Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along
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Vigilantism is not the same as a revolution.
Vigilantes take the law into their own hands. Revolutionaries overthrow policy (such as governments or common ideas). Huge difference.
Also, vigilante justice is a really double-edged sword. Just ask Leo Frank how much he likes vigilantism. Oh wait...you can't because he was killed from it.
Technically, under the law, they ARE a singular entity. That's the entire idea behind a corporation: the company is a seperate entity, and if any part of the entity breaks the law, the entity as a whole can be sued for it. It allows for individuals to evade financial consequences if their company is held responsible for something.
For instance, let's say I start a company, and that company's product ends up causing a lot of accidental deaths. Instead of the individuals that compose the company being sued, the company itself is sued, and money can't be taken from the individuals...just the company. It lowers the risk of starting a business by making sure that only the business itself can be financially destroyed, not the individuals behind it.
However, on the same token, every employee of Microsoft is a representative of Microsoft as a corporation. "Some dude who worked at Microsoft" who used a cracked copy of Sound Forge is a representative of the company, and by breaking the law, the entity of Microsoft as a corporation is responsible for breaking the law.
Sound Forge 4.5 isn't GPL software. Basically, someone in Microsoft used a pirated version of some sound-editing software to make a sound file for Windows XP, and the evidence of the piracy is in the metadata of the WAV file. It just proves that they pirated some proprietary software to make a sound file, not that they ripped off GNU source code and put it in Windows.
Also, I'd rather wait a couple more weeks (or months) for a game than to get it right now but have to patch it because it's really buggy or missing promised features.
Take your time, EA, and make a really good game. The people will buy it if it's quality.
I really hate the recent common mentality that it's tolerable for convicts to be "butt-raped" in prison as a punishment. Especially when our President constantly mentions that our military freed Iraq from "rape rooms." Why are people tolerating rape as a punishment for crimes? Why is the public not only allowing, but ENCOURAGING a loophole around the Eighth Amendment?
For instance, if we don't believe abortion is right as a form of birth control, but we believe that homosexuals deserve to have some form of union, who do we vote for in our current political system? I think the worthy compromise would be to allow gay civil-unions with the same amount of rights as a marriage (just not using the M-word so religious people don't get pissed off). Then we can ban abortion except in cases that not performing an abortion would result in the death of the mother. Since we'd have a bunch of unwanted babies from this decision, we could put them up for adoption, which would then be adopted by the gay couples and have a good home. But we don't hear compromises like this from our two-party system.
Most of the time, you can solve two or more issues simultaneously using a compromise. The Constitution was made through compromises, but there's so much polarization in our current system of politics that I doubt anything could get accomplished if a group of people tried to sit down and make a new Constitution. Just look at Congress for how fucked-up modern politics have gotten...we have the "party dominance" in Congress making decisions for the American people. We have partisan bills that leave only one side satisfied instead of both parties sitting down and making a bill that would satisfy both sides through compromise.
Someone mod this guy up. Probably the most insightful thing I've read in the past week.
There are two problems with our current state of politics:
Constant attempts to one-dimensionalize views so people can be labelled easier.
Extreme, uncompromising views on these fake one-dimensional issues. You either want to dump mercury into seawater, or you're a tree hugging hippie. You're either a fundamentalist religious zealot, or a godless heathen. Et cetera.
I think someone needs to start a "Compromise" party so sensible people can vote. For instance, if we
So the person who wants to mess with the results of the election just has to counter every unfavorable vote with an arbitrary second vote with the same serial number as the unfavorable vote. That way, both the unfavorable vote and the arbitrary vote aren't counted (there's multiple votes with that same serial number, so none of those votes are counted). How are they going to tell which one's the fake and which one's the real one? Suddenly, people who went through the process legitimately are not counted in the election because someone put some uncertainty into the authenticity of their vote.
This reminds me of the game Max Payne, where the box said "This game requires a computer capable of X amount of 3Dmarks (3Dmark2001)."
However, I don't think it's a good idea to reduce a computer down to one number, since that number eliminates so many variables that a comparison between two computers would be useless.
Why? Because then the warez guys just go through the assembly code and replace all the code that checks the dongle with code that returns a "Yes, it's there" response. Poof! The copy protection is totally useless.
Re:Reading OpenGL tutorials is such a harsh remind
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Yeah, I used to feel the same way about OpenGL, but I discovered that using SDL as a wrapper for OpenGL makes it a little more tolerable for those used to using standard C++. You know, like the kind that uses int main() and not int WinMain().
Also, a real good place to learn OpenGL is http://nehe.gamedev.net/. It has tutorials that cover everything from drawing your first polygon to using pixel shaders. Also, most of their examples are available in a wide variety of programming languages and platform-specific code.
Basically, vigilante justice such as the example with "Billy Bob" is precisely why there's such a thing as due process. What if "Billy Bob" is innocent? It's kinda hard to un-beat someone if he's found to be innocent.
The entire American criminal law system relies on the idea that a crime must occur, and then justice is sent out in response. If people start trying to prevent crimes with vigilante forces or even just standard police, you get all kinds of corruption and catastrophes.
I mean, just look at the situation in the South before the Civil Rights Movement. If an African-American was accused of a crime, there would be a lynch mob after him, even if there was no evidence that suggested that he was guilty. All someone had to do was point the finger, and BAM. Death penalty on the spot by an angry mob.
That's why you use the full Mozilla, so it comes with a mail client built right in. Well, unless Microsoft has determined that Mozilla is too "confusing" for the starting user, and therefore will immediately end any instance of mozilla.exe;).
EXECUTIVE: "Sir, our evidence was laughed out of court again." DARL: "Figures..."
A little later...
EXECUTIVE: "Sir, our lawsuit against IBM was thrown out of court!" DARL: "Figures... guess I better sell my stock now." EXECUTIVE: "Yeah, it's about as high as it will ever be. Our products are being laughed at for being so obsolete in today's market." DARL: "Figures..."
A little later...
EXECUTIVE: "We're gonna have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy." DARL: "Figures..." EXECUTIVE: "Looks like the SCO empire is crumbling quickly." DARL: "Figures..." EXECUTIVE: "Also, there's some SEC guys outside. Said they wanted to talk to you." DARL: "Figures..."
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Vigilantism is not the same as a revolution.
Vigilantes take the law into their own hands. Revolutionaries overthrow policy (such as governments or common ideas). Huge difference.
Also, vigilante justice is a really double-edged sword. Just ask Leo Frank how much he likes vigilantism. Oh wait...you can't because he was killed from it.
Technically, under the law, they ARE a singular entity. That's the entire idea behind a corporation: the company is a seperate entity, and if any part of the entity breaks the law, the entity as a whole can be sued for it. It allows for individuals to evade financial consequences if their company is held responsible for something.
For instance, let's say I start a company, and that company's product ends up causing a lot of accidental deaths. Instead of the individuals that compose the company being sued, the company itself is sued, and money can't be taken from the individuals...just the company. It lowers the risk of starting a business by making sure that only the business itself can be financially destroyed, not the individuals behind it.
However, on the same token, every employee of Microsoft is a representative of Microsoft as a corporation. "Some dude who worked at Microsoft" who used a cracked copy of Sound Forge is a representative of the company, and by breaking the law, the entity of Microsoft as a corporation is responsible for breaking the law.
Please read the article more closely. Microsoft didn't steal source code from Sound Forge. They pirated a copy of Sound Forge to make a WAV file.
Sound Forge 4.5 isn't GPL software. Basically, someone in Microsoft used a pirated version of some sound-editing software to make a sound file for Windows XP, and the evidence of the piracy is in the metadata of the WAV file. It just proves that they pirated some proprietary software to make a sound file, not that they ripped off GNU source code and put it in Windows.
Take your time, EA, and make a really good game. The people will buy it if it's quality.
I really hate the recent common mentality that it's tolerable for convicts to be "butt-raped" in prison as a punishment. Especially when our President constantly mentions that our military freed Iraq from "rape rooms." Why are people tolerating rape as a punishment for crimes? Why is the public not only allowing, but ENCOURAGING a loophole around the Eighth Amendment?
For instance, if we don't believe abortion is right as a form of birth control, but we believe that homosexuals deserve to have some form of union, who do we vote for in our current political system? I think the worthy compromise would be to allow gay civil-unions with the same amount of rights as a marriage (just not using the M-word so religious people don't get pissed off). Then we can ban abortion except in cases that not performing an abortion would result in the death of the mother. Since we'd have a bunch of unwanted babies from this decision, we could put them up for adoption, which would then be adopted by the gay couples and have a good home. But we don't hear compromises like this from our two-party system.
Most of the time, you can solve two or more issues simultaneously using a compromise. The Constitution was made through compromises, but there's so much polarization in our current system of politics that I doubt anything could get accomplished if a group of people tried to sit down and make a new Constitution. Just look at Congress for how fucked-up modern politics have gotten...we have the "party dominance" in Congress making decisions for the American people. We have partisan bills that leave only one side satisfied instead of both parties sitting down and making a bill that would satisfy both sides through compromise.
There are two problems with our current state of politics:
I think someone needs to start a "Compromise" party so sensible people can vote. For instance, if we
Who will make the machines? Humans. With error.
...does a hack a day keep the DMCA away?
I'd say rypo.
I'd say that some corrupt voting officers are going to be performing some monkey business on November 2nd ;) .
So the person who wants to mess with the results of the election just has to counter every unfavorable vote with an arbitrary second vote with the same serial number as the unfavorable vote. That way, both the unfavorable vote and the arbitrary vote aren't counted (there's multiple votes with that same serial number, so none of those votes are counted). How are they going to tell which one's the fake and which one's the real one? Suddenly, people who went through the process legitimately are not counted in the election because someone put some uncertainty into the authenticity of their vote.
This reminds me of the game Max Payne, where the box said "This game requires a computer capable of X amount of 3Dmarks (3Dmark2001)."
However, I don't think it's a good idea to reduce a computer down to one number, since that number eliminates so many variables that a comparison between two computers would be useless.
So the archived copies of Make Magazine will be called Makefiles?
So when laptops are powered from hemp, it's basically a transition from buying Nickel Cadmium to buying nickel bags?
Dongles don't work too well.
Why? Because then the warez guys just go through the assembly code and replace all the code that checks the dongle with code that returns a "Yes, it's there" response. Poof! The copy protection is totally useless.
Yeah, I used to feel the same way about OpenGL, but I discovered that using SDL as a wrapper for OpenGL makes it a little more tolerable for those used to using standard C++. You know, like the kind that uses int main() and not int WinMain().
Also, a real good place to learn OpenGL is http://nehe.gamedev.net/. It has tutorials that cover everything from drawing your first polygon to using pixel shaders. Also, most of their examples are available in a wide variety of programming languages and platform-specific code.
That's brilliant since there's also a paper trail!
This seems very trollish, but heck, I'll bite.
Basically, vigilante justice such as the example with "Billy Bob" is precisely why there's such a thing as due process. What if "Billy Bob" is innocent? It's kinda hard to un-beat someone if he's found to be innocent.
The entire American criminal law system relies on the idea that a crime must occur, and then justice is sent out in response. If people start trying to prevent crimes with vigilante forces or even just standard police, you get all kinds of corruption and catastrophes.
I mean, just look at the situation in the South before the Civil Rights Movement. If an African-American was accused of a crime, there would be a lynch mob after him, even if there was no evidence that suggested that he was guilty. All someone had to do was point the finger, and BAM. Death penalty on the spot by an angry mob.
That's why you use the full Mozilla, so it comes with a mail client built right in. Well, unless Microsoft has determined that Mozilla is too "confusing" for the starting user, and therefore will immediately end any instance of mozilla.exe ;).
EXECUTIVE: "Sir, our evidence was laughed out of court again."
DARL: "Figures..."
A little later...
EXECUTIVE: "Sir, our lawsuit against IBM was thrown out of court!"
DARL: "Figures... guess I better sell my stock now."
EXECUTIVE: "Yeah, it's about as high as it will ever be. Our products are being laughed at for being so obsolete in today's market."
DARL: "Figures..."
A little later...
EXECUTIVE: "We're gonna have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy."
DARL: "Figures..."
EXECUTIVE: "Looks like the SCO empire is crumbling quickly."
DARL: "Figures..."
EXECUTIVE: "Also, there's some SEC guys outside. Said they wanted to talk to you."
DARL: "Figures..."
Well, technically, it's not "Who let the government in," it's "Who let the public in" since the government created the Internet (ARPAnet).
I think NFL2k5 is going to be $20 because it's probably going to be the exact same game as NFL2k4 but with updated player rosters.
I prefer to use MPlayer for Windows.
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