Your form letter, among others, fail to account for: - Worm bandwidth costs these companies a lot of money. - A partial solution is better than no solution. Morphine may not kill cancer cells but it sure as heck gives terminal patients some quality of life. - Fuck the lusers and their idiotic opinion, getting rid of users who detract from your other users' experience should be a priority in any sane company. Microsoft should be fined in proportion to the damage caused by these worms. That ought to teach them secure coding:) And the idiots who are running unpatched PCs should get their accounts suspended while their PC undergoes forcible maintenance.
Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth. So now you know where they got the name. We live in a world of greed and spin, and AdTI is out to make a buck... brainwashing the people... being paid to hide "complex truths" from their view, replacing them with whatever simple lies the people will prefer to believe. They aren't very original in this respect, but they should be feared rather than scorned. You never know exactly how many influent people will buy this crap, not to mention the masses. People cling to silly myths and urban legends for decades!
There are no needs in SL. You dont have to eat, so there is no bread. The prices for things in SL have remained fairly stable since beta... you can buy some fairly decent clothes for L$250-500.
While it is technically possible, 99.999% of people do NOT build on top of a border. And the servers are hardly ever overloaded... only on big events, and those usually happen on designated servers that are uninhabited.
Dude, for god's sake, dont talk about what you dont know. SL is a virtual world. Sort of like the sims, but without the annoying part (eating, pissing, drinking, going to work, etc). In SL you can build anything, but the amount of stuff you can build is limited by how much land you own. Each server can accomodate around 16 acres, and you can see exactly how much land you have. And yes, it IS like the web. That's the whole point. It's a virtual world where you can produce 3d content, or enjoy the content produced by others. And you can make some very real money off of it... my account is worth like $1500 and I didnt even need to spend a lot of time for it...
Howdy pardner, eggy lippmann here:) The economy isnt going to inflate. LL will make sure of that. They already limited the amount of money you can make through events two or three times. And dont forget that whenever someone buys land, that money disappears from the economy. Money can also be used to pay for your monthly land usage, saving you real money. That money also disappears from the system. Ratings also drain a little money from the system, and there's always accounts expiring with money in them. LL knows what they're doing. Have a chat with Philip one of these days, the man is a genius:) Yes, my fellow slashdotters, in SL you can actually have a chat with the CEO! Heck, I've even talked to him on the phone;) Not to mention the entire dev team always taking some of our suggestions and asking for input on future changes etc.
The SL player base is growing at an insane rate, and the demand for land vastly surpasses the offer. Linden Labs is always adding new servers, because they are always getting new players. Without land, you cant have any permanent content in the world. It's just like buying a piece of space on a web server... SL is just like the web, but in a beautiful 3D world. People go there to create content, and other people go there to interact with it.
Or at least a self-defense course. People all over the world should be given the right, nay, the duty to defend themselves with lethal force from the worthless scum of the world. I've been mugged several times myself, so please excuse my bitterness.
Eh, everything is dangerous to your health, depending on the amount you take and how you take it.
I dont know about you but after reading about aspartame on wikipedia I dont feel very comfortable with it:
Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter at the G.D. Searle company (later purchased by Monsanto). Initial safety testing suggested that aspartame caused brain tumors in rats; as a result, the additive was held up in the United States for many years in the Food and Drug Administration's approval process. In 1980, the FDA convened a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) consisting of independent advisors charged with examining the purported relationship between aspartame and brain cancer. The PBOI concluded that aspartame did not cause brain damage, but recommended against approving aspartame at that time, citing unanswered questions about cancer in laboratory rats. In 1981, FDA Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, newly appointed by President Ronald Reagan, approved aspartame as a food additive, citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI. [1]
Since the FDA approved aspartame for consumption, some researchers have suggested that a rise in brain tumor rates in the United States may be at least partially related to the increasing availability and consumption of aspartame. [2], [3] However, more recent research has failed to find any link between aspartame and cancer or other health problems. [4], [5]
One of the many hypotheses about the causes of Gulf war syndrome is that the soldiers, drinking huge quantities of fluids (soft drinks) in the extreme heat, accumulated toxic doses of methanol, formaldehyde, diketopiperazine and formic acid from the breakdown of aspartame into its component molecules. However, the symptoms do not greatly resemble those of classic methanol poisoning, and the body, in its normal metabolism, produces methanol in quantities comparable or greater than would be ingested via aspartame, so this theory does not have wide support.
I suppose the Compressed Gas Association is spouting Urban Legends too. Go tell the parents of this kid that inhaling helium is perfectly harmless. Afterwards, you can talk to the parents of this other kid and tell them that helium-related deaths are an urban legend. Feel free to read this first person account of what it's like to experience an urban legend. Next time you post on slashdot, make sure you know what the hell you are talking about, and that you at least know how to spell "poisonous".
Ok guys, funny voices aside, inhaling helium can be fatal if you're not careful. Several people have died from inhaling helium in the past and many more will have to die before we can get the "helium==funny voice" association from people's minds. Look, your lungs are a vital organ. They are meant for breathing clean, fresh air, nothing more, nothing less. While helium is chemically an inert gas, there is no guarantee that what comes from inside your baloon contains any amount of helium, let alone 100% pure helium. Furthermore, even if you do inhale 100% pure helium, it can cause a sudden, unexpected death by asphyxiation, or cerebral embolism. Please be careful when using your body for purposes it was not designed for. If you must inhale helium, do not inhale it directly from the baloon, and NEVER FROM THE BOTTLE! If you dont believe me, feel free to google "inhaling helium" or something.
I've recently come across a great piece of software that lets you organize your old junk. TrashCan[tm], made by DumpsterCorp(r), enables you to quickly and easily file away each and every one of those things you think might have some use in the future, but never actually do. Retrieval, unfortunately, is a little bit difficult, but I hear they are working on that. Marriage[tm], from your friendly neighborhood software house, "Wife, Inc.", also helps you sort your old stuff by using a rule-based decision support system with natural language support: " IF (you havent needed it for the past 5-10 years)
AND (you dont want me to file for divorce) THEN (you must get rid of your silly junk) AND (make room for sissy, pastel-colored baby gear)" I have found that after using these two great pieces of software to help organize my inventory, I have recovered such an amazing amount of space, it's as if I never had an inventory to begin with!
Was? It's still around and growing faster than ever. Ig you were there in beta, give it another try. You can get basic lifetime access for a one-time payment of $10, but if you wish to buy land and build some content that will be permanently displayed, such as a home or a store, you will need to pay a monthly fee.
What's wrong with magnitude 11? The Richter scale does not have an end. It measures the energy release of an earthquake on an exponential scale, meaning that a magnitude 5 earthquake is an order of magnitude more energetic than a magnitude 4 earthquake. Hence the usage of the word magnitude.
It depends on the stuff. Some things can cause a greenhouse effect, by letting the heat in, but not out. Other things keep the heat from ever getting in in the first place. If you are inside a glass box, it will let the light in, warming up anything inside, but since glass is a poor thermal conductor, it wont let the heat out. If you cover the box with a heavy blanket, it wont let the light in, so it will probably be cooler inside.
Anyone who has ever heard of the Fugu fish and bothered to look it up knew that the fish isnt poisonous, but gets its poison from eating some bacteria, much like a lot of other poisonous animals containing tetradotoxin. My gf is a food engineer doing a master's on food safety and quality control, all I hear about every day is fugu this and tetradotoxin that.
Anyone but a hypocrite can tell you that most P2P apps are indeed made for trading copyrighted material, much like emulators are made for running copyrighted roms. Claiming that they have a lot of potentially non-infringing uses is just an excuse. Black & Decker tools are made for construction, and in 99.99% of cases they are used for construction work. I am a "pirate". I'm not the least bit embarrassed about it. I like getting stuff for free. But at least I'm not a whiny hypocrite who runs around trying to justify his breach of the law. If shoplifting was as harmless and easy to get away with as trading copyrighted material is, you can sure as hell bet I would get myself some free candy every day, and so would millions of other people. People are inherently selfish and dishonest. Stop trying to make yourself look like an innocent victim of idiotic politicians.
Uh, well, every god damn article he wrote attracted an endless stream of flames and criticism. I wouldn't be surprised if he left of his own accord. Then again, Taco may well have gotten rid of him. Ad revenue crashed with the dotcoms, so it makes sense to cut down costs.
You can buy a used keyboard for $5 or less, or you can get one of those IBM Model M replicas for a shitload of money. Your call:) Either of those options are easily googlable, but if you truly cant find anything I would be happy to google them for you later.
Eh, sorry, africans are starving because they are dumb. We had nothing to do with it. The first step towards a peaceful world is to get those idiotic africans and indians to stop breeding like rabbits. If everyone in america had 18 kids you can sure as hell bet 15 of them would starve to death.
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Your form letter, among others, fail to account for: :)
- Worm bandwidth costs these companies a lot of money.
- A partial solution is better than no solution. Morphine may not kill cancer cells but it sure as heck gives terminal patients some quality of life.
- Fuck the lusers and their idiotic opinion, getting rid of users who detract from your other users' experience should be a priority in any sane company.
Microsoft should be fined in proportion to the damage caused by these worms. That ought to teach them secure coding
And the idiots who are running unpatched PCs should get their accounts suspended while their PC undergoes forcible maintenance.
Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth. So now you know where they got the name. We live in a world of greed and spin, and AdTI is out to make a buck... brainwashing the people... being paid to hide "complex truths" from their view, replacing them with whatever simple lies the people will prefer to believe.
They aren't very original in this respect, but they should be feared rather than scorned.
You never know exactly how many influent people will buy this crap, not to mention the masses.
People cling to silly myths and urban legends for decades!
There are no needs in SL. You dont have to eat, so there is no bread. The prices for things in SL have remained fairly stable since beta... you can buy some fairly decent clothes for L$250-500.
While it is technically possible, 99.999% of people do NOT build on top of a border. And the servers are hardly ever overloaded... only on big events, and those usually happen on designated servers that are uninhabited.
Dude, for god's sake, dont talk about what you dont know.
SL is a virtual world. Sort of like the sims, but without the annoying part (eating, pissing, drinking, going to work, etc).
In SL you can build anything, but the amount of stuff you can build is limited by how much land you own. Each server can accomodate around 16 acres, and you can see exactly how much land you have.
And yes, it IS like the web. That's the whole point. It's a virtual world where you can produce 3d content, or enjoy the content produced by others. And you can make some very real money off of it... my account is worth like $1500 and I didnt even need to spend a lot of time for it...
Howdy pardner, eggy lippmann here :) :) ;)
The economy isnt going to inflate. LL will make sure of that. They already limited the amount of money you can make through events two or three times.
And dont forget that whenever someone buys land, that money disappears from the economy. Money can also be used to pay for your monthly land usage, saving you real money. That money also disappears from the system. Ratings also drain a little money from the system, and there's always accounts expiring with money in them. LL knows what they're doing. Have a chat with Philip one of these days, the man is a genius
Yes, my fellow slashdotters, in SL you can actually have a chat with the CEO! Heck, I've even talked to him on the phone
Not to mention the entire dev team always taking some of our suggestions and asking for input on future changes etc.
The SL player base is growing at an insane rate, and the demand for land vastly surpasses the offer. Linden Labs is always adding new servers, because they are always getting new players. Without land, you cant have any permanent content in the world.
It's just like buying a piece of space on a web server... SL is just like the web, but in a beautiful 3D world. People go there to create content, and other people go there to interact with it.
Or at least a self-defense course.
People all over the world should be given the right, nay, the duty to defend themselves with lethal force from the worthless scum of the world.
I've been mugged several times myself, so please excuse my bitterness.
I suppose the Compressed Gas Association is spouting Urban Legends too.
Go tell the parents of this kid that inhaling helium is perfectly harmless.
Afterwards, you can talk to the parents of this other kid and tell them that helium-related deaths are an urban legend.
Feel free to read this first person account of what it's like to experience an urban legend.
Next time you post on slashdot, make sure you know what the hell you are talking about, and that you at least know how to spell "poisonous".
Ok guys, funny voices aside, inhaling helium can be fatal if you're not careful. Several people have died from inhaling helium in the past and many more will have to die before we can get the "helium==funny voice" association from people's minds.
Look, your lungs are a vital organ. They are meant for breathing clean, fresh air, nothing more, nothing less.
While helium is chemically an inert gas, there is no guarantee that what comes from inside your baloon contains any amount of helium, let alone 100% pure helium.
Furthermore, even if you do inhale 100% pure helium, it can cause a sudden, unexpected death by asphyxiation, or cerebral embolism.
Please be careful when using your body for purposes it was not designed for. If you must inhale helium, do not inhale it directly from the baloon, and NEVER FROM THE BOTTLE!
If you dont believe me, feel free to google "inhaling helium" or something.
I've recently come across a great piece of software that lets you organize your old junk.
TrashCan[tm], made by DumpsterCorp(r), enables you to quickly and easily file away each and every one of those things you think might have some use in the future, but never actually do. Retrieval, unfortunately, is a little bit difficult, but I hear they are working on that.
Marriage[tm], from your friendly neighborhood software house, "Wife, Inc.", also helps you sort your old stuff by using a rule-based decision support system with natural language support:
" IF (you havent needed it for the past 5-10 years)
AND (you dont want me to file for divorce)
THEN (you must get rid of your silly junk)
AND (make room for sissy, pastel-colored baby gear)"
I have found that after using these two great pieces of software to help organize my inventory, I have recovered such an amazing amount of space, it's as if I never had an inventory to begin with!
Was? It's still around and growing faster than ever.
Ig you were there in beta, give it another try. You can get basic lifetime access for a one-time payment of $10, but if you wish to buy land and build some content that will be permanently displayed, such as a home or a store, you will need to pay a monthly fee.
You mean something like this ? ;)
1977 + 20 = 1997
1977 + 30 = 2007
Yup, looks like he got the right decade.
Just wait until someone makes a proggy to automagically split and transfer ISOs via Gmail :)
I use Mandrake, and Dia has been installed by default ever since there was a Dia.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
What's wrong with magnitude 11?
The Richter scale does not have an end. It measures the energy release of an earthquake on an exponential scale, meaning that a magnitude 5 earthquake is an order of magnitude more energetic than a magnitude 4 earthquake. Hence the usage of the word magnitude.
It depends on the stuff. Some things can cause a greenhouse effect, by letting the heat in, but not out. Other things keep the heat from ever getting in in the first place.
If you are inside a glass box, it will let the light in, warming up anything inside, but since glass is a poor thermal conductor, it wont let the heat out.
If you cover the box with a heavy blanket, it wont let the light in, so it will probably be cooler inside.
I just checked wikipedia and they have a very comprehensive article on Fugu:
clicky clicky
Anyone who has ever heard of the Fugu fish and bothered to look it up knew that the fish isnt poisonous, but gets its poison from eating some bacteria, much like a lot of other poisonous animals containing tetradotoxin.
My gf is a food engineer doing a master's on food safety and quality control, all I hear about every day is fugu this and tetradotoxin that.
Anyone but a hypocrite can tell you that most P2P apps are indeed made for trading copyrighted material, much like emulators are made for running copyrighted roms.
Claiming that they have a lot of potentially non-infringing uses is just an excuse.
Black & Decker tools are made for construction, and in 99.99% of cases they are used for construction work.
I am a "pirate". I'm not the least bit embarrassed about it. I like getting stuff for free. But at least I'm not a whiny hypocrite who runs around trying to justify his breach of the law.
If shoplifting was as harmless and easy to get away with as trading copyrighted material is, you can sure as hell bet I would get myself some free candy every day, and so would millions of other people.
People are inherently selfish and dishonest. Stop trying to make yourself look like an innocent victim of idiotic politicians.
Uh, well, every god damn article he wrote attracted an endless stream of flames and criticism.
I wouldn't be surprised if he left of his own accord. Then again, Taco may well have gotten rid of him. Ad revenue crashed with the dotcoms, so it makes sense to cut down costs.
You can buy a used keyboard for $5 or less, or you can get one of those IBM Model M replicas for a shitload of money. Your call :)
Either of those options are easily googlable, but if you truly cant find anything I would be happy to google them for you later.
Eh, sorry, africans are starving because they are dumb. We had nothing to do with it. The first step towards a peaceful world is to get those idiotic africans and indians to stop breeding like rabbits.
If everyone in america had 18 kids you can sure as hell bet 15 of them would starve to death.