So, I wonder if at a certain point, it would be worth buying into SCO, just so you could put a few votes behind a motion to 'Fire everybody involved with the company without compensation, liquidate the assets, and pour salt on the site of the building'.
Also, can shareholders vote that the CEO should be 'kicked in the jimmy for bein' a foo'?
Sweet. I can deliberately act threatening to my ex-wife/Girl Friend/mother in law and wait for them to hit me with a GPS restraining order. I then hotwire it so I can remove it, attach it to my cat so the data being fed to the authorities keeps changing, and I go kill who ever it is that I pathalogically hate. When they come to arrest me the next day, my lawyer has them pull my movement data from the previous night, and voila, I have a rock solid alabi, from the most reliable witness one could ask for: The Police.
Science should not be providing such tools to the mad-men of tomorrow
The very same thing might have been said about countless useful inventions throughout the ages. Your arguement is,'Let's not try something new, because bad things may happen'.
I'm sure someone thought the same thing when the first man-made fire was lit.
If someone can afford a $27,000 system (starting price) I really doubt they're going to be worried about recouping their $19.95 investment on a DVD or screwing with eBay to do it...
Hell, I can't afford a 27k system to watch movies on and I wouldn't bother selling stuff I copied on E-Bay. I buy movies for between $10-20. I might get half of that back. My time is worth more than that.
The only time I have any real urge to pirate movies, is when I have to deal with fisking region encoding BS, CSS, and Macrovision. These things irritate me to the point that I want to make sure that whatever company has troubled me by using these 'features', doesn't make a DIME off of me.
I'll gladly pay for a physical copy of a movie I enjoy. Just don't tell me I can't watch a copy of a movie from china that Miramax hasn't yet ruined through editing, use my PC to watch it, or force me to sit through some sutpid 'coming to dvd soon' ad, and you will get no trouble out of me...
It's in the player's hand book, page 231. It's a mental/illusion type spell. It's pretty effective but you have to be at least level 22, and it sux against undead and lawyers.
Actually, It does not matter if you sign the agreement because there is no exchange of value. If there is no exchange of value, a contract is not legally binding.
Orbitz could argue that accessing the data that they are presenting you is a service, and ergo, an exchange of value has occured.
Would you buy designer grass that grows two inches and stops? Even if you won't eat GM food?
Personally, I have no problems with genetic manipulation of things. Howerver the sort of people who whine about GM food, will probably throw a fit about any GM product. Example: 'GM grass will be bad because goats will eat it ant grow tentacles!'
I clearly recall someone saying something similar to this, before on slashdot:
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by glhturbo (32785) on Friday February 11, @01:46PM (#11644585)
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Isn't this a dupe [slashdot.org]?
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I have to agree with everything you said, however there is NOTHING remotely natural about 'American Idol'.
It however, is proof the Bible is just crazy ramblings by demented primitives. If it was the word of an omniscient god, 'American Idol' would be mentioned in Revelations...
Even if there is life on Mars, it is probably going to be bacterial in nature. While I would put myself down as a left leaning conservationist in nature, saying that people shouldn't alter 'Untouched virgin environments' is silly romantic hokum.
It just comes down to the question: How important it the potential discovery of extra-terrestrial bacteria vs. some practice terraforming. I think that there is plenty of time to do both, actually. We can be looking for martian microbes at the same time we are setting up the needed systems. I don't think that Mars can be globally altered in just seven days...
Nah, it sounds really bad. I expect that at least one of the shuttles will probably get hit on the way in and crash. In addition, there is always the very real posssiblity that one of your crew will go totally nutzo out of the blue, and just when he has access to a dangerous weapon. Finally, I'm sure that al least one astronaut will have to stay behind and sacrifice himself when the bomb triggers go haywire. But perhaps I'm just thinking negatively...
Get it now? You microsoft apologists should really get a clue.
Yeah, well you shrill 'linux is perfect' bitches should get a life. If one were to apply the analogy you used, Linux would be a car with now owners manual that was so complicated you need to be a mechanic to maintain it.
Coke and Pepsi compete. Microsoft and Apple don't really compete. Microsoft makes software, Apple makes hardware. True, the PC is viewed as MS domain, but MS doesn't actually manufacture the hardware. On this specific topic, MS doesn't have a product to compete with the Ipod. Sure,.wma is the format that MS would like to see adopted as the standard format for media content, but they aren't actually selling content in that format.
MS even makes software for Apple computers. This would be akin to Coke making drink holders for Pepsi products if the analogy held true.
When I worked at MS, I used to get a kick out of wearing an imac shirt I got from an apple vendor a couple of years ago. Most people wouldn't give it second notice, but every now and then, a clueless drone would make a comment. Now if I showed up with wearing a 'Linux Roxorz MS Boxorz!' shirt, I'm sure that would raise a few eyebrows....
I'll give you an 'Amen Brother' on that one. I have a good friend who is a movie fiend, I have learned that die-hard fans of cinema are on another level of reality than the rest of us.
Movie Geeks are simply fanboys that worship movies in general. As fanboys, they are insufferable about the object of their devotion, and will lay into any who blaspheme the objects of holy devotion.
AICN's web design is so horrible that I go read/. IT stories and think they look good...
According to British detainees held with Mr Habib and since released, "one of the prostitutes stood over him naked while he was strapped to the floor and menstruated on him".
Wow, that is truly brutal. How is the guys still alive? Personally, I don't think I could have taken that for more than, say several minutes before breaking. And that bit about pigs heads being put on the photos of his kids...SHOCKING!
If this is what the most dangerous Muslims in the world are made of, I'm glad I have George Jr. to protect me....
Who wants a camera which enables anyone to remotely cripple it.
The same people who want DRM capable computers, CSS and Macrovision encoded DVDs, copy protection schemes that require you to have a $%#$%@#$ game CD in your cd-rom drive when you play it, and closed source software.
What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people?
What is to prevent me from using this while I assault the holy crap out of a cop? Any technology can be abused. You are not really asking a question, so what is the point of your anti-technology rhetoric?
In the future, People for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Intelligence (PETAI) will be decrying the horrific violence that millions (maybe billions) of people inflict on AI's every night whilest gaming.
Remember the Screensaver/virtual pet program that was out several years ago, called 'Petz 2'?
You could actually beat your pet kitten or puppy so much that they would cower in a corner and tremble all the time. Twisted, huh?
I don't know what was more warped, beating a virtual pet into submission, or the fact that some programmer added parameters to the AI to allow that sort of abuse.
"It says here on your resume that you workied on the AI for Petz 2. I loved that program, those little bugger were so adorable"
"Yep. I worked on the 'excessive physical beatings' code."
Starcraft is a RTS, and in a RTS omniscience and omnipresence would be a quite nice advantage. Put simply: The AI is never distracted, knows the position of every unit, and the progress of every operation and every resource.
Which is what is wrong with most AIs in RTS games. It actually takes more code to introduce a 'double blind' confuguration to the AIs, as opposed to just let the AI peek at the game state. The developers are either too stupid to realize this (unlikely), too lazy to bother with it (possible), or to strapped for time and money to produce anything better than marginally functional (dingdingding!). I want to code up some AIs that follow all the same rules that players do, and still give them a tough fight. That is what game AI should be shooting for.
Funny story: A few years back, I was walking through the MS building where the were working on the Mechwarrior 4 game. It is always fun to walk by the game dev departments, and chat with people about the latest projects.
I was having a conversation with a guy who was working on AI algorithims, and I asked what sort of schemes he used, fuzzy-logic, Genetic learning, or weighted neural nets? He told me that they didn't bother with academic AI techniques, because he could already write an AI that could beat the player every time without them.
I was completely at a loss for words, so I just thanked him and ran away.
Hey this sucks, it started out like The Matrix but 3 minutes in, it just loops continously.
Yeah, it could be worse though. It could have Madonna telling you to quit stealing movies. And we know how bad movies that let Madonna in front of a camera are...
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So, I wonder if at a certain point, it would be worth buying into SCO, just so you could put a few votes behind a motion to 'Fire everybody involved with the company without compensation, liquidate the assets, and pour salt on the site of the building'.
Also, can shareholders vote that the CEO should be 'kicked in the jimmy for bein' a foo'?
Sweet. I can deliberately act threatening to my ex-wife/Girl Friend/mother in law and wait for them to hit me with a GPS restraining order. I then hotwire it so I can remove it, attach it to my cat so the data being fed to the authorities keeps changing, and I go kill who ever it is that I pathalogically hate. When they come to arrest me the next day, my lawyer has them pull my movement data from the previous night, and voila, I have a rock solid alabi, from the most reliable witness one could ask for: The Police.
Science should not be providing such tools to the mad-men of tomorrow
The very same thing might have been said about countless useful inventions throughout the ages. Your arguement is,'Let's not try something new, because bad things may happen'.
I'm sure someone thought the same thing when the first man-made fire was lit.
If someone can afford a $27,000 system (starting price) I really doubt they're going to be worried about recouping their $19.95 investment on a DVD or screwing with eBay to do it...
Hell, I can't afford a 27k system to watch movies on and I wouldn't bother selling stuff I copied on E-Bay. I buy movies for between $10-20. I might get half of that back. My time is worth more than that.
The only time I have any real urge to pirate movies, is when I have to deal with fisking region encoding BS, CSS, and Macrovision. These things irritate me to the point that I want to make sure that whatever company has troubled me by using these 'features', doesn't make a DIME off of me.
I'll gladly pay for a physical copy of a movie I enjoy. Just don't tell me I can't watch a copy of a movie from china that Miramax hasn't yet ruined through editing, use my PC to watch it, or force me to sit through some sutpid 'coming to dvd soon' ad, and you will get no trouble out of me...
It's in the player's hand book, page 231. It's a mental/illusion type spell. It's pretty effective but you have to be at least level 22, and it sux against undead and lawyers.
Just think, you would be rid of cancer, and you wouldn't have to worry about dirty needles when shooting up with hobos.
Actually, It does not matter if you sign the agreement because there is no exchange of value. If there is no exchange of value, a contract is not legally binding.
Orbitz could argue that accessing the data that they are presenting you is a service, and ergo, an exchange of value has occured.
Would you buy designer grass that grows two inches and stops? Even if you won't eat GM food?
Personally, I have no problems with genetic manipulation of things. Howerver the sort of people who whine about GM food, will probably throw a fit about any GM product. Example: 'GM grass will be bad because goats will eat it ant grow tentacles!'
I clearly recall someone saying something similar to this, before on slashdot: Dupe? (Score:1) by glhturbo (32785) on Friday February 11, @01:46PM (#11644585) (http://members.tripod.com/glhturbo) Isn't this a dupe [slashdot.org]? [ Reply to This ]
I have to agree with everything you said, however there is NOTHING remotely natural about 'American Idol'.
It however, is proof the Bible is just crazy ramblings by demented primitives. If it was the word of an omniscient god, 'American Idol' would be mentioned in Revelations...
Even if there is life on Mars, it is probably going to be bacterial in nature. While I would put myself down as a left leaning conservationist in nature, saying that people shouldn't alter 'Untouched virgin environments' is silly romantic hokum.
It just comes down to the question: How important it the potential discovery of extra-terrestrial bacteria vs. some practice terraforming. I think that there is plenty of time to do both, actually. We can be looking for martian microbes at the same time we are setting up the needed systems. I don't think that Mars can be globally altered in just seven days...
Nah, it sounds really bad. I expect that at least one of the shuttles will probably get hit on the way in and crash. In addition, there is always the very real posssiblity that one of your crew will go totally nutzo out of the blue, and just when he has access to a dangerous weapon. Finally, I'm sure that al least one astronaut will have to stay behind and sacrifice himself when the bomb triggers go haywire. But perhaps I'm just thinking negatively...
Get it now? You microsoft apologists should really get a clue.
Yeah, well you shrill 'linux is perfect' bitches should get a life. If one were to apply the analogy you used, Linux would be a car with now owners manual that was so complicated you need to be a mechanic to maintain it.
Coke and Pepsi compete. Microsoft and Apple don't really compete. Microsoft makes software, Apple makes hardware. True, the PC is viewed as MS domain, but MS doesn't actually manufacture the hardware. On this specific topic, MS doesn't have a product to compete with the Ipod. Sure, .wma is the format that MS would like to see adopted as the standard format for media content, but they aren't actually selling content in that format.
MS even makes software for Apple computers. This would be akin to Coke making drink holders for Pepsi products if the analogy held true.
When I worked at MS, I used to get a kick out of wearing an imac shirt I got from an apple vendor a couple of years ago. Most people wouldn't give it second notice, but every now and then, a clueless drone would make a comment. Now if I showed up with wearing a 'Linux Roxorz MS Boxorz!' shirt, I'm sure that would raise a few eyebrows....
The article wasn't bad, you should try reading it.
Uhh...is that actually allowed here? I thought that you could get your account pulled for that sort of thing....
'If you encrypt it, they will come...'
I'll give you an 'Amen Brother' on that one. I have a good friend who is a movie fiend, I have learned that die-hard fans of cinema are on another level of reality than the rest of us.
/. IT stories and think they look good...
Movie Geeks are simply fanboys that worship movies in general. As fanboys, they are insufferable about the object of their devotion, and will lay into any who blaspheme the objects of holy devotion.
AICN's web design is so horrible that I go read
According to British detainees held with Mr Habib and since released, "one of the prostitutes stood over him naked while he was strapped to the floor and menstruated on him".
Wow, that is truly brutal. How is the guys still alive? Personally, I don't think I could have taken that for more than, say several minutes before breaking. And that bit about pigs heads being put on the photos of his kids...SHOCKING!
If this is what the most dangerous Muslims in the world are made of, I'm glad I have George Jr. to protect me....
Who wants a camera which enables anyone to remotely cripple it.
The same people who want DRM capable computers, CSS and Macrovision encoded DVDs, copy protection schemes that require you to have a $%#$%@#$ game CD in your cd-rom drive when you play it, and closed source software.
What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people?
What is to prevent me from using this while I assault the holy crap out of a cop? Any technology can be abused. You are not really asking a question, so what is the point of your anti-technology rhetoric?
In the future, People for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Intelligence (PETAI) will be decrying the horrific violence that millions (maybe billions) of people inflict on AI's every night whilest gaming.
Remember the Screensaver/virtual pet program that was out several years ago, called 'Petz 2'? You could actually beat your pet kitten or puppy so much that they would cower in a corner and tremble all the time. Twisted, huh?
I don't know what was more warped, beating a virtual pet into submission, or the fact that some programmer added parameters to the AI to allow that sort of abuse.
"It says here on your resume that you workied on the AI for Petz 2. I loved that program, those little bugger were so adorable"
"Yep. I worked on the 'excessive physical beatings' code."
Starcraft is a RTS, and in a RTS omniscience and omnipresence would be a quite nice advantage. Put simply: The AI is never distracted, knows the position of every unit, and the progress of every operation and every resource.
Which is what is wrong with most AIs in RTS games. It actually takes more code to introduce a 'double blind' confuguration to the AIs, as opposed to just let the AI peek at the game state. The developers are either too stupid to realize this (unlikely), too lazy to bother with it (possible), or to strapped for time and money to produce anything better than marginally functional (dingdingding!). I want to code up some AIs that follow all the same rules that players do, and still give them a tough fight. That is what game AI should be shooting for.
Funny story: A few years back, I was walking through the MS building where the were working on the Mechwarrior 4 game. It is always fun to walk by the game dev departments, and chat with people about the latest projects.
I was having a conversation with a guy who was working on AI algorithims, and I asked what sort of schemes he used, fuzzy-logic, Genetic learning, or weighted neural nets? He told me that they didn't bother with academic AI techniques, because he could already write an AI that could beat the player every time without them.
I was completely at a loss for words, so I just thanked him and ran away.
Hey this sucks, it started out like The Matrix but 3 minutes in, it just loops continously.
Yeah, it could be worse though. It could have Madonna telling you to quit stealing movies. And we know how bad movies that let Madonna in front of a camera are...
You are speaking about bootleggers maybe.
No, because as everyone knows, Bootleggers are people who make and smuggle alchohol illegally. They have no relation to software piracy...