Is this a precedent? Does it mean that now anyone who does not want to be on a jury can pay $250, write an essay, and go home early? Many people lose more than $250 in pay while serving, so this may be a cheaper alternative. When I had to serve, I wasn't even picked, but I lost five days of work and had to pay for parking - $250 would have been a cheaper alternative.
A bit off-topic - can anyone suggest good, legal online stores for buying old games? Steam has a few, and Gog offers a lot of quality games up for sale - are there any others?
These next-generation devices lack storage, and it is far cheaper to put a drive on your local network than it is to rent space online, in which case you pay monthly fees not only for the storage but for the bandwidth to access it. A desktop in the basement is a good solution for this requirement.
The cost of a terminal which can be used to access virtual OSes over a network usually costs about the same as a desktop. If you can have the desktop for the same price, why not keep it?
When a product becomes a commodity, people don't stop buying it - in fact, quite the opposite. Just because Apple can't charge $2000 for a computer anymore doesn't mean low-margin suppliers won't continue to sell them.
Exactly right - meetings never end, interruptions never stop, and drive-by management becomes an even easier habit to fall into. It may be tiresome, but there are real benefits to getting the right people into a room, and focusing on the problem at hand. Where chat rooms and follow-on technologies really shine is enabling these meetings over great distances.
But the fact that there are no charges being pressed enrages me.
Are you a parent? There's absolutely NOTHING they could do to the guy that would be worse than losing a child. I wouldn't be surprised if he winds up comitting suicide intentionally, with the same gun. I can't imagine how much this guy's hurting right now.
I'd also betting his marriage is over. Yes, charges of child endangerment could be filed, but no punishment is going to change anything; no punishment that state can inflict will come close to what he's done to himself.
I am a parent, and my eyes tear up thinking about a child dying, mine or one I've never met - they are all tragedies. However, in this case the *stepfather* left a gun around that killed a child that wasn't his. He may or may not be suffering, and it should be investigated.
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Lately, I have become enamoured with legal, DRM-free digital download content providers such as gog.com (for games) and filmbaby.com (for indie movies). There are many similar sites, but they come burdened with DRM, which I am not interested in supporting or being bogged down by. Given the slashdot community's general dislike for DRM, and hopefully support for indie developers of content, I am hoping you folks can suggest other such sites. So - care to share any favourites?
Not that I doubt you, but I've never heard of this happening in the US. I'm interested in reading about it, if you could link to an article or give me some key phrases to seach for. Thanks in advance.
For me, it's specific applications that I do not wish to do without. iTunes is #1 - I have invested in two iPods (one for my wife) and ~100 iTunes-only songs. QuickTax is a second must-have application, and certain DirectX games a distant third. I could live with the last two, but iTunes will tie me to Windows for years to come.
As I understand it, Blu-Ray evolves and new versions are released. If I buy a 1.0 or 1.1 player today, there is no guarantee that later Blu-Ray releases will be able to play in my 1.0/1.1 player, as they may have new features, or just updated DRM due to hackers breaking older DRM attempts.
If future players are going to support DVDs, then I don't see the harm in buying cheap DVDs that are good enough for my eyes, can play in next-generation players, and can be ripped to my PC should players cease to support them.
I'm not sure if the congratulatory statement was sarcastic or sincere, but I hope it was sincere. From the article:
"The joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission to study the sun and its influence on surrounding space is likely to cease operations in the next few months. The venerable spacecraft, which has lasted more than 17 years or almost four times its expected mission lifetime, is succumbing to the harsh environment of space."
Further on the article states that the lifetime was expected to be five years, so three times, not four, but still, a spacecraft tripling its expected useful life is a strong testament to the skill of its engineers.
Unlike many areas of government, this is where deficit spending *is* justified. Plan carefully, borrow money, build the system and then pay back the incurred debt via fares. Waiting for people to wreck their lives just to take public transit, and then use that money to improve the service, can only fail. Politicians can get elected while running a deficit; they probably can't stay in office if they make driving too costly without offering an immediate, good replacement.
The right to drive a car to work isn't a universal right. However, virtually everyone needs to get to work to earn a living, and public transit is not up to the job in most North American regions.
A simple solution, which likely isn't available to guys who pay for their DVD installations, is to have a separate data drive and remove it before sending your machine in for service. The data drive can have your family photos, confidential work data or whatever else you want to keep private.
The positive aspects are authors getting paid for their work and an alternative to wikipedia, which as I learn more about the managers I am increasingly loathe to use. Perhaps competition, or the thread of competition, will get wikipedia in line.
The bad news is that some management system will still be required, and that authors getting paid will have great potential for people participating for monetary means - trying to get the "first post" for an artical and therefore the income, or copying from elsewhere, or doing all kinds of other nefarious things that don't happen with wikipedia.
Whatever happens, this sounds good, and I hope it does get released.
I agree completely. However, unlike "made in America" shoes, Hollywood movies and American bands are popular in many countries, and it may not be possible for non-American producers to create identical content. Look at British vs American mystery shows - both have great entries in popular culture, but there are significant differences.
In the hopes that this post will not be disregarded, I have to say that I am not in favour of draconian copyright laws, such as those currently proposed in Canada (my home), or the ridiculous penalties applied in the US ($10,000 per song!), and I am worried that DRM will have the long-term effect of making our culture inaccessible to future generations (back with the folks who didn't write anything down).
Globalization and outsourcing are removing most of the jobs that involve physically producing something from North America. Look around your house and imagine what you would have left if everything that was made elsewhere was removed. Those jobs used to be the backbone of our societies; with them gone, we are moving to "intellectual property" (usually meaning charging repeatedly for the same product, such as a movie or song) and "service jobs" (usually low paying and temporary).
Like it or hate it, if no one pays for ideas, then all that is left is low-end service jobs and the eventual failure of our way of life. I think they are doing a very poor job of selling the idea of buying ideas, but the politicians and corporations who are terrified of a world where we only pay for music and movies once do have a few good points mixed in with their nonsensical terms and anti-copying advertising.
I look forward to a day when we can have reasonable copyright laws and periods, no DRM and affordable prices that people can pay to reward creators at a reasonable rate. Perhaps my children will live to see that day, but I doubt I will (and I'm only 29).
This seems to only be available for Americans, as a valid US address is required for checkout. Does anyone know if these purchases are available for Canadians or other international customers, and if so how to make them work?
"It's the right of someone with the maturity of an honest and articulate four-year-old to forget the history of his own favored art form and close his mind to the potential of another."
This a quote from a thoughtful article on Ebert's comments? Calling him an immature, dishonest person with the mentality of a four year old? Such name calling does not belong in a thoughtful piece. These kinds of "stories" do nothing to improve the reputation of gaming.
This shows Obama's character pretty clearly. He apparently has a sense of entitlement and lacks gratitude for those who supported him early on. Keep it in mind if you find yourself looking at a ballot with his name on it.
I stopped buying HP printers and products years ago when their quality slid as their costs increased.
What may be as meaningful is that when buying mutual funds recently I avoided any that had HP in their lists of large holdings. I wonder how many others avoid stocks, directly or through mutual funds, that contain the stocks of company's with scandals attached to their names, and if that reticence affects share prices? (My thinking is that when demand drops, so does the share price.)
"Probably. Besides, why would the user ever pick that last option?" (The last option being to download the ad and the ad's linked page, without displaying either.
If you really don't like ads, or especially a certain type (say, flash-based or pop-up-based ads), then the option to have the link "clicked" and cost the advertiser money without giving them any benefit might be appealing to the users of the ad-blocking software.
Personally, I like text-based meaningful ads like the ones Google provides, but can't stand the intrusive pop-ups, and would like to see a means of discouraging their use. How can following a link to a legal site be illegal?
Critical systems, such as 911 servers, should not be running on Windows; arguably, not even on Intel, and certainly not without patches. Planned outages avoid unplanned, extended outages, and people's lives are at stake in this situation!
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Is this a precedent? Does it mean that now anyone who does not want to be on a jury can pay $250, write an essay, and go home early? Many people lose more than $250 in pay while serving, so this may be a cheaper alternative. When I had to serve, I wasn't even picked, but I lost five days of work and had to pay for parking - $250 would have been a cheaper alternative.
A bit off-topic - can anyone suggest good, legal online stores for buying old games? Steam has a few, and Gog offers a lot of quality games up for sale - are there any others?
It worked. 7 out of every 8 German casualties occurred on the eastern front.
A couple of points:
Exactly right - meetings never end, interruptions never stop, and drive-by management becomes an even easier habit to fall into. It may be tiresome, but there are real benefits to getting the right people into a room, and focusing on the problem at hand. Where chat rooms and follow-on technologies really shine is enabling these meetings over great distances.
But the fact that there are no charges being pressed enrages me.
Are you a parent? There's absolutely NOTHING they could do to the guy that would be worse than losing a child. I wouldn't be surprised if he winds up comitting suicide intentionally, with the same gun. I can't imagine how much this guy's hurting right now.
I'd also betting his marriage is over. Yes, charges of child endangerment could be filed, but no punishment is going to change anything; no punishment that state can inflict will come close to what he's done to himself.
I am a parent, and my eyes tear up thinking about a child dying, mine or one I've never met - they are all tragedies. However, in this case the *stepfather* left a gun around that killed a child that wasn't his. He may or may not be suffering, and it should be investigated.
Lately, I have become enamoured with legal, DRM-free digital download content providers such as gog.com (for games) and filmbaby.com (for indie movies). There are many similar sites, but they come burdened with DRM, which I am not interested in supporting or being bogged down by. Given the slashdot community's general dislike for DRM, and hopefully support for indie developers of content, I am hoping you folks can suggest other such sites. So - care to share any favourites?
Not that I doubt you, but I've never heard of this happening in the US. I'm interested in reading about it, if you could link to an article or give me some key phrases to seach for. Thanks in advance.
As Napoleon said, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Don't correct this guy, but don't his page visits either.
For me, it's specific applications that I do not wish to do without. iTunes is #1 - I have invested in two iPods (one for my wife) and ~100 iTunes-only songs. QuickTax is a second must-have application, and certain DirectX games a distant third. I could live with the last two, but iTunes will tie me to Windows for years to come.
As I understand it, Blu-Ray evolves and new versions are released. If I buy a 1.0 or 1.1 player today, there is no guarantee that later Blu-Ray releases will be able to play in my 1.0/1.1 player, as they may have new features, or just updated DRM due to hackers breaking older DRM attempts.
If future players are going to support DVDs, then I don't see the harm in buying cheap DVDs that are good enough for my eyes, can play in next-generation players, and can be ripped to my PC should players cease to support them.
I'm not sure if the congratulatory statement was sarcastic or sincere, but I hope it was sincere. From the article:
"The joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission to study the sun and its influence on surrounding space is likely to cease operations in the next few months. The venerable spacecraft, which has lasted more than 17 years or almost four times its expected mission lifetime, is succumbing to the harsh environment of space."
Further on the article states that the lifetime was expected to be five years, so three times, not four, but still, a spacecraft tripling its expected useful life is a strong testament to the skill of its engineers.
Unlike many areas of government, this is where deficit spending *is* justified. Plan carefully, borrow money, build the system and then pay back the incurred debt via fares. Waiting for people to wreck their lives just to take public transit, and then use that money to improve the service, can only fail. Politicians can get elected while running a deficit; they probably can't stay in office if they make driving too costly without offering an immediate, good replacement.
The right to drive a car to work isn't a universal right. However, virtually everyone needs to get to work to earn a living, and public transit is not up to the job in most North American regions.
A simple solution, which likely isn't available to guys who pay for their DVD installations, is to have a separate data drive and remove it before sending your machine in for service. The data drive can have your family photos, confidential work data or whatever else you want to keep private.
That said, I'm glad this guy got caught.
The positive aspects are authors getting paid for their work and an alternative to wikipedia, which as I learn more about the managers I am increasingly loathe to use. Perhaps competition, or the thread of competition, will get wikipedia in line.
The bad news is that some management system will still be required, and that authors getting paid will have great potential for people participating for monetary means - trying to get the "first post" for an artical and therefore the income, or copying from elsewhere, or doing all kinds of other nefarious things that don't happen with wikipedia.
Whatever happens, this sounds good, and I hope it does get released.
I agree completely. However, unlike "made in America" shoes, Hollywood movies and American bands are popular in many countries, and it may not be possible for non-American producers to create identical content. Look at British vs American mystery shows - both have great entries in popular culture, but there are significant differences.
In the hopes that this post will not be disregarded, I have to say that I am not in favour of draconian copyright laws, such as those currently proposed in Canada (my home), or the ridiculous penalties applied in the US ($10,000 per song!), and I am worried that DRM will have the long-term effect of making our culture inaccessible to future generations (back with the folks who didn't write anything down).
Globalization and outsourcing are removing most of the jobs that involve physically producing something from North America. Look around your house and imagine what you would have left if everything that was made elsewhere was removed. Those jobs used to be the backbone of our societies; with them gone, we are moving to "intellectual property" (usually meaning charging repeatedly for the same product, such as a movie or song) and "service jobs" (usually low paying and temporary).
Like it or hate it, if no one pays for ideas, then all that is left is low-end service jobs and the eventual failure of our way of life. I think they are doing a very poor job of selling the idea of buying ideas, but the politicians and corporations who are terrified of a world where we only pay for music and movies once do have a few good points mixed in with their nonsensical terms and anti-copying advertising.
I look forward to a day when we can have reasonable copyright laws and periods, no DRM and affordable prices that people can pay to reward creators at a reasonable rate. Perhaps my children will live to see that day, but I doubt I will (and I'm only 29).
This seems to only be available for Americans, as a valid US address is required for checkout. Does anyone know if these purchases are available for Canadians or other international customers, and if so how to make them work?
"It's the right of someone with the maturity of an honest and articulate four-year-old to forget the history of his own favored art form and close his mind to the potential of another." This a quote from a thoughtful article on Ebert's comments? Calling him an immature, dishonest person with the mentality of a four year old? Such name calling does not belong in a thoughtful piece. These kinds of "stories" do nothing to improve the reputation of gaming.
Objection! Your facts are destroying my case!
This shows Obama's character pretty clearly. He apparently has a sense of entitlement and lacks gratitude for those who supported him early on. Keep it in mind if you find yourself looking at a ballot with his name on it.
I stopped buying HP printers and products years ago when their quality slid as their costs increased.
What may be as meaningful is that when buying mutual funds recently I avoided any that had HP in their lists of large holdings. I wonder how many others avoid stocks, directly or through mutual funds, that contain the stocks of company's with scandals attached to their names, and if that reticence affects share prices? (My thinking is that when demand drops, so does the share price.)
"Probably. Besides, why would the user ever pick that last option?" (The last option being to download the ad and the ad's linked page, without displaying either.
If you really don't like ads, or especially a certain type (say, flash-based or pop-up-based ads), then the option to have the link "clicked" and cost the advertiser money without giving them any benefit might be appealing to the users of the ad-blocking software.
Personally, I like text-based meaningful ads like the ones Google provides, but can't stand the intrusive pop-ups, and would like to see a means of discouraging their use. How can following a link to a legal site be illegal?
Mod the parent up, please.
Critical systems, such as 911 servers, should not be running on Windows; arguably, not even on Intel, and certainly not without patches. Planned outages avoid unplanned, extended outages, and people's lives are at stake in this situation!