What I find funny about the complaints of all the people who walked out of the movie is that if you would have sucked it up and stayed (you DID already pay for it after all) you would have gotten all you were expecting from it.
I feel terrible having to say this, as I have long given the slashdot editors the benefit of the doubt, but CmdrTaco's comment here about using the mouse just goes to prove that they don't even read the articles that they're posting. It was said numerous times, as the poster above pointed out, that it would still be out for PC, and if the article was read before being posted on slashdot, CmdrTaco's comment would not be as it is now. I've lost a lot of confidence in this site today.
That said, it'd be terrible if Doom III came out for XBox only as far as console is concerned. Still, how many people actually play FPS games on console compared to PC? I don't think it would be a drastic thing.
And thank God that loophole is there. With 85% of voters voting along party lines, I don't want the popular vote voting in my president. Whether or not I agree with the results is no matter, direct democracy doesn't work and that's been known since the time of Socrates.
That said, I do find these kinds of things disturbing. Free Maher!;)
I hate to bite on a troll, but as quite a few people might think this way, I don't think this article is saying the Stones are evil because they make money - I think it's saying just the opposite in fact. It is that they have a decent busines model, unlike most of the music industry these days, and I think the point of this article is to point towards it as an example others should follow.
Sorry - "Years" was a typo and I don't see anonymous comments (since they're scored 0) and therefore did not see that it was only if it kills someone - the parent which first mentioned it did not say that.
Life in prison?! And I thought 33 years was rediculous.
Question:
If you think what you did was wrong and should be illegal, what do you think would be a reasonable sentence?
Where are you moving to? I think I'd like to move there as well once I finish school if they have laws that actually make sense and don't decide to ignore them if big business wants to do something else.
Granted, the US government runs mainly under Windows systems, but if these students are getting good educations in computer security and are supposedly going to be an influential voice in what the government buys as far as new equipment and such, do you think this will help Linux to be used more in government? I think if this were to happen, it would, consequently, generate great PR among other copmanies that are concerned with keeping their information secure.
I sent letters to my representatives urging them to reject the bill. Luckily they won't even get the opportunity to reject it for another year at least. Still, people like Leahy need to know that hollywood isn't the only one paying attention to their decisions, so I'm writing a letter to Leahy commending him on making a good decision and urging him to continue to fight for the rights of the consumer. I think it would be great if as many of us did that as possible - think about how many negative letters these guys get all the time - a positive letter will definitely make a good impact. So, LET'S GET WRITING!:-)
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What I find funny about the complaints of all the people who walked out of the movie is that if you would have sucked it up and stayed (you DID already pay for it after all) you would have gotten all you were expecting from it.
I feel terrible having to say this, as I have long given the slashdot editors the benefit of the doubt, but CmdrTaco's comment here about using the mouse just goes to prove that they don't even read the articles that they're posting. It was said numerous times, as the poster above pointed out, that it would still be out for PC, and if the article was read before being posted on slashdot, CmdrTaco's comment would not be as it is now. I've lost a lot of confidence in this site today. That said, it'd be terrible if Doom III came out for XBox only as far as console is concerned. Still, how many people actually play FPS games on console compared to PC? I don't think it would be a drastic thing.
And thank God that loophole is there. With 85% of voters voting along party lines, I don't want the popular vote voting in my president. Whether or not I agree with the results is no matter, direct democracy doesn't work and that's been known since the time of Socrates. That said, I do find these kinds of things disturbing. Free Maher! ;)
I hate to bite on a troll, but as quite a few people might think this way, I don't think this article is saying the Stones are evil because they make money - I think it's saying just the opposite in fact. It is that they have a decent busines model, unlike most of the music industry these days, and I think the point of this article is to point towards it as an example others should follow.
Sorry, but he's missing the point that the reason most of us dislike Microsoft is BECAUSE they're unreasonable.
Sorry - "Years" was a typo and I don't see anonymous comments (since they're scored 0) and therefore did not see that it was only if it kills someone - the parent which first mentioned it did not say that.
Life in prison?! And I thought 33 years was rediculous. Question: If you think what you did was wrong and should be illegal, what do you think would be a reasonable sentence?
I hate to get off-topic, but I just can't resist... this, coming from someone posting as "Anonymous Coward"
You've got to remember - Opera is at v6 and Mozilla just hit v1 - give it some time.
Where are you moving to? I think I'd like to move there as well once I finish school if they have laws that actually make sense and don't decide to ignore them if big business wants to do something else.
I wholeheartedly agree with your stance. The popup constantly interferes with what I am doing. I've gotten to the point where I just kill klipper.
Granted, the US government runs mainly under Windows systems, but if these students are getting good educations in computer security and are supposedly going to be an influential voice in what the government buys as far as new equipment and such, do you think this will help Linux to be used more in government? I think if this were to happen, it would, consequently, generate great PR among other copmanies that are concerned with keeping their information secure.
Precisely - which is why I pay for my Linux ;-)
I sent letters to my representatives urging them to reject the bill. Luckily they won't even get the opportunity to reject it for another year at least. Still, people like Leahy need to know that hollywood isn't the only one paying attention to their decisions, so I'm writing a letter to Leahy commending him on making a good decision and urging him to continue to fight for the rights of the consumer. I think it would be great if as many of us did that as possible - think about how many negative letters these guys get all the time - a positive letter will definitely make a good impact. So, LET'S GET WRITING! :-)