Blessed are the pretarded, for they will make comments like yours...
Yes, I read the WHOLE article. Because he felt his usual overwhelming need to relate everything to 9/11, he LOST a bet that he COULDN'T write an article without referencing 9/11.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is a play (theater) that explores the meaning of existence. The whole production is two guys engaged in a meaningless attempt to fill up time while waiting for somebody named Godot to show up. He never does.
As for the post, God = Google therefore... ok.
It's pretty deep stuff and requires a few readings before you start to enjoy it. The time wasting and hopelessness says a lot about K5 (/. doesn't take itself seriously enough to be included in a comparison to this book.)
Thomas Friedman is the official gargoyle of the state. He's not a tech by any stretch of the imagination. I suspect he just lost a bet with someone who said he couldn't write an article without mentioning 9/11.
yeah, but the Mad Hatter took the other perspective by saying that there's no way that anyone means what they say because they can't say what they mean. There's no way you can say "you are what you eat" because you can't "eat what you are." It's an insane chapter and by itself makes Alice in Wonderland worth owning.
The Chinese are exploiting off-the-shelf software to figure out how to develop an ideal lunar colony. The US must stop the commercialization of valuable scientific knowledge so it doesn't fall into the hands of rogue nations or terrorist groups.
But, in contrast, passing a needle through the eye of a camel is just plain idiotic. The camel isn't going to tolerate someone trying to do that and will probably kick that person. Maybe stomp on that person. But maybe we're not talking about a camel at all. Maybe it's a gnu.
Maybe the games are so cheap to produce because they are ports of games from the PET, Trash 80 and Apple II et al.
This looks like paid propaganda. Americans won't touch anything beyond voice mail. That is a pretty well established trend. Why am I supposed to believe that they will drain their batteries on nonsense like mobile gaming?
Gameboy is a different story. But there's a crucial difference between Gameboy and mobile gaming:
Good. I have the same processor. I just adjusted my outlook settings to move collected spam to the default "spam" folder so I can start building a sample. Will try the Bayesian filter within a few days. Thanks.
I use spamnet by cloudmark. It catches everything. I can't remember the last time I had to click the "block" button. I'm very conscious of where my email ends up and I'm a hardcore advocate of email aliases. As a result, since September (last major crash), spamnet has blocked 4000 pieces while I've actively blocked only 11.
That's pretty f'n good in my book. So good, in fact, that I send all blocked messages to the "Delete" folder instead of the default "spam" folder and set outlook to permanently delete on close.
I have two concerns about this program:
--Money. They are now charging and pretty much deserve it from the average user. --Reliability. This company could disappear tomorrow and sell off the server that has compiled spam data.
Since mathematics isn't going anywhere, I'm leaning towards switching to an open source Bayesian alternative but, as mentioned above, all my spam gets thrown out the door on contact.
What is the approximate training time of a Bayesian filter?
Maybe that should be a new mod option for the exceptional trolls and flames. The risk of getting Karma: Master-baiter would make people think twice before posting. Or just drive more people to AC.
Probably because PC users don't need to justify the performance of their systems by making them "look" cool. The Mac has never been the bastion of DIY and never will be. The concept of a command line on the Mac was nonexistent until OSX. I consider your post flamebait and would mod it as such if I had the points.
I also encouraged having pristine ethics. That part makes the whole post fit together. Let the RIAA stop what they consider to be "illegal." P2P is getting a bad rap for copyright infringement and it weakens the best attribute of P2P: to allow artists an avenue to promote their stuff and make money without the RIAA.
It doesn't matter if the RIAA correlates the decline of sales to P2P if people decide that RIAA products are not worth having in any form whatsoever. If the RIAA succeeds, sales will still be in decline and they will find themselves without their most powerful argument. They need P2P to justify their miserable existence.
Each person needs to conclude that downloading or purchasing RIAA music is nourishing a cartel and doing nothing to improve the situation of artists. How you react to the music industry needs validation only from you--not from them. If you know your drive is clean, you have the ethical high ground in all arguments against them.
Knowing your enemy but not yourself results in victory only half the time.--Sun Tzu
Ok. No objections. I wasn't quite sure about the organizational matter but your argument makes sense. As for the Constitution, that's an argument of last resort in my book. Peace.
I understand your position. I was writing about what a single person can do. Of course, the industry is a group of collusionist bastards. That's why they don't deserve my money. I disagree with their business model. When the context fits, I explain to others why I disagree with their business model. There's nothing wrong with music but there's a lot wrong with the industry.
Killing piracy on P2P is fine with me. It will severely weaken the music industry over the long term. Everybody understands that P2P can be a huge boon for independent artists. By clearing out the shitstorm of RIAA titles, P2P can realize its true benevolent power to equalize artists to industry. Instead of getting someone like Hammer (someone who tells the industry to fsck off) every 10 years, we'll have that every six months. That timeframe will get shorter and shorter until the market becomes fair between industry and artists.
They're not going to kill P2P. What will happen is that the free ride will be over, and the control over the 'net will return to the geeks who created it - instead of a lot of "pop noize", we'll actually be able to find interesting bands on P2P - you know, the unsigned bands that haven't sold out to the RIAA and their minions.
The most insightful comment in the thread. Wish I had mod points.
Amigo, don't confuse people with the facts. This is Slashdot.
Refusing to buy is the only legitimate course of action. The labels are not enslaving artists even if their contracts are crap. Children are not starving. People are not dying.
If we rely solely on market forces and strive to be on the ethical high ground, the industry will have no excuse. Right now, they have a very good excuse for their actions--people are stealing music.
We might not like their price but that doesn't warrant being as criminal as they are. It requires restraint and maturity. There are other things to do besides buy mass produced music.
I'm not sure what you were getting at. It's against the law for a private organization to set people up for a crime. Even official sting operations are questionable. That's probably why they want the FBI involved. That's definitely why their quest to enforce copyright through machine destruction is an abortion.
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Blessed are the pretarded, for they will make comments like yours... Yes, I read the WHOLE article. Because he felt his usual overwhelming need to relate everything to 9/11, he LOST a bet that he COULDN'T write an article without referencing 9/11.
As for the post, God = Google therefore... ok.
It's pretty deep stuff and requires a few readings before you start to enjoy it. The time wasting and hopelessness says a lot about K5 (/. doesn't take itself seriously enough to be included in a comparison to this book.)
That's very funny... might be a good test of the level of cultural literacy here.
Thomas Friedman is the official gargoyle of the state. He's not a tech by any stretch of the imagination. I suspect he just lost a bet with someone who said he couldn't write an article without mentioning 9/11.
Is it possible that giving these countries access to unlimited information would cause war before it caused the end of farming problems?
Oh, it's dangerous. Dangerous indeed.
Send in The Picard.
yeah, but the Mad Hatter took the other perspective by saying that there's no way that anyone means what they say because they can't say what they mean. There's no way you can say "you are what you eat" because you can't "eat what you are." It's an insane chapter and by itself makes Alice in Wonderland worth owning.
Dude, that was hilarious. I hope you get some moderators that have a sense of humor.
The Chinese are exploiting off-the-shelf software to figure out how to develop an ideal lunar colony. The US must stop the commercialization of valuable scientific knowledge so it doesn't fall into the hands of rogue nations or terrorist groups.
But, in contrast, passing a needle through the eye of a camel is just plain idiotic. The camel isn't going to tolerate someone trying to do that and will probably kick that person. Maybe stomp on that person. But maybe we're not talking about a camel at all. Maybe it's a gnu.
It's not your turn yet. The Architect will be ready for new applicants in 24 hours.
Today it's turkey but tomorrow it's people... PEOPLE!
The first is a superb remake of Robotron, the second is exactly what Breakout would have been if the technology supported it.
I prefer original equipment like the Devastator II from Treyonics and good arcade remakes.
How did you get "bash US" out of "Americans don't like features beyond voice and voice mail?"
Despite what your imaginary friends do, most Americans don't use text messaging or cellular Internet or video on their phones.
I'll try one more generalization: Americans don't get offended when other Americans criticize useless products.
Take your consumerism elsewhere.
Glad you liked it. It's the dead giveaway that I don't take Slashdot too seriously.
Maybe the games are so cheap to produce because they are ports of games from the PET, Trash 80 and Apple II et al.
This looks like paid propaganda. Americans won't touch anything beyond voice mail. That is a pretty well established trend. Why am I supposed to believe that they will drain their batteries on nonsense like mobile gaming?
Gameboy is a different story. But there's a crucial difference between Gameboy and mobile gaming:
Gameboy was designed for mobile entertainment.
Cell phones aren't.
Good. I have the same processor. I just adjusted my outlook settings to move collected spam to the default "spam" folder so I can start building a sample. Will try the Bayesian filter within a few days. Thanks.
I use spamnet by cloudmark. It catches everything. I can't remember the last time I had to click the "block" button. I'm very conscious of where my email ends up and I'm a hardcore advocate of email aliases. As a result, since September (last major crash), spamnet has blocked 4000 pieces while I've actively blocked only 11.
That's pretty f'n good in my book. So good, in fact, that I send all blocked messages to the "Delete" folder instead of the default "spam" folder and set outlook to permanently delete on close.
I have two concerns about this program:
--Money. They are now charging and pretty much deserve it from the average user.
--Reliability. This company could disappear tomorrow and sell off the server that has compiled spam data.
Since mathematics isn't going anywhere, I'm leaning towards switching to an open source Bayesian alternative but, as mentioned above, all my spam gets thrown out the door on contact.
What is the approximate training time of a Bayesian filter?
Maybe that should be a new mod option for the exceptional trolls and flames. The risk of getting Karma: Master-baiter would make people think twice before posting. Or just drive more people to AC.
Probably because PC users don't need to justify the performance of their systems by making them "look" cool. The Mac has never been the bastion of DIY and never will be. The concept of a command line on the Mac was nonexistent until OSX. I consider your post flamebait and would mod it as such if I had the points.
I also encouraged having pristine ethics. That part makes the whole post fit together. Let the RIAA stop what they consider to be "illegal." P2P is getting a bad rap for copyright infringement and it weakens the best attribute of P2P: to allow artists an avenue to promote their stuff and make money without the RIAA.
It doesn't matter if the RIAA correlates the decline of sales to P2P if people decide that RIAA products are not worth having in any form whatsoever. If the RIAA succeeds, sales will still be in decline and they will find themselves without their most powerful argument. They need P2P to justify their miserable existence.
Each person needs to conclude that downloading or purchasing RIAA music is nourishing a cartel and doing nothing to improve the situation of artists. How you react to the music industry needs validation only from you--not from them. If you know your drive is clean, you have the ethical high ground in all arguments against them.
Knowing your enemy but not yourself results in victory only half the time.--Sun Tzu
Ok. No objections. I wasn't quite sure about the organizational matter but your argument makes sense. As for the Constitution, that's an argument of last resort in my book. Peace.
I understand your position. I was writing about what a single person can do. Of course, the industry is a group of collusionist bastards. That's why they don't deserve my money. I disagree with their business model. When the context fits, I explain to others why I disagree with their business model. There's nothing wrong with music but there's a lot wrong with the industry. Killing piracy on P2P is fine with me. It will severely weaken the music industry over the long term. Everybody understands that P2P can be a huge boon for independent artists. By clearing out the shitstorm of RIAA titles, P2P can realize its true benevolent power to equalize artists to industry. Instead of getting someone like Hammer (someone who tells the industry to fsck off) every 10 years, we'll have that every six months. That timeframe will get shorter and shorter until the market becomes fair between industry and artists.
They're not going to kill P2P. What will happen is that the free ride will be over, and the control over the 'net will return to the geeks who created it - instead of a lot of "pop noize", we'll actually be able to find interesting bands on P2P - you know, the unsigned bands that haven't sold out to the RIAA and their minions.
The most insightful comment in the thread. Wish I had mod points.
Amigo, don't confuse people with the facts. This is Slashdot. Refusing to buy is the only legitimate course of action. The labels are not enslaving artists even if their contracts are crap. Children are not starving. People are not dying. If we rely solely on market forces and strive to be on the ethical high ground, the industry will have no excuse. Right now, they have a very good excuse for their actions--people are stealing music. We might not like their price but that doesn't warrant being as criminal as they are. It requires restraint and maturity. There are other things to do besides buy mass produced music.
I'm not sure what you were getting at. It's against the law for a private organization to set people up for a crime. Even official sting operations are questionable. That's probably why they want the FBI involved. That's definitely why their quest to enforce copyright through machine destruction is an abortion.