PS ( I fucking hate that those bastards used the nick "neo". I used it for years and then this stupid movie steals my nick and now I have to look like some damn 13-years-old fanboy. It's enough to make me want to change my name, but I got this really kicking low user number. Sigh.)
2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form? The only one that jumped out at me is making a backup copy in case the original is destroyed. But perhaps there are others.
In situations where you are critiquing content for it's technique, it is imperative that you have a digital version with which to do that.
For example, if I were attempting to teach a class on special effects in movies and I needed to show how a composition of images in a scene was flawed because the outline edge of the main character was clearly visible, then an digital, clean version of this would be required. Anything else would hide the technique and therefore would be useless.
It would be very cool to add some speakers nearby so that when someone was there and your web camera caught them you could call the computer up and talk through the phone -> speaker.
"Hey you kids, get out of there. I just called the cops! You in the red jacket, does your Mom know what your doing? I'm going to send her this image. What's your email address?"
I think these "aimbots" are dangerous too. Who knows how many lives could have been saved if aimbots weren't there to help these kids with their shots. Clearly lives would be saved if aimbots were removed from these servers and people were forced to learn how to fire guns for real. Most people just can't do it.
It would take hours (maybe days) to learn how to fire a gun accurately, but since kids have easy access to aimbots, they just point and shoot. Even then, they would need access to the weapons, which are just lying on the ground in these games!
I think I'm going to sue everyone who write these highly dangerous scripts.
"...huge speakers on his/her laptop that are taking up valuable space and weigh a ton."
Think about it. You want your laptop to be as thin and light as possible. You bet they would put one of these in them if they could. Look at how thing the screens and keyboards are getting.
What happens when the company you bought software from now goes under? It's the same thing. In six month you are going to end up with a useless software package. It's not different from the subscription service.
Pick up your bits and find another program.
Since you are obviously interested in gaining a competative advantage for Microsoft, what you you hoping to learn from this question and answer session?
Regardless of whether MS is going to make a Linux distribution or not, if there was going to be such a thing then what differentiators would there be in it? Would it have ties to MS technologies? Would it have a Windows look and feel?
He pitched Robo Rally, but WOTC told him that they would consider it AFTER he made the game that would eventually be called Magic; The Gathering. Richard has tons of games in his closet of mechanics, but he was asked to create a game "that was portable and could be played in less than twenty minutes."
Before that first GenCon where they showed Magic I had what was later called a plague rat deck. Basically the card was broken because you could keep stacking this card and they made all the others more powerful. None my friends would trade rats to me, because my deck was pretty much killing all theirs.
At the convention, I got to play various people from WOTC. I beat a couple of people at the booth and they suggested I play Peter Adkison, who waiting for players in a demo area.
After playing him a couple of games he suggest that we trade. He mentions that he's looking for Moxes for his wife who wants to build a landless deck.
I have a couple and I decide that what I want are plague rats, since no one will trade them to me. He seems perplexed at first (Rats were common cards, and moxes were rare.) I ended up trading the Moxes for a few plague rats.
Shortly after that, they restrict the decks to four cards of any one type, which destroyed the deck I had and made the extra 12 plague rats useless. Later the Moxes are worth nearly $150 each.
I wanted to make a shirt that said "I traded Magic cards with Peter Adkison and all I got were these lousy plague rats."
First, the booster packs never cost $4 a pack. If they were priced this way then your local retailer was ripping you off and you bought into it. The prices were consistently less than $2.50.
Second, it's clear that the early cards were the most powerful. This is due to the fact that Garfield never invisioned the game being as popular was it became. When people started buying huge amounts of cards, the play balance went out the window. Later editions were designed to deal with this issue.
I've met both Richard Garfield and Peter Adkison and I found the former much more interesting than the latter. Garfield created the game of Magic on a mandate that WOTC needed a portable game that could be played in 20 minutes. What WOTC got was a midas-like game that turned everything around it into gold, forcing the entire company to change form as well. I liked WOTC better when they were poor and happy.
Curiously the writer ignores what became of Garfield and his wife... but I guess there's still time for another story.
Linx could easily restrict itself to a "closed hardware set". Pick one. It's bullshit to say that mac has it easy and that Linux has it so hard. No one forced linux to try to fit on every i-toaster and digital watch. If it's too hard to distro for so much hard ware... don't.
I feel sorry for the hapless hackers who break into the system. After hours of trying exploits they finally get in only to be presented with the only shell on the system.
mudsh -/home/mudsh > ls
Bad syntax, try "Go n,s,w,e"
This is probably the best way to keep 14 year old boys from hacking you system I've ever seen since most of them have never even play an infocom game.
But all I want is a f*cking handle.
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Is it too much innovation to ask for a freaking handle on top of a lightweight case? That's what I really want for my LAN machine. The case I have now weighs almost 35 pounds and trying to get my arms around it while juggling my keyboard and mouse is just nuts. Maybe some mesh webbing on the side for those items.
* Handle on top.
* Mesh webbing on side for keyboard, mouse, cables.
You can't tell me that Apple isn't a hardware company. It's all they talk about. Listen to them go on and on about G4 this and Titanium that. If they were such a big software vendor then why do spend so much time making their hardware look "Just right?"
The fact is that the companies are out of funds to *buy* power. The rolling blackouts are just a threat so that the California Government will step in and regulate again.
I like the idea of Linux a lot. It's got potential. Honest it does. But let's face some bitter facts here. The UI for Linux sucks. More than that, the Linux community doesn't seem to care.
Usability is why most people love Mac OS, and they just put that lovable Mac OS on a unix platform. The only drawback is performance for the web server apps I write... which just means I need another machine running BSD to host those apps.
Everything else is in one nice neat package. So what's not to love? Well, I guess you can't call it free.
What's it going to take to make Linux as good as a Mac? First you need usability to become the mantra. Take a note from Krug and "Don't make me think." I can't count the hours lost trying to find the right configuration file to tweak in Linux. Time I would have rather used for production of my own.
The point here is that until I can push a button and make a Linux server work, the Mac will keep looking like a better option.
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PS ( I fucking hate that those bastards used the nick "neo". I used it for years and then this stupid movie steals my nick and now I have to look like some damn 13-years-old fanboy. It's enough to make me want to change my name, but I got this really kicking low user number. Sigh.)
2. What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form? The only one that jumped out at me is making a backup copy in case the original is destroyed. But perhaps there are others. In situations where you are critiquing content for it's technique, it is imperative that you have a digital version with which to do that.
For example, if I were attempting to teach a class on special effects in movies and I needed to show how a composition of images in a scene was flawed because the outline edge of the main character was clearly visible, then an digital, clean version of this would be required. Anything else would hide the technique and therefore would be useless.
It would be very cool to add some speakers nearby so that when someone was there and your web camera caught them you could call the computer up and talk through the phone -> speaker.
"Hey you kids, get out of there. I just called the cops! You in the red jacket, does your Mom know what your doing? I'm going to send her this image. What's your email address?"
I think these "aimbots" are dangerous too. Who knows how many lives could have been saved if aimbots weren't there to help these kids with their shots. Clearly lives would be saved if aimbots were removed from these servers and people were forced to learn how to fire guns for real. Most people just can't do it.
It would take hours (maybe days) to learn how to fire a gun accurately, but since kids have easy access to aimbots, they just point and shoot. Even then, they would need access to the weapons, which are just lying on the ground in these games!
I think I'm going to sue everyone who write these highly dangerous scripts.
"...huge speakers on his/her laptop that are taking up valuable space and weigh a ton."
Think about it. You want your laptop to be as thin and light as possible. You bet they would put one of these in them if they could. Look at how thing the screens and keyboards are getting.
Yes, I guess it would.
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Luckily we have more time. It's only the year 936AD and as soon as we realize it, we'll set all the unix clocks back.
This guy sent an email explaining a new service and solicited for additional business.
You announced that the old service was broken.
The relationship you had with your clients were clearly defined and you were not attempting to gain anything from your mailing.
The relationship in this case was clear as well, but it specifically stated that they would NOT send email to her account.
If you want to advertise, leave it on the web page where I can ignore it without needed to take an action like deleting it.
What happens when the company you bought software from now goes under? It's the same thing. In six month you are going to end up with a useless software package. It's not different from the subscription service. Pick up your bits and find another program.
And if you examine my user number, you'll see that my penis is much larger than yours.
It's a joke. Get over it.
Since you are obviously interested in gaining a competative advantage for Microsoft, what you you hoping to learn from this question and answer session?
Regardless of whether MS is going to make a Linux distribution or not, if there was going to be such a thing then what differentiators would there be in it? Would it have ties to MS technologies? Would it have a Windows look and feel?
He pitched Robo Rally, but WOTC told him that they would consider it AFTER he made the game that would eventually be called Magic; The Gathering. Richard has tons of games in his closet of mechanics, but he was asked to create a game "that was portable and could be played in less than twenty minutes."
Before that first GenCon where they showed Magic I had what was later called a plague rat deck. Basically the card was broken because you could keep stacking this card and they made all the others more powerful. None my friends would trade rats to me, because my deck was pretty much killing all theirs.
At the convention, I got to play various people from WOTC. I beat a couple of people at the booth and they suggested I play Peter Adkison, who waiting for players in a demo area.
After playing him a couple of games he suggest that we trade. He mentions that he's looking for Moxes for his wife who wants to build a landless deck.
I have a couple and I decide that what I want are plague rats, since no one will trade them to me. He seems perplexed at first (Rats were common cards, and moxes were rare.) I ended up trading the Moxes for a few plague rats.
Shortly after that, they restrict the decks to four cards of any one type, which destroyed the deck I had and made the extra 12 plague rats useless. Later the Moxes are worth nearly $150 each.
I wanted to make a shirt that said "I traded Magic cards with Peter Adkison and all I got were these lousy plague rats."
You are wrong on two points:
First, the booster packs never cost $4 a pack. If they were priced this way then your local retailer was ripping you off and you bought into it. The prices were consistently less than $2.50.
Second, it's clear that the early cards were the most powerful. This is due to the fact that Garfield never invisioned the game being as popular was it became. When people started buying huge amounts of cards, the play balance went out the window. Later editions were designed to deal with this issue.
I've met both Richard Garfield and Peter Adkison and I found the former much more interesting than the latter. Garfield created the game of Magic on a mandate that WOTC needed a portable game that could be played in 20 minutes. What WOTC got was a midas-like game that turned everything around it into gold, forcing the entire company to change form as well. I liked WOTC better when they were poor and happy.
Curiously the writer ignores what became of Garfield and his wife... but I guess there's still time for another story.
Linx could easily restrict itself to a "closed hardware set". Pick one. It's bullshit to say that mac has it easy and that Linux has it so hard. No one forced linux to try to fit on every i-toaster and digital watch. If it's too hard to distro for so much hard ware... don't.
I feel sorry for the hapless hackers who break into the system. After hours of trying exploits they finally get in only to be presented with the only shell on the system.
/home/mudsh > ls
mudsh -
Bad syntax, try "Go n,s,w,e"
This is probably the best way to keep 14 year old boys from hacking you system I've ever seen since most of them have never even play an infocom game.
Is it too much innovation to ask for a freaking handle on top of a lightweight case? That's what I really want for my LAN machine. The case I have now weighs almost 35 pounds and trying to get my arms around it while juggling my keyboard and mouse is just nuts. Maybe some mesh webbing on the side for those items.
* Handle on top.
* Mesh webbing on side for keyboard, mouse, cables.
There, make that.
You can't tell me that Apple isn't a hardware company. It's all they talk about. Listen to them go on and on about G4 this and Titanium that. If they were such a big software vendor then why do spend so much time making their hardware look "Just right?"
Imagine what would happen if this thing became a resonable game box.
The fact is that the companies are out of funds to *buy* power. The rolling blackouts are just a threat so that the California Government will step in and regulate again.
There's more than enough power out there.
I like the idea of Linux a lot. It's got potential. Honest it does. But let's face some bitter facts here. The UI for Linux sucks. More than that, the Linux community doesn't seem to care.
Usability is why most people love Mac OS, and they just put that lovable Mac OS on a unix platform. The only drawback is performance for the web server apps I write... which just means I need another machine running BSD to host those apps.
Everything else is in one nice neat package. So what's not to love? Well, I guess you can't call it free.
What's it going to take to make Linux as good as a Mac? First you need usability to become the mantra. Take a note from Krug and "Don't make me think." I can't count the hours lost trying to find the right configuration file to tweak in Linux. Time I would have rather used for production of my own.
The point here is that until I can push a button and make a Linux server work, the Mac will keep looking like a better option.
(b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law;
My god, they'll let you patent anything these days.
Can't they make a voting machine that gives me a frickin reciept so I can confirm who I voted for. ARG!!!!