Concerts have always been the major source of income for the artists. They make little or nothing from album sales. Illegal file sharing hurts the studios, but probably helps the artists by creating more fans.
I wonder who paid this guy to publish such cockeyed theories.
I was almost run down in a crosswalk the other day by some jackass on a cell phone. I always carry a stone when I'm out walking, and unfortunately it missed his window and bounced harmlessly off a tire.
I don't trust our courts for anything anymore, since they started hand-picking juries and restricting defendants from informing juries of their right to nullify. But child abuse and sexual assault cases are the worst. They handle reasonable-doubt criminal cases as if they were preponderance-of-evidence civil cases.
LJ has some of those features, but they're available to paid members only.
As a networking site, I think LJ works pretty well. I've established several meatspace friendships through it, some of them including sex. (Yes, fellow Slashdotters... YOU TOO CAN GET LAID!)
Considering the incompetence and carelessness with which most criminal investigations are conducted nowadays, and the eagerness with which most people condemn "sex offenders," I'd say no... it's never appropriate to make fun of them. Because MOST OF THEM ARE INNOCENT.
"I'm not saying we shouldn't do everything possible to keep our astronauts safe, but if they hadn't contracted the shuttle out to the lowest bidder in the first place, we might have better craft."
IANA rocket scientist, but it seems to me that the fundamental flaw in the shuttle was the design requirement that it should be able to recover payloads from orbit. If not for that, it would have been built with the payload on top of the booster and the crew vehicle on top of that, where it would be safe from debris. In other words, very similar to what they're talking about building to replace it.
The power required is low because the volume of material destroyed is very small. When a lightsaber slices something, it's as if a very fine blade passed through it. So maybe the glow is energy leakage being absorbed by the air, and the actual blade is just a filament.
"Compared with all Microsoft users, these at-risk users have higher income, are much more likely to be male, and are bigger online spenders . . . Does Microsoft face that big of a risk?"
Processes routinely hog the CPU or disk on my WinXP Pro gaming machine, making the GUI unresponsive for several seconds. By contrast, yesterday I had the CPU on my Ubuntu machine at work loaded to nearly 100% with a big PostgreSQL query, and Firefox remained fully responsive.
Uh, hello... the mighty U.S. military is currently getting its ass kicked in Iraq by a bunch of uneducated ragheads with knockoff AK-47s and crude improvised bombs. If it works there, it can work here.
NO IT ISN'T. The government already has too much power to "observe." They are in a position where they could take away all our freedoms and we'd be powerless to organize an effective resistance.
The system must be dismantled, law enforcement agencies must be castrated, the government gutted and skeletonized. Then, and only then, will true peace and freedom be restored.
"I'm not in favor of NTP or anything, but the people who point out that NTP had no product are missing the point of patents."
No, you are missing the point of patents. Patents are *not* property. They are a temporary privilege granted by the government for the sole purpose of stimulating creativity and productivity. If at any time they have opposite effect, the government can and should snatch them away.
I disagree strongly, but that's just the way we do things over here. If a kid wants to get ahold of a gun, they will. I intend to train my kids in the responsible use of firearms from a very early age. In my mind, gun control is just as illogical as abstinence-only sex education.
It's pretty obvious that those are CG renderings of an imaginary object.
What kind of connector is that on the side? I'm trying to get a sense of scale. It looks like a cell phone, but if it's the size of a cell phone, that keyboard is going to be utterly useless.
I'll admit I don't know anything about his other books. I've only read On Killing, and it was written before the Columbine massacre.
"For example, he takes the argument that video games will teach how to shoot a gun (which I will take to be true) to the conclusion that kids with this knowledge will go out and kill people."
I don't think he argues that at all, and I would certainly disagree if he did. Knowing how to operate a firearm and shooting it accurately are skills that have nothing to do with video games. I'd be surprised if anyone with Grossman's military background would make such an argument.
But Grossman does say that video games teach, on a subconscious level, that violence is the correct response in a crisis. And I think that's very true. I'm not being facetious at all when I say that, after many hours playing GTA3, any time I see a cop on the side of the road writing someone a ticket, there's a little voice in the back of my head that says, "swerve over and hit him."
The key difference is that, unlike Jack Thompson, Dave Grossman isn't a rabid lawyer on an anti-video-game crusade. He has actual credentials, his arguments are rational and backed up by evidence, and he mostly makes observations, not judgments.
That's what you think, but it's probably not true. In a sitation where you are forced to react without thinking, you will rely on your conditioned responses -- which includes those learned from video games.
You should read the book On Killing by LtCol. Dave Grossman.
Yes, some versions of Linux are intentionally crippled. It's mainly because of software patents rather than business strategy, but nevertheless, it's one of the main obstacles to the widespread adoption of OSS. (The other obstacles being competing sound APIs, all of them shitty, and, relatedly, the non-existence of commercial-quality games.)
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CPL has always been a joke.
I wonder who paid this guy to publish such cockeyed theories.
I was almost run down in a crosswalk the other day by some jackass on a cell phone. I always carry a stone when I'm out walking, and unfortunately it missed his window and bounced harmlessly off a tire.
I don't trust our courts for anything anymore, since they started hand-picking juries and restricting defendants from informing juries of their right to nullify. But child abuse and sexual assault cases are the worst. They handle reasonable-doubt criminal cases as if they were preponderance-of-evidence civil cases.
As a networking site, I think LJ works pretty well. I've established several meatspace friendships through it, some of them including sex. (Yes, fellow Slashdotters... YOU TOO CAN GET LAID!)
Considering the incompetence and carelessness with which most criminal investigations are conducted nowadays, and the eagerness with which most people condemn "sex offenders," I'd say no... it's never appropriate to make fun of them. Because MOST OF THEM ARE INNOCENT.
Even LiveJournal does a better job of all that than myspace.
We've been there for at least six years. Every ISP has a Carnivore box, and they scan everything. Where have you been?
IANA rocket scientist, but it seems to me that the fundamental flaw in the shuttle was the design requirement that it should be able to recover payloads from orbit. If not for that, it would have been built with the payload on top of the booster and the crew vehicle on top of that, where it would be safe from debris. In other words, very similar to what they're talking about building to replace it.
The power required is low because the volume of material destroyed is very small. When a lightsaber slices something, it's as if a very fine blade passed through it. So maybe the glow is energy leakage being absorbed by the air, and the actual blade is just a filament.
Not as long as most people are poor and stupid!
People still think I'm weird for wearing socks, though.
You must be new here.
Processes routinely hog the CPU or disk on my WinXP Pro gaming machine, making the GUI unresponsive for several seconds. By contrast, yesterday I had the CPU on my Ubuntu machine at work loaded to nearly 100% with a big PostgreSQL query, and Firefox remained fully responsive.
Uh, hello... the mighty U.S. military is currently getting its ass kicked in Iraq by a bunch of uneducated ragheads with knockoff AK-47s and crude improvised bombs. If it works there, it can work here.
NO IT ISN'T. The government already has too much power to "observe." They are in a position where they could take away all our freedoms and we'd be powerless to organize an effective resistance.
The system must be dismantled, law enforcement agencies must be castrated, the government gutted and skeletonized. Then, and only then, will true peace and freedom be restored.
This article adds what, exactly, to the previous article?
No, you are missing the point of patents. Patents are *not* property. They are a temporary privilege granted by the government for the sole purpose of stimulating creativity and productivity. If at any time they have opposite effect, the government can and should snatch them away.
I disagree strongly, but that's just the way we do things over here. If a kid wants to get ahold of a gun, they will. I intend to train my kids in the responsible use of firearms from a very early age. In my mind, gun control is just as illogical as abstinence-only sex education.
What kind of connector is that on the side? I'm trying to get a sense of scale. It looks like a cell phone, but if it's the size of a cell phone, that keyboard is going to be utterly useless.
"For example, he takes the argument that video games will teach how to shoot a gun (which I will take to be true) to the conclusion that kids with this knowledge will go out and kill people."
I don't think he argues that at all, and I would certainly disagree if he did. Knowing how to operate a firearm and shooting it accurately are skills that have nothing to do with video games. I'd be surprised if anyone with Grossman's military background would make such an argument.
But Grossman does say that video games teach, on a subconscious level, that violence is the correct response in a crisis. And I think that's very true. I'm not being facetious at all when I say that, after many hours playing GTA3, any time I see a cop on the side of the road writing someone a ticket, there's a little voice in the back of my head that says, "swerve over and hit him."
The key difference is that, unlike Jack Thompson, Dave Grossman isn't a rabid lawyer on an anti-video-game crusade. He has actual credentials, his arguments are rational and backed up by evidence, and he mostly makes observations, not judgments.
No wonder American science and industry is going to hell.
You should read the book On Killing by LtCol. Dave Grossman.
Yes, some versions of Linux are intentionally crippled. It's mainly because of software patents rather than business strategy, but nevertheless, it's one of the main obstacles to the widespread adoption of OSS. (The other obstacles being competing sound APIs, all of them shitty, and, relatedly, the non-existence of commercial-quality games.)