Nobody ever beats the house anyway, given a long enough period of time. The best way for a casino to make money is to play fairly thus encouraging them to come back...like the "near-miss" feature on slot machines does.
I've had a driver's license for a few decades now and have lived in 7 states, and for as long as I've been driving in every place I've driven it's legal to turn right on red unless otherwise prohibitied, after first coming to a complete stop.
I've never lived in MO but I find it hard to believe the law was previously, "drive through a red light without stopping if you're making a right turn". Why would the law allow you to freely turn into oncoming traffic without stopping? It seems more likely that you were ignorant of the law rather than the law was changed (to something more reasonable) just to accomodate red light cameras.
Does the PS3's license agreement say that Sony can add or remove features at will? If so, it seems like all the ranting and noise about a lawsuit is for naught.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
Thank you for saying the same thing I wanted to say, except you said it much better than I would have.
I'll take the liberty of modifying yours to say the buffet is free for nearly everyone, only a few voluntarily pay for it.
Google makes me nervous as it continues to expand into new markets. I may not like most of the other companies that Google is going up against but they don't bother me. Why not? Because I understand what motivates them: profit and self-interest. That's black and white.
"Don't be evil", though, that's getting a bit subjective. Sure, most everyone will agree that evil is bad, at least in theory, but in practice coming to an agreement on the definition of evil is difficult. If Google wins, they're subjecting me to their definition of good, which I may or may not agree with. I like my bad guys to be bad...I like knowing they're trying to rip me off and take advantage of me. I don't want them doing things because they think it's best for me.
In other words, if I'm going to be screwed I want it to be by someone who knows he's screwing me, not by someone who thinks he's doing me a favor.
"my feeling is that they are being won over by FUD from large vendors"
If management goes with FOSS, they're right-thinking visionaries. If they prefer a commercial solution they're being swayed by FUD from the sales team.
It's a crazy idea, I know, but maybe they think the commercial solution best meets the requirements.
The Internet is not "the world as it is." You wouldn't take her to an adult bookstore and drop her off to browse, would you? The way to learn about the world is not through unsupervised web surfing. What sites is she going to where she would see porn ads anyway? I don't see porn ads in the course of my browsing (well, unless I browse to a porn site)...you're not going to find those ads on any site a prepubescent child would want to visit.
Why does "fair" even figure into this? Where is it written that anything has to be fair the way you define fair? It sounds like you consider it unfair that the world doesn't behave as you think it should...perhaps you're the one who needs to learn about the "world as it is."
Here's how we do it in our house (kids ages 11, 9, 6). The computer for the kids is in a communal room (not in a bedroom). Parental controls: on (more restrictive for the youngest). E-mail whitelist (boxtrapper): on.
How do my kids learn about the world? Let's see...school (all 3 are above grade level and in gifted programs where applicable). Family discussions. We watch TV together as well (Discover Channel has great stuff). We visit museums and historical sites. In other words, we spend time with our kids. We set limits and as they grow up and can handle more those limits are relaxed.
We don't turn them loose unsupervised then whine that the Internet is "not fair".
Yahoo still doesn't get it done for me - I still often have to search elsewhere for what I need. I mainly now use ask.com. Google's image search is still better but I prefer ask.com for my day-to-day text searches.
I agree. Just handing out cash as gifts is kind of crass, like saying, "I didn't feel like making the slightest effort to get a gift for you...here, go do it yourself." At least a gift shows the giver thought about the recipient in some way.
Of course you were modded as a troll (rule #1 here: don't mess with the Linux) but your point is a good one. As a parent to 3 kids in K-6, I'd want to know why Linux boxes would be better than the Macs in my kids' school?
It's his personal crusade...maybe he should spend his time as a volunteer instead, tutoring in the school.
"I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them..."
So you haven't bought one because it's not affordable. Yeah, I have no idea why it makes business sense for them to cut that line. I guess keeping them around to amuse you wasn't enough. Either their hardware is too expensive or their users too poor.
If it's built to run on a JVM the output can be decompiled by a Java decompiler (like JAD). How crazy does the output look, going from Ioke to Java bytecode to Java source code? Or vice versa - could one take.class files, decompile them into Ioke, and be able to work with them?
Overwhelming? I do not think it means what you think it means.
I like the occasional idle item. And if I didn't I would just skip over them, much like I do when seeing things I'm not interested in. You know, you don't have to read everything on Slashdot - it's ok to pick and choose.
You'd think Stephen Hawking would be really busy, but somehow they got him to do the opening and closing voiceover. Glad to see he's got time for some fun too.
You're making your case by referring me to a discussion of how Bioshock can be installed on 2 computers at once with the same license, and to an opinion by a Sony lawyer. I'm unswayed, as the way I read it the jury is still out on ripping CDs, so to speak.
I'm not apathetic; I'm pragmatic. My honesty pays the artists to create those entertainment products I enjoy (as well as distribution channels, etc, to get the products to me). I'm happy to pay for something I value. I don't see EULAs and licenses affecting me (or most of the population) now or in the future. Sure, I may not be able to TiVo everything I want or keep it as long as I want but that's not a problem. If that's the way they want to play, hell, I'll just watch something else, read a book, or take a walk. We're not talking about food, water, or air here.
Can you state how you will personally be affected by more restrictive licenses?
The precedent won't affect me or most other players. I've never run afoul of a EULA and I'm not likely to. See, I play the games I have; I don't try to cheat or manipulate them. My gaming systems are unmodified. I buy my music; I don't put it online for others to download and I don't download it myself (except from the service I use). I either buy or rent DVDs that I want to watch; I don't download them or burn them myself.
Describe this "terrible world" you're so fearful of that you can't respond civilly to an opposing view.
"Hello, this is mindbender. Yes, mindbender. Send your code to me, to mindbender. I don't care if you are a mere outsourced csr, for I will post messages about you and write about you on the internet if you do not do what I, mindbender, wish. Yes, I could have contacted your corporate office and asked for your legal representation but instead I chose to explain GPL to someone whose database of responses is limited to the simplest queries. Do not fail to heed mindbender's threats, randomly chosen tech support person, for we want what we want and we want it now."
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Nobody ever beats the house anyway, given a long enough period of time. The best way for a casino to make money is to play fairly thus encouraging them to come back...like the "near-miss" feature on slot machines does.
The phone was wiped remotely...clearly Apple knew which engineer lost the phone. By making the guy's name public perhaps Gizmodo saved his job.
Eh, probably not, it's not like Jobs cares about public opinion...
I've had a driver's license for a few decades now and have lived in 7 states, and for as long as I've been driving in every place I've driven it's legal to turn right on red unless otherwise prohibitied, after first coming to a complete stop.
I've never lived in MO but I find it hard to believe the law was previously, "drive through a red light without stopping if you're making a right turn". Why would the law allow you to freely turn into oncoming traffic without stopping? It seems more likely that you were ignorant of the law rather than the law was changed (to something more reasonable) just to accomodate red light cameras.
Do you also sign your card or is "check id" in lieu of your signature? If it's the latter, you're in the wrong:
http://consumerist.com/2008/07/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-your-credit-card.html
The signature is not there to prove it's your card; it's your acknowledgement that you agree to the terms and conditions of the card.
See also http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/comments/creditcard.html
Does the PS3's license agreement say that Sony can add or remove features at will? If so, it seems like all the ranting and noise about a lawsuit is for naught.
If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.
Thank you for saying the same thing I wanted to say, except you said it much better than I would have.
I'll take the liberty of modifying yours to say the buffet is free for nearly everyone, only a few voluntarily pay for it.
Google makes me nervous as it continues to expand into new markets. I may not like most of the other companies that Google is going up against but they don't bother me. Why not? Because I understand what motivates them: profit and self-interest. That's black and white.
"Don't be evil", though, that's getting a bit subjective. Sure, most everyone will agree that evil is bad, at least in theory, but in practice coming to an agreement on the definition of evil is difficult. If Google wins, they're subjecting me to their definition of good, which I may or may not agree with. I like my bad guys to be bad...I like knowing they're trying to rip me off and take advantage of me. I don't want them doing things because they think it's best for me.
In other words, if I'm going to be screwed I want it to be by someone who knows he's screwing me, not by someone who thinks he's doing me a favor.
"my feeling is that they are being won over by FUD from large vendors"
If management goes with FOSS, they're right-thinking visionaries. If they prefer a commercial solution they're being swayed by FUD from the sales team.
It's a crazy idea, I know, but maybe they think the commercial solution best meets the requirements.
The Internet is not "the world as it is." You wouldn't take her to an adult bookstore and drop her off to browse, would you? The way to learn about the world is not through unsupervised web surfing. What sites is she going to where she would see porn ads anyway? I don't see porn ads in the course of my browsing (well, unless I browse to a porn site)...you're not going to find those ads on any site a prepubescent child would want to visit.
Why does "fair" even figure into this? Where is it written that anything has to be fair the way you define fair? It sounds like you consider it unfair that the world doesn't behave as you think it should...perhaps you're the one who needs to learn about the "world as it is."
Here's how we do it in our house (kids ages 11, 9, 6). The computer for the kids is in a communal room (not in a bedroom). Parental controls: on (more restrictive for the youngest). E-mail whitelist (boxtrapper): on.
How do my kids learn about the world? Let's see...school (all 3 are above grade level and in gifted programs where applicable). Family discussions. We watch TV together as well (Discover Channel has great stuff). We visit museums and historical sites. In other words, we spend time with our kids. We set limits and as they grow up and can handle more those limits are relaxed.
We don't turn them loose unsupervised then whine that the Internet is "not fair".
Yahoo still doesn't get it done for me - I still often have to search elsewhere for what I need. I mainly now use ask.com. Google's image search is still better but I prefer ask.com for my day-to-day text searches.
I agree. Just handing out cash as gifts is kind of crass, like saying, "I didn't feel like making the slightest effort to get a gift for you...here, go do it yourself." At least a gift shows the giver thought about the recipient in some way.
What were they?
Of course you were modded as a troll (rule #1 here: don't mess with the Linux) but your point is a good one. As a parent to 3 kids in K-6, I'd want to know why Linux boxes would be better than the Macs in my kids' school?
It's his personal crusade...maybe he should spend his time as a volunteer instead, tutoring in the school.
Maybe theirs.
"I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them..."
So you haven't bought one because it's not affordable. Yeah, I have no idea why it makes business sense for them to cut that line. I guess keeping them around to amuse you wasn't enough. Either their hardware is too expensive or their users too poor.
One things for sure - there was no profit there.
If it's built to run on a JVM the output can be decompiled by a Java decompiler (like JAD). How crazy does the output look, going from Ioke to Java bytecode to Java source code? Or vice versa - could one take .class files, decompile them into Ioke, and be able to work with them?
Overwhelming? I do not think it means what you think it means.
I like the occasional idle item. And if I didn't I would just skip over them, much like I do when seeing things I'm not interested in. You know, you don't have to read everything on Slashdot - it's ok to pick and choose.
Where's the hacking part come in? Give him credit for his search and chinese language skills but hacking?
You'd think Stephen Hawking would be really busy, but somehow they got him to do the opening and closing voiceover. Glad to see he's got time for some fun too.
I would think the increasing number of skeletal remains as one approaches the dump would be sufficient.
You're making your case by referring me to a discussion of how Bioshock can be installed on 2 computers at once with the same license, and to an opinion by a Sony lawyer. I'm unswayed, as the way I read it the jury is still out on ripping CDs, so to speak.
I'm not apathetic; I'm pragmatic. My honesty pays the artists to create those entertainment products I enjoy (as well as distribution channels, etc, to get the products to me). I'm happy to pay for something I value. I don't see EULAs and licenses affecting me (or most of the population) now or in the future. Sure, I may not be able to TiVo everything I want or keep it as long as I want but that's not a problem. If that's the way they want to play, hell, I'll just watch something else, read a book, or take a walk. We're not talking about food, water, or air here.
Can you state how you will personally be affected by more restrictive licenses?
The precedent won't affect me or most other players. I've never run afoul of a EULA and I'm not likely to. See, I play the games I have; I don't try to cheat or manipulate them. My gaming systems are unmodified. I buy my music; I don't put it online for others to download and I don't download it myself (except from the service I use). I either buy or rent DVDs that I want to watch; I don't download them or burn them myself.
Describe this "terrible world" you're so fearful of that you can't respond civilly to an opposing view.
The net effect would appear to be fewer bots in the game. As a paying customer, this works for me. Thanks Blizzard.
Since you're "fluffeh", it seems that "probableh" would be in your lexicon instead.
But anonymous troll is correct..."prolly"? Keep using that, let us know how it works out in your career.
"Hello, this is mindbender. Yes, mindbender. Send your code to me, to mindbender. I don't care if you are a mere outsourced csr, for I will post messages about you and write about you on the internet if you do not do what I, mindbender, wish. Yes, I could have contacted your corporate office and asked for your legal representation but instead I chose to explain GPL to someone whose database of responses is limited to the simplest queries. Do not fail to heed mindbender's threats, randomly chosen tech support person, for we want what we want and we want it now."
Signed,
gnu/mindbender
If his "attitude and outlook" were punk, he wouldn't have appeared in court. Merely dressing like a punk to appear in court does not a punk make.