I wish I could find the newspaper article (I thought it was the Toronto Star or National Post but can't seem to find it) which, at the end of the first year of the copying levy for blank media, gave a breakdown of how much money the levy brought in. The most interesting part about the article was that the amount of money (in millions) that the blank media levy generated was more than double what the groups had claimed they lose on an annual basis. Nothing changed though... hmmmm
If your child is anything like my nephew (not quite 2 year old), then I would have to recommend this, it would be the only electronic device that would last more than 5 minutes with him.
Bioware is one company that I always seem to see writing positions open for... now whether you take that as a good thing or a bad thing I guess depends on your perspective. They usually have a written component that you can submit (ie an original story set in genre X or based on Bioware game X) which, they say, can override any educational qualification. Austin, Texas Edmonton, Alberta Yes, believe it or not Bioware is actually a Canadian company.
Spaceballs Mega Maid! What could strike more fear in a population than a giant space-maid with a vacuum cleaner than could suck all the air out of a planet?!
I am not much for the whole conspiracy theory BS, but if I really wanted to, underhandedly, get more funding for my department/organization it would make sense to approach the likely candidates and tell them they have a problem. Then when either candidate comes into power it would be much easier to say: "we need more funding for 'cyber-defence' to protect the country from attacks. Attacks like you fell victim to not to long ago, remember?"
On a side note, I hate the word cyber in this context.
Having used to work installing alarms systems, jamming wouldn't work. A lost communication with a device triggers a fault same as if you were to cut a wire. Spoofing also wouldn't work because if more than one identical ID/Serial#s also create a fault. But yes I suppose you could keep randomly jamming them and setting off alarms until they finally give up and disable it.
I just finished a term paper for University on this very subject, my argument and topic of discussion was why an online book resource and/or library differs from a traditional library. If Google were to purchase a copy of a book and lend it out electronically, and a library were to purchase a copy of a book and lend it out physically how do they differ? The main difference is that the library likely has only one copy and only one copy can be borrowed at a time. If they were to have more than one copy they could thus lend out more at one time but would thus have to pay for each additional copy. Google, on the other hand, has purchased one copy of a book which can be borrowed simultaneously by X number of people around the world without the need to purchase additional copies. The issue of volumes being out of print should be of no direct concern to the publishing industry. They have no desire or need to republish the book, hence it being out of print, so it really should just become part of the public domain and freely available to anyone who wishes to read it. Of course the problem with that is that the price of rare out of print book sales might be effected negatively. There is no easy answer, just a more preferable one depending on which side of the fence you are on.
Turns out that DOS loaded and ran 100x faster on my machine than Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista AND all the distributions of Linux I have kicking around!
Ok, we'll send you out to Voyager for repairs. I'll see you in about 100,000 years.
The fact is that it's more cost effective to send someone to fix the problem with aging hardware/software than it is to develop a new telescope satellite and send it into space. This whole topic reminds me of the COBOL programmer article. Same space, different pile.
Let's face it, video game pricing hasn't really kept up with the cost of making games. I'm happy to acknowledge that.
Ok, reasoning seems a little odd here. If a movie that just came out were to have cost Millions or even Billions more than a movie that came out yesterday, it would then be 'ok' to charge 3x the price to see it? If the development of a movie or game costs X amounts of dollars and it isn't scrapped then the volume of sales at current market price should damn well be worth the risk. There are a few exceptions that go above the current market price, and those in themselves are gambles, you had better be sure that it's a big hit. As you said it's just a money grab, no excuses.
WOW works, or maybe I should say worked since I haven't played in a long time, in wine 100% flawlessly. I ran it at 1680x1050 with all graphics set to max and anti-aliasing. I have a modest geforce 6600 gt, nothing fancy. I honestly think it ran better than in windows, but my perceptions may have been biased.
But yes, native Linux support would be great (like ID does)... but I'd even be happy with them working with Transgaming to create a wrapper that would work, like they are currently doing with Cider and the MacOS.
I will tell you that I do believe in God, and I accept the terms (Bible) and conditions (Commandments) that go along with it. Why can't our world and/or solar system be a big science experiment? There are many religions that express that evolution is false, and that Dinosaurs/Neanderthals never existed and that the whole finding bones and artifacts is a big conspiracy, because it was not covered in the Bible. Which, in fact they are right it wasn't covered in the Bible because it was written by people observing and participating in the time they were in. So what if God created the Earth and put some lifeforms on it, lets say Dinosaurs and other animals, maybe even a primitive man. He/She let it take it's course and see how everything worked out and if it didn't scrap it and start again. As a young boy I had an ant farm. To the ants I was god, I provided a home for them to live in, food for them to eat, conditions to reproduce and flourish. Was I God to them? I do believe in God, and I also believe that if we screw our world up too much we will be like the Dinosaurs that didn't make the cut and be scrapped and re-invented again. Mainly I believe science and religion are part of the same cloth when talking about it in this respect. Who says God didn't intend and plan for evolution?
Short answer is...at some point, you really do have to say fuck it, and throw it in the trash.
Amen brother! After owning my first house and having 3 years of clutter build up in the basement. I had monitors and old computers from friends/family that I helped upgrade or said 'oh yea, I'll take your old computer/monitor/printer/videocard' etc. The attraction of free and/or possibly useful stuff dims when you actually have to move it. I went through everything before I moved and gave away or garbaged pretty well everything. From then on I have a cardboard box (about 1 1/2' by 2') and I vowed that if it didn't fit in the box, it doesn't stay.
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Plus, if they were really smart they would have skipped 1 and went straight to 2, thus preventing all the problems of Apollo 1.
Ha!
I wish I could find the newspaper article (I thought it was the Toronto Star or National Post but can't seem to find it) which, at the end of the first year of the copying levy for blank media, gave a breakdown of how much money the levy brought in.
The most interesting part about the article was that the amount of money (in millions) that the blank media levy generated was more than double what the groups had claimed they lose on an annual basis.
Nothing changed though... hmmmm
Tell you what, when you mail in your taxes next year put a note on it detailing where you would, or would not, like your money to go.
The best of luck to you.
Yes = fired
No = !fired
think about it
In essence this is the largest game of Wack-A-Mole ever played.
Your making a suggestion not to RTFA?
That should just be implied around here.
You're new here aren't you?!
If your child is anything like my nephew (not quite 2 year old), then I would have to recommend this, it would be the only electronic device that would last more than 5 minutes with him.
Damn, I had first post and I blew my chance to be a dick... again the reason I didn't major in History.
Bioware is one company that I always seem to see writing positions open for... now whether you take that as a good thing or a bad thing I guess depends on your perspective. They usually have a written component that you can submit (ie an original story set in genre X or based on Bioware game X) which, they say, can override any educational qualification.
Austin, Texas
Edmonton, Alberta
Yes, believe it or not Bioware is actually a Canadian company.
The mutant space spiders have arrived much sooner than expected. NASA has doomed us all!
I, for one, welcome our new mutant space arachnid overlords
bring Michael Crichton back! ... man that post anonymously button looks pretty good right now... oh well
Spaceballs Mega Maid! What could strike more fear in a population than a giant space-maid with a vacuum cleaner than could suck all the air out of a planet?!
Let the 'suck' jokes commence.....
All these years I thought people were saying cell phone! It's foam!
I am not much for the whole conspiracy theory BS, but if I really wanted to, underhandedly, get more funding for my department/organization it would make sense to approach the likely candidates and tell them they have a problem. Then when either candidate comes into power it would be much easier to say: "we need more funding for 'cyber-defence' to protect the country from attacks. Attacks like you fell victim to not to long ago, remember?"
On a side note, I hate the word cyber in this context.
Having used to work installing alarms systems, jamming wouldn't work. A lost communication with a device triggers a fault same as if you were to cut a wire. Spoofing also wouldn't work because if more than one identical ID/Serial#s also create a fault.
But yes I suppose you could keep randomly jamming them and setting off alarms until they finally give up and disable it.
I just finished a term paper for University on this very subject, my argument and topic of discussion was why an online book resource and/or library differs from a traditional library.
If Google were to purchase a copy of a book and lend it out electronically, and a library were to purchase a copy of a book and lend it out physically how do they differ?
The main difference is that the library likely has only one copy and only one copy can be borrowed at a time. If they were to have more than one copy they could thus lend out more at one time but would thus have to pay for each additional copy. Google, on the other hand, has purchased one copy of a book which can be borrowed simultaneously by X number of people around the world without the need to purchase additional copies.
The issue of volumes being out of print should be of no direct concern to the publishing industry. They have no desire or need to republish the book, hence it being out of print, so it really should just become part of the public domain and freely available to anyone who wishes to read it.
Of course the problem with that is that the price of rare out of print book sales might be effected negatively. There is no easy answer, just a more preferable one depending on which side of the fence you are on.
Turns out that DOS loaded and ran 100x faster on my machine than Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista AND all the distributions of Linux I have kicking around!
c:\no\shit\
Maybe we should all just switch back to DOS.
Ok, we'll send you out to Voyager for repairs. I'll see you in about 100,000 years.
The fact is that it's more cost effective to send someone to fix the problem with aging hardware/software than it is to develop a new telescope satellite and send it into space. This whole topic reminds me of the COBOL programmer article. Same space, different pile.
Man... wont he be pissed when Obama gets elected
Let's face it, video game pricing hasn't really kept up with the cost of making games. I'm happy to acknowledge that.
Ok, reasoning seems a little odd here. If a movie that just came out were to have cost Millions or even Billions more than a movie that came out yesterday, it would then be 'ok' to charge 3x the price to see it? If the development of a movie or game costs X amounts of dollars and it isn't scrapped then the volume of sales at current market price should damn well be worth the risk. There are a few exceptions that go above the current market price, and those in themselves are gambles, you had better be sure that it's a big hit.
As you said it's just a money grab, no excuses.
WOW works, or maybe I should say worked since I haven't played in a long time, in wine 100% flawlessly. I ran it at 1680x1050 with all graphics set to max and anti-aliasing. I have a modest geforce 6600 gt, nothing fancy. I honestly think it ran better than in windows, but my perceptions may have been biased.
But yes, native Linux support would be great (like ID does)... but I'd even be happy with them working with Transgaming to create a wrapper that would work, like they are currently doing with Cider and the MacOS.
just throwing my 2cents out there.
Nope, Bill just took him to "live on a farm" where he would be much happier. *wink-wink*
I will tell you that I do believe in God, and I accept the terms (Bible) and conditions (Commandments) that go along with it.
Why can't our world and/or solar system be a big science experiment? There are many religions that express that evolution is false, and that Dinosaurs/Neanderthals never existed and that the whole finding bones and artifacts is a big conspiracy, because it was not covered in the Bible. Which, in fact they are right it wasn't covered in the Bible because it was written by people observing and participating in the time they were in. So what if God created the Earth and put some lifeforms on it, lets say Dinosaurs and other animals, maybe even a primitive man. He/She let it take it's course and see how everything worked out and if it didn't scrap it and start again.
As a young boy I had an ant farm. To the ants I was god, I provided a home for them to live in, food for them to eat, conditions to reproduce and flourish. Was I God to them?
I do believe in God, and I also believe that if we screw our world up too much we will be like the Dinosaurs that didn't make the cut and be scrapped and re-invented again.
Mainly I believe science and religion are part of the same cloth when talking about it in this respect. Who says God didn't intend and plan for evolution?
My two cents
Short answer is...at some point, you really do have to say fuck it, and throw it in the trash.
Amen brother! After owning my first house and having 3 years of clutter build up in the basement. I had monitors and old computers from friends/family that I helped upgrade or said 'oh yea, I'll take your old computer/monitor/printer/videocard' etc. The attraction of free and/or possibly useful stuff dims when you actually have to move it.
I went through everything before I moved and gave away or garbaged pretty well everything. From then on I have a cardboard box (about 1 1/2' by 2') and I vowed that if it didn't fit in the box, it doesn't stay.
What's all this talk about assuming he's in 'tele-marketing' and having 'high call volumes'?
He could very well have a legitimate job for one of 900 number line 'chat with a sexy girl' things.... yes I said he.