If that is the case, the "American Taliban" John Walker cannot be tried in the US Judicial courts and must be returned to Afghanistan when this "war" ends. This is a major dilemma.
Unless of course, he is still an American citizen. I have no idea if he renounced citizenship or not, but I would think if he's really still an American, then he would be held and tried like any other criminal, wartime or not.
How about a genuine understanding of copyright law? How about compensation for the artists who create the music (in this case. replace music with art, movies, software, TV shows, books, plays, you name it)?
oh, don't forget horrific laws (um, DMCA, hello?) getting slipped through our legislative branch, lubed up with the vast cash reserves of an industry that's been slipping it to the artists since it's inception. Nevermind that the music business is booming. No artist has *ever* been denied his "big break" because of Napster or any of the clones. We will never see this: "E! True Hollywood Story. Metallica: The Band that Napster Murdered." Is there not a general concensus that P2P sharing programs promote a healthy interest in music, specifically, the obscure artists (those who often deserve acclaim 1000x more than the most of the mainstream crap).
What if Napster was like it will be, proprietary format, unplayable in cars or disc players, but it was free?. I know, crazy, right?
Yeah that is crazy! I mean, nobody makes car stereos with MP3 playback. The very idea of it is ludicrous. And don't even *think* about portable players. Bah!
Where have you been, man? Do you have a 12 disc changer in your car? I do, but they all fit on one CDR. Just keep futzing with all those CDs... or LPs if you prefer.
rent payment on bay area 3000 sq ft loft apartment, or just have parents pay again.
"But DADDY! Please please please pay my rent!! I simply must have this cute new computer that looks like the cutest little lamp. It would just look smashing on my desk next to Nathan Lane fashion figure. Please Daddy, PLEASE!!!"
I get the feeling that this guy meant to post to a different site.
Although I'd go with the Sega Dreamcast... better than PS2 [ok it doesn't play dvds], cheaper, cool games, lots of Multiplayer fun, and it can play mp3s and more!
I have Dreamcast, and love it. I would have to disagree with you on one point tho. The games. Don't get me wrong there are quite a few really great games (crazy taxi, ecco, soul calibre, et al). With Bleem you can play Gran Turismo 2, Tekken3, and MetalGear? on DC. But once you get the top 10 or 20, you start running out of options. I've rented scores of games that were only good for 10 min of play. Some games are real crap (rainbow6 on DC made me want to break the controller in half).
Also, I believe you can only play mp3s (or run linux or MAME emulators, or anything you have to boot from CD for) on Pre-Oct-2000 units. I found one in summer 2001, so maybe they're still around, but I slightly doubt it.
oh my god dude, are you bragging about being in the cs honor society? you must be big hit with the ladies.
and just because you can read my/. profile doesn't make you fucking sherlock holmes. but since yer so interested in my life (i certainly didn't do any "detective work"), i'll humor you. I'm not a programmer. I'm not in the cs honor society because I only took one CS class before leaving school (got an A tho). nope, i didn't graduate. The real world intervened and here I am.
anyway, it's odd that we seem to agree on so much. yes higher education is valualbe. yes notbob is a moron. yes you are an asshole.
...and yes, I am currently hiring, actually. We need another network engineer. If you're interested, email me, you super-sleuth you. I'll save you the trouble and just tell you that, while the URL up there is horribly out of date, the email address still works. I won't hire you, but I don't mind interviewing you. equal opportunity, and all.;)
and no I wasn't threatening you... for fucks sake man, lighten up.
oh yeah, well I'm better than you are! And the company I work for "advances the state of technology" more than your's does...
Dude, "the best" are also modest to a certain degree. No one likes to work for/with an arrogant, gas-headed, impotent, over-compensating jack ass (read: you!). My company does business. period. We are here to make money, not to write press releases that suck our own dicks. And I LOOOVE firing assholes like you.
Former Employee:
"But I'm the best engineer you've got! I just have to make ONE phone call, and I'll have another job in 5 min flat! YOU'LL SEE!!" Me:
"That's fine. Go ahead. I didn't say I wanted you to be unemployed and on welfare. I just don't want you here anymore. Looks like our goals coincide perfectly."
When I hire someone like you, it's almost always as a contract telecommuter. When I need a code monkey who works fast, but don't care if they have any sort of social skills. These are not people who drive business. It's the well rounded (most often, educated) people who actually get shit done, and their ability to respect the efforts/abilities of coworkers that get shit done.
so you are correct: "The best are recognized for their value and are kept satisfied." But you, my friend, are not among them. You just an asshole. Perhaps a smart asshole. But an asshole just the same. Face it. People don't like you. And some may actually wish physical harm upon you. Watch yer back.... or just lighten up.
If your gonna say that you might as well say PDA's themselves are useless because the programs on them arent as usefull as their PC counterparts.
that's not true at all. PDA's have many useful functions. 3D gaming just doesn't happen to be one of them. its a cool novelty. very neat. but not fun. One could proly port PalmOS graffiti to Windows, but it wouldn't be useful now would it? Does that make PC's worthless? no. Does that make graffiti worthless? no. Does that make graffiti on a pc a waste of time? no. Will anyone use it? no.
really, I understand. it's a cool thing. but not that cool. not worth more than 5~10 min of "gameplay".
I'd wager a great deal more than 5% is inaccessible if you count all the home sites locked away behind nat firewalls. Once we all start getting hundreds of IPv6 addresses at home, we'll start to see hundreds more small home/user sites popping up. This could greatly change the structure of the net, once again breaking away from the central information resources we are beggining to solely rely on and start using small independent resources much more.
I don't think that being behind a NAT device constitutes being "unreachable". granted, you're reachability is governed by policies with NAT, but that's an administrative matter, not a Layer3 (IP) reachability issue.
wow, now that it runs on PocketPC, all that remains is to find some shred of a reason to play it on PocketPC. I'm not trying to knock your work here, Dan. As a programming exercise, this is an amazing milestone. But seriously, I don't have to elaborate on why a 4 inch screen and wonky pda controls suck the life out of 3d action games. Besides, as many hours as I've tossed away playing games like Q2 online, the last thing I need to be doing is pretending it's fun to "play" it on a train on an iPaq. Harldy a real "Palm-killer", since the mainstream pda market will largely ignore this admirable science project.
Alternatively, they managed to get a mature female egg to divide without the introductionof any foreign material at all. (Guys, we are no longer needed;)
What would the result of this be, exactly? Could a human genophyte grow into a complete organism? Where would a dividing human cell, with 13 chromos end up?
But now that you have done your obligatory dance on the open source grave, keep this in mind: As long as there are programmers who are willing to collectivly contribute their spare time to a project, open source will survive. That may seem alien to you, but people contribute to all kinds of collaborative efforts without the expectation of monitary gain ($1BUSD donated to Red Cross).
You totally missed his point. He clearly said that he didn't think that Linux or other OSS projects would disappear; just the "business model". But, whatever. You got your karma; that was the point right?
I am hated because I am american. They see me as a Jew-supporter and an Arab-hater. They are prejudiced against me, fuck them. They are celebrating in the streets, giving out candy. I hope they all rot in hell.
It is indeed maddening to see such displays. but, truly these scenes are the result of a cultural handicap.
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Unless of course, he is still an American citizen. I have no idea if he renounced citizenship or not, but I would think if he's really still an American, then he would be held and tried like any other criminal, wartime or not.
Agreed. I have a Dell dimension 4300 (p41.4), and you can't even tell if it's on. The only thing that gives it away is the DVD-rom.
oh, don't forget horrific laws (um, DMCA, hello?) getting slipped through our legislative branch, lubed up with the vast cash reserves of an industry that's been slipping it to the artists since it's inception. Nevermind that the music business is booming. No artist has *ever* been denied his "big break" because of Napster or any of the clones. We will never see this: "E! True Hollywood Story. Metallica: The Band that Napster Murdered." Is there not a general concensus that P2P sharing programs promote a healthy interest in music, specifically, the obscure artists (those who often deserve acclaim 1000x more than the most of the mainstream crap).
that's because of that full-body-condom you are wearing at this very moment. You look really good in it! NOT.
it happens.... jerk.
Yeah that is crazy! I mean, nobody makes car stereos with MP3 playback. The very idea of it is ludicrous. And don't even *think* about portable players. Bah!
Where have you been, man? Do you have a 12 disc changer in your car? I do, but they all fit on one CDR. Just keep futzing with all those CDs... or LPs if you prefer.
well, it is only at 2... so far.
"But DADDY! Please please please pay my rent!! I simply must have this cute new computer that looks like the cutest little lamp. It would just look smashing on my desk next to Nathan Lane fashion figure. Please Daddy, PLEASE!!!"
I get the feeling that this guy meant to post to a different site.
GUI aside, I'm not sure you could say that OSX works "much better" than anything.
yeah, good point... As cheap as DC's are, I just bought one new. But any pawn shop should be a safe bet :)
I have Dreamcast, and love it. I would have to disagree with you on one point tho. The games. Don't get me wrong there are quite a few really great games (crazy taxi, ecco, soul calibre, et al). With Bleem you can play Gran Turismo 2, Tekken3, and MetalGear? on DC. But once you get the top 10 or 20, you start running out of options. I've rented scores of games that were only good for 10 min of play. Some games are real crap (rainbow6 on DC made me want to break the controller in half).
Also, I believe you can only play mp3s (or run linux or MAME emulators, or anything you have to boot from CD for) on Pre-Oct-2000 units. I found one in summer 2001, so maybe they're still around, but I slightly doubt it.
don't worry... I got it ;)
PS.... weird, I've never seen anyone else with the @mindless.com email address... iname, right?
For "point A to B" type transportation, I think ballistic travel may make more sense. Just strap yourself to a SCUD, and yer off.
oh my god dude, are you bragging about being in the cs honor society? you must be big hit with the ladies.
and just because you can read my /. profile doesn't make you fucking sherlock holmes. but since yer so interested in my life (i certainly didn't do any "detective work"), i'll humor you. I'm not a programmer. I'm not in the cs honor society because I only took one CS class before leaving school (got an A tho). nope, i didn't graduate. The real world intervened and here I am.
anyway, it's odd that we seem to agree on so much. yes higher education is valualbe. yes notbob is a moron. yes you are an asshole. ;)
...and yes, I am currently hiring, actually. We need another network engineer. If you're interested, email me, you super-sleuth you. I'll save you the trouble and just tell you that, while the URL up there is horribly out of date, the email address still works. I won't hire you, but I don't mind interviewing you. equal opportunity, and all.
and no I wasn't threatening you... for fucks sake man, lighten up.
Former Employee:
"But I'm the best engineer you've got! I just have to make ONE phone call, and I'll have another job in 5 min flat! YOU'LL SEE!!"
Me:
"That's fine. Go ahead. I didn't say I wanted you to be unemployed and on welfare. I just don't want you here anymore. Looks like our goals coincide perfectly."
When I hire someone like you, it's almost always as a contract telecommuter. When I need a code monkey who works fast, but don't care if they have any sort of social skills. These are not people who drive business. It's the well rounded (most often, educated) people who actually get shit done, and their ability to respect the efforts/abilities of coworkers that get shit done.
so you are correct: "The best are recognized for their value and are kept satisfied." But you, my friend, are not among them. You just an asshole. Perhaps a smart asshole. But an asshole just the same. Face it. People don't like you. And some may actually wish physical harm upon you. Watch yer back.... or just lighten up.
holy shit! are you serious?! there's actually a /. I missed!?!? How could this happen? I'd better check the archives!!
uhh, get a life there guy.
that's not true at all. PDA's have many useful functions. 3D gaming just doesn't happen to be one of them. its a cool novelty. very neat. but not fun. One could proly port PalmOS graffiti to Windows, but it wouldn't be useful now would it? Does that make PC's worthless? no. Does that make graffiti worthless? no. Does that make graffiti on a pc a waste of time? no. Will anyone use it? no.
really, I understand. it's a cool thing. but not that cool. not worth more than 5~10 min of "gameplay".
I don't think that being behind a NAT device constitutes being "unreachable". granted, you're reachability is governed by policies with NAT, but that's an administrative matter, not a Layer3 (IP) reachability issue.
dang... smoked you!
no....
in 8 words:
yes, because no one will play it anyway
wow, now that it runs on PocketPC, all that remains is to find some shred of a reason to play it on PocketPC. I'm not trying to knock your work here, Dan. As a programming exercise, this is an amazing milestone. But seriously, I don't have to elaborate on why a 4 inch screen and wonky pda controls suck the life out of 3d action games. Besides, as many hours as I've tossed away playing games like Q2 online, the last thing I need to be doing is pretending it's fun to "play" it on a train on an iPaq. Harldy a real "Palm-killer", since the mainstream pda market will largely ignore this admirable science project.
What would the result of this be, exactly? Could a human genophyte grow into a complete organism? Where would a dividing human cell, with 13 chromos end up?
You totally missed his point. He clearly said that he didn't think that Linux or other OSS projects would disappear; just the "business model". But, whatever. You got your karma; that was the point right?
It is indeed maddening to see such displays. but, truly these scenes are the result of a cultural handicap.
Except that your business has to be off of the same CO as your house. Chances are, this is not likely.