Wow. More myopic IT people. If some of you guys would read about things OTHER than IT, you'd realize that this stuff happens every single day in all industries, all over the world. These lawsuits are in no way, shape, or form, unique. The sports companies (they're not commissions... they're private companies that are treated like public institutions) are very, very sue-happy.
The fact that it happens everywhere makes it okay? A bunch of "myopic" IT people see a pattern as their/our minds are trained to do and point it out. Should it be ignored simply because it happens in every industry?
Change has to begin somewhere and for the last couple of decades us IT folk seemed to have been able to affect much change in society. But of course, what would us nearsighted geeks be able to figure out anyhow? All we did was build a communications network that spans the globe and allows even the most insignificant person to have access to information that less than a generation ago was the domain of governments and billionaires. What the heck would we know? I can only wish that we were as smart and well informed as you are.
Except Linux could never have a monopoly, because it can be forked by a dissatisfied user at the slightest provocation.
I think it's better for a user to fork an OS than the other way around. Of course that was most likely your point, I'll just go back to drinking my wine now...
Wait a second this is all digital - THERE SHOULD NOT BE SAMPLING ERRORS!.
Exactly. How many cash registers would IBM sell with these error rates?
In fact if you want accurate voting machines maybe we should just refurbish some old registers, put the candidates names on the buttons and you have the paper receipt for backup.
Did it ever occur to you to wonder why the Vikings called it GREENland when they colonized it, less than 1000 years ago?
That's just because those big heavy horned helmets they wore put pressure on their retinas causing white to appear green. Sheesh don't you read the history books?
If the sentence is justified by how many innocent Iraqis Saddam has killed, maybe he shouldn't be alone on the gallows. Too bad for him that he didn't have the foresight to exempt himself from international law and basic human decency beforehand.
Yeah, all those innocents he killed with American weapons handed to him on a silver platter. Of course you can also add all the innocents killed trying to capture him, not to mention our own soldiers. You're right he shouldn't be alone in the gallows and I have a few people in mind that should join him, and they aren't Iraqi's.
I have to agree with some of the items above but it does seem that google will the same downfall as many in the past Dot Com days. Its doing well but for how long just as yahoo was the brand name of its time so is google. So for those who own the stock cash now not later. Now here is another one Microsoft it too was the giant now its hold own by strings. Nothing last forever.
Bah, Yahoo was nothing but an ad infested portal. The only Yahoo app I continued using after 1998 was Yahoo groups. Google is my home page, email, calendar and map application. They all work very well for me and I don't see google going anywhere soon. Your post is nothing but kneejerk FUD.
The comment you quoted me as posting was actually the comment of the parent poster of my comment but I hit submit before I noticed that I screwed up the quotes.
You know what burns me up... The whole reason we switched to CDs from records and cassettes was supposedly the higher fidelity of CD audio. Now we all listen to crappy mp3s that sound like cassette tapes. wtf?
You must not be encoding your MP3's at the highest bitrate. I encode all mine with the latest lame encoder at 320KB/S. They sound just as good as CD's and with storage space being so cheap the extra size is okay. Of course if you want exact CD quality just encode with FLAC.
And who says the definition of a crime cam't change? It's not he didn't know what he were doing was determined to be unlawful and punishable as a federal crime.
When the penalties of a law does more damage than the crime it's addressing then the law is wrong. If we in the US could just hold all laws to that standard I think we could clean up the books quite a bit and put a lot of lawyers out of business, so in other words it will never happen.
Think for example a modern warship compared to not so long ago. You wouldn't even get close enough to fire, and if you did there'd be counterfire to make sure the missiles/torpedos/whatever never reached them. You could send an almost endless stream of old ships but they'd never get anywhere.
Williams, 34, said those under 38 have a different view of games than their elders.
I think he needs to go higher than 38, I'm 41 and I too grew up with video games. I play HL2 deathmatch on a server where the majority of players are older than me.
Athletic and fit throughout his life, competent in martial arts such as chariot combat, wrestling, and archery, and later easily hiking miles each day and camping in the wilderness. Images of a fat "Jolly Buddha" or Laughing Buddha are actually depictions of either Maitreya the future Buddha (Chinese Mile Fo), or a 10th century Chinese monk, Budai Heshang (Japanese Hotei)
Astronauts don't get this type of accolade these days
For the same reason we only hear of a few names during the conquest... er settling of the American West. You hear of the first few trailblazers and a few other notorious ones but that didn't make the efforts of the nameless ones that followed any less heroic.
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What about cool home-made stunt video that in reality was just a special effect? Kids are already repeating a lot of stuff they see in those videos, that might not exactly get better when the stuff they try to repeat is impossible to begin with.
We've been dealing with that since The Three Stooges. Just natural selection at work, nothing to worry about.
That's right. Terrorists can perform maneuvers with a passenger aircraft that would make a fighter pilot envious and after only a few private flight school lessons and no practical experience. Now that's smart.
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Continual probing of a heavenly body for almost 10 years? Beats my record by a long shot.
Wow. More myopic IT people. If some of you guys would read about things OTHER than IT, you'd realize that this stuff happens every single day in all industries, all over the world. These lawsuits are in no way, shape, or form, unique. The sports companies (they're not commissions... they're private companies that are treated like public institutions) are very, very sue-happy.
The fact that it happens everywhere makes it okay? A bunch of "myopic" IT people see a pattern as their/our minds are trained to do and point it out. Should it be ignored simply because it happens in every industry?
Change has to begin somewhere and for the last couple of decades us IT folk seemed to have been able to affect much change in society. But of course, what would us nearsighted geeks be able to figure out anyhow? All we did was build a communications network that spans the globe and allows even the most insignificant person to have access to information that less than a generation ago was the domain of governments and billionaires. What the heck would we know? I can only wish that we were as smart and well informed as you are.
Except Linux could never have a monopoly, because it can be forked by a dissatisfied user at the slightest provocation.
I think it's better for a user to fork an OS than the other way around. Of course that was most likely your point, I'll just go back to drinking my wine now...
Wait a second this is all digital - THERE SHOULD NOT BE SAMPLING ERRORS!.
Exactly. How many cash registers would IBM sell with these error rates?
In fact if you want accurate voting machines maybe we should just refurbish some old registers, put the candidates names on the buttons and you have the paper receipt for backup.
Way to refute my points. I bow to your master debating skills.
Thank you.
Did it ever occur to you to wonder why the Vikings called it GREENland when they colonized it, less than 1000 years ago?
That's just because those big heavy horned helmets they wore put pressure on their retinas causing white to appear green. Sheesh don't you read the history books?
France? Liberals? Canada?
Time to shut off Fox network and get some sunlight, there's a big beautiful world out there.
If the sentence is justified by how many innocent Iraqis Saddam has killed, maybe he shouldn't be alone on the gallows. Too bad for him that he didn't have the foresight to exempt himself from international law and basic human decency beforehand.
Yeah, all those innocents he killed with American weapons handed to him on a silver platter. Of course you can also add all the innocents killed trying to capture him, not to mention our own soldiers. You're right he shouldn't be alone in the gallows and I have a few people in mind that should join him, and they aren't Iraqi's.
I have to agree with some of the items above but it does seem that google will the same downfall as many in the past Dot Com days. Its doing well but for how long just as yahoo was the brand name of its time so is google. So for those who own the stock cash now not later. Now here is another one Microsoft it too was the giant now its hold own by strings. Nothing last forever.
Bah, Yahoo was nothing but an ad infested portal. The only Yahoo app I continued using after 1998 was Yahoo groups. Google is my home page, email, calendar and map application. They all work very well for me and I don't see google going anywhere soon. Your post is nothing but kneejerk FUD.
The comment you quoted me as posting was actually the comment of the parent poster of my comment but I hit submit before I noticed that I screwed up the quotes.
You know what burns me up... The whole reason we switched to CDs from records and cassettes was supposedly the higher fidelity of CD audio. Now we all listen to crappy mp3s that sound like cassette tapes. wtf?
You must not be encoding your MP3's at the highest bitrate. I encode all mine with the latest lame encoder at 320KB/S. They sound just as good as CD's and with storage space being so cheap the extra size is okay. Of course if you want exact CD quality just encode with FLAC.
You haven't heard? Nerds can only be billionaire software engineers from Microsoft - the others are geeks. *end sarcasm*
To all the geeks who will never experience space - *raises glass*
...AMD has a lot of balls in the air right now.
That reminds me...
It's like...
My....
Nah, too easy.
And who says the definition of a crime cam't change? It's not he didn't know what he were doing was determined to be unlawful and punishable as a federal crime.
When the penalties of a law does more damage than the crime it's addressing then the law is wrong. If we in the US could just hold all laws to that standard I think we could clean up the books quite a bit and put a lot of lawyers out of business, so in other words it will never happen.
Think for example a modern warship compared to not so long ago. You wouldn't even get close enough to fire, and if you did there'd be counterfire to make sure the missiles/torpedos/whatever never reached them. You could send an almost endless stream of old ships but they'd never get anywhere.
What a short memory you have.
USS Cole bombing
Where's the -1 Churlish mod when you need it?
Looks like someone is putting their word-a-day calendar to good use.
But that was because he was an idiot. Not because he was unsuccesful.
You're calling Mozart an idiot?
Priceless.
Williams, 34, said those under 38 have a different view of games than their elders.
I think he needs to go higher than 38, I'm 41 and I too grew up with video games. I play HL2 deathmatch on a server where the majority of players are older than me.
From Wikipedia:
Athletic and fit throughout his life, competent in martial arts such as chariot combat, wrestling, and archery, and later easily hiking miles each day and camping in the wilderness. Images of a fat "Jolly Buddha" or Laughing Buddha are actually depictions of either Maitreya the future Buddha (Chinese Mile Fo), or a 10th century Chinese monk, Budai Heshang (Japanese Hotei)
That's actually very interesting. Thank you.
Astronauts don't get this type of accolade these days
For the same reason we only hear of a few names during the conquest... er settling of the American West. You hear of the first few trailblazers and a few other notorious ones but that didn't make the efforts of the nameless ones that followed any less heroic.
Buddha would have made a great astronaut.
Nah, too fat.
I think the list is supposed to be about mortal creators, not fictional ones. ZING!
I was talking about Jerry Garcia.
Dude, you forgot to mention Jim Morrison, Andy Kaufmann and Bruce Lee. ...and God.
What about cool home-made stunt video that in reality was just a special effect? Kids are already repeating a lot of stuff they see in those videos, that might not exactly get better when the stuff they try to repeat is impossible to begin with.
We've been dealing with that since The Three Stooges. Just natural selection at work, nothing to worry about.
Terrorists aren't stupid you know.
That's right. Terrorists can perform maneuvers with a passenger aircraft that would make a fighter pilot envious and after only a few private flight school lessons and no practical experience. Now that's smart.