The PearPC guys are giving their product away for free, and only ask that if you build off their product that you contribute back to the free project. The RIAA (and whatever the fuck the Austrialian equivalent is) are screwing artists out of a good living, overcharging for thier product by maintaining an artifical lock on distribution, and discouraging new/interesting music because having just a few big name bands is more profitable. Your comparison isn't valid.
I don't understand why the 'little people' (us) have to paint everything black and white while the bastards with all the power can come up with any old justification to do what they want. This isn't hypocrisy. If you're not going to show me any decency and respect, I'm under no obligation to do the same for you. I just wish people weren't such a bunch of dumb fucks that they can't see the distinction, and then maybe reform the system for everyone's benefit (except the record producers, my they and their ilk rot in hell).
it's a pain in the ass tracking down good Sci-Fi. Note that I said Sci-Fi, not Science Fiction; i.e. cheesy space opera ala E.E. "Doc" Smith. There's no shortage of good hard Science Fiction, but if I want to sit down and read a good novel about swashbuckling aliens, there's just too much crap to weed through. I think the problem is it's too easy to write bad space operas. Anyone can try it, but it's a lot harder to keep the pace up and keep things interesting.
to kill off foriegn competition, what else would you call it besides stealing?
And for changing the game, what game? It's over, and we lost. The new game is called outsourcing, and involves pitting one group of desparte poor against another. It's great fun as long as you're rich.
anyone know if it's a standard USB mass storage device (i.e. can I mount it in Linux and XP sp1 computers w/o itunes)? And how long's that battery suppose to last (and does it cost more than the unit to get replaced)? TIA.
people whine and bitch about MS, but the fact is, there's stuff you can do with Word, Excel, Access and Outlook that no other software package can touch. I'm loth to admidt it, since I'd like nothing more than to sell Linux boxen to people, but there it is. Word has versioning features writers won't give up, Chemists won't surrentder Excel, nitwit managers who need to bang out a quick app love Access and salesmen need Outlook. Sure, all these programs have major, mind-bogglingly annoying flaws/bugs. But if you need the features they offer, you just live with it.
Back in the days of ms-dos and win 3.1 you were right, those days are long gone. Now with the computer market shrinking and developing countries eyeing Microsoft suspiciously, Microsoft wants the sales more than a bit more market share.
It does away with casual piracy. MS has sold millions of copys of XP to idiots with multiple computers who used to buy just one upgrade copy, and now buy 3 or 4. These are people with more money than sense who upgrade because they want all their computers to look the same (yes, I've spoken to people who spent over $1000 dollars on software for a green start menu on all 4 computers). Add in the people passing around their copies of 9x to anyone who asks, and this is a tidy sum of dough for MS.
but the California Raisins game was finished, and ported to multiple platforms. check www.the-underdogs.org. From what I've heard, it's and above average platformer.
What's this 'Go' you're talking about? Is it anything like chess? I typed the name into google, but all I could find was go.com, and it didn't look like a boardgame to me.... TIA.
which makes it all the more non sensical that it would suck. I mean, these are the guys who brought us Planescape:Torment (go play it, right now, don't even finsh reading the comment!). I didn't have high hopes for Kotor II, Kotor I sucked for everyone but Starwars and Xbox fan boys (weak graphics in later levels, totally linear leveling up, 2D characters who don't give a shit if you're evil or good. Tacked on Side quests, etc, etc. Yes, I have reasons for disliking it. Hell, I bought a new Graphics Card so I could play it). Some part of me hoped Black Isle could save it, but I'm sure with the production schedual they were on it was hopeless. I've read some good things about it (light side characters leaving when you go Dark Side, better leveling, etc). Oh well, The Witcher is on the way, and without a big license maybe it'll get proper treatment. Damn though, Torment was so good, I really want another game from these people.
But if the whole point is to make 'free' calls, that kinda defeats the purpose. If what you say is true, then as soon as Voip takes off, expect monthly fees to skyrocket as long distance revenue dries up. I hear a lot of extra fiber was laid during the Internet boom (don't remember where I heard that), so maybe that's supporting it right now, and maybe the Telcos don't really care how it's being used right now. But expect that to change as it becomes difficult/impossible to charge by the minute.
It's his domain, and it's a generic term. Just because he played some nasty hardball with it, doesn't mean it's not his. Yeah, he blew it, but not because he's a jerk. He blew it 'cause the Big Guys realized it'd be cheaper to corrupt the system than pay him off. It's still fucked up is that the Big Guys even had that option.
Just something I've been wondering. Who pays for all this Wizbang Voip networking? Voip is all well and good until enough people use it (or if it's all on interconnected public wi-fi), but what about the backbones, or the Satelites used for international calls? Once it's easy and cheap to do Voip, who's gonna sustain the network?
the Gov't is, and our Gov't has long since grown past the quaint notion of spending the people's money. Once they have it, it's thiers, not yours.
What's at stake here is money anyway: the money the Feds pay out for per student attendence. The Principal is looking at this and thinking about how much more money he'd have if he had 99% attendence and 100% student accountablity. With more and more brats being born to people with no intrest in parenting, and more and more of them skipping school, Principals all over are desperate for those federal bucks. The parents are not paying for the system, it's paying for itself. And hell, it's pay for itself again when those same brats maybe learn to read for a change.
Sociallism works fine, properly applied. For starters, lets have Gov't mandated sterialization for the dumb and lazy. The problem with capitalists is they love to ignore the root problems and treat the symptoms instead, mostly 'cause it's more profitable that way.
but Americans need to make up their fucking minds. They don't want to spend gobs of time teaching and socializing their kids, but by God they'll be damned if someone else is gonna do it 'fer dem. What we're left with is millions of kids with no real direction in life. Their parents are too busy (often just getting by) to do much of anything, but the schools are pretty limited in what they can do. Take Japanese schools, where the school takes an active role in socializing children, for instance. If American parents don't want the school's raising their kids that fine, but they need to start doing it themselves, or just stop having them then.
I suppose it would be a pain to fairly and legally distinguish between a drive by downloader and, say, Macromedia. Especially such that companies in the grey area (weatherbug, yeah, I hate them too, but they seem more or less legit these days). What do you do when the company 'CLICK YES TO CONTINUE' sues you. Silly, I know, but what if you're company's called 'My IE enhancements'. I say that's a drive-by, it's it's legit sounding enough for a real company to maybe be behind it.
all the dumbass programmers who were just thrilled when IE won the browser war because it meant only coding one website. Hello nitwits, you just cut your work load in half. That's fine until your boss notices and fires half the web dev team. I guess the thought never crossed their minds as the coded their IE only sites. I suppose it's also the market at work ("Hey, this guy says he'll code our page for half the price, but it'll only work 80% of the time, well, good enough"), but I don't think there's any industry more short sighted than IT when it comes to job security.
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at least until NCsoft stops claiming ownership of their users' creations. Marvel kinda has to defend themselves there....
The PearPC guys are giving their product away for free, and only ask that if you build off their product that you contribute back to the free project. The RIAA (and whatever the fuck the Austrialian equivalent is) are screwing artists out of a good living, overcharging for thier product by maintaining an artifical lock on distribution, and discouraging new/interesting music because having just a few big name bands is more profitable. Your comparison isn't valid.
I don't understand why the 'little people' (us) have to paint everything black and white while the bastards with all the power can come up with any old justification to do what they want. This isn't hypocrisy. If you're not going to show me any decency and respect, I'm under no obligation to do the same for you. I just wish people weren't such a bunch of dumb fucks that they can't see the distinction, and then maybe reform the system for everyone's benefit (except the record producers, my they and their ilk rot in hell).
it's a pain in the ass tracking down good Sci-Fi. Note that I said Sci-Fi, not Science Fiction; i.e. cheesy space opera ala E.E. "Doc" Smith. There's no shortage of good hard Science Fiction, but if I want to sit down and read a good novel about swashbuckling aliens, there's just too much crap to weed through. I think the problem is it's too easy to write bad space operas. Anyone can try it, but it's a lot harder to keep the pace up and keep things interesting.
There's anime. Where do you think the fan base for all these shows went.
to kill off foriegn competition, what else would you call it besides stealing?
And for changing the game, what game? It's over, and we lost. The new game is called outsourcing, and involves pitting one group of desparte poor against another. It's great fun as long as you're rich.
100Gb/s ought to be enough for anyone.
anyone know if it's a standard USB mass storage device (i.e. can I mount it in Linux and XP sp1 computers w/o itunes)? And how long's that battery suppose to last (and does it cost more than the unit to get replaced)? TIA.
people whine and bitch about MS, but the fact is, there's stuff you can do with Word, Excel, Access and Outlook that no other software package can touch. I'm loth to admidt it, since I'd like nothing more than to sell Linux boxen to people, but there it is. Word has versioning features writers won't give up, Chemists won't surrentder Excel, nitwit managers who need to bang out a quick app love Access and salesmen need Outlook. Sure, all these programs have major, mind-bogglingly annoying flaws/bugs. But if you need the features they offer, you just live with it.
Back in the days of ms-dos and win 3.1 you were right, those days are long gone. Now with the computer market shrinking and developing countries eyeing Microsoft suspiciously, Microsoft wants the sales more than a bit more market share.
and you get straight to an operator. I think you can do it earilier too, but I don't like talking to people so I just punch the numbers in.
It does away with casual piracy. MS has sold millions of copys of XP to idiots with multiple computers who used to buy just one upgrade copy, and now buy 3 or 4. These are people with more money than sense who upgrade because they want all their computers to look the same (yes, I've spoken to people who spent over $1000 dollars on software for a green start menu on all 4 computers). Add in the people passing around their copies of 9x to anyone who asks, and this is a tidy sum of dough for MS.
John Romeo on level design, Derek Smart for lead programmer and George Broussard as Producer. Get 3DO to publish it and I think we have a winner!
Sorry.
but the California Raisins game was finished, and ported to multiple platforms. check www.the-underdogs.org. From what I've heard, it's and above average platformer.
What's this 'Go' you're talking about? Is it anything like chess? I typed the name into google, but all I could find was go.com, and it didn't look like a boardgame to me.... TIA.
which makes it all the more non sensical that it would suck. I mean, these are the guys who brought us Planescape:Torment (go play it, right now, don't even finsh reading the comment!). I didn't have high hopes for Kotor II, Kotor I sucked for everyone but Starwars and Xbox fan boys (weak graphics in later levels, totally linear leveling up, 2D characters who don't give a shit if you're evil or good. Tacked on Side quests, etc, etc. Yes, I have reasons for disliking it. Hell, I bought a new Graphics Card so I could play it). Some part of me hoped Black Isle could save it, but I'm sure with the production schedual they were on it was hopeless. I've read some good things about it (light side characters leaving when you go Dark Side, better leveling, etc). Oh well, The Witcher is on the way, and without a big license maybe it'll get proper treatment. Damn though, Torment was so good, I really want another game from these people.
But if the whole point is to make 'free' calls, that kinda defeats the purpose. If what you say is true, then as soon as Voip takes off, expect monthly fees to skyrocket as long distance revenue dries up. I hear a lot of extra fiber was laid during the Internet boom (don't remember where I heard that), so maybe that's supporting it right now, and maybe the Telcos don't really care how it's being used right now. But expect that to change as it becomes difficult/impossible to charge by the minute.
It's his domain, and it's a generic term. Just because he played some nasty hardball with it, doesn't mean it's not his. Yeah, he blew it, but not because he's a jerk. He blew it 'cause the Big Guys realized it'd be cheaper to corrupt the system than pay him off. It's still fucked up is that the Big Guys even had that option.
Just something I've been wondering. Who pays for all this Wizbang Voip networking? Voip is all well and good until enough people use it (or if it's all on interconnected public wi-fi), but what about the backbones, or the Satelites used for international calls? Once it's easy and cheap to do Voip, who's gonna sustain the network?
And lets make it so if they remove the sensor around their neck it explodes. And give them weapons. And have them fight for our amusement.
the Gov't is, and our Gov't has long since grown past the quaint notion of spending the people's money. Once they have it, it's thiers, not yours.
What's at stake here is money anyway: the money the Feds pay out for per student attendence. The Principal is looking at this and thinking about how much more money he'd have if he had 99% attendence and 100% student accountablity. With more and more brats being born to people with no intrest in parenting, and more and more of them skipping school, Principals all over are desperate for those federal bucks. The parents are not paying for the system, it's paying for itself. And hell, it's pay for itself again when those same brats maybe learn to read for a change.
Sociallism works fine, properly applied. For starters, lets have Gov't mandated sterialization for the dumb and lazy. The problem with capitalists is they love to ignore the root problems and treat the symptoms instead, mostly 'cause it's more profitable that way.
but Americans need to make up their fucking minds. They don't want to spend gobs of time teaching and socializing their kids, but by God they'll be damned if someone else is gonna do it 'fer dem. What we're left with is millions of kids with no real direction in life. Their parents are too busy (often just getting by) to do much of anything, but the schools are pretty limited in what they can do. Take Japanese schools, where the school takes an active role in socializing children, for instance. If American parents don't want the school's raising their kids that fine, but they need to start doing it themselves, or just stop having them then.
what's gonna be worse, the GBA platformer or the XBox 3D fighter (yes, I stole the joke).
I suppose it would be a pain to fairly and legally distinguish between a drive by downloader and, say, Macromedia. Especially such that companies in the grey area (weatherbug, yeah, I hate them too, but they seem more or less legit these days). What do you do when the company 'CLICK YES TO CONTINUE' sues you. Silly, I know, but what if you're company's called 'My IE enhancements'. I say that's a drive-by, it's it's legit sounding enough for a real company to maybe be behind it.
all you need is a lift-kit and you're set.
all the dumbass programmers who were just thrilled when IE won the browser war because it meant only coding one website. Hello nitwits, you just cut your work load in half. That's fine until your boss notices and fires half the web dev team. I guess the thought never crossed their minds as the coded their IE only sites. I suppose it's also the market at work ("Hey, this guy says he'll code our page for half the price, but it'll only work 80% of the time, well, good enough"), but I don't think there's any industry more short sighted than IT when it comes to job security.
it's a feature.