Who is talking about a "duty" here? It's a service that one may choose or not.
Wrong. This law _requires_ ISPs to make a blocking service available (albeit not required). Such a blocking service is unlikely to have the granularity required for effective parental monitoring.
This law merely creates a burden on ISPs, and will more than likely pass the cost on to consumers. Yay for our fucked up republic.
Well, at the time that the point was brought up, I promptly detailed all the ways he was wrong (like, you know, all the profitable business using Apache et al).
I promptly never spoke to him/again/, meaning I refused to help him with his class, since he didn't seem to be impressed with those pesky "facts" I presented.
While I agree with a lot of what you said, I think that these people would disagree with the bit about "live performances."
People are paying fat stacks of cash to play games with a pair of quintessential gamers-by-trade.
I'm a CS major, but a professor in the Business college here wanted my help designing syllabi for an advanced website development course.
I recommended we endorse the AMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) platform over ASP.NET (which is what he had in mind), and his main reason for not taking that route was that "Apache is open source, and you can't make money with free products. Here in the business college, we're only interested in products that can make money."
I promptly never spoke to the dumbfuck ever again.
Allow me to take the (oddly not yet taken) anti-Harvard point-of-view. I may be speaking from naivety, though, so here we go.
Does it not strike anyone as odd that they knew who was in at least a month before the letters were due to be sent? Is there some reason why they don't send an acceptance/rejection letter as soon as someone is accepted/rejected?
Sure, I guess what the 119 students did was wrong, but is there nothing wrong about withholding this information?
Why do we do all of this Apple rumormongering? I mean, really, with all of these stories about Apple making the front page, you'd think Slashdot was totally astroturfing on Apple, and completely ignoring making ridiculous conjectures about companies like Intel......oh wait.
On one hand, I'm worried that this is going to stifle innovation in the handheld market (you know, by doing things like beating the DS).
On the other hand, I'm enthusiastic; PlayStation2 is THE gaming system for the true gamer, and if the PSP captures that traditional gaming "spirit," it's going to be a beautiful time for handheld gamers.
I don't think there would be as much objection to a post-911 game that simulated the collapse of the WTC or the Pentagon in order to cast doubt on the official story
When I was in a Math Modeling competition shortly after 9-11, one of the problems was to simulate the evacuation of "a burning building." We made a pretty good simulation, and went ahead and ran the parameters of the September 11 WTC bombings in, and our model evacuated just about as many people as actually did get out before each tower collapsed.
Our project got ranked among the top ten worldwide, but our school was offended that we would pick that model," profiting off the suffering of others," as they put it, instead of the other choice, extrapolating teen pregnancies for the year 2010. *sigh*
Same here. After years of playing 3d action games with not a single motion sickness problem (well, not counting that 24-hour Freespace session o_O), that Route Kanal scene had me hugging my toilet. Oi.
That's not to say anything about the quality of the game, though. Kudos to Valve for reminding me that Square Enix isn't the only good game studio.
Why not just fix certain problems with the PHONING (i.e. bad signals) - the main capability for which they were developed, rather than adding a whole number of (useless) features?
Put yourself in Sprint's shoes. You could spend more on improving your network, thus upping your subscription costs, or you could have Samsung come out with a shitload of useless PCS Vision features. Both sell phones, but there's less risk for Sprint, since Samsung's doing the majority of the R&D.
I dont play any more console games cause they just plain suck.
Wow, you sound like a well-balanced individual. I, too, have decided to forsake all console games, big-label recording artists, and internationally popular clothing/automobiles/foodstuffs because as soon as something reaches (inter)national popularity, it must undoubtedly suck. On the other hand, text-games don't have to meet your innovative "re-hash" rule, do they?
Let me directyourattentionto some console games that have pushed the proverbial envelope of their respective genres.
And please, quit being so short-sighted. Regardless of whether or not the DS is a mostly useless gimmick, props go to the Big N for having a bit more creativity than the "PS2-in-a-smaller-box" Sony PSP.
IANAL, but is this legal? Don't they have to somehow prove that the documents they're asking for have some relevance to their argument?
Furthermore, what exactly is their argument? Is it still that Linux contains SCO code? How would documents about "enforcement of the GPL" prove existence of SCO code?
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, I had a little something in my throat.
...for one of the funniest Slashdot headlines I've read in a long time.
Wrong. This law _requires_ ISPs to make a blocking service available (albeit not required). Such a blocking service is unlikely to have the granularity required for effective parental monitoring.
This law merely creates a burden on ISPs, and will more than likely pass the cost on to consumers. Yay for our fucked up republic.
Well, at the time that the point was brought up, I promptly detailed all the ways he was wrong (like, you know, all the profitable business using Apache et al).
/again/, meaning I refused to help him with his class, since he didn't seem to be impressed with those pesky "facts" I presented.
I promptly never spoke to him
While I agree with a lot of what you said, I think that these people would disagree with the bit about "live performances." People are paying fat stacks of cash to play games with a pair of quintessential gamers-by-trade.
I'm a CS major, but a professor in the Business college here wanted my help designing syllabi for an advanced website development course.
I recommended we endorse the AMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) platform over ASP.NET (which is what he had in mind), and his main reason for not taking that route was that "Apache is open source, and you can't make money with free products. Here in the business college, we're only interested in products that can make money."
I promptly never spoke to the dumbfuck ever again.
Allow me to take the (oddly not yet taken) anti-Harvard point-of-view. I may be speaking from naivety, though, so here we go.
Does it not strike anyone as odd that they knew who was in at least a month before the letters were due to be sent? Is there some reason why they don't send an acceptance/rejection letter as soon as someone is accepted/rejected?
Sure, I guess what the 119 students did was wrong, but is there nothing wrong about withholding this information?
Eat recycled food. Good for the environment, and okay for you.
"Tangled oscillations" also brings to mind this one crazy pr0n I saw a while back. wtf lol right? kthxbye
That's a really fucking good point.
Does GNU/FSF have any official position on platforms that explicitly forbid free distribution, like PS2/XBX?
4. ??? 5. Profit!!
And nephew to Constable Flagrant System Error.
Why do we do all of this Apple rumormongering? I mean, really, with all of these stories about Apple making the front page, you'd think Slashdot was totally astroturfing on Apple, and completely ignoring making ridiculous conjectures about companies like Intel... ...oh wait.
On one hand, I'm worried that this is going to stifle innovation in the handheld market (you know, by doing things like beating the DS). On the other hand, I'm enthusiastic; PlayStation2 is THE gaming system for the true gamer, and if the PSP captures that traditional gaming "spirit," it's going to be a beautiful time for handheld gamers.
When I was in a Math Modeling competition shortly after 9-11, one of the problems was to simulate the evacuation of "a burning building." We made a pretty good simulation, and went ahead and ran the parameters of the September 11 WTC bombings in, and our model evacuated just about as many people as actually did get out before each tower collapsed.
Our project got ranked among the top ten worldwide, but our school was offended that we would pick that model," profiting off the suffering of others," as they put it, instead of the other choice, extrapolating teen pregnancies for the year 2010. *sigh*
Same here. After years of playing 3d action games with not a single motion sickness problem (well, not counting that 24-hour Freespace session o_O), that Route Kanal scene had me hugging my toilet. Oi.
That's not to say anything about the quality of the game, though. Kudos to Valve for reminding me that Square Enix isn't the only good game studio.
You get branded an idiot for not reading the system requirements: "Internet connection required."
Eh, screw it, let's just build a Dyson Sphere and be done with it.
I have a device called "Genesis" as well. It's really good at rasterizing planets. With over 65,000 colors. Hell yes.
Windows 3.11 is "old and busted."
Windows 3.2 is the "new hotness."
What's even worse is that it's viewed as "good gaming" to use these guides.
Reminiscing on my time investment of finding every last Chrono Trigger ending of my own accord to a 12-year-old gamer garnered the response:
"Well, that was stupid. You could have looked in a guide and beat the game in less than a week."
*sigh*
Let me direct your attentionto some console games that have pushed the proverbial envelope of their respective genres.
And please, quit being so short-sighted. Regardless of whether or not the DS is a mostly useless gimmick, props go to the Big N for having a bit more creativity than the "PS2-in-a-smaller-box" Sony PSP.
IANAL, but is this legal? Don't they have to somehow prove that the documents they're asking for have some relevance to their argument?
Furthermore, what exactly is their argument? Is it still that Linux contains SCO code? How would documents about "enforcement of the GPL" prove existence of SCO code?