Slashdot is made up of various people with different interests and opinions. On both this thread and the Napster related ones, you'll find interesting and insightful posts on both sides of the issue.
I challenge you to find one user who rabidly defends their "right" to use Napster to pirate music while complaining about deja doing this. Find me one.
And even if you do find me one, you have just found 1 hypocrite. Just one. This hardly indicative of the entire slashdot community.
Read Tom's take on it here: http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000717/ index.html
He seems to think that this is not a brute force solution. Of course the development of a more elegant solution would cost more than just chucking another 16 megs on a card.
Let's see where this card takes us, and don't worry, the way things are going it'll be cheap enough soon. (ATI has a really cool video card trade in program by the way. Check out their website for details.)
More importantly it would only take the great Bruce Campbell a matter of minutes to score with Scully. Did Mulder ever get around to it? Replace Mulder with a real man.
2) World leaders are influential, that's why they're world leaders. Being mutants themselves will most likely make them unwilling to push persecution against themselves. If they're not able to influence the populace (who would have to know that they are mutants anyway?) then at least Magneto has a bigger group of mutants to fight with him.
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Ah, but if he had been in the machine and died, who would continue to fight for the mutants? The transformation would only affect a certain about of people who would likely die. Everyone would probably get really pissed off at the mutants. Who's left to protect the mutants?
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Not like it matters much, but Wolverine's power is also involuntary.
I was going to write this in as an Ask Slashdot, but it seemed a little small.
Does anyone know if you can purchase the rights to old video games? I was just thinking of buying my favorite NES game and putting it in the public domain or something. Any idea how much that would cost? Would that even happen?
In my opinion it's a great way to legalize the whole ROM thing. Hopefully the old games wouldn't cost too much.
ah... I think I've got it. another group emerges and takes control of the word (although certainly not in an organized fashion). The crackers (homosexuals) emerge and take the word hacker (gay). So a real hacker (happy guy) could be understandably upset by the meaning shift of this word as.
Okay... I get it.
A hacker is more of a word you use to define yourself as though. No one really 'had' the word gay before it was used for the homosexuals.
*shrug*
Also, I think 'gay' has more of an accepted popular definition than 'hacker'. I could just be naive though.
The happy guy in my opinion has a right to be a little miffed, but he's much less likely to be.
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Slashdot is made up of various people with different interests and opinions. On both this thread and the Napster related ones, you'll find interesting and insightful posts on both sides of the issue.
I challenge you to find one user who rabidly defends their "right" to use Napster to pirate music while complaining about deja doing this. Find me one.
And even if you do find me one, you have just found 1 hypocrite. Just one. This hardly indicative of the entire slashdot community.
Here here.
Personally, I would have really liked to see Arnold as 'Powder'.
Now that would've kicked ass.
I posted my comment while I was reading the article. Others may have already read the article (Tom's Hardware is pretty popular afaik).
Read Tom's take on it here:/ index.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000717
He seems to think that this is not a brute force solution. Of course the development of a more elegant solution would cost more than just chucking another 16 megs on a card.
Let's see where this card takes us, and don't worry, the way things are going it'll be cheap enough soon. (ATI has a really cool video card trade in program by the way. Check out their website for details.)
I wonder why he keeps mentionning that it's a Canadian company.
I vote for Craig Charles who plays Lister on 'Red Dwarf'.
More importantly it would only take the great Bruce Campbell a matter of minutes to score with Scully. Did Mulder ever get around to it? Replace Mulder with a real man.
and what is Metcalf's Law of networks?
Yeah... and having a penis the size of an entire horse might be a bit cumbersome.
Mutations aren't necessarily supposed to have a 'point'. They're mutations.
(or trojan or worm or whatever) that gives hits to the hunger site.
That would really kick ass.
(oh, and I don't know how to do any of this stuff, so if it happens, it's not me.)
2) World leaders are influential, that's why they're world leaders. Being mutants themselves will most likely make them unwilling to push persecution against themselves. If they're not able to influence the populace (who would have to know that they are mutants anyway?) then at least Magneto has a bigger group of mutants to fight with him.
Ah, but if he had been in the machine and died, who would continue to fight for the mutants? The transformation would only affect a certain about of people who would likely die. Everyone would probably get really pissed off at the mutants. Who's left to protect the mutants?
Not like it matters much, but Wolverine's power is also involuntary.
Are we just going to say "Yes sir." and follow the US on this one? Anyone have any links/insider knowledge/etc... on this?
:)
Maybe we could just move all the drug related sites to Canada. We could use the business anyway.
I was going to write this in as an Ask Slashdot, but it seemed a little small.
:)
Does anyone know if you can purchase the rights to old video games? I was just thinking of buying my favorite NES game and putting it in the public domain or something. Any idea how much that would cost? Would that even happen?
In my opinion it's a great way to legalize the whole ROM thing. Hopefully the old games wouldn't cost too much.
Is this even worth considering? Anyone?
Wait... You lost me.
So:
hackers == happy men
crackers == homosexuals
ah... I think I've got it. another group emerges and takes control of the word (although certainly not in an organized fashion). The crackers (homosexuals) emerge and take the word hacker (gay). So a real hacker (happy guy) could be understandably upset by the meaning shift of this word as.
Okay... I get it.
A hacker is more of a word you use to define yourself as though. No one really 'had' the word gay before it was used for the homosexuals.
*shrug*
Also, I think 'gay' has more of an accepted popular definition than 'hacker'. I could just be naive though.
The happy guy in my opinion has a right to be a little miffed, but he's much less likely to be.
So the majority are right when it comes to language? Usage defines the word?
What about when the guy at Radio Shack tries to tell you that this computer comes with 20 gigs of memory?
How about the all too common confusion of multiple personalities disorder with skitzophrenia (sp? grr... tried looking it up.)?
So if everyone started calling gay men 'fags' tomorrow, they'd be right?
I think hackers have a perfectly valid complaint here.
When was Slashdot a porn site? Looks like I joined too late.
Oh well.
And how much does it cost to hire a competent sysadmin?
McDonalds is a business. Surprise surprise.
Yep. I can just see the headlines: "Jose chooses not to eat at McDonalds!"
Now why can't you be around when I'm arguing about evolution with my girlfriend?
If he had tenants they blame him for not investigating the company enough before he hired them. I know I certainly would.
The idea of God just starting everything up and leaving it is the basis of Deism.
Voltaire was a deist. I might be too.
www.deism.com