But beating games in the past used to actually be difficult. On fucking NES YOU NEEDED THAT METROID CODE or you literally wanted to die. Also you had to mitigate other factors such as:
1. dogs and sibling bumping into gaming system, tripping over controller 2. someone was gonna kick you off eventually 3. the game could just randomly fuck up
Yea so often you needed enough time to just beat the game in one sitting. You got mad good at beginning levels and they were still fun.
"more autosave", "lets not even talk about saving anymore....", "games should save more" FUCK YOU. it just means game devs give you more throw away content.
i would wager they'd argue this helps feed the poor. indirectly of course.
a. prevent social unrest(through whatever means necessary).* unrest->downturn/collapse of local/national/international economies b. grow economy c. keep population growth = replacement d. more poor people can eat**
*not saying I agree with (a). **i've heard many (urban)chinese accept their current govt. because of recent improvements in (d)
or you could: not kill him first. Actually rip out one of your seats to sleep. Only hose down your car after you're aware the police are tailing you looking for any possible evidence linking you with the missing person. Your friend's blood is in the house because he lived in your house for years and they can't entirely prove its his. And you are the last person to see your friend alive because your friend actually hates you and is intentionally trying to set-you up to take a fall.
lastly you testify but only attempting to set the record straight, and your over-confident demeanor and anger at being falsely accused and ruined is turned into simple resentment by the jury which convicts your "holier than thou" ass without ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.
OK, but the only reason biologists have to defend so vehemently is evidenced by the topic of this article and *cough* kansas
also you're feeding the THEORY trolls. natural selection is a mechanism in evolution, an already semi-well-modeled and definitely well-documented/observed one that can result in craploads of change. You saying that there are other "mechanisms of change" comes across a bit like astrology to me. Yea jupiter could be said to be exerting some sort of force on my brain, but those are hugely outweighed by the baseball bat that just came into contact with my head. Indeed that baseball bat is natural selection.
"have only seen macroevolution in the fossil record".... Well we didnt really see it then did we. Darwin wrote Origin in 1859, thus humans have only been able to TRY to observe and explain it for 100 years. Not that this matters though, posts above have already linked to accepted speciation events within quickly reproducing species. Also if you're talking about common descent, there is a hell of a lot more evidence than just the fossil record.
1. allow distribution of my copied money for free/cheap/ignore copying of money 2. everyone only uses my money for everything 3. stop supporting old "my money", release/protect/sell "my money++" 4. ???? 5. PROFIT
they'll head straight for sector 001, Sol III. But they won't be trying to contact us, instead they'll accidentally wreak havok upon our species by trying to contact Megaptera novaeangliae.
Luckily some of the population is aware and hopefully will have invented time travel by then.
Seriously, if you can spend thousands boozing yourself up each year, you can't make the excuse that you're too poor to buy DVDs.
What about the excuses 1. that cost of DVD/(enjoyment) is way way higher than the cost of booze/(enjoyment) and 2. DVDs are often crippled with DRM an unplayable to would-be customers 3. industry provides no legal mechanism to obtain such enjoyment without extra time and needless money expenditure on middlemen/their wallets/immoral suing of children
Also anyone who refers to college students as "our young people" seems like a politician or MAFIAA-insider to me.
so take heed "you young people" stops the downloadings of musics from dem internets and go purchase plastic like you're suppossed' to!
wow hugely exaggerating everything most slashdotters believe to make it seem outlandish is FUNNY!!
what if we reverse it?.......
SAINT! The Non-Slashdotter Consititution of Freedom clearly states that the USA(USA! USA!) is the greatest and most FREE(as in freedom) entity/society ever to appear in the History of the UNIVERSE. We're all living in sort of democratic PARADISE. In fact, the GEORGE BUSH was appointed by Jesus Himself to benevolently (watch over our conversations and guard the movie-industry) for the greater good. He'll destroy those terrorists any minute now.... Riiigght... NOW. no NOW. Hmmmm.... Must be waiting before the next election (4 MORE YEARS!)
Anyway, Slashdot is a bunch of commie, rebel scum, trying to keep Nazis, terrorists, and child-molestors safe. The American way is to run the best OS eva, Microsoft Windows(made by not only a shrewd businessman, but programming genius! hello!). It makes everything SO EASY, especially windows media-center where I can watch my favorite shows ALL THE TIME
thats because your examples don't mention what he was referring to.
if after a rogue-mechanic modded your car to pump out noxious fumes(of which you were possibly unaware) the police TOOK your car down to the station and conducted and forensic possibly destructive search
if someone you didnt know borrowed your car and parked near a hydrant the police not only towed your car but broke into your garage later in the week and towed your car away to be destructively searched
Secondly, any unauthorised use of someone's computer equipment, which includes a network this is a point that was also addressed by parent posters. Yes if someone walks into your house and starts using your monitor to watch a movie, usbdisks to perform transfers, your speakers to listen to the spice girls (or whatever you brits listen to), and plugs into your cat5 jack I might certainly see how they shouldn't do this without a big SIGN or maybe some verbal consent. But its !wireless!. Your signal is frickin transmitting through my body. As they note above, this is an area where enough convention does not yet exist and distinct differences from conventional(older, less omnipresent) networking equipment exists.
"Thirdly, if the ISP account allows x Mbs to be downloaded and this individual was downloading y Mbs, then deprivation of that bandwidth did take place." Deprivation from who? I guess we should assume no open networks are open purposefully, all people are using all of their allotted bw at all times, thus any usage (y) is "deprivation". (related: one poster above mentioned QoS which more-and-more is available on APs.) Certainly I understand how certain types of people would a.)leave their networks open b.)not be using all their bandwidth c.)press legal charges against anyone who connects to their network. These types of people are called assholes.
The law in the UK, rightly or wrongly, does not accept that an open network implicitly grants permission for anyone to use it. I believe this was at least part of what parent and others here are arguing about. The law itself is unjust and should be rescinded.
-ahren
this reminds me of a story I heard from one of my friends involved in democratic-party politics. Some (although my friend WOULD NOT tell me his name) senator was in beijing on an official visit and my friend was in the LIMO with him as a guide for the "must see" places.
Long story short, the senator immediately asks to goto the best place for cheap movies and he takes him to various pirated music/dvd shops and the senator loads up on pirated shit, which, of course, won't be touched at customs. I imagine he went to dirty-karaoke afterwards too...
probably the same asshole who voted for dmca and gets paid-off by disney treats himself on our time. Hell he was probably there speaking out against copyright infringement like arnie.
I'm sure this illustrates some profound point about the digital age... anyway fucking HYPOCRITES!
if you're worried about direct access to your privy converstations/browsing i'm pretty sure they already mandate that large access providers give law-enforcement agencies a direct tap to all outgoing traffic.
one of the scariest presentations i've been to was a DOCSIS 2.0 one where part of the block diagram was a system tap leading to a no-questions-asked hole in the wall for the feds
at least in the form of a co-op or something this type of privacy issue can be overseen by community members and public knowledge
i see an argument about ease-of-censorship, but hopefully anything resembling such-censorship would be quashed under #1.(and im not sure private industry would be/is a free-speech champion)
Its time for the DOOM quiz!!
1. While in doom you come across a group of demonic hellspawn imps waiting in the center of a large room you take the following action(s):
a)speak to the elf in the shadow in the corner and ask him to transport you to the next waypoint
b)using ultra stealth bio-mod sneak past in the shadows
c)notice a switch on the right wall controlling a large lightning chamber the imps happen to be standing in
d)break out the chainsaw and shotty and fuck shitup in a huge bloody mess
2. While playing doom you somehow end up in a creepy dark room compeltely surrounded by several large walls that suspiciously look like they might also be doors. The following events take place:
a)ancient runes are incsribed on the wall, you simply use the correct restoration spell upon the wall and it opens leading to a bright garden with a large beatiful fountain
b)using your infrared biomod you notice a vent to your left with several rats in it. proceed through to the next area
c)a strange man with the briefcase walks around the scalfolding above you, as you notice a ladder to your right where you can follow him giddily
d)all the walls open unleashing a legion of various demonic hellspawn.....break out the chainsaw and rocket launcher and fuck shitup in a huge bloody mess
dude screw this guy
did you even play the original doom??
fuckin shit if i want some involved FPS game experience, where i sneak past bad guys, distribute attribute points, and talk endlessly to characters then i'll go play theif, Deus Ex, or morrowind
if i wanna fucking RIP SHIT UP, kick you in the face, not know if that walls really a door to 8 imps, break out the chainsaw, kill EVERYTHING that moves and/or tries to scare me in a BLOODY fucking DEMONIC MESS
THEN....THEN I WILL PLAY MOTHERFUCKING DOOM
ok you can go back and get your "refreshing twists" ok....twist all the way down HELL so i can take a shotgun to your face
quite....
who cares that original spread spectrum technology implementation(CDMA and much OFDM related theory) was developed by the US military using your parents/grandparents tax dollars and then patented by companies like Qualcomm after WW2 so they can make money off the you today!
By the way I know you worked hard for a salary to to build and stock that public library with books, but me and my boys will be by next monday night to read and learn new things.
don't mix up free as in speech and free as in beer
You have the freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
You have the freedom to modify the program to suit your needs. (To make this freedom effective in practice, you must have access to the source code, since making changes in a program without having the source code is exceedingly difficult.)
You have the freedom to redistribute copies, either gratis or for a fee.
You have the freedom to distribute modified versions of the program, so that the community can benefit from your improvements.
lets adapt this to material goods
You have the freedom to use the material goods, for any purpose.
You have the freedom to modify the material goods to suit your needs. (To make this freedom effective in practice, you must have access to the physical atoms, since making changes in a material good without having the composing atoms is exceedingly difficult.)
You have the freedom to redistribute copies(use more physical goods to make the exact same physical good), either gratis or for a fee.
You have the freedom to distribute modified versions of the material goods, so that the community can benefit from your improvements.
does a non-free as in speech society create a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division
yea.........no It's you're network in the first place that allows me on. You set up this network with this range that goes out over into my apartment, or the street corner, etc...
You grant me a valid IP You pass my traffic
this is more like you run power lines and water lines to my house directly from yours, then freely allow me to suck resources out of them on your dime.
If you're network exists in public space, and you allow your property in public space to be accessible by anyone, then tough nuggs.
i have sprinkler that sprays my neighbors lawn and he puts buckets under where it comes down to collect water to drink, prosecute that mofo
its just that the number of howto's and online material is extensive, there is one for almost everything you could ever want to do...
if anything ever arises that you can't handle, or if you're a newb such as i was merely a year ago, then people are more than helpful if you actually describe your problem instead of saying "someone give me the command to install ms word"
lol dependancies....
of course i am speaking from the perspective of a happy gentoo user ( and the gentoo forums)
how are "universe is expanding" and "big bang couldn't have happened" mutually exclusive. There is a large body of evidence supporting the big bang theory, i thought it was disputed by a select few.
I was also under the impression that the big bang theory sort of spawned the expanding universe theory.ie</p> Big bang sets everything expanding about that initial center point. So there are 2 options, everything can keep expanding forever, or gravity brings everything to a stop and then implosion. I guess there is more evidence for the former now...</p>
and you kind of answer your own question</p> the reason why we can't answer "how did the universe get created" or "what existed before then" is because, for all intensive purposes, it is the Beginning of Time, all our powers of observation and experimentation fall apart at the big bang.</p>
I also thought since e=mc^2 that matter didnt have to come from anything. The Law of the Conservation of energy says that for the whole system it is constant at 0, so nothing was magically created or destroyed.</p>
nothing had to "create" the universe, or at least that is not a prerequistite for a theory's viability....
Slashdot Mirror
I know I'm a bitter old-man....
But beating games in the past used to actually be difficult. On fucking NES YOU NEEDED THAT METROID CODE or you literally wanted to die. Also you had to mitigate other factors such as:
1. dogs and sibling bumping into gaming system, tripping over controller
2. someone was gonna kick you off eventually
3. the game could just randomly fuck up
Yea so often you needed enough time to just beat the game in one sitting. You got mad good at beginning levels and they were still fun.
"more autosave", "lets not even talk about saving anymore....", "games should save more"
FUCK YOU. it just means game devs give you more throw away content.
i would wager they'd argue this helps feed the poor. indirectly of course.
a. prevent social unrest(through whatever means necessary).* unrest->downturn/collapse of local/national/international economies
b. grow economy
c. keep population growth = replacement
d. more poor people can eat**
*not saying I agree with (a).
**i've heard many (urban)chinese accept their current govt. because of recent improvements in (d)
or you could:
not kill him first. Actually rip out one of your seats to sleep. Only hose down your car after you're aware the police are tailing you looking for any possible evidence linking you with the missing person. Your friend's blood is in the house because he lived in your house for years and they can't entirely prove its his. And you are the last person to see your friend alive because your friend actually hates you and is intentionally trying to set-you up to take a fall.
lastly you testify but only attempting to set the record straight, and your over-confident demeanor and anger at being falsely accused and ruined is turned into simple resentment by the jury which convicts your "holier than thou" ass without ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.
easy to argue
Bill Gates == SUCCESSFUL
but
Bill Gates != AWESOME
therefore
AWESOME != SUCCESSFUL
OK, but the only reason biologists have to defend so vehemently is evidenced by the topic of this article and *cough* kansas
also
you're feeding the THEORY trolls. natural selection is a mechanism in evolution, an already semi-well-modeled and definitely well-documented/observed one that can result in craploads of change. You saying that there are other "mechanisms of change" comes across a bit like astrology to me. Yea jupiter could be said to be exerting some sort of force on my brain, but those are hugely outweighed by the baseball bat that just came into contact with my head. Indeed that baseball bat is natural selection.
"have only seen macroevolution in the fossil record".... Well we didnt really see it then did we. Darwin wrote Origin in 1859, thus humans have only been able to TRY to observe and explain it for 100 years. Not that this matters though, posts above have already linked to accepted speciation events within quickly reproducing species. Also if you're talking about common descent, there is a hell of a lot more evidence than just the fossil record.
1. allow distribution of my copied money for free/cheap/ignore copying of money
2. everyone only uses my money for everything
3. stop supporting old "my money", release/protect/sell "my money++"
4. ????
5. PROFIT
man chmod
um, how about some sources since we've decided to be so scientifically minded :)
they'll head straight for sector 001, Sol III. But they won't be trying to contact us, instead they'll accidentally wreak havok upon our species by trying to contact Megaptera novaeangliae.
Luckily some of the population is aware and hopefully will have invented time travel by then.
What about the excuses
1. that cost of DVD/(enjoyment) is way way higher than the cost of booze/(enjoyment) and
2. DVDs are often crippled with DRM an unplayable to would-be customers
3. industry provides no legal mechanism to obtain such enjoyment without extra time and needless money expenditure on middlemen/their wallets/immoral suing of children
Also anyone who refers to college students as "our young people" seems like a politician or MAFIAA-insider to me.
so take heed "you young people" stops the downloadings of musics from dem internets and go purchase plastic like you're suppossed' to!
wow hugely exaggerating everything most slashdotters believe to make it seem outlandish is FUNNY!!
what if we reverse it?.......
SAINT! The Non-Slashdotter Consititution of Freedom clearly states that the USA(USA! USA!) is the greatest and most FREE(as in freedom) entity/society ever to appear in the History of the UNIVERSE. We're all living in sort of democratic PARADISE. In fact, the GEORGE BUSH was appointed by Jesus Himself to benevolently (watch over our conversations and guard the movie-industry) for the greater good. He'll destroy those terrorists any minute now.... Riiigght... NOW. no NOW. Hmmmm....
Must be waiting before the next election (4 MORE YEARS!)
Anyway, Slashdot is a bunch of commie, rebel scum, trying to keep Nazis, terrorists, and child-molestors safe. The American way is to run the best OS eva, Microsoft Windows(made by not only a shrewd businessman, but programming genius! hello!). It makes everything SO EASY, especially windows media-center where I can watch my favorite shows ALL THE TIME
Ooo american idol is on....
but then again i hate metaphors
this reminds me of a story I heard from one of my friends involved in democratic-party politics. Some (although my friend WOULD NOT tell me his name) senator was in beijing on an official visit and my friend was in the LIMO with him as a guide for the "must see" places.
Long story short, the senator immediately asks to goto the best place for cheap movies and he takes him to various pirated music/dvd shops and the senator loads up on pirated shit, which, of course, won't be touched at customs. I imagine he went to dirty-karaoke afterwards too...
probably the same asshole who voted for dmca and gets paid-off by disney treats himself on our time. Hell he was probably there speaking out against copyright infringement like arnie.
I'm sure this illustrates some profound point about the digital age... anyway fucking HYPOCRITES!
if you're worried about direct access to your privy converstations/browsing i'm pretty sure they already mandate that large access providers give law-enforcement agencies a direct tap to all outgoing traffic.
one of the scariest presentations i've been to was a DOCSIS 2.0 one where part of the block diagram was a system tap leading to a no-questions-asked hole in the wall for the feds
at least in the form of a co-op or something this type of privacy issue can be overseen by community members and public knowledge
i see an argument about ease-of-censorship, but hopefully anything resembling such-censorship would be quashed under #1.(and im not sure private industry would be/is a free-speech champion)
Its time for the DOOM quiz!!
1. While in doom you come across a group of demonic hellspawn imps waiting in the center of a large room you take the following action(s):
a)speak to the elf in the shadow in the corner and ask him to transport you to the next waypoint
b)using ultra stealth bio-mod sneak past in the shadows
c)notice a switch on the right wall controlling a large lightning chamber the imps happen to be standing in
d)break out the chainsaw and shotty and fuck shitup in a huge bloody mess
2. While playing doom you somehow end up in a creepy dark room compeltely surrounded by several large walls that suspiciously look like they might also be doors. The following events take place:
a)ancient runes are incsribed on the wall, you simply use the correct restoration spell upon the wall and it opens leading to a bright garden with a large beatiful fountain
b)using your infrared biomod you notice a vent to your left with several rats in it. proceed through to the next area
c)a strange man with the briefcase walks around the scalfolding above you, as you notice a ladder to your right where you can follow him giddily
d)all the walls open unleashing a legion of various demonic hellspawn.....break out the chainsaw and rocket launcher and fuck shitup in a huge bloody mess
dude screw this guy did you even play the original doom?? fuckin shit if i want some involved FPS game experience, where i sneak past bad guys, distribute attribute points, and talk endlessly to characters then i'll go play theif, Deus Ex, or morrowind if i wanna fucking RIP SHIT UP, kick you in the face, not know if that walls really a door to 8 imps, break out the chainsaw, kill EVERYTHING that moves and/or tries to scare me in a BLOODY fucking DEMONIC MESS THEN....THEN I WILL PLAY MOTHERFUCKING DOOM ok you can go back and get your "refreshing twists" ok....twist all the way down HELL so i can take a shotgun to your face
quite.... who cares that original spread spectrum technology implementation(CDMA and much OFDM related theory) was developed by the US military using your parents/grandparents tax dollars and then patented by companies like Qualcomm after WW2 so they can make money off the you today! By the way I know you worked hard for a salary to to build and stock that public library with books, but me and my boys will be by next monday night to read and learn new things.
don't mix up free as in speech and free as in beer
You have the freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
You have the freedom to modify the program to suit your needs. (To make this freedom effective in practice, you must have access to the source code, since making changes in a program without having the source code is exceedingly difficult.)
You have the freedom to redistribute copies, either gratis or for a fee.
You have the freedom to distribute modified versions of the program, so that the community can benefit from your improvements.
lets adapt this to material goods
You have the freedom to use the material goods, for any purpose.
You have the freedom to modify the material goods to suit your needs. (To make this freedom effective in practice, you must have access to the physical atoms, since making changes in a material good without having the composing atoms is exceedingly difficult.)
You have the freedom to redistribute copies(use more physical goods to make the exact same physical good), either gratis or for a fee.
You have the freedom to distribute modified versions of the material goods, so that the community can benefit from your improvements.
does a non-free as in speech society create a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division
i think it does
NOOOOOOOOOO not starscream ANYONE but STARSCREAM
yea.........no
It's you're network in the first place that allows me on. You set up this network with this range that goes out over into my apartment, or the street corner, etc...
You grant me a valid IP
You pass my traffic
this is more like you run power lines and water lines to my house directly from yours, then freely allow me to suck resources out of them on your dime.
If you're network exists in public space, and you allow your property in public space to be accessible by anyone, then tough nuggs.
i have sprinkler that sprays my neighbors lawn and he puts buckets under where it comes down to collect water to drink, prosecute that mofo
QUICK mod parent down before billy boy reads this....
its just that the number of howto's and online material is extensive, there is one for almost everything you could ever want to do...
if anything ever arises that you can't handle, or if you're a newb such as i was merely a year ago, then people are more than helpful if you actually describe your problem instead of saying "someone give me the command to install ms word"
lol dependancies....
of course i am speaking from the perspective of a happy gentoo user ( and the gentoo forums)
*just in case you were wondering, portage already has an ebuild for NWN server, for all those people getting their nwn running in lin
I was also under the impression that the big bang theory sort of spawned the expanding universe theory.ie</p>
Big bang sets everything expanding about that initial center point. So there are 2 options, everything can keep expanding forever, or gravity brings everything to a stop and then implosion. I guess there is more evidence for the former now...</p>
and you kind of answer your own question</p>
the reason why we can't answer "how did the universe get created" or "what existed before then" is because, for all intensive purposes, it is the Beginning of Time, all our powers of observation and experimentation fall apart at the big bang.</p>
I also thought since e=mc^2 that matter didnt have to come from anything. The Law of the Conservation of energy says that for the whole system it is constant at 0, so nothing was magically created or destroyed.</p>
nothing had to "create" the universe, or at least that is not a prerequistite for a theory's viability....