This would result in an instant flop. Dumb move for EA. The entire attration to the sims is that you completely control the lives of these characters. With a player controlled show, your vote would be lost in a sea of others, giving you an impression that you haven't any control. Much like the problem with national elections. People don't vote because they feel it doesn't really count. I think a show like this would be as much fun as watching my brother play a game of sims and not being able to direct anything myself.
As per another recent Liux gaming post and an article on Tom's Hardware Guide, Linux may not becomae a gamer's platform for a long time. The problem is that 1) most games are written around Microsoft's DirectX, which cannot be ported to Linux without a blessing from MS. Games need to be written in OpenGL, right now, to be linux compatable.
That piece of cake is 'iced' with a another problem, the graphics card driver sets. We already see a 'leadout' type of problem with later release cards where the Windows based game is released and some late release higher end cards cannot support the game, due to a compatability issue with the graphic cards driver sets. Companies such as ATI and Nvidia have a decent sized group of coders to resolve those issues in a resonable amount of time, but they have very very small Linux staffs (with respect the drivers sets), to handle Linux issues with games. This is justified on their part due to their sales in each catergory. It is going to take a lot more Linux based higher end graphics card sales to push the manufactures further in the right direction. Of course without the support for gaming in Linux, the sales aren't going to be there. There is a BIG chicken and egg problem with gaming on this platform that needs to be overcome before it's going to be prevalent.
Amen!
Your last point, although valid, lacks any historical presidence of ever taking place. We have rarely ever decreased to penalty for a 'crime' that is on the books, (except for prohibition). It would be wonderful if we had a system that allowed us to reduce a penalty where it was deemed as reasonable, but the basis of our politcal system voids that as a possiblity. Politicians, as a rule, will not lobby their peers for reductions because it always becomes politcal fodder for the re-election process. The sound bite era has made that problem even worse, as it is easy to point a finger in 30 seconds, damned hard to explain why in that same amount of time, and secondly it puts that politician in an imediate defensive position, just where they don't want to be.
I am glad to see others out there feel EXACTLY the way I do about these shows. I was starting to think that I was the only one who found each of these shows somewhat off the edge of the 'satisfying' platter. I crave a good Scifi series and each of them seems to have a problem that makes them somewhat unattractive. Stargate has the best take, but you hit the nail on the head with the 'earthbound' point. The new Startrek series is too much of a departure from the context of the other series for me. I think they also botched it by making it a completely linear series. One episode depends completely on the previous. That's a soap in my eyes and I have a hard time going back to it with each new eposide. Atlantis has some potential, but they need more time to find the stride as you say. I also have to wonder if the lack of a McGyver character in the plot also is detracting. RD Anderson makes the SG1 series in my eyes in amazing fashion with his one of a kind irreverant attitude towards technology and authority. His kick back style of humor keeps one foot in reality which is important for that type of show.
If Battlestar plots out a season with the underlying theme of humanity in the battlestar timeframe, they will be latching onto what made the original Star Trek wildly popular. It may very well work. Above all though, they need a Daggit. I WANT MY DAGGIT!
I find that quite interesting. I will look some stuff up on neuro linguistic theory and see what it has to say in respect to photographic memory. I have found however that most papers seems to be written by people who have not ever experienced such a thing and have great difficulty in grasping, or possibly just reiterating their findings. It's kind of like tasking a blind man (blind since birth) with writing a paper on how color impacts our perception of objects.
You don't understand. It's not like a 'memory', It's a complete recollection of the scenes right down to creases in the leaves. It's not a relational type memory as in doing math is (at least for me). I wish there was a better way to explain what goes on inside of our heads. It makes one feel quite isolated when you don't have a vernacular to present it in. It's not that I am not educated and don't know the words, it's more like trying to explain color to a person who has been blind since birth.
This would certainly explain something that has bothered me for some time. I am cursed with a memory that remembors images with clarity I wish I didn't have. I have noticed that images from my childhood, (admittedly decades old now), seem to be 'brighter' than those I have of recent times. It's not a 'hazy' difference as you would expect. It is that the images seem 'brighter' to me. If I revisit the same location, it's not the same, even on a bright sunny day.
I know it probably seems ludicrous to most people. I don't talk about things like that normally, because people just dismiss you as nuts, but it's real to me. I am curious, are there any others out there with long term photo memories that exhibit the same thing as I see?
I disagree. Under your agruement we could also say there are inherent flaws in browsing the internet. Therefore MS's browser isn't a problem, it's the nature of the internet. That's pretty much where MS stands, and I think that is wrong. The other problem is that there are other manufacturers out there who are demonstrating that you can mitigate the problem and do it successfully. Half-Life 2 has extremely little cheating or hacking going on. Perhaps we should pay closer attention to how they are addressing the problem.
I don't proposed removing all jail terms for all crimes, but I just feel that the penalty is stiff only because people irritated by a high level of inconvienience. Granted there are cases where it is justified, but we already have laws that can handle those instances. If irritation is a jailable offense, I don't think you would ever see anyone take a job in the airline industry. We seem to have been running down a road where we need to severely punish people for irritating other people. Take for instance the Road Rage law in New York. If the anger results in an accident or a fatality, I think it may be justified, but people are being charged for getting upset over being issued a speeding ticket. Talk back to the cop and you can be charged with rage. It fits the context of the law as it is written. At what point do we draw a line on the nonsense? I agree with you stance on responsibility and feel strongly that it supports my point more than yours. If people took responsibility for their actions as they should, then we should have to have any laws at all. Perhaps if we made the punishment more reasonably fit the nature of the crime, we could avoi a lot of the criminal element that we breed with our current system.
As far as someone being smarter and finding an answer. That will not work in our society either. Smart people are looked at suspiciously. They have the ability to take advantage of us and we can't see it until it's all over. We don't trust them and therefore we will not listen to any 'plan' they might have to correct the same system that we use to keep them in check. I think there are a lot of smart people out there who understand the problem have better solutions, but understand the high cost we have placed on speaking out. They are smart and will do the smart thing, stay quiet. We are building a system of failure. We have to change that course somewhere along the way, or we will all fail as a whole.
Seems to me this is quite backwards. We go out of our way to blame Microsoft for these types of 'vulnerabilities' in their software. Perhaps we should be applying the same standard to this. It isn't the hackers fault that there are serious holes in the client software that can easily be taken care of, it's the fault of the software manufacturer for making them to begin with.
They will come after 12 year old John Doe sitting in his mom's sewing room playing a game, but can't catch the 18 year old dude who killed twelve service men in Bagdad. Seems a bit of a mix up in priorities to me.
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I agree spam is a large nusiance and a time and money waster for our economy, but prison time for the offense seems quite extreme to me. Stealing your television, raping your wife, killing your kids, those are prison offenses. I think we are going overboard.
You completely missed the point. It isn't a matter of ANY penalty being effective, it's a matter of removing the causes. The spammer makes money, that is the root of the problem. Why does he make money? How do I stop SPAM from making money. hmm. ponder that and you may find the answer. Making prison harsher is not going to solve anything. making prison the answer OBVIOUSLY doesn't solve anything. Removing a person from society doesn't fix the problem with the society to begin with. It's a fantasy that taking away the person who took advantage of a problem fixes the problem is downright moronic! Fix the damned problem and the issue is closed. Gosh, at what point are we going to start applying common sense to these type of issues and stop throwing incarceration and penalties at them. It's so stupid and the greater majority of the people can't see it. I feel like we live in the stone ages, but we just got a bunch of cool stuff to get us through it. God forbid we should change anything because we know a better way, we have always done it this way whether it works or not. It's so frustrating. I am not opposed to make laws and regulating, but the 'punishment' for breaking those laws is simply ridiculous. Once we see that we have an issue. Pass the laws in a necessary fashion to remove the cause of the problem, not to remove the effect of the problem. that's trying to backend the issue and that never works.
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Yea! Let's escalate petty crimes to the point that speeding 5 miles over the speed limit has a two year jail term! I think paying bills late should have 90 days in rehab. Sending a check out before you actually have the money in the bank should get 5 to 10 years. We KNOW these things actually bring our society down. We should support absolutism and zero tolerance and eliminate ALL offenders, regardless of whether the offense actually caused any physical damage or not. We all know Land O' Lakes is one of the biggest criminal corporations out there. Heck they make REAL butter! How much does that shorten my life span! Perhaps we should go after the suppliers of the stuff too! Death to all cows!
This fantasy that escalation of penalties has any real effect of the what people do is a serious delusion. We prove it to oursleves everyday and yet we refuse to believe the facts that we see in front of us. Incarceration, death, whatever you propose as a penalty is not going to stop the problem. Penalties after the fact that the act has been committed doesn't do ANYTHING. If they did, then our prison population would be going down as we write more laws and penalties along with them, not skyrocketing up as it factually is. Heck we house more of our own population in prisons than any other country in the world. We actually have 30% of the world's prison population here in the US. It doesn't work, it won't ever work, it's stupid to continue going down that road and is extremely frustrating to watch us continue to do it.
Yea! Let's escalate petty crimes to the point that speeding 5 miles over the speed limit has a two year jail term! I think paying bills late should have 90 days in rehab. Sending a check out before you actually have the money in the bank should get 5 to 10 years. We KNOW these things actually bring our society down. We should support absolutism and zero tolerance and eliminate ALL offenders, regardless of whether the offense actually caused any physical damage or not. We all know Land O' Lakes is one of the biggest criminal corporations out there. Heck they make REAL butter! How much does that shorten my life span! Perhaps we should go after the suppliers of the stuff too! Death to all cows!
This fantasy that escalation of penalties has any real effect of the what people do is a serious delusion. We prove it to oursleves everyday and yet we refuse to believe the facts that we see in front of us. Incarceration, death, whatever you propose as a penelty is not going to stop the problem. Penelties after the fact that the act has been committed doesn't do ANYTHING. If they did, then our prison population would be going down as we write more laws and penalties along with them, not skyrocketing up as it factually is. Heck we house more of our own population in prisons than any other country in the world. We actually have 30% of the world's prison population here in the US. It doesn't work, it won't ever work, it's stupid to continue going down that road and is extremely frustrating to watch us continue to do it.
Yea! Let's escalate petty crimes to the point that speeding 5 miles over the speed limit has a two year jail term! I think paying bills late should have 90 days in rehab. Sending a check out before you actually have the money in the bank should get 5 to 10 years. We KNOW these things actually bring our society down. We should support absolutism and zero tolerance and eliminate ALL offenders, regardless of whether the offense actually caused any physical damage or not. We all know Land O' Lakes is one of the biggest criminal corporations out there. Heck they make REAL butter! How much does that shorten my life span! Perhaps we should go after the suppliers of the stuff too! Death to all cows!
This fantasy that escalation of penalties has any real effect of the what people do is a serious delusion. We prove it to oursleves everyday and yet we refuse to believe the facts that we see in front of us. Incarceration, death, whatever you propose as a penelty is not going to stop the problem. Penelties after the fact that the act has been committed doesn't do ANYTHING. If they did, then our prison population would be going down as we write more laws and penalties along with them, not skyrocketing up as it factually is. Heck we house more of our own population in prisons than any other country in the world. We actually have 30% of the world's prison population here in the US. It doesn't work, it won't ever work, it's stupid to continue going down that road and is extremely frustrating to watch us continue to do it.
Hurry up and get a quick look at this site hosting the trailer before it is slashdotted too and gets pulled.
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/DEFGH/Fanta stic-Four/trailer.php
News stories are ALWAYS written in the lite as to how it will effect distribution of the publication. The major complain heard for decades from the public has been that the vast majority of the news out there is 'bad' aka is a story about something/someone/somewhere bad. The 'bad' news is what sells. The big players in the economy are always going to get more bad news than smaller players because the news agency knows people will recognize the names better and therefore more sales of their news product. The smaller company, although they may be 'badder' or is that more bad, will always get less press because of name recognition.
In short, all a karma system based on the criteria you site is going to do is measure how much name recognition a company has and provide alternative method of tracking news sales. It will do nothing to measure 'how bad' or good a company really is.
Troll me for this, but I feel the suggestion of such a system displays a complete lack of knowledge about the media industry and that you have an inappropriate amount of investment in the context of news articles. Ever heard the old saying, "don't believe everything you read"? There is a basis in fact in that statement that you need to apply common sense and vigor in determining how much of the truth is being told to you. No necessarily whether it is a lie or not, but how much truth is included. News agencies will always leave facts out of a story if they don't fit the slant or spin they are trying to provide. It is your duty to put the facts back together and take the spin part as an editorial opinion. Discard it or stand by it, it's up to you. But placing blind trust in everything that is written in the news as a clear representation of the truth is a poor poor way to measure anything.
MS has always stated that they were going to drop support. They have pushed their date back a few times, but the story hasn't ever changed. Slashdot proclaims it as a new knife in the back of MS users everytime they post it. It gets really old and tiresome and has removed a huge amount of credibility from Slashdot because of the way Slashdot insists on portraying MS. I don't complain to uphold MS in ANY way. I simple really really hate to see Slashdot slide into the gutter in this way. It looks and sounds childish and quite frankly is. The sky is falling attitude is not going to win anyone over, especially when they find out that the sky isn't really falling.
Yes it is 'related'. We use it to compress for a send over the internet and then uncompress at the other end. Completely loss-less in that fashion. I don't know how you are using your instance of mrsid or what you mean by lossy. Any image, when it it's number of pixels is reduced, has to lose 'displayed' information, but not necessarily image information. That is what I am refering to. With the package from Lizard tech we can actually view the compressed file in it's original format and size and have it NOT lose any quality and not have to uncompress it. Otherwise you have to uncompress to view in standard viewers (or get a plug in).
yea and your point is? I don't see where they are doing anything different than Lizardtech's solution. It too is loss-less and compresses much much further than the one in the article.
This is actually the seventh time Slashdot has cried WOLF on this. I don't believe them anymore. I wll be glad to see NT go, but slashdot hasn't any credibility in this area for me any more. I can point to 7 different articles in the last 3 years where slashdot articles were posted saying MS was dropping support for NT. They were all obviously wrong as it has not yet happened to date.
go visit Lizardtech.com and see what they have been doing for years. 300% compression that has already been used in satelite technology. Successful, proven and really good. This Slashdot story only serves to sucker the uninformed. I would be careful and make sure you research anything that is posted as an article here. They can really make people look like fools by posting things, such as this, and completely misrepresenting it's worth.
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This would result in an instant flop. Dumb move for EA. The entire attration to the sims is that you completely control the lives of these characters. With a player controlled show, your vote would be lost in a sea of others, giving you an impression that you haven't any control. Much like the problem with national elections. People don't vote because they feel it doesn't really count. I think a show like this would be as much fun as watching my brother play a game of sims and not being able to direct anything myself.
As per another recent Liux gaming post and an article on Tom's Hardware Guide, Linux may not becomae a gamer's platform for a long time. The problem is that 1) most games are written around Microsoft's DirectX, which cannot be ported to Linux without a blessing from MS. Games need to be written in OpenGL, right now, to be linux compatable.
That piece of cake is 'iced' with a another problem, the graphics card driver sets. We already see a 'leadout' type of problem with later release cards where the Windows based game is released and some late release higher end cards cannot support the game, due to a compatability issue with the graphic cards driver sets. Companies such as ATI and Nvidia have a decent sized group of coders to resolve those issues in a resonable amount of time, but they have very very small Linux staffs (with respect the drivers sets), to handle Linux issues with games. This is justified on their part due to their sales in each catergory. It is going to take a lot more Linux based higher end graphics card sales to push the manufactures further in the right direction. Of course without the support for gaming in Linux, the sales aren't going to be there. There is a BIG chicken and egg problem with gaming on this platform that needs to be overcome before it's going to be prevalent.
Amen! Your last point, although valid, lacks any historical presidence of ever taking place. We have rarely ever decreased to penalty for a 'crime' that is on the books, (except for prohibition). It would be wonderful if we had a system that allowed us to reduce a penalty where it was deemed as reasonable, but the basis of our politcal system voids that as a possiblity. Politicians, as a rule, will not lobby their peers for reductions because it always becomes politcal fodder for the re-election process. The sound bite era has made that problem even worse, as it is easy to point a finger in 30 seconds, damned hard to explain why in that same amount of time, and secondly it puts that politician in an imediate defensive position, just where they don't want to be.
I am glad to see others out there feel EXACTLY the way I do about these shows. I was starting to think that I was the only one who found each of these shows somewhat off the edge of the 'satisfying' platter. I crave a good Scifi series and each of them seems to have a problem that makes them somewhat unattractive. Stargate has the best take, but you hit the nail on the head with the 'earthbound' point. The new Startrek series is too much of a departure from the context of the other series for me. I think they also botched it by making it a completely linear series. One episode depends completely on the previous. That's a soap in my eyes and I have a hard time going back to it with each new eposide. Atlantis has some potential, but they need more time to find the stride as you say. I also have to wonder if the lack of a McGyver character in the plot also is detracting. RD Anderson makes the SG1 series in my eyes in amazing fashion with his one of a kind irreverant attitude towards technology and authority. His kick back style of humor keeps one foot in reality which is important for that type of show.
If Battlestar plots out a season with the underlying theme of humanity in the battlestar timeframe, they will be latching onto what made the original Star Trek wildly popular. It may very well work. Above all though, they need a Daggit. I WANT MY DAGGIT!
I find that quite interesting. I will look some stuff up on neuro linguistic theory and see what it has to say in respect to photographic memory. I have found however that most papers seems to be written by people who have not ever experienced such a thing and have great difficulty in grasping, or possibly just reiterating their findings. It's kind of like tasking a blind man (blind since birth) with writing a paper on how color impacts our perception of objects.
You don't understand. It's not like a 'memory', It's a complete recollection of the scenes right down to creases in the leaves. It's not a relational type memory as in doing math is (at least for me). I wish there was a better way to explain what goes on inside of our heads. It makes one feel quite isolated when you don't have a vernacular to present it in. It's not that I am not educated and don't know the words, it's more like trying to explain color to a person who has been blind since birth.
That has been my analysis of it to date. Eyes slowly degrading over time. My hearing most certainly has.
This would certainly explain something that has bothered me for some time. I am cursed with a memory that remembors images with clarity I wish I didn't have. I have noticed that images from my childhood, (admittedly decades old now), seem to be 'brighter' than those I have of recent times. It's not a 'hazy' difference as you would expect. It is that the images seem 'brighter' to me. If I revisit the same location, it's not the same, even on a bright sunny day.
I know it probably seems ludicrous to most people. I don't talk about things like that normally, because people just dismiss you as nuts, but it's real to me. I am curious, are there any others out there with long term photo memories that exhibit the same thing as I see?
I disagree. Under your agruement we could also say there are inherent flaws in browsing the internet. Therefore MS's browser isn't a problem, it's the nature of the internet. That's pretty much where MS stands, and I think that is wrong. The other problem is that there are other manufacturers out there who are demonstrating that you can mitigate the problem and do it successfully. Half-Life 2 has extremely little cheating or hacking going on. Perhaps we should pay closer attention to how they are addressing the problem.
I don't proposed removing all jail terms for all crimes, but I just feel that the penalty is stiff only because people irritated by a high level of inconvienience. Granted there are cases where it is justified, but we already have laws that can handle those instances. If irritation is a jailable offense, I don't think you would ever see anyone take a job in the airline industry. We seem to have been running down a road where we need to severely punish people for irritating other people. Take for instance the Road Rage law in New York. If the anger results in an accident or a fatality, I think it may be justified, but people are being charged for getting upset over being issued a speeding ticket. Talk back to the cop and you can be charged with rage. It fits the context of the law as it is written. At what point do we draw a line on the nonsense? I agree with you stance on responsibility and feel strongly that it supports my point more than yours. If people took responsibility for their actions as they should, then we should have to have any laws at all. Perhaps if we made the punishment more reasonably fit the nature of the crime, we could avoi a lot of the criminal element that we breed with our current system.
As far as someone being smarter and finding an answer. That will not work in our society either. Smart people are looked at suspiciously. They have the ability to take advantage of us and we can't see it until it's all over. We don't trust them and therefore we will not listen to any 'plan' they might have to correct the same system that we use to keep them in check. I think there are a lot of smart people out there who understand the problem have better solutions, but understand the high cost we have placed on speaking out. They are smart and will do the smart thing, stay quiet. We are building a system of failure. We have to change that course somewhere along the way, or we will all fail as a whole.
Seems to me this is quite backwards. We go out of our way to blame Microsoft for these types of 'vulnerabilities' in their software. Perhaps we should be applying the same standard to this. It isn't the hackers fault that there are serious holes in the client software that can easily be taken care of, it's the fault of the software manufacturer for making them to begin with.
They will come after 12 year old John Doe sitting in his mom's sewing room playing a game, but can't catch the 18 year old dude who killed twelve service men in Bagdad. Seems a bit of a mix up in priorities to me.
I agree spam is a large nusiance and a time and money waster for our economy, but prison time for the offense seems quite extreme to me. Stealing your television, raping your wife, killing your kids, those are prison offenses. I think we are going overboard.
You completely missed the point. It isn't a matter of ANY penalty being effective, it's a matter of removing the causes. The spammer makes money, that is the root of the problem. Why does he make money? How do I stop SPAM from making money. hmm. ponder that and you may find the answer. Making prison harsher is not going to solve anything. making prison the answer OBVIOUSLY doesn't solve anything. Removing a person from society doesn't fix the problem with the society to begin with. It's a fantasy that taking away the person who took advantage of a problem fixes the problem is downright moronic! Fix the damned problem and the issue is closed. Gosh, at what point are we going to start applying common sense to these type of issues and stop throwing incarceration and penalties at them. It's so stupid and the greater majority of the people can't see it. I feel like we live in the stone ages, but we just got a bunch of cool stuff to get us through it. God forbid we should change anything because we know a better way, we have always done it this way whether it works or not. It's so frustrating. I am not opposed to make laws and regulating, but the 'punishment' for breaking those laws is simply ridiculous. Once we see that we have an issue. Pass the laws in a necessary fashion to remove the cause of the problem, not to remove the effect of the problem. that's trying to backend the issue and that never works.
Yea! Let's escalate petty crimes to the point that speeding 5 miles over the speed limit has a two year jail term! I think paying bills late should have 90 days in rehab. Sending a check out before you actually have the money in the bank should get 5 to 10 years. We KNOW these things actually bring our society down. We should support absolutism and zero tolerance and eliminate ALL offenders, regardless of whether the offense actually caused any physical damage or not. We all know Land O' Lakes is one of the biggest criminal corporations out there. Heck they make REAL butter! How much does that shorten my life span! Perhaps we should go after the suppliers of the stuff too! Death to all cows!
This fantasy that escalation of penalties has any real effect of the what people do is a serious delusion. We prove it to oursleves everyday and yet we refuse to believe the facts that we see in front of us. Incarceration, death, whatever you propose as a penalty is not going to stop the problem. Penalties after the fact that the act has been committed doesn't do ANYTHING. If they did, then our prison population would be going down as we write more laws and penalties along with them, not skyrocketing up as it factually is. Heck we house more of our own population in prisons than any other country in the world. We actually have 30% of the world's prison population here in the US. It doesn't work, it won't ever work, it's stupid to continue going down that road and is extremely frustrating to watch us continue to do it.
Yea! Let's escalate petty crimes to the point that speeding 5 miles over the speed limit has a two year jail term! I think paying bills late should have 90 days in rehab. Sending a check out before you actually have the money in the bank should get 5 to 10 years. We KNOW these things actually bring our society down. We should support absolutism and zero tolerance and eliminate ALL offenders, regardless of whether the offense actually caused any physical damage or not. We all know Land O' Lakes is one of the biggest criminal corporations out there. Heck they make REAL butter! How much does that shorten my life span! Perhaps we should go after the suppliers of the stuff too! Death to all cows! This fantasy that escalation of penalties has any real effect of the what people do is a serious delusion. We prove it to oursleves everyday and yet we refuse to believe the facts that we see in front of us. Incarceration, death, whatever you propose as a penelty is not going to stop the problem. Penelties after the fact that the act has been committed doesn't do ANYTHING. If they did, then our prison population would be going down as we write more laws and penalties along with them, not skyrocketing up as it factually is. Heck we house more of our own population in prisons than any other country in the world. We actually have 30% of the world's prison population here in the US. It doesn't work, it won't ever work, it's stupid to continue going down that road and is extremely frustrating to watch us continue to do it.
Yea! Let's escalate petty crimes to the point that speeding 5 miles over the speed limit has a two year jail term! I think paying bills late should have 90 days in rehab. Sending a check out before you actually have the money in the bank should get 5 to 10 years. We KNOW these things actually bring our society down. We should support absolutism and zero tolerance and eliminate ALL offenders, regardless of whether the offense actually caused any physical damage or not. We all know Land O' Lakes is one of the biggest criminal corporations out there. Heck they make REAL butter! How much does that shorten my life span! Perhaps we should go after the suppliers of the stuff too! Death to all cows!
This fantasy that escalation of penalties has any real effect of the what people do is a serious delusion. We prove it to oursleves everyday and yet we refuse to believe the facts that we see in front of us. Incarceration, death, whatever you propose as a penelty is not going to stop the problem. Penelties after the fact that the act has been committed doesn't do ANYTHING. If they did, then our prison population would be going down as we write more laws and penalties along with them, not skyrocketing up as it factually is. Heck we house more of our own population in prisons than any other country in the world. We actually have 30% of the world's prison population here in the US. It doesn't work, it won't ever work, it's stupid to continue going down that road and is extremely frustrating to watch us continue to do it.
Hurry up and get a quick look at this site hosting the trailer before it is slashdotted too and gets pulled. http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/DEFGH/Fanta stic-Four/trailer.php
News stories are ALWAYS written in the lite as to how it will effect distribution of the publication. The major complain heard for decades from the public has been that the vast majority of the news out there is 'bad' aka is a story about something/someone/somewhere bad. The 'bad' news is what sells. The big players in the economy are always going to get more bad news than smaller players because the news agency knows people will recognize the names better and therefore more sales of their news product. The smaller company, although they may be 'badder' or is that more bad, will always get less press because of name recognition.
In short, all a karma system based on the criteria you site is going to do is measure how much name recognition a company has and provide alternative method of tracking news sales. It will do nothing to measure 'how bad' or good a company really is.
Troll me for this, but I feel the suggestion of such a system displays a complete lack of knowledge about the media industry and that you have an inappropriate amount of investment in the context of news articles. Ever heard the old saying, "don't believe everything you read"? There is a basis in fact in that statement that you need to apply common sense and vigor in determining how much of the truth is being told to you. No necessarily whether it is a lie or not, but how much truth is included. News agencies will always leave facts out of a story if they don't fit the slant or spin they are trying to provide. It is your duty to put the facts back together and take the spin part as an editorial opinion. Discard it or stand by it, it's up to you. But placing blind trust in everything that is written in the news as a clear representation of the truth is a poor poor way to measure anything.
MS has always stated that they were going to drop support. They have pushed their date back a few times, but the story hasn't ever changed. Slashdot proclaims it as a new knife in the back of MS users everytime they post it. It gets really old and tiresome and has removed a huge amount of credibility from Slashdot because of the way Slashdot insists on portraying MS. I don't complain to uphold MS in ANY way. I simple really really hate to see Slashdot slide into the gutter in this way. It looks and sounds childish and quite frankly is. The sky is falling attitude is not going to win anyone over, especially when they find out that the sky isn't really falling.
Yes it is 'related'. We use it to compress for a send over the internet and then uncompress at the other end. Completely loss-less in that fashion. I don't know how you are using your instance of mrsid or what you mean by lossy. Any image, when it it's number of pixels is reduced, has to lose 'displayed' information, but not necessarily image information. That is what I am refering to. With the package from Lizard tech we can actually view the compressed file in it's original format and size and have it NOT lose any quality and not have to uncompress it. Otherwise you have to uncompress to view in standard viewers (or get a plug in).
yea and your point is? I don't see where they are doing anything different than Lizardtech's solution. It too is loss-less and compresses much much further than the one in the article.
lol, good catch. I meant to say 300% smaller.
This is actually the seventh time Slashdot has cried WOLF on this. I don't believe them anymore. I wll be glad to see NT go, but slashdot hasn't any credibility in this area for me any more. I can point to 7 different articles in the last 3 years where slashdot articles were posted saying MS was dropping support for NT. They were all obviously wrong as it has not yet happened to date.
go visit Lizardtech.com and see what they have been doing for years. 300% compression that has already been used in satelite technology. Successful, proven and really good. This Slashdot story only serves to sucker the uninformed. I would be careful and make sure you research anything that is posted as an article here. They can really make people look like fools by posting things, such as this, and completely misrepresenting it's worth.