Maybe it's because you're worse off in the US than in the UK when it comes to prisons. The US just wants criminals to be punished as much as possible, and the UK punishments are just not hard enough.
Where'd you read that, Nihilism For Dummies? Of course right and wrong and hence ethics exist - in as much as any human mental construct can exist. If you deny that you might as well say that *you* don't exist since you're simply the end result of your brains functioning.
Yes, there are personal rights and wrongs, just no remotely absolute rights and wrongs (unless you destroy all apposed yo your believes). That was the whole point of my rant. The part I quoted insinuated there is (or maybe even should be) a defined set for rights and wrongs (ethics for all).
If *me* is the end result of my brains functioning, doesn't make that the end result *me*?
Anyway , your sort of moral relativism has been used to excuse many evil deeds so don't expect many people to share your point of view.
One group's rights can be an other group's wrongs. It's always relative. Evil is simply a form of wrong. People who excuse said evil probably don't consider it a wrong, maybe even consider it as "right". Who am I, you, anyone to morally judge somebody else's morals/ethics? (well, we're humans with mostly independent thought).
I'm never expecting many people to share my point of view. People who share the same POV are much less interesting that people who think otherwise.
University of Minnesota media ethics professor Jane Kirtly laughed when told of the scheme.
"Ethically speaking, why don't they just publish it?" Kirtly asked. "They pride themselves on being a new breed of news delivery."
Ethics are based on the concepts of right and wrong. Because there is no right or wrong ethics can not exist. People have different values, different opinions,..., therefore different morals and ethics. When you formalize ethics you create rules or even law.
"Ethically speaking,..." Sorry but that doesn't mean anything. You might as well say either "It's my opinion,..." or "By law,..."
But if you want to keep your concept of ethics, fine. In that concept wikileaks is contra-ethics (or at least the ethics of the status quo). Because it's considered unethical to publish this kind of information.
(Personal) Principles are important, considering Wikileaks still intend to publish the documents unedited, anonymously, etc. they're not violating their principles. Nowhere did they ever say that temporary exclusives in exchange for money were out of the question.
Reason is simple. Pearls are shiny and worth a lot. Pythons are scary, they can bite, and have venom and stuff. Rubies on the other hand are a viable replacement for pearl.
I bought Bioshock and Mass Effect after I knew their DRM was broken properly. Of course that didn't stop EA/BioWare to royally piss me of by releasing a patch for Mass Effect that cause vista explorer to crash when ever I wanted to do something else to an.exe file other than execute it. Guess I had to wait for the pirated version to be updated again.
So, story short. I'm not going to spend money on something unless I know the DRM has been rendered useless. Steam games are still no option for the various reasons people already highlighted in previous posts.
From that I can tell you are a some what a geek who visits sites like SlashDot. It also tells me that you are concerned about your email address being harvested and eventually being used as a target for spam.
Now do me. My email address is: useless.research.nominations _at_ elmuerte.com
Isn't this simply the stuff ageia released a while ago before nVidia bought them? And nVidia is now simply re-releasing them (after they pulled the content from te website) to show off their PhysX support for Geforce 8+ cards.
Go is often seen as the last bastion of human superiority over computers in the domain of board games.
That's just plain ignorance. Games usually employ a discrete set of rules and a discrete playing environment. If there is something a computer is good at it would be working with things like this.
are security measures going to be changed with this revelation to the public?
Of course not. After all, they caught the people that abused it. Why waste money to protect something from criminals when the criminals were already caught. Nobody would dare to try it again.
The fan altered images are mostly converted to shit brown. Games these days or often either shit brown, or totally neon colored. There should be a proper color balance. It's must more interesting.
Diablo 3's color usage isn't that bad, it could do with a little less bloom. But then again, it's not as terrible as Halo 3's bloom.
Only useful for Mac OSX applications. For Windows applications follow Microsoft's guidelines (even though they ignore it and it's quite difficult because of the many differences between each Windows version).
Simple rule: keep the UI consistent with the interfaces of the other applications that run on that system.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe it's because you're worse off in the US than in the UK when it comes to prisons.
The US just wants criminals to be punished as much as possible, and the UK punishments are just not hard enough.
Governments and quite some companies disagree.
Where'd you read that, Nihilism For Dummies? Of course right and wrong and hence ethics exist - in as much as any human mental construct can exist. If you deny that you might as well say that *you* don't exist since you're simply the end result of your brains functioning.
Yes, there are personal rights and wrongs, just no remotely absolute rights and wrongs (unless you destroy all apposed yo your believes). That was the whole point of my rant. The part I quoted insinuated there is (or maybe even should be) a defined set for rights and wrongs (ethics for all).
If *me* is the end result of my brains functioning, doesn't make that the end result *me*?
Anyway , your sort of moral relativism has been used to excuse many evil deeds so don't expect many people to share your point of view.
One group's rights can be an other group's wrongs. It's always relative. Evil is simply a form of wrong. People who excuse said evil probably don't consider it a wrong, maybe even consider it as "right". Who am I, you, anyone to morally judge somebody else's morals/ethics? (well, we're humans with mostly independent thought).
I'm never expecting many people to share my point of view. People who share the same POV are much less interesting that people who think otherwise.
Ethics are based on the concepts of right and wrong. Because there is no right or wrong ethics can not exist. ..., therefore different morals and ethics.
People have different values, different opinions,
When you formalize ethics you create rules or even law.
"Ethically speaking, ..." ..." or "By law, ..."
Sorry but that doesn't mean anything. You might as well say either "It's my opinion,
But if you want to keep your concept of ethics, fine. In that concept wikileaks is contra-ethics (or at least the ethics of the status quo). Because it's considered unethical to publish this kind of information.
(Personal) Principles are important, considering Wikileaks still intend to publish the documents unedited, anonymously, etc. they're not violating their principles. Nowhere did they ever say that temporary exclusives in exchange for money were out of the question.
Anyway, that's just my opinion.
Because Minix doesn't support text formatting.
Create games that run perfectly on 3 year old computers and people won't spend money on new hardware, and instead (maybe) spend it on software.
She's 16 in Chinese years, which is 14 is US years.
There are chicks on /. !?
Or are you saying chicks never grow up?
Reason is simple.
Pearls are shiny and worth a lot.
Pythons are scary, they can bite, and have venom and stuff.
Rubies on the other hand are a viable replacement for pearl.
How about the Corrupted Blood plague?
That was an one time event/fuckup.
Indeed. It should have been modded +5 insightful.
How often do you see a fucking idiot acknowledge him/herself?
I bought Bioshock and Mass Effect after I knew their DRM was broken properly. Of course that didn't stop EA/BioWare to royally piss me of by releasing a patch for Mass Effect that cause vista explorer to crash when ever I wanted to do something else to an .exe file other than execute it. Guess I had to wait for the pirated version to be updated again.
So, story short. I'm not going to spend money on something unless I know the DRM has been rendered useless.
Steam games are still no option for the various reasons people already highlighted in previous posts.
Depends on if they are working on a Wii BDSM game.
From that I can tell you are a some what a geek who visits sites like SlashDot. It also tells me that you are concerned about your email address being harvested and eventually being used as a target for spam.
Now do me. My email address is: useless.research.nominations _at_ elmuerte.com
But the URL being talked about in this /. post is not a kill switch as reported in earlier replies.
So, this means that there is still a hidden kill switch in the iPhone.
Isn't this simply the stuff ageia released a while ago before nVidia bought them? And nVidia is now simply re-releasing them (after they pulled the content from te website) to show off their PhysX support for Geforce 8+ cards.
That's just plain ignorance. Games usually employ a discrete set of rules and a discrete playing environment. If there is something a computer is good at it would be working with things like this.
Of course not. After all, they caught the people that abused it. Why waste money to protect something from criminals when the criminals were already caught. Nobody would dare to try it again.
It was easy. The first password was the same and my luggage. And the second one was the same as the first.
Boring.
Hasn't anyone figured out a more interesting application of this "multi-touch" input form?
The fan altered images are mostly converted to shit brown.
Games these days or often either shit brown, or totally neon colored. There should be a proper color balance. It's must more interesting.
Diablo 3's color usage isn't that bad, it could do with a little less bloom. But then again, it's not as terrible as Halo 3's bloom.
Cloud 9!
too bad it's by definition vaporware.
Forced to respond to suggestions made by some end user? I'm pretty sure architects are gone when they "release" their project.
How did the architect respond to your suggestions for improvements?
Only useful for Mac OSX applications.
For Windows applications follow Microsoft's guidelines (even though they ignore it and it's quite difficult because of the many differences between each Windows version).
Simple rule: keep the UI consistent with the interfaces of the other applications that run on that system.