"Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality" in real life, too. Some people think they can just go around and make everyone equal by policy..Flame
Don't get it too close to the Speakers...
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Cashless Society
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Paper cash is reliable. it doesn't disappear in a magnetic field, won't be rendered useless under mild abuse (such as bending, scratching), and will still be accepted by more than a few places taped back together. And who knows...? I might actually want to carry over $107 dollars at a time...!
No, Atari died a long time ago, just after Nintendo stole the console crown. Since then, the only projects they've come up with have been consoles or handhelds that have either died slow, withering deaths or were just abandoned outright before they reached their prime. The most support these platforms ever received was after they dropped into absolesence by private 3rd parties coding for the hell of it.
No, what's really sad is that this company didn't die gracefully. Instead it's being chopped up bit by bit, one failure after another. That sad day is long past. Like they said about Spock, "He's dead already..."
My first though was, "Oh no! What did these people do BEFORE the internet became popular?!" Kinda like those people who whine about not being allowed to have cell phones in movie theaters... "But what if my kid is sick while I'm watching the movie!?" Gee, what did you do before you got a cell? Sorry, but the reasons for lost productivity presented in this story is nothing but fluff. Maybe there is a legitmate one, but "I can't access Kazaa or my favorite p0rn site from work!" ain't it.
The arguments have been made, and rightfully so, that your credit does not nessisarily reflect you as a person or how you will perform in their job environent. Bad times happen and people are forced to make choices to survive those times, credit be damned.
However, there's another point I haven't seen addressed. Credit companies are sloppy. I know of more than a few cases where it took somebody moving Heaven and Earth to get some error on the companies part rectified.
Creditor: "You owe $500!! Says so here!" You: "Um, no. That was paid. Infact, I have the reciept here." Creditor: "Oh! Just fax us a copy and we'll take care of it!" You: "ok..." ~a month later~ Creditor: "You owe $500!!"
These people aren't exactly the pillars of timeliness and accuracy and certainly not a benchmark to be used in employment. Get a criminal record. Urinanalysis. Something. But not credit...
And that's all there is too it. The burden of proof is on them. Hot tips don't cut it. Even if they had the proof, the EULA is between you and Comapny X. Not them. like parent says, their legal ground is very very shakey at best.
Insulation Vs. The Flying Armoured Tank
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Columbia Coverage
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I have to wonder if people are focusing too much on this 2lb piece of insolation. Sure, it needs to be looked at, but the shuttle is designed to withstand the force of a Mach 7, 4000+ degree re-entry AND exit of the Earth's atmosphere, both events punishing in their own right. It's an armourd flying tank for cryin out loud. Another reason why it's glide ratio sucks. This piece of insulation weighed less than your average laptop.
I'm willing to call it an engineering defect before a piece of frozen isulation. Frankly, i'm surprised random chance hasn't caught up with us sooner outside the Challenger incident. I guess the best thing you can do at this point is to drop a 2lb piece of material of the same composition on a test wing an see what it does.
It's just possible it tanked because the series already had every scrap of plot you'd need to create an evil trek series without having to pull an entirely new one out of Berman's ass? We couldn't possibly build off the alternate dimension scripts from DS9 or some of the novels, now could we? Naw, we had to throw in a few clones for current events, break-away soviet republics, a race we had never seen before but has mysteriously been present for every trek series, and of course, a super monsterous battleship that escaped even the infamous Rombulan intelligence...
Gee, I couln't have done any better: Throw in an evil crew piloting an evil supped-up Enterprise blowing things in the Picards good name, dispatch starfleet to torch the Enterprise, picard and crew escape track down evil enterprise, chaos ensues as crew must masquerade as evil to gain access to otherwise impenetrable evil Enterprise, finds out how twisted things are, etc, etc, etc....
That was five minutes. You get the idea. And it would have been 10x better than what we got, simply because we turned the what-ifs of an already laid foundation into reality, not because we created a clone and it was evil. And stuff.
Not only does ineffecient method you described work, but it's generally cheaper than going the Mac route. Under those circumstances, I'll take the hit in effecientcy.
Re:Complaining about Leeching on P2P... Funny.
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Shutting down Kazaa
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Let's remember the context of the story-- SHUTTING DOWN KAZAA. We're not, or at least i'm not talking about home brewed FTP servers or whatnot. I'm talking about P2P networks with 90% or more (Kazaa for instance) of their traffic dealing in copywrite violating transfers.
While ICQ can be used to do the same thing, it is first and formost designed as an IM program. If you tell me there isn't a vast difference between Kazaa and ICQ, I'll laugh in your face. While piracy can occure using ICQ. It's simply not set up for large scale searching and downloading. It's like handing your friend a select book instead of being able to view any book in the Library of Congress and download any one you want, which is Kazaa's method.
You're right-- Just because something can be used illegally doesn't make the goods or services inheritly bad. But when you're service deals in mostly in illegal goods, you become the subject of intense scrutiny. In this case, kazaa has been labled a crack house. Your Apache server, hasn't.
Yah, Tribes as a concept is awesome. I loved it when i could play it, but coupled with such horrible management... I'll need at least a 50ft pole to touch their product next time...
That would mean they have to start cooperating with the P2P networks and go after the individual... Something they seem so opposed to doing it makes the threat of this fine a joke.
The Excuse that didn't fly...
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"says that their model is fundmentally different than Napster because their major goal is to make money off their companion program Altnet that delivers authorized, paid content."
And basing their reason for existance around this singular Altnet software is beside the point entirely. THE POINT is whether Kazaa is facilitating piracy, not if they can make money off some ambiguous subscription service. Simply making money doesn't magically give them legitimacy.
Hopefully, they won't try to justify themselves through Altnet when they should be trying to push the case that they are a FILE sharing program. Not just MP3s or pirated goods. And FORCE the record company to start going after the guilty individual commiting the crime. Right now, their actions are like the FBI shutting down an ENTIRE ISP to take down a guy who collect child porn. It just doesn't happen like that.
Once again, I ask these people-- are they going to take out Google because the results it displays can potentially contain MP3 sites and warez? Are they ultimately responsible for how the person uses those search results? Didn't think so. Be that as it may, I have no illusions of Kazaa's chances of survival, especially when 90% if not more of it's traffic is violating some sort of copyright or another. It's like a crack house and crack houses get raided. With a case like this, i wouldn't step foot in the US either...
" list a number of issues that needs to be solved before Windows is really ready for the masses and "Joe Longkneck"."
You mean, anymore ready than, say, any incarnation of Linux? The only real alternative 'Joe Longneck' has is to go Apple and it's really too bad that Apple can't possibly compete price-wise. We won't even talk about software compatibility here... Fact is, it's the best thing going, mainly because the competition is so self limiting it's beyond pathetic.
Drudge? Slimey? How can you possibly compare this hack to Drudge? The only thing listed in 80pt font on Drudge's page is his headline. His stories are accurate more than 95% of the time. He doesn't cuss and he doesn't suck up to the entrenched news industry. Infact, the only similarity is that they are an internet based news source.
And screw Dynamix. Tribes 2 pissed me off for exactly the reason you described. Those 'Unhandled Exception' bugs pissed me off so much I cracked the disk and it'll be a frosty game in hell before I run right out and get another Dynamix product without INTENSE scrutiny.
Complaining about Leeching on P2P... Funny.
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I mean really, you hardly have anything to complain about here, using a quasi-illegal program to share music you shouldn't, by law, be sharing in the first place. Please feel free to drop the hypocritical facade any time your ready. So while you engage in semi-illegal file transfers, people are leeching files from you in a similar manner. I call that "Irony".
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...That select such great stories! I mean, this dupe is infinitely better than, say:
2003-01-30 03:16:56 NASA Set to Unveil 'Jupiter Tour' Mission (articles,space) (rejected)
or...
2003-02-05 21:06:34 Optical Camouflage a Reality (articles,tech) (rejected)
"a duping we will go, a duping we will go, hi-ho the dairy-o, a duping we will go!"
"Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality" in real life, too. Some people think they can just go around and make everyone equal by policy. .Flame
My bad. If that is your real name.
Paper cash is reliable. it doesn't disappear in a magnetic field, won't be rendered useless under mild abuse (such as bending, scratching), and will still be accepted by more than a few places taped back together. And who knows...? I might actually want to carry over $107 dollars at a time...!
No, Atari died a long time ago, just after Nintendo stole the console crown. Since then, the only projects they've come up with have been consoles or handhelds that have either died slow, withering deaths or were just abandoned outright before they reached their prime. The most support these platforms ever received was after they dropped into absolesence by private 3rd parties coding for the hell of it.
No, what's really sad is that this company didn't die gracefully. Instead it's being chopped up bit by bit, one failure after another. That sad day is long past. Like they said about Spock, "He's dead already..."
My first though was, "Oh no! What did these people do BEFORE the internet became popular?!" Kinda like those people who whine about not being allowed to have cell phones in movie theaters... "But what if my kid is sick while I'm watching the movie!?" Gee, what did you do before you got a cell? Sorry, but the reasons for lost productivity presented in this story is nothing but fluff. Maybe there is a legitmate one, but "I can't access Kazaa or my favorite p0rn site from work!" ain't it.
You're right- Optical Camouflage doesn't hold a candle to this story. Here's another linky.
2003-02-05 21:06:34 Optical Camouflage a Reality(articles,tech) (rejected)
The arguments have been made, and rightfully so, that your credit does not nessisarily reflect you as a person or how you will perform in their job environent. Bad times happen and people are forced to make choices to survive those times, credit be damned.
However, there's another point I haven't seen addressed. Credit companies are sloppy. I know of more than a few cases where it took somebody moving Heaven and Earth to get some error on the companies part rectified.
Creditor: "You owe $500!! Says so here!"
You: "Um, no. That was paid. Infact, I have the reciept here."
Creditor: "Oh! Just fax us a copy and we'll take care of it!"
You: "ok..."
~a month later~
Creditor: "You owe $500!!"
These people aren't exactly the pillars of timeliness and accuracy and certainly not a benchmark to be used in employment. Get a criminal record. Urinanalysis. Something. But not credit...
And that's all there is too it. The burden of proof is on them. Hot tips don't cut it. Even if they had the proof, the EULA is between you and Comapny X. Not them. like parent says, their legal ground is very very shakey at best.
I have to wonder if people are focusing too much on this 2lb piece of insolation. Sure, it needs to be looked at, but the shuttle is designed to withstand the force of a Mach 7, 4000+ degree re-entry AND exit of the Earth's atmosphere, both events punishing in their own right. It's an armourd flying tank for cryin out loud. Another reason why it's glide ratio sucks. This piece of insulation weighed less than your average laptop.
I'm willing to call it an engineering defect before a piece of frozen isulation. Frankly, i'm surprised random chance hasn't caught up with us sooner outside the Challenger incident. I guess the best thing you can do at this point is to drop a 2lb piece of material of the same composition on a test wing an see what it does.
It's just possible it tanked because the series already had every scrap of plot you'd need to create an evil trek series without having to pull an entirely new one out of Berman's ass? We couldn't possibly build off the alternate dimension scripts from DS9 or some of the novels, now could we? Naw, we had to throw in a few clones for current events, break-away soviet republics, a race we had never seen before but has mysteriously been present for every trek series, and of course, a super monsterous battleship that escaped even the infamous Rombulan intelligence...
Gee, I couln't have done any better:
Throw in an evil crew piloting an evil supped-up Enterprise blowing things in the Picards good name, dispatch starfleet to torch the Enterprise, picard and crew escape track down evil enterprise, chaos ensues as crew must masquerade as evil to gain access to otherwise impenetrable evil Enterprise, finds out how twisted things are, etc, etc, etc....
That was five minutes. You get the idea. And it would have been 10x better than what we got, simply because we turned the what-ifs of an already laid foundation into reality, not because we created a clone and it was evil. And stuff.
If they make the Xbox smaller, how will the mod chips fit inside!?
Not only does ineffecient method you described work, but it's generally cheaper than going the Mac route. Under those circumstances, I'll take the hit in effecientcy.
...We'll integrate this turnip twaddler absoutely free! Cripes, could they fit anything else into this elongated package? A stungun maybe?
...but not Haha funny.
Let's remember the context of the story-- SHUTTING DOWN KAZAA. We're not, or at least i'm not talking about home brewed FTP servers or whatnot. I'm talking about P2P networks with 90% or more (Kazaa for instance) of their traffic dealing in copywrite violating transfers.
While ICQ can be used to do the same thing, it is first and formost designed as an IM program. If you tell me there isn't a vast difference between Kazaa and ICQ, I'll laugh in your face. While piracy can occure using ICQ. It's simply not set up for large scale searching and downloading. It's like handing your friend a select book instead of being able to view any book in the Library of Congress and download any one you want, which is Kazaa's method.
You're right-- Just because something can be used illegally doesn't make the goods or services inheritly bad. But when you're service deals in mostly in illegal goods, you become the subject of intense scrutiny. In this case, kazaa has been labled a crack house. Your Apache server, hasn't.
Yah, Tribes as a concept is awesome. I loved it when i could play it, but coupled with such horrible management... I'll need at least a 50ft pole to touch their product next time...
That would mean they have to start cooperating with the P2P networks and go after the individual... Something they seem so opposed to doing it makes the threat of this fine a joke.
"says that their model is fundmentally different than Napster because their major goal is to make money off their companion program Altnet that delivers authorized, paid content."
And basing their reason for existance around this singular Altnet software is beside the point entirely. THE POINT is whether Kazaa is facilitating piracy, not if they can make money off some ambiguous subscription service. Simply making money doesn't magically give them legitimacy.
Hopefully, they won't try to justify themselves through Altnet when they should be trying to push the case that they are a FILE sharing program. Not just MP3s or pirated goods. And FORCE the record company to start going after the guilty individual commiting the crime. Right now, their actions are like the FBI shutting down an ENTIRE ISP to take down a guy who collect child porn. It just doesn't happen like that.
Once again, I ask these people-- are they going to take out Google because the results it displays can potentially contain MP3 sites and warez? Are they ultimately responsible for how the person uses those search results? Didn't think so. Be that as it may, I have no illusions of Kazaa's chances of survival, especially when 90% if not more of it's traffic is violating some sort of copyright or another. It's like a crack house and crack houses get raided. With a case like this, i wouldn't step foot in the US either...
" list a number of issues that needs to be solved before Windows is really ready for the masses and "Joe Longkneck"."
You mean, anymore ready than, say, any incarnation of Linux? The only real alternative 'Joe Longneck' has is to go Apple and it's really too bad that Apple can't possibly compete price-wise. We won't even talk about software compatibility here... Fact is, it's the best thing going, mainly because the competition is so self limiting it's beyond pathetic.
Drudge? Slimey? How can you possibly compare this hack to Drudge? The only thing listed in 80pt font on Drudge's page is his headline. His stories are accurate more than 95% of the time. He doesn't cuss and he doesn't suck up to the entrenched news industry. Infact, the only similarity is that they are an internet based news source.
And screw Dynamix. Tribes 2 pissed me off for exactly the reason you described. Those 'Unhandled Exception' bugs pissed me off so much I cracked the disk and it'll be a frosty game in hell before I run right out and get another Dynamix product without INTENSE scrutiny.
I mean really, you hardly have anything to complain about here, using a quasi-illegal program to share music you shouldn't, by law, be sharing in the first place. Please feel free to drop the hypocritical facade any time your ready. So while you engage in semi-illegal file transfers, people are leeching files from you in a similar manner. I call that "Irony".
Move along, nothing to see here.
Yet more proof that a script is picking these stories based on keywords, not live people who actually read the content presented to them...
Im guessin yar arr an anal typo bitch too. That's ok :)
I'd hardly call this a simulation... This is one sloppy game if you've actually played it... Counterstrike a truely free mod is far better.