Did anyone else notice how Groklaw seems to be taking a harsh turn as of late? For example in this latest post, there was the Nazi reference, and the two conspiracy theories. Is it my imagination, or did it used to be a little more laid back?
Did something specific happen to Groklaw to cause this change, or is it just the consistent barrage? Either way, I hope Grok backs off a bit. I used to read it specifically because it was free from this sort of bile.
I think the two games that recently introduced rpg'ers to D&D were the Baldur's Gate games. I mean, the reason that Never Winter Nights release was so big is because of the following generated by the first two games (and Torment and Icewind Dale). I always thought of NWN as more of an experiment in user created D&D sessions, than as a true stand-alone game. There are probably a lot of people who disagree with that last statement.
I say these things not to disparage NWN, but rather to highlight the excellent work that came before it. In fact, I believe Torment to be, arguably, the best rpg to date. Bioware has done a lot of trully top-notch work, and I hope it continues. The ONLY gripe I have with their latest work, is how often the KOTORs would beat pud and destroy a save game.
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I know where you're coming from, it's very easy to be "in" the loop on one story, and then "out" on another. http://www.mcchris.com/ is his website, if you're interested. I heard about mc chris from Penny Arcade (in a round-about way). Personally, I could take him or leave him, but you should definitely checkout Fett's Vette. It'd be worth your time just to listen to it once.
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Just so you know, mc chris' version of rap is called "Nerdcore". It's called this because the medium it uses for word-play is video games, Star Trek, Star Wars (thus, Fett's Vette), and other such nerdly pursuits.
So, if Star Wars is relevant on/. is, by extension, an artist who crafts songs about Star Wars relevant? I say yes, others say...
I agree, though I would like to place special emphasis on point two. As a manager, you are there to enable your team to get some work done. That means encapsulating them from as much non-sense and distractions as possible. The best managers I've known did this for me, and should I ever become a manager I will endeavor to do this myself.
Does working your tail off and focusing on a career have a one-to-one relationship with spiritual decay? According to the story, the programmer likes coding, as says he gets to work with cool technology there. So, perhaps putting personal projects on the back burner for while now, might afford the poster greater freedom later. Plus the ability to have his work not be his hobby, but be adequately compensated for it.
I guess I disagree with the Money == Evil school of thought. I see money as a tool, it can be used for Evil purposes, and can twist your world view. However, it doesn't have to. You need to maintain a healthy perspective on every facet of your life, and I don't see how concentrating on work is definitively unhealthy.
If you're going to go to all the trouble of monitoring and ticketing every transgression of a driver, then why not simply prevent them from commiting such a transgression? I realize that, in terms of technology, there is a difference between these two things. However, implementing one without the other is a bit like putting a hat on the ground with a brick under it. To quote Douglas Adams.
Oh ho! The falicy of "Straw Man", where you distort what I've said to make it easily dismissed. Good one, because murder and property taxes/schooling for all are pretty close on the "right/wrong" spectrum.
Look, I think I can save us some time. You're "conservative", I'm "liberal". This way we don't have to keep going in circles.
Education is not a right--not in the sense that people have the right to steal from others to pay for it
I'm assuming that you're refering to a tax "thieving" rather than a direct "stole $50 for Jimmy's new math book". So, you don't like paying taxes, not exactly a minority opinion.
There's no such thing as a so-called "positive right."
Oh, come on. We pay property taxes, and that (more or less) pay for schooling. Every child gets access to the schooling, so every child gets access to the money. That sounds like a so-called "positive right" to me.
Digital divide, bah, what is it $240 or so a year for dail-up? So they can surf with what exactly, I don't see any of this new tax revenue subsidizing the necessary hardware.
Well, when you have very little, $240 a year is $240 a year, you know? Plus, it's a lot harder to subsidize hardware, then it is to subsidize a service.
the "Digital Divide" is a total smokescreen...grotesque expense of a good college education
Not sure why you say that the "Digital Divide" is a smokescreen, just because there is a cause for something (high college tuition), doesn't mean that there isn't another cause (lack of computer experience).
What tax break? I'm single, no kids, I get no break. None, nada. I choose not to burden myself with the outrageous cost and responsibility of raising children, so appearantly I get to help pay for other people's. Joy.
Yeah, same here, so I feel ya. However, a shitty tax break is still a tax break.
Low income subscribers? Low income _cable_ subcribers? So cable tv/modem service is a right now?
This has to do with the "Digital Divide". The idea being that, the rich have had access to the Internet for a while, so they and their children are more tech savy. Thus, their children are more comfortable with computers, so they are more likely to get the high paying tech jobs. So, think of it as education, and education is a right.
Rural access is less worthy? And why is it that much more expensive anyway?
It's more expensive because of the decreased population density. Infrastructure has a base fee just to have it in, then you add a certain per person cost. So, in other words, it costs a base amount (more or less) to lay/string/whatever those big cables. Since you have less people per square mile to pay for it, there's a higher cost per person. So, yeah, that's what that's for.
As for the taxes, did you miss the tax break we just had?
I think your math is a little wonky. First, they mean 45% of songs are purchased in Album format: eg. 100 songs: 55 purchased as single songs, 45 purchased as songs on an album (as stated above 5 albums, with 9 songs each for example).
The way you did the math, if 45% of transactions (my emphasis) then you'd have an enormous number of album songs: eg. 100 transactions, 55 single song purchases, 45 albums with (assuming) 9 songs per album would be 405 songs on an album. This would mean that out of 460 songs, 405 would be collected on albums or 88% of all songs would be purchased on an album. This would make the industry REAL happy.
Just gotta say it, Anal Bum Cover. NO, that's An Album Cover!
Never trust a computer proffesional that doesnt list computer as a hobby
I would say that turn-about is fair play, don't trust someone just because they list computers as their hobby.
I'm sure all of us know an computer-phile who we wouldn't trust to write a line of code. Furthermore, plenty of people have interests in things they have no particular aptitude in. Like me and basketball, it's a hobby, but I sure as heck shouldn't be paid to do it.
>It's not a matter of the right time, in my opinion, so much as the right place.
I concur, though I think it's a little difficult to say for certain what the right place is.
>Has Slashdot ever changed the course of history simply by bitching about a new bill or law?
Well, no this is nice and difficult to verify isn't it? Furthermore, just because it hasn't, doesn't mean it can't.
>The bottom line, as I see it, is this: slashbots are all talk and no action.
I think you could level this at people in general and come off fairly accurate. At least they're talking, and maybe they will decide to do something, one of these days. Perhaps you are trying to goad them out of their lethargy, and if so I applaud it. As an aside, I wouldn't say that you are the grand arbiter of who is all talk, and who is all action. I mean, what is your basis for deciding? Number, importance?
I agree that the remainder of the books in the Ender's Game series would be difficult to transfer to celluloid. However, I feel that there is enormous potential for them. Trully amazing movies could be constructed from the thoughts and ideas contained in that book. It would be nice to see more movies that make intelligent commentary on existance.
Oh yeah, the Ender's Shadow books. It's like they were written for film. We all know how well political intrigue films (based on books) do. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series for example.
Two questions, what single book, and what series of novels, would you most like to see put in film?
Mine? Treason, by Orson Scott Card and The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (it would take decades for this to be done).
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Did something specific happen to Groklaw to cause this change, or is it just the consistent barrage? Either way, I hope Grok backs off a bit. I used to read it specifically because it was free from this sort of bile.
I say these things not to disparage NWN, but rather to highlight the excellent work that came before it. In fact, I believe Torment to be, arguably, the best rpg to date. Bioware has done a lot of trully top-notch work, and I hope it continues. The ONLY gripe I have with their latest work, is how often the KOTORs would beat pud and destroy a save game.
I know where you're coming from, it's very easy to be "in" the loop on one story, and then "out" on another. http://www.mcchris.com/ is his website, if you're interested. I heard about mc chris from Penny Arcade (in a round-about way). Personally, I could take him or leave him, but you should definitely checkout Fett's Vette. It'd be worth your time just to listen to it once.
So, if Star Wars is relevant on /. is, by extension, an artist who crafts songs about Star Wars relevant? I say yes, others say...
I agree, though I would like to place special emphasis on point two. As a manager, you are there to enable your team to get some work done. That means encapsulating them from as much non-sense and distractions as possible. The best managers I've known did this for me, and should I ever become a manager I will endeavor to do this myself.
Does working your tail off and focusing on a career have a one-to-one relationship with spiritual decay? According to the story, the programmer likes coding, as says he gets to work with cool technology there. So, perhaps putting personal projects on the back burner for while now, might afford the poster greater freedom later. Plus the ability to have his work not be his hobby, but be adequately compensated for it.
I guess I disagree with the Money == Evil school of thought. I see money as a tool, it can be used for Evil purposes, and can twist your world view. However, it doesn't have to. You need to maintain a healthy perspective on every facet of your life, and I don't see how concentrating on work is definitively unhealthy.
If you're going to go to all the trouble of monitoring and ticketing every transgression of a driver, then why not simply prevent them from commiting such a transgression? I realize that, in terms of technology, there is a difference between these two things. However, implementing one without the other is a bit like putting a hat on the ground with a brick under it. To quote Douglas Adams.
Oh ho! The falicy of "Straw Man", where you distort what I've said to make it easily dismissed. Good one, because murder and property taxes/schooling for all are pretty close on the "right/wrong" spectrum.
Look, I think I can save us some time. You're "conservative", I'm "liberal". This way we don't have to keep going in circles.
I'm assuming that you're refering to a tax "thieving" rather than a direct "stole $50 for Jimmy's new math book". So, you don't like paying taxes, not exactly a minority opinion.
There's no such thing as a so-called "positive right."
Oh, come on. We pay property taxes, and that (more or less) pay for schooling. Every child gets access to the schooling, so every child gets access to the money. That sounds like a so-called "positive right" to me.
Well, when you have very little, $240 a year is $240 a year, you know? Plus, it's a lot harder to subsidize hardware, then it is to subsidize a service.
the "Digital Divide" is a total smokescreen...grotesque expense of a good college education
Not sure why you say that the "Digital Divide" is a smokescreen, just because there is a cause for something (high college tuition), doesn't mean that there isn't another cause (lack of computer experience).
What tax break? I'm single, no kids, I get no break. None, nada. I choose not to burden myself with the outrageous cost and responsibility of raising children, so appearantly I get to help pay for other people's. Joy.
Yeah, same here, so I feel ya. However, a shitty tax break is still a tax break.
This has to do with the "Digital Divide". The idea being that, the rich have had access to the Internet for a while, so they and their children are more tech savy. Thus, their children are more comfortable with computers, so they are more likely to get the high paying tech jobs. So, think of it as education, and education is a right.
Rural access is less worthy? And why is it that much more expensive anyway?
It's more expensive because of the decreased population density. Infrastructure has a base fee just to have it in, then you add a certain per person cost. So, in other words, it costs a base amount (more or less) to lay/string/whatever those big cables. Since you have less people per square mile to pay for it, there's a higher cost per person. So, yeah, that's what that's for.
As for the taxes, did you miss the tax break we just had?
The way you did the math, if 45% of transactions (my emphasis) then you'd have an enormous number of album songs: eg. 100 transactions, 55 single song purchases, 45 albums with (assuming) 9 songs per album would be 405 songs on an album. This would mean that out of 460 songs, 405 would be collected on albums or 88% of all songs would be purchased on an album. This would make the industry REAL happy.
Just gotta say it, Anal Bum Cover. NO, that's An Album Cover!
Never trust a computer proffesional that doesnt list computer as a hobby I would say that turn-about is fair play, don't trust someone just because they list computers as their hobby. I'm sure all of us know an computer-phile who we wouldn't trust to write a line of code. Furthermore, plenty of people have interests in things they have no particular aptitude in. Like me and basketball, it's a hobby, but I sure as heck shouldn't be paid to do it.
I concur, though I think it's a little difficult to say for certain what the right place is.
>Has Slashdot ever changed the course of history simply by bitching about a new bill or law?
Well, no this is nice and difficult to verify isn't it? Furthermore, just because it hasn't, doesn't mean it can't.
>The bottom line, as I see it, is this: slashbots are all talk and no action.
I think you could level this at people in general and come off fairly accurate. At least they're talking, and maybe they will decide to do something, one of these days. Perhaps you are trying to goad them out of their lethargy, and if so I applaud it. As an aside, I wouldn't say that you are the grand arbiter of who is all talk, and who is all action. I mean, what is your basis for deciding? Number, importance?
I agree that the remainder of the books in the Ender's Game series would be difficult to transfer to celluloid. However, I feel that there is enormous potential for them. Trully amazing movies could be constructed from the thoughts and ideas contained in that book. It would be nice to see more movies that make intelligent commentary on existance. Oh yeah, the Ender's Shadow books. It's like they were written for film. We all know how well political intrigue films (based on books) do. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series for example. Two questions, what single book, and what series of novels, would you most like to see put in film? Mine? Treason, by Orson Scott Card and The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (it would take decades for this to be done).