The only reason that the do not call list was passed, is because not even politicians are immune from phone marketers. This is different, politicians get money from corporations, and corporations like to sue competitors (or perceived threats to there gravy train, like the RIAA suing everybody and there dog for example) so don't expect any real changes in your life time.
NO! NO! that was the promised release date (6 days development and 7th ship) but like all games the actual date kept getting pushed back! It wasn't actually released until years later, a few billion in fact.
And wouldn't you know it, it still has bugs that need fixing. Especially that last one that screwed up the presidential election and allowed that bush character to come into office. WE NEED A PATCH FAST!!!!
Some sites require you to have an email account (and checks to see if it is active like the Do Not Call List did) the best thing to do is to have a JUNK email account to put down whenever a site requires this and have the junk pile up there.
The reason that they want your email is to send you political spam. How much do you want to bet that when election time comes everybody is going to get an email from President Bush asking for his reelection? Remember that the Do Not Call list is exempt political calls like the one EVERYBODY got during election season from Bush asking you to elect Republicans. So, it isn't that far of a stretch to guess that we will get called AND spammed next.
This is just a publicity stunt and nothing more. They are using the same scare tactics that they always use to try and scare people away from P2P networks. I am pretty sure that they WILL sue a couple of people and make Examples out of them, but I really doubt that they will sue hundreds (must be that RIAA math again) of people who have no money. It is just not financially feasible.
Is this where our Tax Paying money is going? Is this why we have the FBI? Funny, I thought it was to keep murderers and rapists off the street, you know...DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. I didn't know that they were going to go after the millions of TEENAGERS who are downloading the latest song off the net.
I must give the RIAA credit though, they finally realized that they could not afford the bill to keep suing people with no money so they bri...er gave campaign contributions to some congressman to make the tax payers pay the bill. Something about the sleaziness of all this that you have to admire.
What will the FBI do though? The FBI likes to go after people with MONEY or is a high profile person. The majority of users donâ(TM)t fit either of those categories. The FBI will make a big show of going after people at first but one they find out the joys of WHACK-A-MOLE P2P they will only go after the big fish like the riaa is doing anyway.
I hope this bill donâ(TM)t pass but I am too pessimistic to believe otherwise
oops, you are correct. This season is the final season, but because they split the season in half for some reason(second half plays next YEAR!) my mind automatically thought of it as another season.
You are also correct about infinity being a kiddie show. However, we still have the second movie and the spinoff to look forward too.:)
Next season will be SG1's final season, but that is because they want to expand on the concept. The creaters feel that they have gone as far as they can with SG1 and are afraid of killing the show with the the x-files death(draging a show way past its due date).
After SG1, a second stargate movie will be created(suposedely with the cast of SG1). Then a cartoon will be created called stargate infinity that is supposed to come on saturdays, and finally a spinoff of SG1 will be created called Atlantis which will be based on the finale season of SG1.
I just hope Richard Dean Anderson will be in the spinoff. He is FUNNY as hell, and one of the biggest reasons I watch stargate is because he cracks me up.:)
For information about all this go to: http://www.gateworld.net/ it has the best information for all things stargate.:)
Here is something I found in an online review of the doom 3 presentation:
The presentation was also running the game on a 2.2Ghz Pentium 4 with that lovely Radeon 9700, so it was no wonder that it was moving smoothly. Both Tim Willits during out little talk and Carmack in his keynote later were quick to point out that the game could run on anything as low as a GeForce1 however. "The game running at full features is with a GeForce3 video card or higher. It'll run on anything down to a GeForce1 because of the hardware acceleration, but we feel that some of the graphical features would have to be turned down. But with the new products from ATI and nVidia coming out before the release of the game, we're sure that we'll have great penetration for the game full feature."
Guys, there is a hand cam video of the demo floating on the web. For legal reasons I wont post a link to it, but I am sure you smart people can find it.
The article stated that an alarm will go off if I am speeding, but it says that the current model does not have GPS(but future models will). So how the hell does it know that I am speeding? Depending on where I am, the speed is different; A rural road can be 45 to 55 miles an hour while the highway is 70MPH. So how does it know whether I am on a rural road or highway?
Another side note, it says the beeping gets louder when you turn up the radio. I predict a huge market boost for portable radio's and cd players with headsets.
It will probably start off with something small, like insurance will go down for teens that have the box. Then the insurance on cars that do not have the box will start going up. Finally when most cars have this, state or federal government will pass a law that makes it illegal not to have it. I doubt it will be Fedaralized, but I am fairly sure that at least one state will pass a law that requires cars to have it sometime in the future.
The pop-up ads on TNT didn't spark a wave of angry phone calls or e-mails from viewers, said Koonin, who considers the ads a success. As with all new attempts at advertising, however, viewers are likely to have the final say.
Could it be because they were changing channels to another station?
Have you noticed how *they* are cutting up the shows much more and inserting more and more ads? I was watching CNN today and was desmaied by how little of actual programming was shown and how many adds was was in between. I am pretty sure it(whatever program was running) started the first ad off in 15 minutes, the second in 10 and fineally every 5 munutes they switched to a commercial. At the rate its going, there will only be 30 second shows between each ad.
A representative of the RIAA has agreed to take some time out of their hectic court schedule and answer a few of our questions. Don't miss out on a chance to voice your opinion!
Think about the advances in pollution contorl, recycling etc etc in the last 10 years. Those advances are happening at a steady rate, and aren't going to slow down. This means we will keep getting better at looking after the planet - NOT screwing it up like some want us to believe.
WRONG, you forgot about the human greed factor which puts Business puppets(Bush) in places of power so they can kill any oposition to coporate wellfare(which usually means ANY environmental protection plans,technology, or efforts).
What happened to DVD players will happen to this. Remember when all DVD players had region encoding and forced everybody to watch movies only in their region in which nobody liked. Then electronic companies started to produce alternative region free and multi region DVD players that allowed people to watch whatever they want. Now, just about all stores cary alternative players since they sell better than the *crippled* less functional players
That is what will happen with this. Some electronic companies are going to release recorders that will bypass the compliance requirement once they relize that the compliant recorders are not selling well(who is going to buy a recorder that can't record anything?).
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
We always say that we need to write to congress when a stupid law is about to be passed. Maybe we should write to the chipmakers and let them know that the consumers are against this. If the chipmakers(Intel and Advanced Micro Devices for starters) don't think they will make a profit from this(or get negative publicity), then they will drop it.
If the process involves ripping apart the object and getting the information so that you can reassemble that object later. Couldn't you just store the template and create as many copies as you want? Then not only have you created a teleporter, but also a replicator as well.
This is good example of why Priority downloads and uploads never worked well in internet desighns. As soon as someone relized that if they set their downloads to high priority then they will get super speeds on all their transfers. Unfortunetely, everybody else soon did the same and it ended up actually SLOWING the system down or just flat out crashing it.
Something similiar will probably happen with this. The companies wont be able to keep up with the demand and will probably close down or get the tech indistry to bribe congress into repelling (or at least limit) the law since they are loosing money doing this.
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While physical time travel might be out of our technological reach at the moment. Information time travel might be within out grasp if his experiment works. If you can send one particle back then it is only a matter of time before you can send dozens of particles. With that you might be able to create short messages to send back in time. A good SCI/FI book that talks about this is "Thrice upon a Time" by James P. Hogan.
I don't think that would work. Every time a company has tried to make an subscription model of something that most people can get free has Ususally failed. Considering that anywone who would use this service would have to have high bandwidth for reasonable download speeds is another nail in the coffin.
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The only reason that the do not call list was passed, is because not even politicians are immune from phone marketers. This is different, politicians get money from corporations, and corporations like to sue competitors (or perceived threats to there gravy train, like the RIAA suing everybody and there dog for example) so don't expect any real changes in your life time.
That they released the source and let the mod community have a crack at it.
Aparently they never been at college around exam time.
NO! NO! that was the promised release date (6 days development and 7th ship) but like all games the actual date kept getting pushed back! It wasn't actually released until years later, a few billion in fact.
And wouldn't you know it, it still has bugs that need fixing. Especially that last one that screwed up the presidential election and allowed that bush character to come into office. WE NEED A PATCH FAST!!!!
Some sites require you to have an email account (and checks to see if it is active like the Do Not Call List did) the best thing to do is to have a JUNK email account to put down whenever a site requires this and have the junk pile up there.
The reason that they want your email is to send you political spam. How much do you want to bet that when election time comes everybody is going to get an email from President Bush asking for his reelection? Remember that the Do Not Call list is exempt political calls like the one EVERYBODY got during election season from Bush asking you to elect Republicans. So, it isn't that far of a stretch to guess that we will get called AND spammed next.
This is just a publicity stunt and nothing more. They are using the same scare tactics that they always use to try and scare people away from P2P networks. I am pretty sure that they WILL sue a couple of people and make Examples out of them, but I really doubt that they will sue hundreds (must be that RIAA math again) of people who have no money. It is just not financially feasible.
Is this where our Tax Paying money is going? Is this why we have the FBI? Funny, I thought it was to keep murderers and rapists off the street, you know...DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. I didn't know that they were going to go after the millions of TEENAGERS who are downloading the latest song off the net.
I must give the RIAA credit though, they finally realized that they could not afford the bill to keep suing people with no money so they bri...er gave campaign contributions to some congressman to make the tax payers pay the bill. Something about the sleaziness of all this that you have to admire.
What will the FBI do though? The FBI likes to go after people with MONEY or is a high profile person. The majority of users donâ(TM)t fit either of those categories. The FBI will make a big show of going after people at first but one they find out the joys of WHACK-A-MOLE P2P they will only go after the big fish like the riaa is doing anyway.
I hope this bill donâ(TM)t pass but I am too pessimistic to believe otherwise
oops, you are correct. This season is the final season, but because they split the season in half for some reason(second half plays next YEAR!) my mind automatically thought of it as another season.
:)
You are also correct about infinity being a kiddie show. However, we still have the second movie and the spinoff to look forward too.
Next season will be SG1's final season, but that is because they want to expand on the concept. The creaters feel that they have gone as far as they can with SG1 and are afraid of killing the show with the the x-files death(draging a show way past its due date). After SG1, a second stargate movie will be created(suposedely with the cast of SG1). Then a cartoon will be created called stargate infinity that is supposed to come on saturdays, and finally a spinoff of SG1 will be created called Atlantis which will be based on the finale season of SG1. I just hope Richard Dean Anderson will be in the spinoff. He is FUNNY as hell, and one of the biggest reasons I watch stargate is because he cracks me up. :)
For information about all this go to: http://www.gateworld.net/ it has the best information for all things stargate. :)
Here is something I found in an online review of the doom 3 presentation:
The presentation was also running the game on a 2.2Ghz Pentium 4 with that lovely Radeon 9700, so it was no wonder that it was moving smoothly. Both Tim Willits during out little talk and Carmack in his keynote later were quick to point out that the game could run on anything as low as a GeForce1 however. "The game running at full features is with a GeForce3 video card or higher. It'll run on anything down to a GeForce1 because of the hardware acceleration, but we feel that some of the graphical features would have to be turned down. But with the new products from ATI and nVidia coming out before the release of the game, we're sure that we'll have great penetration for the game full feature."
Guys, there is a hand cam video of the demo floating on the web. For legal reasons I wont post a link to it, but I am sure you smart people can find it.
The article stated that an alarm will go off if I am speeding, but it says that the current model does not have GPS(but future models will). So how the hell does it know that I am speeding? Depending on where I am, the speed is different; A rural road can be 45 to 55 miles an hour while the highway is 70MPH. So how does it know whether I am on a rural road or highway?
Another side note, it says the beeping gets louder when you turn up the radio. I predict a huge market boost for portable radio's and cd players with headsets.
It will probably start off with something small, like insurance will go down for teens that have the box. Then the insurance on cars that do not have the box will start going up. Finally when most cars have this, state or federal government will pass a law that makes it illegal not to have it. I doubt it will be Fedaralized, but I am fairly sure that at least one state will pass a law that requires cars to have it sometime in the future.
This cought my eye
The pop-up ads on TNT didn't spark a wave of angry phone calls or e-mails from viewers, said Koonin, who considers the ads a success. As with all new attempts at advertising, however, viewers are likely to have the final say.
Could it be because they were changing channels to another station?
Have you noticed how *they* are cutting up the shows much more and inserting more and more ads? I was watching CNN today and was desmaied by how little of actual programming was shown and how many adds was was in between. I am pretty sure it(whatever program was running) started the first ad off in 15 minutes, the second in 10 and fineally every 5 munutes they switched to a commercial. At the rate its going, there will only be 30 second shows between each ad.
From Zeropaid.com webside:
Got a Question for Hilary?
A representative of the RIAA has agreed to take some time out of their hectic court schedule and answer a few of our questions. Don't miss out on a chance to voice your opinion!
Think about the advances in pollution contorl, recycling etc etc in the last 10 years. Those advances are happening at a steady rate, and aren't going to slow down. This means we will keep getting better at looking after the planet - NOT screwing it up like some want us to believe.
WRONG, you forgot about the human greed factor which puts Business puppets(Bush) in places of power so they can kill any oposition to coporate wellfare(which usually means ANY environmental protection plans,technology, or efforts).
What happened to DVD players will happen to this. Remember when all DVD players had region encoding and forced everybody to watch movies only in their region in which nobody liked. Then electronic companies started to produce alternative region free and multi region DVD players that allowed people to watch whatever they want. Now, just about all stores cary alternative players since they sell better than the *crippled* less functional players
That is what will happen with this. Some electronic companies are going to release recorders that will bypass the compliance requirement once they relize that the compliant recorders are not selling well(who is going to buy a recorder that can't record anything?).
This is what was actually said
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
We always say that we need to write to congress when a stupid law is about to be passed. Maybe we should write to the chipmakers and let them know that the consumers are against this. If the chipmakers(Intel and Advanced Micro Devices for starters) don't think they will make a profit from this(or get negative publicity), then they will drop it.
If the process involves ripping apart the object and getting the information so that you can reassemble that object later. Couldn't you just store the template and create as many copies as you want? Then not only have you created a teleporter, but also a replicator as well.
This is good example of why Priority downloads and uploads never worked well in internet desighns. As soon as someone relized that if they set their downloads to high priority then they will get super speeds on all their transfers. Unfortunetely, everybody else soon did the same and it ended up actually SLOWING the system down or just flat out crashing it.
Something similiar will probably happen with this. The companies wont be able to keep up with the demand and will probably close down or get the tech indistry to bribe congress into repelling (or at least limit) the law since they are loosing money doing this.
While physical time travel might be out of our technological reach at the moment. Information time travel might be within out grasp if his experiment works. If you can send one particle back then it is only a matter of time before you can send dozens of particles. With that you might be able to create short messages to send back in time. A good SCI/FI book that talks about this is "Thrice upon a Time" by James P. Hogan.
That should get their attention. :)
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I don't think that would work. Every time a company has tried to make an subscription model of something that most people can get free has Ususally failed. Considering that anywone who would use this service would have to have high bandwidth for reasonable download speeds is another nail in the coffin.