"Why not just sue Thomas' daughter? Why all of MIT? I suppose they could say that MIT was "negligent" to use an amature instead of a professional."
Because it's all about the MONEY! If they sue the daughter, they won't get much money, and no real publicity. This whole act is nothing but a stunt. My guess is that Radix's popularity is in the shitter (like most comic books these days) and it's a last ditch effort to make a big money grab.
This whole "damages the character" line is utter crap. They've got a sci-fi angle, and now they're all pissed that it's not as sci-fi as it used to be. Guess what guys? Draw a new costume and keep up with the times!
Just because they can make Linux look like windows doesn't mean you HAVE to have it that way. Nobody's going to coerce all the distro manufacturers to "lock" the look-n-feel of Linux on you anytime soon. You simply now have another "theme" to choose from.
Thank you! I'll even go one further and argue that the quality of the picture and sound on Beta was "negligably" better than VHS. I mean, come on, picture quality back then wasn't anything great to begin with, people had shitty TVs and shitty connections. I never noticed a better picture on the few Beta tapes I watched. At least not to a point where I could attribute the picture quality to Beta's "superiority".
Longer tapes were simply more useful to people and Beta blew it big.
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I completely disagree with you on this issue. For an office environment, there HAS to be standards, which means each office (or department) uses the same OS. Unless an individual has a need that cannot be satisfied by the chosen OS (like say, a Win32 developer in a mostly-Unix house), then they should get the default.
While it may not seem to matter to you that you are running Debian and everyone else is running Redhat, but when it comes to the administration of all the systems, I don't think anyone wants the mess that is likely to result from a hodge-podge of different operating systems.
There's a good reason for companies using computers with all the same hardware, and the same situation applies to software too. Complexity = extra costs. If there's a way to simplify it and reduce costs, they will.
Hmm, I didn't "take" or "appropriate" anything. I simply arranged bits on my hard drive to match what someone else had. I did not disturb, nor remove their bits.
Thank you for the very informative post. I'd give it a +5 if I could. EVERY "vinyl is better" fanatic should read this.
Honestly, the only reason I can see anyone preferring vinyl is for the nostalgic value. If you grew up listening to Deep Purple (or whatever) on vinyl and became accustomed to the colouring that you got from the phonograph and tube-amp combo, then you're likely to prefer it no matter what technical specs or other people say. I just wish these folks would admit that instead of just repeating the "vinyl is superiour" line everytime.
Welcome to the Internet, where people who have pathetic real-world lives turn into complete control-freak-shitheads the moment they are given even the slightest semblance of power in some silly virtual domain.
These people are not to be concerned about. Simply point and laugh at them, then move along.
This guy sounds like a real piece of work and he truly seems to believe that the Internet would not be as "wonderful" as it is today without ads.
I remember my first 'Net account in the early '90s with the university I was attending. There were no ad banners, no pop-ups. It was wonderful. You just found the information you needed and you were happy. Now that "scumbag" marketing sleeze like this guy have come along in an attempt to commercialize EVERYTHING, the Internet's going down the shitter faster than.. well.. Cable television! What an appropriate comparison he makes.
"Ethically, you should let the ad through, or not view the site"
But the only way you can tell if the site has an ad or not is to load the page. So once the page is loaded, it's too late to make a decision, it's already done.
The only way around this is to have the browser load the HTML, parse it and say "there's an ad on this site, do you wish to view the page?" But since the HTML has already been grabbed, you might as well view it anyways, right?
See, the problem is I am looking for information on the Internet. Most of what I'm looking for can be summed up in a 20KB or smaller document. But Nooooo, these web admins just HAVE to put another 500KB of images on the page and then complain that their traffic costs them an arm and a leg.
Take a look at the new Radeon 9700 demos and when they come out, the NV30 demos. Simply amazing. Especially the lighting demo with the rotating glass orbs in the forest.
It looks realistic where as all the Pixar stuff looks like a cartoon.
"I'm sure the people who discovered nuclear technology are sorry now, considering how it was used."
I really doubt that. Advances in nuclear physics have have given us MUCH more than just atomic bombs and leaky reactors. One could also theorize that the possession of nuclear arms is what prevented traditional war between the USA and USSR.
I'd be happy if Kazaa/grokster/etc would boot users who have their upload bandwidth set to 1kbps. Or the folks who set their "max uploads" to zero. It's so irritating.
Or even just give an option to see the number of files/upstream bandwidth/max uploads that a user who is downloading FROM you has set. That way I can boot their non-sharing asses myself.
The last Vaio I used came with recovery CDs, so if you wiped the drive and needed support, they'd probably just tell you to restore everything with those discs.
The recovery discs have large image files on them, like Ghost images, but they're slightly different and you have to use their program to image the drive. I found this out when I wanted to transfer the cool video software the Vaio comes with to another computer.
Ah! But most of them will take back software if it's still wrapped so all you do is scratch the disc or something and exchange it for another copy of the same game. Hope they don't open the new game for you. Return the new (unopened) copy at a different location. Ta-da!
Re:Here's a real "what's the point" question:
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Well, I haven't played them all, but engines like Fritz and Hiarcs have settings where you can tone them down to suit almost any play level. Plus you can choose if they get to use opening books or not, and you can specify which openings they'll use in case you want to practice against a certain type of defense.
They're pretty good for analyzing your games and telling you where you went wrong. There's also modes where the computer will play a good game, but will make a key error that you should be able to notice and exploit to win the game. It will also try to adjust itself to your level, so if you kick it's ass, it'll get harder next time.
The Chessbase engines also seem to be a little more realistic than the more commercial engines like ChessMaster 8000. I remember playing CM8000 on the easiest setting (given an approximate FIDE rating of like 23..) and watched in horror as the game systematically set me up to lose a rook AND a knight, then right before going for the throat, what does it do? It hangs it's queen for no apparent reason. Not very realistic play style.
You have to understand that laws are vague and difficult to understand because they (the lawyers) WANT them to be. If everything were cut and dry, they'd be out of a job.
This way, the law can be interpreted differently by different judges, it can be argued by attorneys, and two nearly identical cases can have completely different outcomes. The system is deliberately broken and it favours those with the money since those people are the ones who are lining the lawyers' pockets.
Copyright and other big-business-oriented laws are especially convoluted since that's where there's the most money to be gained!
So if the domain name is to mean nothing, why should we even have them to begin with? Why not just access everything by IP address and use a search engine to find it all?
This won't solve the problem either, as people will just find ways to trick the search engines by putting bogus information in meta-tags and maybe a misleading title to their website.
The whole point of DNS was for user convenience. We're quickly reaching the point where it is no longer convenient. The whole issue of people ignoring the.com,.net,.org TLD structure also annoys me somewhat, especially when I see stuff like "My First Website" with a.com suffix on the domain name.
I think many disputes could have been avoided if companies stuck to the.com and.net (for ISPs/backbones, etc) and others used.org or.countrycode appropriately. Let the businesses have their suffix and leave the.org people alone.
And don't get me started on the individuals who buy up blocks of names of what they think will be popular in hopes of selling them for a million dollars a piece later on. That's greedy, opportunistic manipulation of a system designed in good faith. People like this make me taste ashes in my mouth when I hear the word "capitalism".
It's not irresponsible to assume that a domain name should have SOMETHING to do with the content of the site, just as you should expect the name of a store to have SOMETHING to do with what they sell.
Would you be a little surprised to walk into a store called "Barry's Bistro" (expecting a restaurant) and find out they deal in the latest in S&M gear?
What IS irresponsible and selfish is people who deliberately register domain names that are misleading or are one typo away from a popular site in the hopes of tricking people into visiting and thus boosting their ad revenue. That's the issue here. Civilwarbattles.com should NOT point to a porn site and I think something as blantant as this should be handled by the registrars.
Re:Why not a partnership?
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I wouldn't say they are losing money in such a situation. If you like, say, Super Mario 2 and you've played it on the original NES and are now playing a ROM of it on your computer, it stands to say that you are more likely to purchase it for the GBA.
Why? Because of the GBA's only true advantage: It's portable!
Even though they are the same game, identical in every way, the platform is different and has a different intended use. Now if the ROMs were being used on a hand-held computer that could emulate them at full speed, Nintendo would have a issue of profit loss.
Yep. I don't understand this "X day" thing anyways. Boss' day, secretary's day.. It's all bullshit. You already get appreciation for your hard work. It's called a PAY CHEQUE.
Most of you are overpaid anyways, it's not like you need some fabricated day for people to show false appreciation to you.
I don't mind Messenger that much. It actually seems fairly well programmed. It's one of the few programs that doesn't kick you back to the desktop during a game just because you got a new message.
Storing the buddy-list on the server is also very convenient if you use a lot of different computers (like at school).
The only feature missing that I'd like is the ability to send messages to off-line users.
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"Why not just sue Thomas' daughter? Why all of MIT? I suppose they could say that MIT was "negligent" to use an amature instead of a professional."
Because it's all about the MONEY! If they sue the daughter, they won't get much money, and no real publicity. This whole act is nothing but a stunt. My guess is that Radix's popularity is in the shitter (like most comic books these days) and it's a last ditch effort to make a big money grab.
This whole "damages the character" line is utter crap. They've got a sci-fi angle, and now they're all pissed that it's not as sci-fi as it used to be. Guess what guys? Draw a new costume and keep up with the times!
Just because they can make Linux look like windows doesn't mean you HAVE to have it that way. Nobody's going to coerce all the distro manufacturers to "lock" the look-n-feel of Linux on you anytime soon. You simply now have another "theme" to choose from.
Thank you! I'll even go one further and argue that the quality of the picture and sound on Beta was "negligably" better than VHS. I mean, come on, picture quality back then wasn't anything great to begin with, people had shitty TVs and shitty connections. I never noticed a better picture on the few Beta tapes I watched. At least not to a point where I could attribute the picture quality to Beta's "superiority".
Longer tapes were simply more useful to people and Beta blew it big.
I completely disagree with you on this issue. For an office environment, there HAS to be standards, which means each office (or department) uses the same OS. Unless an individual has a need that cannot be satisfied by the chosen OS (like say, a Win32 developer in a mostly-Unix house), then they should get the default.
While it may not seem to matter to you that you are running Debian and everyone else is running Redhat, but when it comes to the administration of all the systems, I don't think anyone wants the mess that is likely to result from a hodge-podge of different operating systems.
There's a good reason for companies using computers with all the same hardware, and the same situation applies to software too. Complexity = extra costs. If there's a way to simplify it and reduce costs, they will.
Hmm, I didn't "take" or "appropriate" anything. I simply arranged bits on my hard drive to match what someone else had. I did not disturb, nor remove their bits.
Not stealing.
Try again.
Thank you for the very informative post. I'd give it a +5 if I could. EVERY "vinyl is better" fanatic should read this.
Honestly, the only reason I can see anyone preferring vinyl is for the nostalgic value. If you grew up listening to Deep Purple (or whatever) on vinyl and became accustomed to the colouring that you got from the phonograph and tube-amp combo, then you're likely to prefer it no matter what technical specs or other people say. I just wish these folks would admit that instead of just repeating the "vinyl is superiour" line everytime.
Welcome to the Internet, where people who have pathetic real-world lives turn into complete control-freak-shitheads the moment they are given even the slightest semblance of power in some silly virtual domain.
These people are not to be concerned about. Simply point and laugh at them, then move along.
This guy sounds like a real piece of work and he truly seems to believe that the Internet would not be as "wonderful" as it is today without ads.
I remember my first 'Net account in the early '90s with the university I was attending. There were no ad banners, no pop-ups. It was wonderful. You just found the information you needed and you were happy. Now that "scumbag" marketing sleeze like this guy have come along in an attempt to commercialize EVERYTHING, the Internet's going down the shitter faster than.. well.. Cable television! What an appropriate comparison he makes.
"Ethically, you should let the ad through, or not view the site"
But the only way you can tell if the site has an ad or not is to load the page. So once the page is loaded, it's too late to make a decision, it's already done.
The only way around this is to have the browser load the HTML, parse it and say "there's an ad on this site, do you wish to view the page?" But since the HTML has already been grabbed, you might as well view it anyways, right?
See, the problem is I am looking for information on the Internet. Most of what I'm looking for can be summed up in a 20KB or smaller document. But Nooooo, these web admins just HAVE to put another 500KB of images on the page and then complain that their traffic costs them an arm and a leg.
No sympathy here.
Take a look at the new Radeon 9700 demos and when they come out, the NV30 demos. Simply amazing. Especially the lighting demo with the rotating glass orbs in the forest.
It looks realistic where as all the Pixar stuff looks like a cartoon.
In a few years, you will be eating your words.
"I'm sure the people who discovered nuclear technology are sorry now, considering how it was used."
I really doubt that. Advances in nuclear physics have have given us MUCH more than just atomic bombs and leaky reactors. One could also theorize that the possession of nuclear arms is what prevented traditional war between the USA and USSR.
I'd be happy if Kazaa/grokster/etc would boot users who have their upload bandwidth set to 1kbps. Or the folks who set their "max uploads" to zero. It's so irritating.
Or even just give an option to see the number of files/upstream bandwidth/max uploads that a user who is downloading FROM you has set. That way I can boot their non-sharing asses myself.
The last Vaio I used came with recovery CDs, so if you wiped the drive and needed support, they'd probably just tell you to restore everything with those discs.
The recovery discs have large image files on them, like Ghost images, but they're slightly different and you have to use their program to image the drive. I found this out when I wanted to transfer the cool video software the Vaio comes with to another computer.
Ah! But most of them will take back software if it's still wrapped so all you do is scratch the disc or something and exchange it for another copy of the same game. Hope they don't open the new game for you. Return the new (unopened) copy at a different location. Ta-da!
Well, I haven't played them all, but engines like Fritz and Hiarcs have settings where you can tone them down to suit almost any play level. Plus you can choose if they get to use opening books or not, and you can specify which openings they'll use in case you want to practice against a certain type of defense.
They're pretty good for analyzing your games and telling you where you went wrong. There's also modes where the computer will play a good game, but will make a key error that you should be able to notice and exploit to win the game. It will also try to adjust itself to your level, so if you kick it's ass, it'll get harder next time.
The Chessbase engines also seem to be a little more realistic than the more commercial engines like ChessMaster 8000. I remember playing CM8000 on the easiest setting (given an approximate FIDE rating of like 23..) and watched in horror as the game systematically set me up to lose a rook AND a knight, then right before going for the throat, what does it do? It hangs it's queen for no apparent reason. Not very realistic play style.
"There's just something about Nintendo games that always keep me coming back."
I'm guessing it's subliminal messages... I've always found Nintendo to be highly overrated.
You have to understand that laws are vague and difficult to understand because they (the lawyers) WANT them to be. If everything were cut and dry, they'd be out of a job.
This way, the law can be interpreted differently by different judges, it can be argued by attorneys, and two nearly identical cases can have completely different outcomes. The system is deliberately broken and it favours those with the money since those people are the ones who are lining the lawyers' pockets.
Copyright and other big-business-oriented laws are especially convoluted since that's where there's the most money to be gained!
Nice game they've got us playing, huh?
So if the domain name is to mean nothing, why should we even have them to begin with? Why not just access everything by IP address and use a search engine to find it all?
.com, .net, .org TLD structure also annoys me somewhat, especially when I see stuff like "My First Website" with a .com suffix on the domain name.
.com and .net (for ISPs/backbones, etc) and others used .org or .countrycode appropriately. Let the businesses have their suffix and leave the .org people alone.
This won't solve the problem either, as people will just find ways to trick the search engines by putting bogus information in meta-tags and maybe a misleading title to their website.
The whole point of DNS was for user convenience. We're quickly reaching the point where it is no longer convenient. The whole issue of people ignoring the
I think many disputes could have been avoided if companies stuck to the
And don't get me started on the individuals who buy up blocks of names of what they think will be popular in hopes of selling them for a million dollars a piece later on. That's greedy, opportunistic manipulation of a system designed in good faith. People like this make me taste ashes in my mouth when I hear the word "capitalism".
It's not irresponsible to assume that a domain name should have SOMETHING to do with the content of the site, just as you should expect the name of a store to have SOMETHING to do with what they sell.
Would you be a little surprised to walk into a store called "Barry's Bistro" (expecting a restaurant) and find out they deal in the latest in S&M gear?
What IS irresponsible and selfish is people who deliberately register domain names that are misleading or are one typo away from a popular site in the hopes of tricking people into visiting and thus boosting their ad revenue. That's the issue here. Civilwarbattles.com should NOT point to a porn site and I think something as blantant as this should be handled by the registrars.
I wouldn't say they are losing money in such a situation. If you like, say, Super Mario 2 and you've played it on the original NES and are now playing a ROM of it on your computer, it stands to say that you are more likely to purchase it for the GBA.
Why? Because of the GBA's only true advantage: It's portable!
Even though they are the same game, identical in every way, the platform is different and has a different intended use. Now if the ROMs were being used on a hand-held computer that could emulate them at full speed, Nintendo would have a issue of profit loss.
Yep. I don't understand this "X day" thing anyways. Boss' day, secretary's day.. It's all bullshit. You already get appreciation for your hard work. It's called a PAY CHEQUE.
Most of you are overpaid anyways, it's not like you need some fabricated day for people to show false appreciation to you.
You know, I *might* not actually mind this, as long as they surrender ANY and ALL legal recourse against people for "infringement".
Then it becomes an all out war where anything is fair game, except for lawyers!
I'm sure some amazing P2P developments will come about because of this.
I don't mind Messenger that much. It actually seems fairly well programmed. It's one of the few programs that doesn't kick you back to the desktop during a game just because you got a new message.
Storing the buddy-list on the server is also very convenient if you use a lot of different computers (like at school).
The only feature missing that I'd like is the ability to send messages to off-line users.
And the open source client, AMSN is kick-ass!