I was out getting my hair cut yesterday when half way through someone came into the shop and asked if anyone wanted to buy something. I don't even know what it was that he was flogging because the stylist mumbled "no thank you!" so quickly that I didn't get a chance to hear him. He then truddled off to the next shop to try his luck there. Now what would happen if someone interrupted a battle or some other goings on in a MMORPG in an attempt to sell something? 99% of the players would tell him to piss off and 1% would go complain to the GMs. The guy would probably get a warning or even have his account suspended, even though there my not be any clear regulations against selling stuff outside the auction house (or whatever). A number of things contribute to this behaviour. First, there's the lack of anonymity. If everyone was required to walk around in public places with their name floating above their head we'd see less "risky" public behaviour, because any jerk can report you for anything they care to make up and the authorities don't have to expend any effort to track you down. Second, there's the awesome ill-defined power that GMs have. If I had run out of the hair stylists' shop and gone and regailed my story to the local police they would have told me to go away as they have no recourse to arrest people just because they annoyed me. In a MMORPG you can be banned without any due process and without even violating a written rule. In many ways, virtual worlds are a dangerous place to be an avatar.
Uh huh. Even when people write about "new" phenomona like Bose-Einstein Condensates? Face it, the reason why scientific papers are so long now is because all the scientists are full of hot air. Hell, if you observe something new and interesting these days you can't even get your work published without including two pages of speculation on what you think is happening.
I know people working on PS3 titles that say they are really happy to have a PPC core instead of a MIPS core. Note that they had nothing interesting to say about the vector units on either the PS3 or the PS2. That's because no-one is going to bother coding for them. Maybe there will be some middleware developers for the PS3 who supply physics libraries that make use of the massive increase in vector processing power on the PS3, but the vast majority of games will remain CPU+GPU titles.. i.e., no better than a PC.
If developers were to program for the metal or use compilers that target the vector units of the PS2 we wouldn't be forced through the traumatic upgrade-and-backwards-compatibility cycle every few years.
Here's what you do. Issue your employees options to buy stock at 10% greater than market value at the time of exercising. Now you can immediately claim those options as a loss. Your employees don't need to claim them as a capital gain until they excercise them, which they never will because they can get a better deal on the open market. There ya go, you just printed your own tax credits.
Unless your business model including some sort of recurring billing there is absolutely no justification for storing every digit of a credit card number. The first and last digits are more than enough for data matching purposes.
That would be sensible. This is the era of creaping copyright legislation making everything not in the interests of big business illegal, get with the program.
Gates' father's influence on Microsoft can't be ignored. He taught his son a healthy respect for the law. That is, always stay within the letter of the law but feel free to bend it as much as possible and if you do feel the desire to break it, try to find a good patsy to hide behind. I can remember having a long argument with a coworker about Microsoft not paying any taxes. His opinion was that Microsoft is following the letter of the law and therefore is doing nothing wrong. My opinion was that Microsoft is just sponging off the community by refusing to pay any taxes, even if it means paying more for tax lawyers than they would have to pay in taxes if they weren't so set on not paying taxes. And the fact that they force their employees to accept stock which has absolutely no value so they can avoid taxes, implicating every one of them in their immoral actions is most deplorable.
It's such a shame that so many people on Slashdot have no idea about this process. Some of them are even suggesting that the RIAA must have hacked into her computer to find out what she had on her harddrive. Which is indicitive of the ongoing misconception that people are being sued for downloading songs.. As you have pointed out, they are being sued because it is believed they are offering the songs to others. I don't know if the reporters that cover these cases are just incompitent or are deliberately lying to make the story more interesting, but I wouldn't be surprised either way.
You seem to have missed the point. I was refering to EMACS.. an entire operating system running on top of another operating system just to edit text. X is similar, it has device drivers and schedulars and a network layer.. We run X as root and give it intimate access to the hardware that no userland program should have.
It means that X is now even more like Linux. Why we need an entire operating system for a graphical interface is beyond me. But then again, some people find they need an entire operating system just to edit text so I guess it's just a case of running whatever the hell is available.
The government has never been interested in competition in the booster market. For a history of government attempts to quash such competition, take a look at this recent article by Wayne Eleazer.
When you fuck up a MMORPG and fail your customers, THEY DON'T COME BACK. No matter what. Once you lose momentum against a competitor, that's it, game over.
No, it means we live in a free society where each and every individual gets to define the language through daily use. To spell "dist" as "did" was once considered by some as ghastly as spelling "a lot" as "alot". Get over it.
Slashdot Mirror
I was out getting my hair cut yesterday when half way through someone came into the shop and asked if anyone wanted to buy something. I don't even know what it was that he was flogging because the stylist mumbled "no thank you!" so quickly that I didn't get a chance to hear him. He then truddled off to the next shop to try his luck there. Now what would happen if someone interrupted a battle or some other goings on in a MMORPG in an attempt to sell something? 99% of the players would tell him to piss off and 1% would go complain to the GMs. The guy would probably get a warning or even have his account suspended, even though there my not be any clear regulations against selling stuff outside the auction house (or whatever). A number of things contribute to this behaviour. First, there's the lack of anonymity. If everyone was required to walk around in public places with their name floating above their head we'd see less "risky" public behaviour, because any jerk can report you for anything they care to make up and the authorities don't have to expend any effort to track you down. Second, there's the awesome ill-defined power that GMs have. If I had run out of the hair stylists' shop and gone and regailed my story to the local police they would have told me to go away as they have no recourse to arrest people just because they annoyed me. In a MMORPG you can be banned without any due process and without even violating a written rule. In many ways, virtual worlds are a dangerous place to be an avatar.
Uh huh. Even when people write about "new" phenomona like Bose-Einstein Condensates? Face it, the reason why scientific papers are so long now is because all the scientists are full of hot air. Hell, if you observe something new and interesting these days you can't even get your work published without including two pages of speculation on what you think is happening.
I know people working on PS3 titles that say they are really happy to have a PPC core instead of a MIPS core. Note that they had nothing interesting to say about the vector units on either the PS3 or the PS2. That's because no-one is going to bother coding for them. Maybe there will be some middleware developers for the PS3 who supply physics libraries that make use of the massive increase in vector processing power on the PS3, but the vast majority of games will remain CPU+GPU titles.. i.e., no better than a PC.
heh, I wasn't suggesting the first and last digit were adequate, just that storing all the digits is bad.
If developers were to program for the metal or use compilers that target the vector units of the PS2 we wouldn't be forced through the traumatic upgrade-and-backwards-compatibility cycle every few years.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Wired is running an article looking at the little ways in which eurotrash technology users are striking back against surveillance.
Better?
They weren't neo-nazis you freak. They were Arabs who kidnapped Israelis.
Here's what you do. Issue your employees options to buy stock at 10% greater than market value at the time of exercising. Now you can immediately claim those options as a loss. Your employees don't need to claim them as a capital gain until they excercise them, which they never will because they can get a better deal on the open market. There ya go, you just printed your own tax credits.
Unless your business model including some sort of recurring billing there is absolutely no justification for storing every digit of a credit card number. The first and last digits are more than enough for data matching purposes.
That would be sensible. This is the era of creaping copyright legislation making everything not in the interests of big business illegal, get with the program.
You'll wear whatever the fuck you're told to wear soldier.
Riiight. Ok, put down the bong.
Gates' father's influence on Microsoft can't be ignored. He taught his son a healthy respect for the law. That is, always stay within the letter of the law but feel free to bend it as much as possible and if you do feel the desire to break it, try to find a good patsy to hide behind. I can remember having a long argument with a coworker about Microsoft not paying any taxes. His opinion was that Microsoft is following the letter of the law and therefore is doing nothing wrong. My opinion was that Microsoft is just sponging off the community by refusing to pay any taxes, even if it means paying more for tax lawyers than they would have to pay in taxes if they weren't so set on not paying taxes. And the fact that they force their employees to accept stock which has absolutely no value so they can avoid taxes, implicating every one of them in their immoral actions is most deplorable.
It's such a shame that so many people on Slashdot have no idea about this process. Some of them are even suggesting that the RIAA must have hacked into her computer to find out what she had on her harddrive. Which is indicitive of the ongoing misconception that people are being sued for downloading songs.. As you have pointed out, they are being sued because it is believed they are offering the songs to others. I don't know if the reporters that cover these cases are just incompitent or are deliberately lying to make the story more interesting, but I wouldn't be surprised either way.
for this ad.
You seem to have missed the point. I was refering to EMACS.. an entire operating system running on top of another operating system just to edit text. X is similar, it has device drivers and schedulars and a network layer.. We run X as root and give it intimate access to the hardware that no userland program should have.
It means that X is now even more like Linux. Why we need an entire operating system for a graphical interface is beyond me. But then again, some people find they need an entire operating system just to edit text so I guess it's just a case of running whatever the hell is available.
The government has never been interested in competition in the booster market. For a history of government attempts to quash such competition, take a look at this recent article by Wayne Eleazer.
Things are not looking good for Elon Musk. Few more delays and people will start cancelling.
When you fuck up a MMORPG and fail your customers, THEY DON'T COME BACK. No matter what. Once you lose momentum against a competitor, that's it, game over.
I hope this project is as successful as JAXA's previous projects [snigger].
We all know what 'alot' means.
No, it means we live in a free society where each and every individual gets to define the language through daily use. To spell "dist" as "did" was once considered by some as ghastly as spelling "a lot" as "alot". Get over it.
dist thou not knoweth how thee shalt speak?!
Language changes, get used to it.