Last time I checked it worked okey for me, though the Netmeeting client needed an extra audio codec installed... and I remember having video issues at various times when using gatekeepers.
Yes, but to hurt it you have to hit them for more than it would have cost them to fix/maintain their system in the first place. If ChoicePoint regards $10m every few years as cheaper than doing things the right way, they will continue along the merry path.
The same applies to many unscrupulous companies. What's a $10m fine if you're making/saving an extra $20m?
I was in the store just the other day, and saw "Bambi 2" being played on some of the TV's there. Given how long ago the original came out (and really, how unsequalable it was), I was rather surprised. It seems that only thing sacred to Disney is the bank balance, they'll milk everthing else to the last drop.
Given the turn in many of the games I've seen lately to produce "larger" more realistic (visually if not dimenensionally) boobies, I'd say that booth babes are rather representative in ways of the games being advertised.
For that very reason, FFX-2 sits uncompleted on my shelves to this day...
The results offer hope for a microbicide that can prevent the spread of HIV, which now affects about 40 million people.
I'm assuming this means that it would help already-infected individuals to contain and/or resist the virus? Personally while it might be a nice addition to existing safeguards (being careful of partners, condoms, etc) I wouldn't exactly trust eating yoghurt to keep me safe from HIV.
That works fine in the physical world. If somebody designs an unoffical add-on to my car, it's OK. Unofficial mod-kits are legal too, so long as they meet safety specifications.
The company is not selling Valve's material (the game). They are not giving Valve's material away for free. Valve still gets money for their product. The modification company gets money for theirs, probably in the form of advertisement bucks.
What valve is pissed at is that they didn't think of it, or didn't implement it, first.
Really, a wiki could be useful in many a collaborative project, it's all about making a multisource fount of information.
As for an example, WikiBooks (generally howto or technical in nature) are a great idea, and I could see the creation of "story worlds" for actual novel-style books being a possible wherein authors developed individual characters, stories, or parts of a greater world.
I remember that "Battle Chess 2000" interested both myself and the younger cousins for awhile. Having the chess pieces stand up, laugh at each other, and or engage in virtual combat was a neat way to make it more interesting for the young'ns... and I must admit that there was a degree of humour and fun that made added to it for myself as well.
How about the movies based on games? The majority I've seen have been big, big stinkers... even when based on games with a very doable plot for a movie. Half the time the take a name and throw something completely unrelated out as a movie, or they maim and damage the original plot so badly that the pile of crapulance simples adds another steaming clod onto a pile of otherwise steaming clods of game-based movies.
Maybe if Hollywood had a better track record of non-suckage I might agree with the reporter... but really I think there are no more videogames with crap plots than there are movies with crap plots, and there are definately more videogame-based-movies with crap plots (when the game was good).
It's all about presentation. Sometimes not coming across as condescending is really hard, but many times it is avoidable. Really, that's a skill that falls more in the category of social than intellectual. It's also a skill that can be worked on or learned in many cases. It's just not as interesting as math puzzles to some.
I think that the correlation between one and the other is rather false. Being smart does not exclude you from social interaction, sexual interaction, or relationships of any variety. Lacking in social graces does, and certainly some geeks do exhibit such traits, but I've never know somebody to be unpopular beyond say, high-school, just because he or she is following a geeky career.
Also, remember that there are both male and female geeks. For that geeky male scientist out there, perhaps an equally geeky female scientist, or vise-versa.
Of course, this way probably a joke anyhow, but really I find that the biggest problem many geeks have is that the tendency to have a superiority complex over their fellows.
Me, I'm a geek. I'm a smart, and skilled. I also associate with people from many walks of life, and won't jump to the conclusion that just because somebody went into massage-therapy, web-design, or plumbing that that person is any less valuable in life... well, except for maybe the web designers:-)
There is a bit of humour to this all too, of course... but really in many ways geeks are receiving great recognition overall. From the lab types in CSI to the computer hackers... we've been made cool in many days. Get down off your pedestols and associate with your fellow humans, and you might find they don't have any problem associating with you.
As per this moment, there is are two updates. It's nice to see that Taco can be very open-minded about things. It's his site, after all, and really if he wanted to he could say "screw you all" and do whatever he wants. Instead, he's pulling a very nice compromise by throwing in the nofollow links, despite the fact that he thinks the whole thing is silly.
Certainly it shows a good deal of "community focus" that he would bring the discussion of said articles to the forefront, and even moreso that he has decided to follow up thusly on the user feedback.
And what happens if it's just that the notes from the last board meeting were found sitting beside the dumpster? A *lot* of companies safeguard their computers, records, etc... but really don't pay enough attention to the sticky notes and leaflets that end up in the ol' bin.
Disney, which has in many ways been somewhat of an evil corporate empire despite it's kid-friendly spin, now owns Pixar (which is quite a promising company). That's not really a good thing.
However, Jobs now has his fingers in a big piece of the disney pie. That being so, he still has roots in Pixar, and more control over Disney as well.
So really, a lot of this now hinges on Jobs himself... perhaps a better headline would be "Jobs aquires massive disney shares, merges Pixar." If he now has enough power, perhaps he can bring back a nicer disney, rather than allowing them to corrupt Pixar.
I've seen and/or heard of many profs that use their position to push their politicial/social/etc views as well. Those who follow their views in class get high marks, those that don't do poorly no matter how good their arguements.
Other profs I've seen argue a given point, but give credit to those who can professionally and convincingly give their own. The suck-ups don't do so well in that class, except those of course that have an equal skill at presenting their arguements.
I think many teachers/etc chose their position to be able to push their views on others, or at least have wandered that directions. Good teachers realize that a strong view with good backing is important. They might pick apart your opinions, but they give you credit for standing by them and supporting them well.
Carbon-copy court filing, are, however both rather inexpensive and easy to do. This is the tactic the RIAA seems to mainly use, as opposed to actually persuing things through court they bring forth an initial massive case and then an offer to settle things out for a less damaging sum.
The number of users of iTunes and iPods music devices has increased
Hmmm, maybe because people are using the iTunes service, and downloading their music their. You're making the assumption that everyone will download either to "stick it to the man," or perhaps because to take for free rather than purchase for moderate price is what most would do.
I counter to say that people now have a more legitimate source of music, and they are using it. After all, the article is about filesharing... but music downloads as a whole counting iTunes etc have probably increased quite a bit.
A lot of groups seem to have somewhat given up on Itanium, or at least showed it lackluster support. Perhaps as Intel improves it, Itanium may gain more popularity.
I've run IE6 rather well under Wine, though it often requires some work to get up and running. If it is an issue of the browser requiring activeX or some other stupidity perhaps you could run IE under wine to get things up and running?
I work in a school systems. Toilets get cleaned regularly, but children with all sort of nasty germs tend to pick their noses, touch their various bits-and-pieces, and then tappity-tap-tap away at the keyboard.
Least to say, my laptop bag contains a portable container of antiseptic, and it's used regularly through the day. I've heard various stories of staph infections and others picked up from handling germy computer equipment. Employees of school districts and hospitals tend to get a decent amount of sick days... even without the keyboards and mice they tend to be high on the germ-scale.
One thing that should be taken into account: the military is made up of people. Sure, there are a lot of sheep, hardasses, and other such members. But there are good people too.
There are also a lot of people who are, frankly, pissed off at the government. Pissed off that they've been taken from a duty that was supposedly in-country only, and shipped off to fight in a war elsewhere. Pissed off that when their stint was over, they're still stuck in another country, getting shot at, watching friends die, and fighting in that war. The are seperated from their wives, children, and family.
They're pissed off, and... trained in the use of weapons ranging from machine-guns to sniper-rifles to demolitions.
Personally, I don't think it will be a civilian that takes the first big mark against the government. I think it will be one of their own poorly-treated military personnel.
When I was in Australia a few years ago, I found that internet penetration simply wasn't as good as Canada. Sure, the major cities were well connected, but many of the smaller ones suffered from absolute shitty service, connectios, availability, prices, or any combination thereof. Even in the cities the prices weren't all that great. Hell, dialing a local number by landline still costs per call (which really sucks for dialup especially when crappy connection=random disconnects).
Open-soure in my mind often tends to depend a lot on a decent connection to the 'net. Downloading CD ISO images, installing packages/updates from apt/etc, downloading packages or source files, reading online documentation, etc.
It could be that "down under" is simply being hindered by a case of lacking resources, mainly comparatively crappy internet service.
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Last time I checked it worked okey for me, though the Netmeeting client needed an extra audio codec installed... and I remember having video issues at various times when using gatekeepers.
OOPS. Looks like One slipped through
As mention by many prior. It's hard to censor everything, and things slip through. It's hard to hide history, even for China...
Yes, but to hurt it you have to hit them for more than it would have cost them to fix/maintain their system in the first place. If ChoicePoint regards $10m every few years as cheaper than doing things the right way, they will continue along the merry path.
The same applies to many unscrupulous companies. What's a $10m fine if you're making/saving an extra $20m?
I was in the store just the other day, and saw "Bambi 2" being played on some of the TV's there. Given how long ago the original came out (and really, how unsequalable it was), I was rather surprised. It seems that only thing sacred to Disney is the bank balance, they'll milk everthing else to the last drop.
Given the turn in many of the games I've seen lately to produce "larger" more realistic (visually if not dimenensionally) boobies, I'd say that booth babes are rather representative in ways of the games being advertised.
For that very reason, FFX-2 sits uncompleted on my shelves to this day...
The results offer hope for a microbicide that can prevent the spread of HIV, which now affects about 40 million people.
I'm assuming this means that it would help already-infected individuals to contain and/or resist the virus? Personally while it might be a nice addition to existing safeguards (being careful of partners, condoms, etc) I wouldn't exactly trust eating yoghurt to keep me safe from HIV.
From what I can tell, they aren't re-releasing the game, they make a modification which can be installed on already legitimized versions of the game.
Remaking scenes and reselling an original work would be piracy. Again, this still requires the original work and thus is not.
That works fine in the physical world. If somebody designs an unoffical add-on to my car, it's OK. Unofficial mod-kits are legal too, so long as they meet safety specifications.
The company is not selling Valve's material (the game). They are not giving Valve's material away for free. Valve still gets money for their product. The modification company gets money for theirs, probably in the form of advertisement bucks.
What valve is pissed at is that they didn't think of it, or didn't implement it, first.
Really, a wiki could be useful in many a collaborative project, it's all about making a multisource fount of information.
As for an example, WikiBooks (generally howto or technical in nature) are a great idea, and I could see the creation of "story worlds" for actual novel-style books being a possible wherein authors developed individual characters, stories, or parts of a greater world.
I remember that "Battle Chess 2000" interested both myself and the younger cousins for awhile. Having the chess pieces stand up, laugh at each other, and or engage in virtual combat was a neat way to make it more interesting for the young'ns... and I must admit that there was a degree of humour and fun that made added to it for myself as well.
How about the movies based on games? The majority I've seen have been big, big stinkers... even when based on games with a very doable plot for a movie. Half the time the take a name and throw something completely unrelated out as a movie, or they maim and damage the original plot so badly that the pile of crapulance simples adds another steaming clod onto a pile of otherwise steaming clods of game-based movies.
Maybe if Hollywood had a better track record of non-suckage I might agree with the reporter... but really I think there are no more videogames with crap plots than there are movies with crap plots, and there are definately more videogame-based-movies with crap plots (when the game was good).
It's all about presentation. Sometimes not coming across as condescending is really hard, but many times it is avoidable. Really, that's a skill that falls more in the category of social than intellectual. It's also a skill that can be worked on or learned in many cases. It's just not as interesting as math puzzles to some.
I think that the correlation between one and the other is rather false. Being smart does not exclude you from social interaction, sexual interaction, or relationships of any variety. Lacking in social graces does, and certainly some geeks do exhibit such traits, but I've never know somebody to be unpopular beyond say, high-school, just because he or she is following a geeky career.
:-)
Also, remember that there are both male and female geeks. For that geeky male scientist out there, perhaps an equally geeky female scientist, or vise-versa.
Of course, this way probably a joke anyhow, but really I find that the biggest problem many geeks have is that the tendency to have a superiority complex over their fellows.
Me, I'm a geek. I'm a smart, and skilled. I also associate with people from many walks of life, and won't jump to the conclusion that just because somebody went into massage-therapy, web-design, or plumbing that that person is any less valuable in life... well, except for maybe the web designers
There is a bit of humour to this all too, of course... but really in many ways geeks are receiving great recognition overall. From the lab types in CSI to the computer hackers... we've been made cool in many days. Get down off your pedestols and associate with your fellow humans, and you might find they don't have any problem associating with you.
As per this moment, there is are two updates. It's nice to see that Taco can be very open-minded about things. It's his site, after all, and really if he wanted to he could say "screw you all" and do whatever he wants. Instead, he's pulling a very nice compromise by throwing in the nofollow links, despite the fact that he thinks the whole thing is silly.
Certainly it shows a good deal of "community focus" that he would bring the discussion of said articles to the forefront, and even moreso that he has decided to follow up thusly on the user feedback.
Congrats Taco, keep up the good work!
And what happens if it's just that the notes from the last board meeting were found sitting beside the dumpster? A *lot* of companies safeguard their computers, records, etc... but really don't pay enough attention to the sticky notes and leaflets that end up in the ol' bin.
Disney, which has in many ways been somewhat of an evil corporate empire despite it's kid-friendly spin, now owns Pixar (which is quite a promising company). That's not really a good thing.
However, Jobs now has his fingers in a big piece of the disney pie. That being so, he still has roots in Pixar, and more control over Disney as well.
So really, a lot of this now hinges on Jobs himself... perhaps a better headline would be "Jobs aquires massive disney shares, merges Pixar." If he now has enough power, perhaps he can bring back a nicer disney, rather than allowing them to corrupt Pixar.
I've seen and/or heard of many profs that use their position to push their politicial/social/etc views as well. Those who follow their views in class get high marks, those that don't do poorly no matter how good their arguements.
Other profs I've seen argue a given point, but give credit to those who can professionally and convincingly give their own. The suck-ups don't do so well in that class, except those of course that have an equal skill at presenting their arguements.
I think many teachers/etc chose their position to be able to push their views on others, or at least have wandered that directions. Good teachers realize that a strong view with good backing is important. They might pick apart your opinions, but they give you credit for standing by them and supporting them well.
Carbon-copy court filing, are, however both rather inexpensive and easy to do. This is the tactic the RIAA seems to mainly use, as opposed to actually persuing things through court they bring forth an initial massive case and then an offer to settle things out for a less damaging sum.
The number of users of iTunes and iPods music devices has increased
Hmmm, maybe because people are using the iTunes service, and downloading their music their. You're making the assumption that everyone will download either to "stick it to the man," or perhaps because to take for free rather than purchase for moderate price is what most would do.
I counter to say that people now have a more legitimate source of music, and they are using it. After all, the article is about filesharing... but music downloads as a whole counting iTunes etc have probably increased quite a bit.
A lot of groups seem to have somewhat given up on Itanium, or at least showed it lackluster support. Perhaps as Intel improves it, Itanium may gain more popularity.
Dell dumps Itanium
Limited Itanium support in Vista
I've run IE6 rather well under Wine, though it often requires some work to get up and running. If it is an issue of the browser requiring activeX or some other stupidity perhaps you could run IE under wine to get things up and running?
I work in a school systems. Toilets get cleaned regularly, but children with all sort of nasty germs tend to pick their noses, touch their various bits-and-pieces, and then tappity-tap-tap away at the keyboard.
Least to say, my laptop bag contains a portable container of antiseptic, and it's used regularly through the day. I've heard various stories of staph infections and others picked up from handling germy computer equipment. Employees of school districts and hospitals tend to get a decent amount of sick days... even without the keyboards and mice they tend to be high on the germ-scale.
How else would you get back that last bit of donut jelly that dripped down onto the keyboard?
One thing that should be taken into account: the military is made up of people. Sure, there are a lot of sheep, hardasses, and other such members. But there are good people too.
There are also a lot of people who are, frankly, pissed off at the government. Pissed off that they've been taken from a duty that was supposedly in-country only, and shipped off to fight in a war elsewhere. Pissed off that when their stint was over, they're still stuck in another country, getting shot at, watching friends die, and fighting in that war. The are seperated from their wives, children, and family.
They're pissed off, and... trained in the use of weapons ranging from machine-guns to sniper-rifles to demolitions.
Personally, I don't think it will be a civilian that takes the first big mark against the government. I think it will be one of their own poorly-treated military personnel.
When I was in Australia a few years ago, I found that internet penetration simply wasn't as good as Canada. Sure, the major cities were well connected, but many of the smaller ones suffered from absolute shitty service, connectios, availability, prices, or any combination thereof. Even in the cities the prices weren't all that great. Hell, dialing a local number by landline still costs per call (which really sucks for dialup especially when crappy connection=random disconnects).
Open-soure in my mind often tends to depend a lot on a decent connection to the 'net. Downloading CD ISO images, installing packages/updates from apt/etc, downloading packages or source files, reading online documentation, etc.
It could be that "down under" is simply being hindered by a case of lacking resources, mainly comparatively crappy internet service.