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Wow, what an idea this is! I made the trip up to "The cave" a while back. Imagine what a whole room of LCD walls would be like. I've told my wife before that I want a game room. Now I really want a GAME ROOM.
This whining about "We need legislation because...
Sadly, this is what makes our country tick. If you don;t like the way something is, get congress to pass a law. I went through an education program at ISU. There teachers are taught that to successfully teach a student, the student will have an abservable behavior: write a letter to the editor, write a congressman, etc. The goal of education today is to produce productive citizens that push for more legislation.
Here where I work. Salaries are contracted every three years. If the district starts loosing money (which we have due to Illinois budget crisis and the govonor's money problems and the State Superintendant being replaced quite a few times, etc.), we do not rehire people after June. there have been quite a few people that have been given "pink slips." already.
I know it isn't the tech field, but here in education, the crunch is felt a year a two before everyone else gets it (or so it seems).
Where I work, wev'e been looking for an easy, cheap way to filter out pr0n (we're using e-smith / squidguard), and there are always sites that don't show up on the blacklist. It would be a whole-hell-of-a-lot-easier to just block *.prn domains. Thus school is safer.
Life isn't fun until you explain to a parent how his 8 year old daughter just happened onto www.whitehouse.com while doing a report on Clinton.
Akira was a great comic series. I was turned on to it during the late 80's when Eclipse Comics was translating Japanese manga into English. The story was compelling and just, well great. I saw the 2nd generation of Akira. At the time I didn't read Japanese and didn't have the original version in the original language. We all know how much is lost in translation. (For some really wild LotR's tranlation check out Here.)
I then found out that there was Movie(!) of Akira. Too cool. I went to see it and I was really flaberghasted. What the hell is with the Tetsuo blowing up into a huge gross ameba?
Now we have someone that is going to Reinterpret it AGAIN? How will it be changed to be made more accessable? Will Tetsuo Just put a gun to his own head and shoot Akira? That'd make accessable sence.
Oh well. I will NOT be in line to see this.
"...or demands by websites that you pay a subscription for access. "
I can't think of any site that is worth paying a subscrition. (Now, if I could only figure out a way to get rid of these ads here on slashdot...):)
flogger
ftp://george_bush:spotty@whitehouse.gov
Do you think our president would use his pet's name for a passowrd? Hell, does the president know his own pet's name?
The end of the trailer with the jedi swirling around against.. robots -(blah) looks as if the fight takes place in an arena. WTF? Will Mr. Crowe come out with N-synk in the fight scenes as well?
For heavens sake, the gold stars idea is wrong. It gives the non-subscribing public some false idea that the "Gold-Star Person" is valuable and worthy. Bah. Because I pay $5 doesn;t make me any better than anyone else. (Hell, there have been a lot of great comments that would say by giving $5 I am worse.)
Instead, Give a little Green Dollar Sign $ in front of the person's name. Then everyone will know what the person really did. I wonder how many $Anonymous Cowards we will see.
I see this as a case with wide reaching repercussions. These MMPORPGs are virtual worlds and have always been in the name of entertainment. People, however, have been "gaming" for profit for quite a while. Just look on e-bay for Diablo or Everquest related items. What will happen if this case goes to court? There are two possible outcomes.
One, the court decides that players can "sell off" items for real world cash. If this happens, there will need to be laws in the virtual word if this is to continue. The Characters in Camelot will have to set up a virtual court system to judge the legitimacy of people's actions. The virtual court will have to determine that the item was acquired legitimately. "He stole my Sword of Burping +2 in a Non-PVP area!" Who is going to handle that if the courts give weight to the claims that virtual items can be bartered? Of course, there is the scenario that includes my friend, the programmer at "Magic-Tech MMORPG Company and he programs the game to drop the "SWORD OF GOD" when character named "flogger" pays some NPC named Gump 12 copper coins.
The other thing the courts can do is say, "Nope. No can do. Virtual items have no legitimacy and cannot be bartered for or against." What would this mean? (You try to explain to my wife how that would not apply to the stock market. Heh.) This would then outlaw those e-bay specials and force game companies to police their own areas to ensure this does not go on.
Either way, if this goes through the courts, some creative lawyers are really going to shake up "real life" along with the "virtual worlds."
Some of my best research is done while I'm on the john. I can sit and relax and go through a reference manual without any interuptions. My wife won't let me take a computer into the bathroom to do research.
Great. Now when I have my device in my pocket on my way to work as I ride the subway, I will get other people's crud music. What a great way to start my work day. Set my pocket music device to random play, and out spits Blondie's Heart of Glass.
Sure, all/. readers already knew that you can just http into port 1214 to see your shares while running morpheous. But 95% of the people using it probably don't know this. The RIAA probably set some BBC reports on the trail knowing that our press would catch on and create a large scare. After all the two biggest ways to scare the American public is to tell them that their health is in danger or that their privacy is gone.
Wow! Adult Stem Cells. This isn't new. Adults have always had stem cells AND this has been known. The National Institute of Health has an article [nih.gov] from May 2000 which states, While stem cells are extraordinarily important in early human development, multipotent stem cells are also found in children and adults.
Again, this is not a new discovery.
~flogger
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Wow, what an idea this is! I made the trip up to "The cave" a while back. Imagine what a whole room of LCD walls would be like. I've told my wife before that I want a game room. Now I really want a GAME ROOM.
AGFA?
I thought this was another lawyer abbriaviation (IANAL)
A Good Fscking Lawyer?
Sadly, this is what makes our country tick. If you don;t like the way something is, get congress to pass a law. I went through an education program at ISU. There teachers are taught that to successfully teach a student, the student will have an abservable behavior: write a letter to the editor, write a congressman, etc. The goal of education today is to produce productive citizens that push for more legislation.
Blah.
Oops. Forgot to say that.
~flogger
Here where I work. Salaries are contracted every three years. If the district starts loosing money (which we have due to Illinois budget crisis and the govonor's money problems and the State Superintendant being replaced quite a few times, etc.), we do not rehire people after June. there have been quite a few people that have been given "pink slips." already.
I know it isn't the tech field, but here in education, the crunch is felt a year a two before everyone else gets it (or so it seems).
~flogger
Where I work, wev'e been looking for an easy, cheap way to filter out pr0n (we're using e-smith / squidguard), and there are always sites that don't show up on the blacklist. It would be a whole-hell-of-a-lot-easier to just block *.prn domains. Thus school is safer.
Life isn't fun until you explain to a parent how his 8 year old daughter just happened onto www.whitehouse.com while doing a report on Clinton.
Flogger
Akira was a great comic series. I was turned on to it during the late 80's when Eclipse Comics was translating Japanese manga into English. The story was compelling and just, well great. I saw the 2nd generation of Akira. At the time I didn't read Japanese and didn't have the original version in the original language. We all know how much is lost in translation. (For some really wild LotR's tranlation check out Here.)
I then found out that there was Movie(!) of Akira. Too cool. I went to see it and I was really flaberghasted. What the hell is with the Tetsuo blowing up into a huge gross ameba?
Now we have someone that is going to Reinterpret it AGAIN? How will it be changed to be made more accessable? Will Tetsuo Just put a gun to his own head and shoot Akira? That'd make accessable sence. Oh well. I will NOT be in line to see this.
(to the tune of Home on the Range)
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X
And When it is grown
Then my little clone
Will be of the opposite sex
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
An oldie but goodie....
ftp://george_bush:spotty@whitehouse.gov
Do you think our president would use his pet's name for a passowrd? Hell, does the president know his own pet's name?
The end of the trailer with the jedi swirling around against.. robots -(blah) looks as if the fight takes place in an arena. WTF? Will Mr. Crowe come out with N-synk in the fight scenes as well?
For heavens sake, the gold stars idea is wrong. It gives the non-subscribing public some false idea that the "Gold-Star Person" is valuable and worthy. Bah. Because I pay $5 doesn;t make me any better than anyone else. (Hell, there have been a lot of great comments that would say by giving $5 I am worse.) Instead, Give a little Green Dollar Sign $ in front of the person's name. Then everyone will know what the person really did.
I wonder how many $ Anonymous Cowards we will see.
the digital film they are watching crashes?
...Lightsabers waving around with ferocious speed and sound. Darth Ugly winds up to behead Obi-Nice-Guy-Jedi ...
FZzzt! BLUE SCREEN
Audience: Aieeeiiiee My retinas!
Voice from projection booth: #@$^%@ Who's the $#@$ that downloaded the pr0n. Every $!$%ing time it crashes!
I see this as a case with wide reaching repercussions. These MMPORPGs are virtual worlds and have always been in the name of entertainment. People, however, have been "gaming" for profit for quite a while. Just look on e-bay for Diablo or Everquest related items. What will happen if this case goes to court? There are two possible outcomes.
One, the court decides that players can "sell off" items for real world cash. If this happens, there will need to be laws in the virtual word if this is to continue. The Characters in Camelot will have to set up a virtual court system to judge the legitimacy of people's actions. The virtual court will have to determine that the item was acquired legitimately. "He stole my Sword of Burping +2 in a Non-PVP area!" Who is going to handle that if the courts give weight to the claims that virtual items can be bartered? Of course, there is the scenario that includes my friend, the programmer at "Magic-Tech MMORPG Company and he programs the game to drop the "SWORD OF GOD" when character named "flogger" pays some NPC named Gump 12 copper coins.
The other thing the courts can do is say, "Nope. No can do. Virtual items have no legitimacy and cannot be bartered for or against." What would this mean? (You try to explain to my wife how that would not apply to the stock market. Heh.) This would then outlaw those e-bay specials and force game companies to police their own areas to ensure this does not go on.
Either way, if this goes through the courts, some creative lawyers are really going to shake up "real life" along with the "virtual worlds."
Some of my best research is done while I'm on the john. I can sit and relax and go through a reference manual without any interuptions. My wife won't let me take a computer into the bathroom to do research.
Great. Now when I have my device in my pocket on my way to work as I ride the subway, I will get other people's crud music. What a great way to start my work day. Set my pocket music device to random play, and out spits Blondie's Heart of Glass.
Sure, all /. readers already knew that you can just http into port 1214 to see your shares while running morpheous. But 95% of the people using it probably don't know this. The RIAA probably set some BBC reports on the trail knowing that our press would catch on and create a large scare. After all the two biggest ways to scare the American public is to tell them that their health is in danger or that their privacy is gone.
Wow! Adult Stem Cells. This isn't new. Adults have always had stem cells AND this has been known. The National Institute of Health has an article [nih.gov] from May 2000 which states,
While stem cells are extraordinarily important in early human development, multipotent stem cells are also found in children and adults.
Again, this is not a new discovery. ~flogger