate between different melodies, can't see color, can't reliably do arithmatic computation, can't speak foreign languages, and have no athletic ability.
That was me last night at about 2AM. It's looking like 2AM tonight will be more of the same, possibly with some "difficulty speaking my native english," thrown in.
I don't know what rural viewers you're speaking of, but the ratio of satellite dishes to rednecks is a minimum of 1:1 in all the rural areas I've lived in or travelled through.
Well, since I read/. on company time, my integrity is perhaps somewhat questionable. However, whenever I'm "working on open source," as you call it, I make sure to keep my fingers near the Windows-M keys. That's all the approval I've needed in the past. Happy programming.:D
While funny and true to some extent, the ability to install software is of course important. If turning on and off the monitor involved soldering and de-soldering the power line each time, it would detract from the overall quality of the experience, even if all of its other qualities were exceptional. In the same way, if it's a burden to install and remove software it detracts from the overall experience. Whether installation should be a function of the operating system or the software itself is another question.
These are TOOLS. Tools do not break the law, people break the law. If there is even one small legitimate use to a certain piece of software, no one should have any argument against its use even if millions are breaking the law with it.
You seem to have some misguided notion that tools are legal simply because they are inanimate or incapable of thought or action. There are many tools, however, which are not legal. Lockpicks, silencers, and weapons of mass destruction are all tools which are in most cases illegal for individuals to own. The "right" to own and operate a motor vehicle is actually a privelage, at least in the US. Drugs could be considered tools as well. Your argument is not based in fact or sound reason.
ALSO just because you break the law doesn't mean your not on the moral high ground.
True, but you fail to state the moral principles upon which you supposedly stand.
I am definitely to the point of refusing to buy CD's and movies because I am treated like a criminal. Yes... I use it. I just downloaded all of Fallen by Evanescence.
So you don't mind being a criminal, or committing criminal acts, as long as you're not treated like a criminal? Or are you treated like a criminal when you purchase your entertainment through legal channels, and if so, how?
Don't get me wrong, I refuse to buy music as well, but not because of some deluded sense of moral fortitude that I invent to justify my actions -- I simply don't want to pay $12 for a CD.
The military's solution is called Preventive Maintenance (or PMs for short - yes, it's real). It basically boils down to wiping off the dust on a regular basis, just like you would with the rest of your house. It's not fun, but it works, and it's well under $500.
Not to mention.. "Courtesy of Google News, a transcript of a panel discussion regarding the future of the shuttle program in wake of the fucking shuttle burning up on re-entry, killing all on board and showering east Texas with debris," has that professional journalistic ring to it as well.
It's being used as a pronoun, the way I used "it" to replace "incident," to avoid repetition.
There's a thing called "escalation of force," which any US military security follows. Just because a guard is authorized to use deadly force doesn't mean he is justified in doing so. Few watchstanders would be willing to fill a peace protestor full of lead and spend the remainder of their existance in Leavenworth. If the person in question failed to respond appropriately to vocal commands followed by physical restraint, or was in posession of and was clearly about to use a deadly weapon, then deadly force would be employed. Further, to protect the theft of items of national security, or weapons other than small arms, deadly force would be employed against an uncooperative culprit. There are very few instances where trespassors would actually be "Shot on sight," despite what Hollywood would have you believe.
Gaining access to the lobby of a processing plant, while possibly illegal, is no more distressing than the reporter ducking under the wire at Los Alamos. The damage done by self-detonation would be a tragedy, but hardly a catastrophy.
I'd be happy if my girlfriend would stabilize in three dimensions at room temperature.
I've done a bit of research on this, but haven't been able to find a temperature which will cause pixels to stabilize as a three dimensional girlfriend. Please let me know if you have any success.
"Companies that worry too much about public response underestimate the public's ability to assess the situation with some sophistication," [the FBI spokesman] said. "If a bank robber sticks a gun in a teller's face, the public is not confused about who's fault that is."
What about companies that provide little to no protection to their networks? Is that still the same as a robber sticking a gun in a teller's face, or would that be more akin to say, someone walking into the bank, into the unlocked vault, and walking out with everyone's valuables? And can the public still asses the difference with any level of sophistication?
If the ISP is not responsible for their screw-up, who is?
You seem to have already assumed that this is the fault of the ISP - a concession that not everyone is willing to make. If you don't pay your phone bill, who's responsible when your service gets cut off? Once you have ceased payment for a service, you no longer have any reasonable expectation of continuation of such service, nor, in my opinion, is the service provider under any reasonable expectation to notify anyone else that they are no longer providing services. Whether this is the legal interpretation or not is another matter entirely.
We're not talking about negligence in product design or manufacture, we're talking about a customer who stopped paying, for whatever reason, and feels that she still had the right to service. The only time I'm aware of that this is legally prohibited is when the service is critical for sustaining life. Examples include turning off the gas during a below-zero cold snap, and eviction, for which there is a minimum 30 days notice. Internet Access falls far short of these examples, despite what some of us may believe.
Shit, next thing you know games will be overflowing onto two and three floppies. Pretty soon I'll have to buy a hard drive. My friend says they're really just 3.5" floppies, but they don't look floppy to me.
"leaners": pairs of women ("actresses and female models") at bars playing interactive Battleship with each other from opposite ends of the bar. "[T]he company has gone to considerable lengths to train it's actors to avoid detection [as Ericsson spokespeople.]""
Right.. no one will ever suspect the models, because hot chicks are synonymous with video games..
Or maybe part of the "training" was in the application of a moustache and a prosthetic beer gut.
This post is nothing but a troll, submitted and then summarized by someone who didn't read the article. The Lion & Lamb Project, which posted the list, is an advocacy group against the marketing of violent entertainment to children. They're not trying to rid the world of first person shooters, they just want parents to be aware of what the game is presenting to the player. (Although I concede that if you can't figure it out from the box, a rating probably won't do much to help). They point out games which are, in their opinions misrated, and toys which tie in to games that may be inappropriate.
But, but, I should have the right to play Metal Gear!!
Look, they're not trying to take Metal Gear off the shelves, they just don't want action figures sold to kids. I think that's pretty reasonable. We don't put Jenna Jameson or Hannibal Lector action figures on the shelves of Toys R Us, why should we have action figures for the characters of M rated games?
But these toys aren't dangerous!!
The only place I saw the word "dangerous" was in Taco's summary. The site itself calls them "12 Violent Toys to Avoid," not "The World's Most Dangerous Toys Which Will Send Your Child To Hell!!!" In fact, Taco seems to be making a much bigger deal of this list than the actual website does; it's not directly linked from anywhere on the main page.
This has little to do with dangerous toys, even less to do with Q3 (except that Doom was made by the same company), and absolutely nothing to do with YRO.
In New York, write the first letter from the first sentence of Marcel Proust's "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu" on a scrap of paper and tie it around the neck of a pigeon.
Release the pigeon and wait for him to make the trip to San Francisco and back.
Repeat with the next letter.
We'll pretend that our pigeon can fly supersonic and requires little or no sleep, so he can make the round trip in under 24 hours. So our actual latency one way would be 12 hours. However, we can't respond until we have transmitted the entire novel. So 9,609,000 days later, the work has been sent in its entirety. Your throughput would be around 1.157407e-5b/s. Your effective latency would be 26 millennia.
..Apple has won the bid to provide Maine 6th, 7th and 8th graders with Apple iBooks and Airport wireless connection points.
Exactly how many companies put in bids to sell Apple iBooks and Airport wireless connection points? And among those, how many thought they could get the hardware cheaper than Apple could? Uh huh...
"Nancy"? Was it named after some coders girlfriend or something?
More likely someone's secret crush. As every geek knows, nothing get the ladies like naming proprietary codecs after them. Except maybe naming a virus after them.
before someone makes a beow.. er, creates a player that doesn't verify a subscription. And the argument about portability of these songs will be moot soon enough. But personally, if the quality isn't CD or better, I see little or no incentive to switch to such a pay-per-listen system. The quality of most MP3s that I've obtained online is poor. Pops and skips about, and finding anything but top-40 songs in a format over 128kbps is an excercise in futility. Everything else aside, if they can offer me a wide selection of tunes at high-quality bitrates, I'd likely subscribe.
Wow, this thing is amazing! Here's the story it generated for me:
Posted by brian on Mon December 03, 03:05 PM
smerfherdder writes "Salon has an interview with Albert Einstien which previews teh new vversion of Donkey Kong adn its place in teh curent technological environment. I was surprised to learn that Albert Einstien had an early hadn in teh development of Donkey Kong. Now if only Donkey Kong could help me with annhilating Microsoft." Good read.
Far fetched and completely believable as a/. story. Kudos to BBspot.
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I can't differentiate between different melodies, can't see color, can't reliably do arithmatic computation, can't speak foreign languages, and have no athletic ability.
That was me last night at about 2AM. It's looking like 2AM tonight will be more of the same, possibly with some "difficulty speaking my native english," thrown in.
If everyone was smart, the smart would loose their advantage.
When smart people are outlawed, only outlaws will be smart people.
It was already taken. Besides, the words "taxpayer and consumer" get the attention of politicians and corporations alike.
I don't know what rural viewers you're speaking of, but the ratio of satellite dishes to rednecks is a minimum of 1:1 in all the rural areas I've lived in or travelled through.
Well, since I read /. on company time, my integrity is perhaps somewhat questionable. However, whenever I'm "working on open source," as you call it, I make sure to keep my fingers near the Windows-M keys. That's all the approval I've needed in the past. Happy programming. :D
While funny and true to some extent, the ability to install software is of course important. If turning on and off the monitor involved soldering and de-soldering the power line each time, it would detract from the overall quality of the experience, even if all of its other qualities were exceptional. In the same way, if it's a burden to install and remove software it detracts from the overall experience. Whether installation should be a function of the operating system or the software itself is another question.
If it ain't plasma.. it's crap. Or was that scottish...? I'm sure the Scots would have used plasma though.
These are TOOLS. Tools do not break the law, people break the law. If there is even one small legitimate use to a certain piece of software, no one should have any argument against its use even if millions are breaking the law with it.
You seem to have some misguided notion that tools are legal simply because they are inanimate or incapable of thought or action. There are many tools, however, which are not legal. Lockpicks, silencers, and weapons of mass destruction are all tools which are in most cases illegal for individuals to own. The "right" to own and operate a motor vehicle is actually a privelage, at least in the US. Drugs could be considered tools as well. Your argument is not based in fact or sound reason.
ALSO just because you break the law doesn't mean your not on the moral high ground.
True, but you fail to state the moral principles upon which you supposedly stand.
I am definitely to the point of refusing to buy CD's and movies because I am treated like a criminal. Yes... I use it. I just downloaded all of Fallen by Evanescence.
So you don't mind being a criminal, or committing criminal acts, as long as you're not treated like a criminal? Or are you treated like a criminal when you purchase your entertainment through legal channels, and if so, how?
Don't get me wrong, I refuse to buy music as well, but not because of some deluded sense of moral fortitude that I invent to justify my actions -- I simply don't want to pay $12 for a CD.
Really?? Then why am I sitting in the building right now, working away?
Sonofabitch.. you mean Apple hires people to read Slashdot? Where do I submit my resume?
The military's solution is called Preventive Maintenance (or PMs for short - yes, it's real). It basically boils down to wiping off the dust on a regular basis, just like you would with the rest of your house. It's not fun, but it works, and it's well under $500.
Not to mention.. "Courtesy of Google News, a transcript of a panel discussion regarding the future of the shuttle program in wake of the fucking shuttle burning up on re-entry, killing all on board and showering east Texas with debris," has that professional journalistic ring to it as well.
It's being used as a pronoun, the way I used "it" to replace "incident," to avoid repetition.
Let me repeat...
There's a thing called "escalation of force," which any US military security follows. Just because a guard is authorized to use deadly force doesn't mean he is justified in doing so. Few watchstanders would be willing to fill a peace protestor full of lead and spend the remainder of their existance in Leavenworth. If the person in question failed to respond appropriately to vocal commands followed by physical restraint, or was in posession of and was clearly about to use a deadly weapon, then deadly force would be employed. Further, to protect the theft of items of national security, or weapons other than small arms, deadly force would be employed against an uncooperative culprit. There are very few instances where trespassors would actually be "Shot on sight," despite what Hollywood would have you believe.
Gaining access to the lobby of a processing plant, while possibly illegal, is no more distressing than the reporter ducking under the wire at Los Alamos. The damage done by self-detonation would be a tragedy, but hardly a catastrophy.
I'd be happy if my girlfriend would stabilize in three dimensions at room temperature.
I've done a bit of research on this, but haven't been able to find a temperature which will cause pixels to stabilize as a three dimensional girlfriend. Please let me know if you have any success.
From the article:
"Companies that worry too much about public response underestimate the public's ability to assess the situation with some sophistication," [the FBI spokesman] said. "If a bank robber sticks a gun in a teller's face, the public is not confused about who's fault that is."
What about companies that provide little to no protection to their networks? Is that still the same as a robber sticking a gun in a teller's face, or would that be more akin to say, someone walking into the bank, into the unlocked vault, and walking out with everyone's valuables? And can the public still asses the difference with any level of sophistication?
If the ISP is not responsible for their screw-up, who is?
You seem to have already assumed that this is the fault of the ISP - a concession that not everyone is willing to make. If you don't pay your phone bill, who's responsible when your service gets cut off? Once you have ceased payment for a service, you no longer have any reasonable expectation of continuation of such service, nor, in my opinion, is the service provider under any reasonable expectation to notify anyone else that they are no longer providing services. Whether this is the legal interpretation or not is another matter entirely.
We're not talking about negligence in product design or manufacture, we're talking about a customer who stopped paying, for whatever reason, and feels that she still had the right to service. The only time I'm aware of that this is legally prohibited is when the service is critical for sustaining life. Examples include turning off the gas during a below-zero cold snap, and eviction, for which there is a minimum 30 days notice. Internet Access falls far short of these examples, despite what some of us may believe.
Shit, next thing you know games will be overflowing onto two and three floppies. Pretty soon I'll have to buy a hard drive. My friend says they're really just 3.5" floppies, but they don't look floppy to me.
Right.. no one will ever suspect the models, because hot chicks are synonymous with video games..
Or maybe part of the "training" was in the application of a moustache and a prosthetic beer gut.
So instead of sending "10," this new method will save time by transmitting the formula 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1?
This post is nothing but a troll, submitted and then summarized by someone who didn't read the article. The Lion & Lamb Project, which posted the list, is an advocacy group against the marketing of violent entertainment to children. They're not trying to rid the world of first person shooters, they just want parents to be aware of what the game is presenting to the player. (Although I concede that if you can't figure it out from the box, a rating probably won't do much to help). They point out games which are, in their opinions misrated, and toys which tie in to games that may be inappropriate.
But, but, I should have the right to play Metal Gear!!
Look, they're not trying to take Metal Gear off the shelves, they just don't want action figures sold to kids. I think that's pretty reasonable. We don't put Jenna Jameson or Hannibal Lector action figures on the shelves of Toys R Us, why should we have action figures for the characters of M rated games?
But these toys aren't dangerous!!
The only place I saw the word "dangerous" was in Taco's summary. The site itself calls them "12 Violent Toys to Avoid," not "The World's Most Dangerous Toys Which Will Send Your Child To Hell!!!" In fact, Taco seems to be making a much bigger deal of this list than the actual website does; it's not directly linked from anywhere on the main page.
This has little to do with dangerous toys, even less to do with Q3 (except that Doom was made by the same company), and absolutely nothing to do with YRO.
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Where will the skript kiddiez go after the Big 3 die? MSN Chat?
Nah.. Keyword: People Connection
Here's another example:
We'll pretend that our pigeon can fly supersonic and requires little or no sleep, so he can make the round trip in under 24 hours. So our actual latency one way would be 12 hours. However, we can't respond until we have transmitted the entire novel. So 9,609,000 days later, the work has been sent in its entirety. Your throughput would be around 1.157407e-5b/s. Your effective latency would be 26 millennia.
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..Apple has won the bid to provide Maine 6th, 7th and 8th graders with Apple iBooks and Airport wireless connection points.
Exactly how many companies put in bids to sell Apple iBooks and Airport wireless connection points? And among those, how many thought they could get the hardware cheaper than Apple could? Uh huh...
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"Nancy"? Was it named after some coders girlfriend or something?
More likely someone's secret crush. As every geek knows, nothing get the ladies like naming proprietary codecs after them. Except maybe naming a virus after them.
before someone makes a beow.. er, creates a player that doesn't verify a subscription. And the argument about portability of these songs will be moot soon enough. But personally, if the quality isn't CD or better, I see little or no incentive to switch to such a pay-per-listen system. The quality of most MP3s that I've obtained online is poor. Pops and skips about, and finding anything but top-40 songs in a format over 128kbps is an excercise in futility. Everything else aside, if they can offer me a wide selection of tunes at high-quality bitrates, I'd likely subscribe.
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Wow, this thing is amazing! Here's the story it generated for me:
/. story. Kudos to BBspot.
Posted by brian on Mon December 03, 03:05 PM
smerfherdder writes "Salon has an interview with Albert Einstien which previews teh new vversion of Donkey Kong adn its place in teh curent technological environment. I was surprised to learn that Albert Einstien had an early hadn in teh development of Donkey Kong. Now if only Donkey Kong could help me with annhilating Microsoft." Good read.
Far fetched and completely believable as a
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