Can't speak for every state and county, but in mine they've done a good job of getting the code of law online and even offering public APIs for dealing with the mountains of legislation. If you live in a state where they are pulling that kind of stuff, it is high time you start speaking to your state senator and rep.
Funny, every time the question of Java's licensing comes up on Slashdot, inevitably we go down the road of 'ethics of binary questions in court' -> beat your wife question.
The collective consciousness of Slashdot is an interesting thing some days.
Personally I imagine something better than just "press A to jump". Last year a friend broke out his cell phone to show me a game. His hands are big and mine are small. The control config was somewhere in between. A compromise, but it didn't make playing any easier; his hands were compressed and mine were struggling to reach the "buttons". Why are we imposing arbitrary limitations on a platform specifically designed to avoid those arbitrary limitations? Why can't I just drag and move those buttons over to a more comfortable distance? Why can't I just swap them around if I want to?
I suppose one could break out the argument that the designer is god and by re-binding the keys I am destroying his vision and improperly imposing my fascist and or communist will on him (plenty of people out in Internet land will trot that one out, at least on the game forums and dev blogs), but I honestly don't think the designer was intending to make "hand cramp creator 5000".
Why not do something that goes back to the key config files of old when people would post their configs out on boards and others would try what works. You could even go the social route and just select it from a drop down "Try JimBob69's Controls". The sky is the limit.
That might be a plus. Tablets and phones are still new territory, where no one has really laid down the law and said there has to be a right or wrong way to do things. Keyboard and Mouse kinda slipped into red headed step-child status as things like Halo emerged. This could be a boon for both.
The problem there is "conservatives". "True Conservatives", "Real Conservatives", whatever you can call yourself to get the last "Conservative" thrown out. I'm almost surprised that a "Floating Point Conservative" hasn't come down the pike.
Not that the loser minds so much in the long run. He gets thrown out, gets bitter and cynical, waits and goes into lobbying. More money there anyway, gets to hob knob with the same kind of people and instead of begging for money he gets to be the one dangling the carrot. That just props up the notion that anyone going into office is corrupt so another round of "throw the bums out" kicks off and now we all throw our support behind "John Johnson: The Char Array Conservative" in the next primary.
Meanwhile the people who don't want the government in their bedrooms are joining up with the same people who want anyone with an ounce of power to sign purity pledges that they'll never look at porn again and the free market "too big to fail was the death of the republic" conservatives are joining up with the crony "keep the pork coming" capitalists. And in the name of what? Winning.
Is there anything remotely sane about this?
You can say that the Tea Party doesn't give a shit about Republicans, the truth being that the feeling is mutual. They don't give a shit about the Tea Party. Just another wedge group who given a binary option will keep coming back no matter what.
I think you may have a couple wires crossed here. It isn't that the media wants you to believe that "Activists" are purely good.
"Good" activists are either venerated and deified or if their cause really wasn't attractive to the people who came after them they are passively forgotten.
"Bad" activists end up as either "heads on the pike" and become a symbol of what we tell our children to actively seek and stop or they are actively forgotten; basically the cultural version of burning the body and scattering their ashes in the wind. There is a reason you never see Luigi Galleani used as a pop culture reference even though he was infamous at the time.
It isn't that there aren't bad activists, we just don't talk about them in polite society.
A hacker looks at the box, puts his hand in blindly, feels around for something familiar and delights when he thinks he has figured out what the engineer was thinking. He then figures out how to have fun with the box.
True. The whole thing is a half and half mix of creatives and kids in backyards. The bright spots are pretty fun. The burning cardboard Star Destroyer definitely gave me a chuckle as well the trashcan Sand Crawler (literally a model of a massive brown plastic trashcan that someone clearly spent a bit of time on).
More shop vac R2's than you can throw a [insert Star Wars reference here] at.
It isn't any government that is the problem. Stupid clients who think you are a dinosaur for not putting everything "in the cloud" who are the problem.
Honestly, that is exactly the idea. Illustrate to the public just how incredibly ridiculous this is with an equally ridiculous parade.
The last time I read SOPA there was no real protection against 3rd parties acting on behalf of (with or without permission) the "offended" party. If this passes you won't just have GoDaddy types with "super special, we promise they won't take you down because of something in your comments section" DNS offerings, but firms will spring up that will behave more like 3rd party arbiters than copyright cops. We'll have a new cottage industry that will take decades to get rid of. Good times for all.
I'd even go a step further. For 24 hours leave up a little button beside each link stating that you feel this person has violated your copyright. Anyone can click it, allow them to leave a small comment explaining why they think "their" copyright has been violated. When the 24 hours is up that page is delisted for the next 24, pointing to a fake seizure page detailing the "reason".
I'm sure 24 hours of crappy reasons like "I've decided to act on behalf of Colgate and we feel that Oral-B violates Colgate's trademarks concerning the use of the word 'tooth'" or "C-SPAN is partaking in potentially felonious streaming of Random House's content via Book TV" will be more than entertaining enough to make up for a day without Google.
Even if I agree with everything you said and they are indeed unfairly flexing their corporate muscle there is one huge, massive difference for the man on the ground: One day vs The rest of your life.
Possibly, they do tend to err on the side of "Freudian slips". I'd love to be the fly on the wall at Fox News and see the grunts and interns side of this stuff.
This. My best friend worked as an installer for Comcast for somewhere between 5 and 6 years. He is a smart guy, but more importantly he is always ready to learn more (and had no problem with getting his hand dirty). If some new piece of tech came down the line he was always the first guy to rush and learn more about it.
His co-workers were like everywhere else, they ranged from eager to learn and to more to eager to get a check and go home. Underestimate no one.
In the end, they did the right thing by losing Ocean Marketing, I'd imagine if they (very publicly) gave away a number of units to their indented customers (disabled gamers), they could walk away from this fiasco being THE brand in their field. Now I know there is a company called N-Control when I think about what controller adapter to get for someone with a disability. If they can keep the goodwill they have a market cornered. I'd call that a net positive.
In the 90s Bell South charged us to go to their office and pay a bill. Pretty sure they also charged you if you paid by check (processing), by phone, hell, they probably had a charge if you paid them by direct deposit and Western Union.
This is just how they operate. You only get so many customers and share holders get antsy because of that, so you invent new charges.
This is also why they publicly balk at the idea of new taxes, but don't shed a tear when they get to tack on two new charges with that tax (gotta charge them for collecting the tax and charge them for handing it over). It is all a game.
Probably this. Blender itself has a steep learning curve, but BGE (Blender Game Engine) is pretty easy when it comes to setting up in-game logic. The real downside is that it is kinda, well, painfully slow, but you do get a lot of bang for your buck (in this case effort you put into it).
You can even get a very, very rudimentary FPS up and running in a half-hour.
Just to clarify, I only mean typos. I can understand a writer rolling back something that is false, that makes perfect sense. Intentionally going back to "thiis", not so much.
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Can't speak for every state and county, but in mine they've done a good job of getting the code of law online and even offering public APIs for dealing with the mountains of legislation. If you live in a state where they are pulling that kind of stuff, it is high time you start speaking to your state senator and rep.
"Macs don't get viruses." was a pretty common phrase when I worked help desk back in the early 2000s.
They were raided by Fish and Wildlife, not the FBI. From there the details get very murky (everyone has their own spin).
Beyond losing some wood, it only made Gibson more money as folks ran out to buy their products at (IMHO) already inflated prices.
"Did you stop beating your wife?"
Funny, every time the question of Java's licensing comes up on Slashdot, inevitably we go down the road of 'ethics of binary questions in court' -> beat your wife question.
The collective consciousness of Slashdot is an interesting thing some days.
Sorry, for the late response.
Personally I imagine something better than just "press A to jump". Last year a friend broke out his cell phone to show me a game. His hands are big and mine are small. The control config was somewhere in between. A compromise, but it didn't make playing any easier; his hands were compressed and mine were struggling to reach the "buttons". Why are we imposing arbitrary limitations on a platform specifically designed to avoid those arbitrary limitations? Why can't I just drag and move those buttons over to a more comfortable distance? Why can't I just swap them around if I want to?
I suppose one could break out the argument that the designer is god and by re-binding the keys I am destroying his vision and improperly imposing my fascist and or communist will on him (plenty of people out in Internet land will trot that one out, at least on the game forums and dev blogs), but I honestly don't think the designer was intending to make "hand cramp creator 5000".
Why not do something that goes back to the key config files of old when people would post their configs out on boards and others would try what works. You could even go the social route and just select it from a drop down "Try JimBob69's Controls". The sky is the limit.
That might be a plus. Tablets and phones are still new territory, where no one has really laid down the law and said there has to be a right or wrong way to do things. Keyboard and Mouse kinda slipped into red headed step-child status as things like Halo emerged. This could be a boon for both.
The problem there is "conservatives". "True Conservatives", "Real Conservatives", whatever you can call yourself to get the last "Conservative" thrown out. I'm almost surprised that a "Floating Point Conservative" hasn't come down the pike.
Not that the loser minds so much in the long run. He gets thrown out, gets bitter and cynical, waits and goes into lobbying. More money there anyway, gets to hob knob with the same kind of people and instead of begging for money he gets to be the one dangling the carrot. That just props up the notion that anyone going into office is corrupt so another round of "throw the bums out" kicks off and now we all throw our support behind "John Johnson: The Char Array Conservative" in the next primary.
Meanwhile the people who don't want the government in their bedrooms are joining up with the same people who want anyone with an ounce of power to sign purity pledges that they'll never look at porn again and the free market "too big to fail was the death of the republic" conservatives are joining up with the crony "keep the pork coming" capitalists. And in the name of what? Winning.
Is there anything remotely sane about this?
You can say that the Tea Party doesn't give a shit about Republicans, the truth being that the feeling is mutual. They don't give a shit about the Tea Party. Just another wedge group who given a binary option will keep coming back no matter what.
Before or after monied interests turned it into a tool to purge the GOP of RINOs?
I think you may have a couple wires crossed here. It isn't that the media wants you to believe that "Activists" are purely good.
"Good" activists are either venerated and deified or if their cause really wasn't attractive to the people who came after them they are passively forgotten.
"Bad" activists end up as either "heads on the pike" and become a symbol of what we tell our children to actively seek and stop or they are actively forgotten; basically the cultural version of burning the body and scattering their ashes in the wind. There is a reason you never see Luigi Galleani used as a pop culture reference even though he was infamous at the time.
It isn't that there aren't bad activists, we just don't talk about them in polite society.
"Why can't we fix a few grams of living matter?"
Sorry space man, we humans haven't conquered mortality yet.
A hacker looks at the box, puts his hand in blindly, feels around for something familiar and delights when he thinks he has figured out what the engineer was thinking. He then figures out how to have fun with the box.
People still go to CNN?
True. The whole thing is a half and half mix of creatives and kids in backyards. The bright spots are pretty fun. The burning cardboard Star Destroyer definitely gave me a chuckle as well the trashcan Sand Crawler (literally a model of a massive brown plastic trashcan that someone clearly spent a bit of time on).
More shop vac R2's than you can throw a [insert Star Wars reference here] at.
It isn't any government that is the problem. Stupid clients who think you are a dinosaur for not putting everything "in the cloud" who are the problem.
Honestly, that is exactly the idea. Illustrate to the public just how incredibly ridiculous this is with an equally ridiculous parade.
The last time I read SOPA there was no real protection against 3rd parties acting on behalf of (with or without permission) the "offended" party. If this passes you won't just have GoDaddy types with "super special, we promise they won't take you down because of something in your comments section" DNS offerings, but firms will spring up that will behave more like 3rd party arbiters than copyright cops. We'll have a new cottage industry that will take decades to get rid of. Good times for all.
Interesting.
I'd even go a step further. For 24 hours leave up a little button beside each link stating that you feel this person has violated your copyright. Anyone can click it, allow them to leave a small comment explaining why they think "their" copyright has been violated. When the 24 hours is up that page is delisted for the next 24, pointing to a fake seizure page detailing the "reason".
I'm sure 24 hours of crappy reasons like "I've decided to act on behalf of Colgate and we feel that Oral-B violates Colgate's trademarks concerning the use of the word 'tooth'" or "C-SPAN is partaking in potentially felonious streaming of Random House's content via Book TV" will be more than entertaining enough to make up for a day without Google.
Even if I agree with everything you said and they are indeed unfairly flexing their corporate muscle there is one huge, massive difference for the man on the ground: One day vs The rest of your life.
Possibly, they do tend to err on the side of "Freudian slips". I'd love to be the fly on the wall at Fox News and see the grunts and interns side of this stuff.
"His co-workers were like all co-workers, they ranged from eager to learn, to eager to get a check and go home. Underestimate no one."
Except my grammar and sentence structure, always underestimate that. :)
This. My best friend worked as an installer for Comcast for somewhere between 5 and 6 years. He is a smart guy, but more importantly he is always ready to learn more (and had no problem with getting his hand dirty). If some new piece of tech came down the line he was always the first guy to rush and learn more about it.
His co-workers were like everywhere else, they ranged from eager to learn and to more to eager to get a check and go home. Underestimate no one.
In the end, they did the right thing by losing Ocean Marketing, I'd imagine if they (very publicly) gave away a number of units to their indented customers (disabled gamers), they could walk away from this fiasco being THE brand in their field. Now I know there is a company called N-Control when I think about what controller adapter to get for someone with a disability. If they can keep the goodwill they have a market cornered. I'd call that a net positive.
In the 90s Bell South charged us to go to their office and pay a bill. Pretty sure they also charged you if you paid by check (processing), by phone, hell, they probably had a charge if you paid them by direct deposit and Western Union.
This is just how they operate. You only get so many customers and share holders get antsy because of that, so you invent new charges.
This is also why they publicly balk at the idea of new taxes, but don't shed a tear when they get to tack on two new charges with that tax (gotta charge them for collecting the tax and charge them for handing it over). It is all a game.
Probably this. Blender itself has a steep learning curve, but BGE (Blender Game Engine) is pretty easy when it comes to setting up in-game logic. The real downside is that it is kinda, well, painfully slow, but you do get a lot of bang for your buck (in this case effort you put into it).
You can even get a very, very rudimentary FPS up and running in a half-hour.
Just to clarify, I only mean typos. I can understand a writer rolling back something that is false, that makes perfect sense. Intentionally going back to "thiis", not so much.