i'll just go with the console, thanx...the last thing i need to do is take up more hard drive space than the rest of my stuff combined for a single game.
I'm not saying excercise is a bad thing. I'm just saying that if i'm going to do it, i should do it on my own time. Time in schools is better spent on academics, not enforced physical activity.
you do make good points, but the truth of the matter is that if it's going to happen as a result of nature, we're not going to be stopping it anytime soon anyway. Some reason I can't picture a levee for the whole continental coasts working...
Forcing sports is stupid. as an asthmatic marrying a woman with flat feet, I think it's a waste of time to force people to take a class like that. The number of kids with asthma increases every generation (since medication allows them to live to adulthood and reproduce), yet they still tried to force me to run until i got a doctor to give them a note telling them to cut it out. Even then, I still had to take the class, despite my inability to participate. I could have spent that time doing much more useful things, like learning German or Welding or something.
yes. global warming is a reality. Yes, it's been going on for years. Yes, perhaps humans do contribute. However: No, I do not believe it wouldn't happen if we didn't have cars. No, I don't believe in Terra Firma like so many people who live on such unstable land. No, I don't believe that global warming is a disaster.
all in all, I believe that global warming was going to happen anyway. History has shown that yes, land masses do wear away and form as the earth changes, and as time goes on, that the oceans have risen and dropped over the millenia. It's nothing but narrow-minded, self-centered eco-bullshit to say that humans alone are to blame. I will grant that if the oceans rose, say, fifty feet, there would be a lot less land mass for us to work with. However, there's nothing we can do as a planet to stop nature from taking it's course. So basically, IMHO global warming is nothing more than a disgusting human-interest story that I really don't care about unless it's directly affecting me, in which case i'll do what any reasonable human will do and move to higher ground instead of bitching about it.
legislative bodies need to realize that the internet isn't a publishing media, it's a giant post-it note copier. Anyone can put anything on a net server if they have the proper access. However, it's a matter of choice to go there. If I go to a refrigerator in Russia and copy down something Boris X puts on a post-it note there onto my own post-it note, did Boris X put it on my refrigerator? no. I did. Hence, Boris X did not publish here in the United States. I did. By copying what he did publish on his server onto mine, I basically went to Russia, copied his paper, imported it to the US, and read it here. Therefore, publishing takes place serverside. Except pop-up ads and such, which are like those flyers forced upon people on the streets of Las Vegas whether they want it or not...those are just a violation of your hardware and bandwith.
The reason Opera has such a limited base is that it's adware unless you pay for it. I admit it's a great browser, and I do use the demo version a lot, but they're not going to spread as payware in a world where there are dozens of free ones without ads out there that have just as many bells and whistles. People just simply don't look at the plus side of the fact that Opera is a blazingly fast browser, and even on a modem you can get excellent speed from it. But if they never try or never pay attention, what's it matter to them anyway?
if they're going to charge royalties on used cds, i'd damn well better get paid by the record companies when i sell the used cd to the used CD shop, too.
As a Linux user, despite my anti-windows bias, I can't honestly see a justifiable reason to force MS to be built to peacefully coexist on the same computer with Linux. How many people besides those who already know what they're doing dual boot anyway? No matter what MS does, the community will still make a workaround hack. and besides, once people try Linux (i suggest a 30-day, no-windows-booting trial period), they probably won't want that windows partition anyway unless they need it for a specialized task for which there isn't available OSS for.
that would work, except the fact that it wouldn't solve the problem of getting them to start doing backups. they'd think you were capable of easily salvaging any lost data.
yes, but if i tell you, "i'm a big hairy ape", am i required to take responsibility for any damage this may have done to big hairy apes by associating their name with the dregs of society such as myself? do you even have to know my name to use the active component of this, which is associating my face with big, hairy apes? no. Speech has an active component just as code does. And I am not required in any way shape or form to put a license or copyright on the statement that I am a big hairy ape. Source code is protected as speech to at least a degree. Speech can cause just as much change in the human mind as a virus can in a computer. Look at Germany in WWII. If speech is protected, code should be protected and permitted to become public domain.
Simple part:
public domain = belongs to nobody, cannot be owned, but can be used in any way shape or form by anybody.
Difficult part:
copyrighted works passing by law into public domain (not willingly)
Unfortunately, at the present rate of things, it won't matter for me, because i'll be dead before anything made after the year 1900 becomes public domain...unless of course something gets done about it...
The definition of "bandwith hog" is a bit unclear these days...do I become a bandwith hog just because I want to download the eight-disk unofficial Woody ISOs from debianplanet, or try out a few linux distros vai download, and still do my normal/., email, webcomic, and other web browsing? The problem with these things is they hit more than just p2p. They hit clearly legitimate uses just as hard, just for a less publicly recognized group. Caveat: if you're going to provide high-speed bandwith, don't be surprised when your users are able to use more bandwith than a modem user. That's the whole reason they chose your service over Jimmy ISP in their locale.
Why do you think so many gamers stuck with Win98 over 2000? because it could run their old stuff. Nobody but a select few will want to abandon their old gaming library for a handful of new games when they can just get an AMD chip and maybe miss a few clock cycles they could have had with an Intel (if this speed difference exists once this bruhaha hits the fan), which at current CPU speeds is negligible anyway, considering that they're already running at unprecedented high speeds that unless game studios make bad programming decisions that will bump up system requirements to ridiculous levels, nobody should even notice at that point.
Does anyone out there buy a record because it's on Island vs. Maverick vs. Sony?
Well, historically, i've been more willing to buy a record if it's made by an indie company like Fat Wreck Chords, and I refuse to buy anything made by Vivendi/Universal. Copyright is a civilian war, and I'm not going to willingly put money in the hands of the enemy. That's would be like the USAF airdropping guns to Iraq during the gulf war. I haven't bought a CD in ages, and I get plenty of good, free music off the internet. (legitimately, no P2P for me.)
Overall, it's decent. While I do have issues with the concept of software patents, this seems to grasp the basics of allowing free software to use it for free while non-free will have issues. IANAL, but one thing:
If someone were to write GPLed software and it got included in a distribution like Red Hat, for example. How does this factor in?
I had an auto mechanic where I used to live who did all the work in his shop, and heres why:
Anytime he had a guy around to take some of his workload off, he spent just as much time checking the other guy's work as he would have doing his own. This isn't to say the other guy wasn't just as good a mechanic as he was, but he felt that if he was putting his name on the job, he wanted to make damned sure that every bolt involved was done to his high standards.
same thing goes for OSS...if you're obsessively writing a piece of code, you might want to make sure it's up to your standards in every way. This doesn't mean others couldn't help, just that due to your own obsessive compulsive nature you feel the need to ensure perfection.
Certain IBM HDD operations are not included in the deal.
18,000 IBM employees and all their hard drive related patents will join about 6,000 Hitachi employees to form a new company that will be a subsidiary of Hitachi.
This probably means that some of IBM's quality minds who develop these drives will be going too, though I do agree that I'd rather have IBM doing more development than manufacturing. They've always been strong at new technologies development.
I can see the banner ads now...
get your tap in telecommunications! you can get wiretapping service at the number of your choice, (if it's not taken), free redirect, up to five POP email accounts, and up to four MB of webspace, all for the rock-bottom price of $70 for two years!
perhaps, perhaps not. Depends...Do you consider running Linux on a PC to be reverse-engineering a Windows-designed hardware system, for purposes of law? it's almost definitely warranty-voiding, and certainly not a change to be looked upon as a routine mod this soon after release, but there's really no way for them to complain about it. Once you buy it, it's yours. To complain that you're putting your own software on it is none of their damn business. IANAL, but they have every right to void the warranty of so-treated units, but there's no way to say that this is demonstrably causing the manufacturer of the device harm or loss in any way, shape, or form unless they have a questionably-legal subscription fee to their little proprietary firmware that comes on it, which in and of itself would be a disturbing thought.
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nothing on the site about it's ASCIIQuake benchmarks...they must be hiding something!
i'll just go with the console, thanx...the last thing i need to do is take up more hard drive space than the rest of my stuff combined for a single game.
I'm not saying excercise is a bad thing. I'm just saying that if i'm going to do it, i should do it on my own time. Time in schools is better spent on academics, not enforced physical activity.
you do make good points, but the truth of the matter is that if it's going to happen as a result of nature, we're not going to be stopping it anytime soon anyway. Some reason I can't picture a levee for the whole continental coasts working...
Forcing sports is stupid. as an asthmatic marrying a woman with flat feet, I think it's a waste of time to force people to take a class like that. The number of kids with asthma increases every generation (since medication allows them to live to adulthood and reproduce), yet they still tried to force me to run until i got a doctor to give them a note telling them to cut it out. Even then, I still had to take the class, despite my inability to participate. I could have spent that time doing much more useful things, like learning German or Welding or something.
yes. global warming is a reality.
Yes, it's been going on for years.
Yes, perhaps humans do contribute.
However:
No, I do not believe it wouldn't happen if we didn't have cars.
No, I don't believe in Terra Firma like so many people who live on such unstable land.
No, I don't believe that global warming is a disaster.
all in all, I believe that global warming was going to happen anyway. History has shown that yes, land masses do wear away and form as the earth changes, and as time goes on, that the oceans have risen and dropped over the millenia. It's nothing but narrow-minded, self-centered eco-bullshit to say that humans alone are to blame. I will grant that if the oceans rose, say, fifty feet, there would be a lot less land mass for us to work with. However, there's nothing we can do as a planet to stop nature from taking it's course. So basically, IMHO global warming is nothing more than a disgusting human-interest story that I really don't care about unless it's directly affecting me, in which case i'll do what any reasonable human will do and move to higher ground instead of bitching about it.
legislative bodies need to realize that the internet isn't a publishing media, it's a giant post-it note copier. Anyone can put anything on a net server if they have the proper access. However, it's a matter of choice to go there. If I go to a refrigerator in Russia and copy down something Boris X puts on a post-it note there onto my own post-it note, did Boris X put it on my refrigerator? no. I did. Hence, Boris X did not publish here in the United States. I did. By copying what he did publish on his server onto mine, I basically went to Russia, copied his paper, imported it to the US, and read it here. Therefore, publishing takes place serverside. Except pop-up ads and such, which are like those flyers forced upon people on the streets of Las Vegas whether they want it or not...those are just a violation of your hardware and bandwith.
The reason Opera has such a limited base is that it's adware unless you pay for it. I admit it's a great browser, and I do use the demo version a lot, but they're not going to spread as payware in a world where there are dozens of free ones without ads out there that have just as many bells and whistles. People just simply don't look at the plus side of the fact that Opera is a blazingly fast browser, and even on a modem you can get excellent speed from it. But if they never try or never pay attention, what's it matter to them anyway?
if they're going to charge royalties on used cds, i'd damn well better get paid by the record companies when i sell the used cd to the used CD shop, too.
As a Linux user, despite my anti-windows bias, I can't honestly see a justifiable reason to force MS to be built to peacefully coexist on the same computer with Linux. How many people besides those who already know what they're doing dual boot anyway? No matter what MS does, the community will still make a workaround hack. and besides, once people try Linux (i suggest a 30-day, no-windows-booting trial period), they probably won't want that windows partition anyway unless they need it for a specialized task for which there isn't available OSS for.
I've got FreeCraft!
that would work, except the fact that it wouldn't solve the problem of getting them to start doing backups. they'd think you were capable of easily salvaging any lost data.
yes, but if i tell you, "i'm a big hairy ape", am i required to take responsibility for any damage this may have done to big hairy apes by associating their name with the dregs of society such as myself? do you even have to know my name to use the active component of this, which is associating my face with big, hairy apes? no. Speech has an active component just as code does. And I am not required in any way shape or form to put a license or copyright on the statement that I am a big hairy ape. Source code is protected as speech to at least a degree. Speech can cause just as much change in the human mind as a virus can in a computer. Look at Germany in WWII. If speech is protected, code should be protected and permitted to become public domain.
Simple part: public domain = belongs to nobody, cannot be owned, but can be used in any way shape or form by anybody. Difficult part: copyrighted works passing by law into public domain (not willingly) Unfortunately, at the present rate of things, it won't matter for me, because i'll be dead before anything made after the year 1900 becomes public domain...unless of course something gets done about it...
The definition of "bandwith hog" is a bit unclear these days...do I become a bandwith hog just because I want to download the eight-disk unofficial Woody ISOs from debianplanet, or try out a few linux distros vai download, and still do my normal /., email, webcomic, and other web browsing? The problem with these things is they hit more than just p2p. They hit clearly legitimate uses just as hard, just for a less publicly recognized group. Caveat: if you're going to provide high-speed bandwith, don't be surprised when your users are able to use more bandwith than a modem user. That's the whole reason they chose your service over Jimmy ISP in their locale.
Why do you think so many gamers stuck with Win98 over 2000? because it could run their old stuff. Nobody but a select few will want to abandon their old gaming library for a handful of new games when they can just get an AMD chip and maybe miss a few clock cycles they could have had with an Intel (if this speed difference exists once this bruhaha hits the fan), which at current CPU speeds is negligible anyway, considering that they're already running at unprecedented high speeds that unless game studios make bad programming decisions that will bump up system requirements to ridiculous levels, nobody should even notice at that point.
Does anyone out there buy a record because it's on Island vs. Maverick vs. Sony? Well, historically, i've been more willing to buy a record if it's made by an indie company like Fat Wreck Chords, and I refuse to buy anything made by Vivendi/Universal. Copyright is a civilian war, and I'm not going to willingly put money in the hands of the enemy. That's would be like the USAF airdropping guns to Iraq during the gulf war. I haven't bought a CD in ages, and I get plenty of good, free music off the internet. (legitimately, no P2P for me.)
Overall, it's decent. While I do have issues with the concept of software patents, this seems to grasp the basics of allowing free software to use it for free while non-free will have issues. IANAL, but one thing: If someone were to write GPLed software and it got included in a distribution like Red Hat, for example. How does this factor in?
I had an auto mechanic where I used to live who did all the work in his shop, and heres why: Anytime he had a guy around to take some of his workload off, he spent just as much time checking the other guy's work as he would have doing his own. This isn't to say the other guy wasn't just as good a mechanic as he was, but he felt that if he was putting his name on the job, he wanted to make damned sure that every bolt involved was done to his high standards. same thing goes for OSS...if you're obsessively writing a piece of code, you might want to make sure it's up to your standards in every way. This doesn't mean others couldn't help, just that due to your own obsessive compulsive nature you feel the need to ensure perfection.
Actually, IIRC, even Titanic used a lot of Linux boxes in special effects...
It depends on what you're doing. For pretty much everything I do, I use standard ISO and ASCII files...
Two details:
Certain IBM HDD operations are not included in the deal.
18,000 IBM employees and all their hard drive related patents will join about 6,000 Hitachi employees to form a new company that will be a subsidiary of Hitachi.
This probably means that some of IBM's quality minds who develop these drives will be going too, though I do agree that I'd rather have IBM doing more development than manufacturing. They've always been strong at new technologies development.
I can see the banner ads now... get your tap in telecommunications! you can get wiretapping service at the number of your choice, (if it's not taken), free redirect, up to five POP email accounts, and up to four MB of webspace, all for the rock-bottom price of $70 for two years!
perhaps, perhaps not. Depends...Do you consider running Linux on a PC to be reverse-engineering a Windows-designed hardware system, for purposes of law? it's almost definitely warranty-voiding, and certainly not a change to be looked upon as a routine mod this soon after release, but there's really no way for them to complain about it. Once you buy it, it's yours. To complain that you're putting your own software on it is none of their damn business. IANAL, but they have every right to void the warranty of so-treated units, but there's no way to say that this is demonstrably causing the manufacturer of the device harm or loss in any way, shape, or form unless they have a questionably-legal subscription fee to their little proprietary firmware that comes on it, which in and of itself would be a disturbing thought.
What would the IRS do about it? microsoft pays no federal income tax anyway.