I think you took my comment a bit too literally. But to clarify using one of my examples, I played Civ 2 right up the moment Civ 3 was released. I expect to continue playing Civ 3 until the next one is released.
Right, but did you wait a year or two to buy Civ 2 before you started playing it? Did you wait another year or two for Civ 3 before you bought it? The fact is, new games only come out for Windows. If you like to play new cutting edge games without waiting for years for someone to (hopefully) port it then settle with Linux for games. Personally I'm like most people, my windows box (and PS2) is for games and my Linux box is my file server, shell box for programming, and all around general purpose workhorse. The Windows box is just a desktop for browsing IE only sites and a game machine. The right tool for the right job.
Now imagine if they had a virtually limitless source of highly skilled, computer-savvy labour, such as a law which targeted people who had computers and knew how to use them. They could put that labour to use in ways that conventional prison labour is unsuitable for.
Sorry, but it still doesn't hold water. The $10k-$15k in taxes the government loses from the average middle class computer geek would be far outweighed by the expenses to hold you in prison. You're much more valuable to the government in the industry earning an income and paying your taxes. If they through everybody in prison the economy would collapse and there wouldn't BE anyone to pay taxes to pay for the prisons. That's why the average criminal in jail is some low income guy that got busted on some petty drug charge. They probably weren't paying taxes in the first place and are far more likely to end up in prison because they're worthless to society (in strict monetary sense.. they may be fine individuals, but the government sees dollar signs before any other quality).
Let's see, 3 years in prison, 20 million or more P2P users. Yea, that should take about 10% of the population out of commission for awhile. Listen guys, the average P2P user is a middle class person. These type of people do not go to jail. Only scummy drug users and low income people go to jail. Don't worry about it guys.
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I agree. The Superbowl is the most overhyped football game of the year and is completely boring (IMHO) unless your home team is one of the teams playing. Personally I'm waiting for the war in Iraq to begin so I can cheer on the home team (Americans) in their fight for freedom of the Iraqi people. Goooooo Yankees! I remember watching the Gulf War as a young teenager and it was the best time. I never watched CNN that much in all my life before then and only September 11th had me watching it like that again. Wars are excellent to stimulate the patriotism of a nation. It's like a national football game.
Booting from CD-ROM could have existed back that, but I don't know.
My old Sparc boots from CD-ROM (scsi), but I doubt there were any PCs that did it since there wasn't really a defined bootable CD-ROM definition for PCs. Maybe Macs might have had it.
Kevin Mitnick is allowed back on the net and the net goes fubar
Why is this moderated as funny? He has a valid point. Kevin Mitnick gets on the Internet and a few days later we're infected with a huge DDOS'ing worm? I doubt it's a coincidence. Somebody go arrest him immediately and hold him until we figure this out.;-)
Why is it that a $300 billion some company isn't able to hire someone who check the with the trademark office to see if any of the crap they are using is already trade marked?
Maybe this $300 billion company figured they could strong-arm the trademark owner out of the name like they strong-arm everyone else in the industry?
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And the first patches to fix critical game-limiting bugs should start rolling out in June.;-) Just because it's gold doesn't mean it's finished anymore in the gaming industry. That's what 100 meg patches are for. Nothing pisses me off more than opening a brand new game and having to download a bunch of updates before I can play it.
Damnit, Slashdot needs an edit-post function. Anyway, take that as you will. Should be scantily, but I'm sure some of them are clad in excrement. It is a geek's fantasy afterall and people have all kinds of fetishes. Ick.
Excellent! An anime course. This could round out my course schedule next semester of finger painting, shadow puppets, and nap time. I knew we were paying those big bucks for a college education for some reason: Cartoons! Woohoo.
Just kidding, calm down all you anime fanatics. If I can watch Star Trek then you can watch cartoons featuring scatily clad Japanese chicks of questionable age.:-)
Talk about deja vu. I was just watching a documentary on trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt last night. Imagine my suprise when just around 100 years later we're coming back around to the same type of corporations that dominated the late 19th century. Huge trusts that are beyond the reach of the government whose CEOs are much more powerful than the President of the United States. They're huge monster behemoths who devour everything around them. Where is our modern day Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
So basically, according to the performance graphs, Apache 2.0 is slower than 1.3 and doesn't support running PHP. Oooh, where can I sign up?;-) I think I'll stick with 1.3.27 for quite some time until nobody updates it anymore and all my favorite mods are ported to Apache 2.0.
Because it's an auto industry conspiracy! Conspiracy I say! And everyone knows that the auto industry is responsible for SUV's and all SUV owners are terrorists! It's the terrorists!!!
To take it further, Tim Robbins played a domestic terrorist in Arlington Road.. he also played Merlin in Top Gun. Tom Cruise also starred in Top Gun as "Maverick". Tom Cruise starred in "A Few Good Men" which featured Kevin Bacon. Coincidence?
If you're interested, you can listen in online at CBC Radio [www.cbc.ca] (Radio One or Radio Two) or BBC [bbc.co.uk] (1,2,3,4, etc., etc.) and find out what radio that isn't tied by umbilical cord to Big Business can be.
Monty Python and Benny Hill reruns? Oh, let's not forget that unbiased British news (wink wink). If it's anti-American, you'll find it on the BBC. hehe. No thanks, if I'm going to listen to propaganda I'll stick with Fox News.
And when they come to Earth and systematically wipe us out one city at a time, one brave computer geek will upload a virus to thier mothership, and take the whole alien fleet out! They'll make movies out of this!
Just remember guys, a few things we know about these aliens so far: They're VERY susceptible to dying from earth based bacteria (War of the Worlds), their computers can be interfaced via Macintosh computers.. although I'm afraid we'll need to use OS9 or Classic mode to do that since they aren't advanced enough to use a BSD kernel yet (Independence Day), and water is deadly to them! (Signs) Remember this when they start invading guys.
That won't work. Everyone knows US businesses only think a couple of years ahead at most. A Mars mission takes decades of planning. Japan might have beat us to it if their economy hadn't tanked. Alternatively the other way to explore is to get a government in competition with another government in order to "beat" them. It's good old nationalistic pride. Governments usually have more disposable income than corporations do and can afford to lose it if the whole mission fails. Just tax their citizens more.:-) Corporations can't just magically remake those profits lost.
Yes, and before then things will really hot up. India is also planning on sending humans into space. The next race for the moon could be between India and China. Will the US go one better?
No, the USA will sit back, drink a cold beer and say "Been there, done that, got the dirt and the rocks already. Boooooorrring.":-) Face it guys, there's nothing on the moon. It's as barren and lifeless as it looks down here. The only thing that might be on it is shit that's kicked up from the Earth. Even then it's too expensive to mine it.
Repeat ad infinitum, and you end up with a situation in which your favorite CDs must be replaced or ripped reburned every couple of years or they begin to skip or pop. Of course, ripping and reburning don't work if you've managed to get a really nice scratch in the middle of your favorite song...
No problem, I ripped all my CDs to mp3s and just make mix CDs for my car. When I get a new car CD player that plays MP3s directly I won't even bother converting them to CD format anymore. My originals are safely stored away and if a burned copy gets scratched, who cares, I'm out like 25 cents. Of course, the recording industry would have us all believe I'm worst than a child molester for doing this, but nobody's perfect right? Heaven forbid consumers actually are able to make backups of the data they bought in case it gets ruined.. they'd rather have you rebuy it again and again. Screw that.
Oh, I'm not saying Slashdot doesn't suck, it's just that when I loaded the page it took 2 seconds. At other times I just get dumped to a front page and every single story has the same huge quarter page slashvertisement next to it or other random weirdness. Since I've been reading the site for years though I've come to expect them to break the site on a regular basis. I mean, come on, it's not like this is CNN or Microsoft.com or something. So what if it's down or broke? A couple thousand geeks get pissed off? (600k accounts == 10k "real" accounts and 590k troll accounts that never got deleted.:-)
You could always just get a Mac. Speaking of Macs, does anyone know of a PC case similar to the G4 tower case with a flip down side panel that holds the motherboard? That's just the niftiest case I've ever seen and I can't find anything like that in the PC world. Does Apple sue casemakers out of existence if they attempt to copy it? I'm not referring to the silly desk lamp Macs, but rather the elegant tower G4s with actual expandibility.:-) My PC looks absolutely archaic next to the G4 towers I've seen.:-(
In a physical world example it would be like giving me a contract to sign but removing several pages from it.
But the checkboxes ARE there. He just didn't bother scrolling down far enough to see them that they were checked. They weren't missing or hidden or anything. Sure, it's sleazy but we all know Real is a sleazy company. When I have to uncheck fifteen thousand options to NOT get a shitload of spam from them it should tell you something about the company. Honestly though, does anyone actually put their REAL e-mail address on any of these applications anymore? frank.rizzo@example.com must get a shitload of my spam.
Well, I know this isn't much help but the History Channel had a nice biography on him. He was a real asshole. If you wanted to work for him you had to sign away all your rights to any patents you develop to him. How do you think he "invented" all that stuff? Hundreds of inventors came to work for him and he ended up patenting THEIR work. Sounds like what the RIAA does today for music artists. He also had a stranglehold on the early motion picture and music industries single handedly. He dictated what could and could not be recorded depending on his personal taste. Oh yea, let's not forget he was almost completely deaf at the time he was doing this.;-) We see Edison through rose colored glasses as some great inventor the same way kids will see Bill Gates as a great innovator 100 years from now. "Wow, that's the guy who created the computer operating system and made everything friendly right?"
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Right, but did you wait a year or two to buy Civ 2 before you started playing it? Did you wait another year or two for Civ 3 before you bought it? The fact is, new games only come out for Windows. If you like to play new cutting edge games without waiting for years for someone to (hopefully) port it then settle with Linux for games. Personally I'm like most people, my windows box (and PS2) is for games and my Linux box is my file server, shell box for programming, and all around general purpose workhorse. The Windows box is just a desktop for browsing IE only sites and a game machine. The right tool for the right job.
Sorry, but it still doesn't hold water. The $10k-$15k in taxes the government loses from the average middle class computer geek would be far outweighed by the expenses to hold you in prison. You're much more valuable to the government in the industry earning an income and paying your taxes. If they through everybody in prison the economy would collapse and there wouldn't BE anyone to pay taxes to pay for the prisons. That's why the average criminal in jail is some low income guy that got busted on some petty drug charge. They probably weren't paying taxes in the first place and are far more likely to end up in prison because they're worthless to society (in strict monetary sense.. they may be fine individuals, but the government sees dollar signs before any other quality).
Let's see, 3 years in prison, 20 million or more P2P users. Yea, that should take about 10% of the population out of commission for awhile. Listen guys, the average P2P user is a middle class person. These type of people do not go to jail. Only scummy drug users and low income people go to jail. Don't worry about it guys.
I agree. The Superbowl is the most overhyped football game of the year and is completely boring (IMHO) unless your home team is one of the teams playing. Personally I'm waiting for the war in Iraq to begin so I can cheer on the home team (Americans) in their fight for freedom of the Iraqi people. Goooooo Yankees! I remember watching the Gulf War as a young teenager and it was the best time. I never watched CNN that much in all my life before then and only September 11th had me watching it like that again. Wars are excellent to stimulate the patriotism of a nation. It's like a national football game.
Don't feel so bad, neither do the Browns or the Bengals. (I'm from Cleveland so I can say that. :-)
My old Sparc boots from CD-ROM (scsi), but I doubt there were any PCs that did it since there wasn't really a defined bootable CD-ROM definition for PCs. Maybe Macs might have had it.
Why is this moderated as funny? He has a valid point. Kevin Mitnick gets on the Internet and a few days later we're infected with a huge DDOS'ing worm? I doubt it's a coincidence. Somebody go arrest him immediately and hold him until we figure this out. ;-)
Maybe this $300 billion company figured they could strong-arm the trademark owner out of the name like they strong-arm everyone else in the industry?
And the first patches to fix critical game-limiting bugs should start rolling out in June. ;-) Just because it's gold doesn't mean it's finished anymore in the gaming industry. That's what 100 meg patches are for. Nothing pisses me off more than opening a brand new game and having to download a bunch of updates before I can play it.
Damnit, Slashdot needs an edit-post function. Anyway, take that as you will. Should be scantily, but I'm sure some of them are clad in excrement. It is a geek's fantasy afterall and people have all kinds of fetishes. Ick.
Just kidding, calm down all you anime fanatics. If I can watch Star Trek then you can watch cartoons featuring scatily clad Japanese chicks of questionable age. :-)
Talk about deja vu. I was just watching a documentary on trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt last night. Imagine my suprise when just around 100 years later we're coming back around to the same type of corporations that dominated the late 19th century. Huge trusts that are beyond the reach of the government whose CEOs are much more powerful than the President of the United States. They're huge monster behemoths who devour everything around them. Where is our modern day Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
So basically, according to the performance graphs, Apache 2.0 is slower than 1.3 and doesn't support running PHP. Oooh, where can I sign up? ;-) I think I'll stick with 1.3.27 for quite some time until nobody updates it anymore and all my favorite mods are ported to Apache 2.0.
To take it further, Tim Robbins played a domestic terrorist in Arlington Road.. he also played Merlin in Top Gun. Tom Cruise also starred in Top Gun as "Maverick". Tom Cruise starred in "A Few Good Men" which featured Kevin Bacon. Coincidence?
Monty Python and Benny Hill reruns? Oh, let's not forget that unbiased British news (wink wink). If it's anti-American, you'll find it on the BBC. hehe. No thanks, if I'm going to listen to propaganda I'll stick with Fox News.
Just remember guys, a few things we know about these aliens so far: They're VERY susceptible to dying from earth based bacteria (War of the Worlds), their computers can be interfaced via Macintosh computers.. although I'm afraid we'll need to use OS9 or Classic mode to do that since they aren't advanced enough to use a BSD kernel yet (Independence Day), and water is deadly to them! (Signs) Remember this when they start invading guys.
That won't work. Everyone knows US businesses only think a couple of years ahead at most. A Mars mission takes decades of planning. Japan might have beat us to it if their economy hadn't tanked. Alternatively the other way to explore is to get a government in competition with another government in order to "beat" them. It's good old nationalistic pride. Governments usually have more disposable income than corporations do and can afford to lose it if the whole mission fails. Just tax their citizens more. :-) Corporations can't just magically remake those profits lost.
No, the USA will sit back, drink a cold beer and say "Been there, done that, got the dirt and the rocks already. Boooooorrring."
No problem, I ripped all my CDs to mp3s and just make mix CDs for my car. When I get a new car CD player that plays MP3s directly I won't even bother converting them to CD format anymore. My originals are safely stored away and if a burned copy gets scratched, who cares, I'm out like 25 cents. Of course, the recording industry would have us all believe I'm worst than a child molester for doing this, but nobody's perfect right? Heaven forbid consumers actually are able to make backups of the data they bought in case it gets ruined.. they'd rather have you rebuy it again and again. Screw that.
Oh, I'm not saying Slashdot doesn't suck, it's just that when I loaded the page it took 2 seconds. At other times I just get dumped to a front page and every single story has the same huge quarter page slashvertisement next to it or other random weirdness. Since I've been reading the site for years though I've come to expect them to break the site on a regular basis. I mean, come on, it's not like this is CNN or Microsoft.com or something. So what if it's down or broke? A couple thousand geeks get pissed off? (600k accounts == 10k "real" accounts and 590k troll accounts that never got deleted. :-)
Served it up to me in under 2 seconds. Sounds more like congestion of the network somewhere instead of the server.
You could always just get a Mac. Speaking of Macs, does anyone know of a PC case similar to the G4 tower case with a flip down side panel that holds the motherboard? That's just the niftiest case I've ever seen and I can't find anything like that in the PC world. Does Apple sue casemakers out of existence if they attempt to copy it? I'm not referring to the silly desk lamp Macs, but rather the elegant tower G4s with actual expandibility. :-) My PC looks absolutely archaic next to the G4 towers I've seen. :-(
What about the large installed base of SCSI, another parallel technology? Will SCSI be going serial soon as well?
But the checkboxes ARE there. He just didn't bother scrolling down far enough to see them that they were checked. They weren't missing or hidden or anything. Sure, it's sleazy but we all know Real is a sleazy company. When I have to uncheck fifteen thousand options to NOT get a shitload of spam from them it should tell you something about the company. Honestly though, does anyone actually put their REAL e-mail address on any of these applications anymore? frank.rizzo@example.com must get a shitload of my spam.
Well, I know this isn't much help but the History Channel had a nice biography on him. He was a real asshole. If you wanted to work for him you had to sign away all your rights to any patents you develop to him. How do you think he "invented" all that stuff? Hundreds of inventors came to work for him and he ended up patenting THEIR work. Sounds like what the RIAA does today for music artists. He also had a stranglehold on the early motion picture and music industries single handedly. He dictated what could and could not be recorded depending on his personal taste. Oh yea, let's not forget he was almost completely deaf at the time he was doing this. ;-) We see Edison through rose colored glasses as some great inventor the same way kids will see Bill Gates as a great innovator 100 years from now. "Wow, that's the guy who created the computer operating system and made everything friendly right?"