A lot of people are dying now, not because accidents like this, but by the hand of terrorist states like Israel. And you think what happens over Texas is more important?
You're damn right to post as an AC. When things like this as significant to the world as space shuttles go down, people put a lot of emotional investment into it.
Though, I consider it a good thing that no media reports based on body count alone, I will concede you are right in the regard of under-reporting of events in Israel.
Simply making money doesn't magically give them legitimacy.
Oh, you must be new to The States. Welcome. Contact the local immigration office, as a new citizen you're entitled to a miniature flag for your car, a handgun, and a jesus fish.
A couple of posts above state that spammers will "just adjust their tactics." Talk like this always puzzles me; on the spammer's side, does this not help him? If I'm selling a combination weight loss drug/mail order bride/penis enlarger/cable descrambler for only three payments of $49.99 in such a manner that every spam blocker in the world filters me, logically I'm only being filtered by people who know better than to buy my "product," thus not irritating them, in effect helping to slow regulation, and I don't loose touch with any significant chunk of my target demographic. Of course, this applies with the exception of corporate environments or similiar situations where Joe Insecure has someone else managing spam.
I would imagine Starcraft would run VERY slowly on an SNES.
That's N64, you insensitive clod!
Oh, right. Those guys actually have CPUs comparable to my ancient Macintosh Performa 6220CD which acted as my Starcraft box for ages. That's 75 mhz of crippled (the Performa line was aimed at consumers) processing power. Its certianly a testament to the black magics Blizzard writes their software in, as it runs on anything.
Eventually the Internet will become an essential service in any business that's open to the public: malls, airports, schools, bus stops... just like drinking fountains, walkways, and bathrooms.
My god, I must have fallen into some sort of trans-dimensional rift; I'M BACK IN 1997!
...is just how "non-profit" you have to be in order to avoid fines. There are plenty of phony non-profits with no real motivation outside of acting as a front putting money in a very few people's pockets *coughAmeriDebtcough*; though this is a loophole of sorts which applies to much more than just telephone spamming.
Hear hear! I'm tired of be likened to the dimwits in Best Buy commercials. We play computer games, solder, slap our heads in the presence of lesser mortals, and occasionally endure a full body dip in sun tan lotion to embark upon the outside world... and sometimes we buy digital watches to irradiate our testicles, but that is only a minor part in our lives.
Are there enough mod points left to mark me as -1, Troll to kill the presence of a dissenting opinoin?
It seems today's par for the coarse is "you don't need blood/violence/etc. to make a game fun, despite what everyone thinks" I agree entirely, however nearly every tired post in this discussion has carried the implication that it has NO place in gaming, which I contest.
To crudely break down the spectrum of games, for the purpose of my argument, you have games which function as toys on the tv screen/monitor and what the suggestive masses have referred to as "mature" or "realistic." To summerise simply, its everything else.
Miyomoto-esque games are toys. Just that. At a conceptual level, they are playtime with a controller.
The "other" games find their base in conflict in some form. Violence easily serves as a vehicle for the conflict the game is based around and just that; and it can be done extremely well. To cite an example, I point towards Half-Life where the player is dropped into a brutally hostile environment with a group of other bystanders where the goal is to survive to live another day (which boasts familiarities with some other aspects of life... heh) or any of the Marathon Trilogy in a universe where the player is kicked around and manipulated by entities with more power and insight into the larger situation than he.
Yes, games don't HAVE to be violent to be fun, but they CAN use those elements to make it so, and I think that's a fair conclusion.
I dunno, build more bombs? Realistically, that's what would happen. Come on, you know I'm right!
Superior management? HAH! The only reason we can do big projects at all is because we disperse the money as widely as possible so congressman from ____ doesn't call it "mismanagement" and raise all sorts of hell because his state is getting a piece of the pie.
I'm going to take a dissenting view and say the first episode seemed like a rehash of all the done to death on the discovery channel paranormal concepts. Three hours missing time, bloody noses, car won't start up, aliens can read minds, obnoxious overwieght child actors etc. Nothing original.
There are actually multiple lobbies for tech related issues. Some are just starting out, though most have some efforts occuring right now.
I guess the meat of my proposal had more to do with bringing these issues to the attention of the Banzai-Buddy using general public by expanding on what these Farscape fanboys are doing. Secondly, I expressed a wish for a "geek lobby."
In hindsight, those are two different things. Airing an ad on your local news station saying "tell your congressmen not to vote for the ________ act which does ______ and will hurt you by ______" is different from going directly to the people with power potentially with our wallets open.
Now, let me say, additionally, we very much need both of these things. Campiegn contributions from groups, at one level, will go a LONG way (further than any letters/fax/phone calls we Slashdotters could immediatly invoke) to making sure our voices are heard and taken into account. That is what I had immediately in mind when I spoke of the geek lobby.
When I've brought issues like DMCA up with a friend (you guys are doing this too, right?), even the non-technical think they're horrible. We have the advantage of being the "good guys" in the eyes of anyone who doesn't own an Evil Corporation or believes the RIAA's Indoctrination. But this advantage is useless if people just don't know. This is where we emulate the followers of Farscape."
I'm sitting here wondering why we Slashdotters aren't raising money to air our own awareness ads regarding DMCA, SSSCA, and other Bad Things.
We need a geek lobby. Now.
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Are people throwing random buzzwords into stories theses days in order to get them posted?
Do you know of any other Slashdot?
You're damn right to post as an AC. When things like this as significant to the world as space shuttles go down, people put a lot of emotional investment into it.
Though, I consider it a good thing that no media reports based on body count alone, I will concede you are right in the regard of under-reporting of events in Israel.
Woooooot! FP! Lemchatters envy me!
Simply making money doesn't magically give them legitimacy.
Oh, you must be new to The States. Welcome. Contact the local immigration office, as a new citizen you're entitled to a miniature flag for your car, a handgun, and a jesus fish.
A couple of posts above state that spammers will "just adjust their tactics." Talk like this always puzzles me; on the spammer's side, does this not help him? If I'm selling a combination weight loss drug/mail order bride/penis enlarger/cable descrambler for only three payments of $49.99 in such a manner that every spam blocker in the world filters me, logically I'm only being filtered by people who know better than to buy my "product," thus not irritating them, in effect helping to slow regulation, and I don't loose touch with any significant chunk of my target demographic. Of course, this applies with the exception of corporate environments or similiar situations where Joe Insecure has someone else managing spam.
Can anyone share some +5 Insight on the matter?
I would imagine Starcraft would run VERY slowly on an SNES.
That's N64, you insensitive clod!
Oh, right. Those guys actually have CPUs comparable to my ancient Macintosh Performa 6220CD which acted as my Starcraft box for ages. That's 75 mhz of crippled (the Performa line was aimed at consumers) processing power. Its certianly a testament to the black magics Blizzard writes their software in, as it runs on anything.
Eventually the Internet will become an essential service in any business that's open to the public: malls, airports, schools, bus stops... just like drinking fountains, walkways, and bathrooms.
My god, I must have fallen into some sort of trans-dimensional rift; I'M BACK IN 1997!
/me runs off to buy stock
...is just how "non-profit" you have to be in order to avoid fines. There are plenty of phony non-profits with no real motivation outside of acting as a front putting money in a very few people's pockets *coughAmeriDebtcough*; though this is a loophole of sorts which applies to much more than just telephone spamming.
A flamethrower made from an old Gateway would have been more economical!
Applefritter has a pretty good section on these. Here's the direct link: http://www.applefritter.com/macclones/index.html
Note to moderators: I feel +5, Informative is only fair :)
Hear hear! I'm tired of be likened to the dimwits in Best Buy commercials. We play computer games, solder, slap our heads in the presence of lesser mortals, and occasionally endure a full body dip in sun tan lotion to embark upon the outside world... and sometimes we buy digital watches to irradiate our testicles, but that is only a minor part in our lives.
Are there enough mod points left to mark me as -1, Troll to kill the presence of a dissenting opinoin?
It seems today's par for the coarse is "you don't need blood/violence/etc. to make a game fun, despite what everyone thinks" I agree entirely, however nearly every tired post in this discussion has carried the implication that it has NO place in gaming, which I contest.
To crudely break down the spectrum of games, for the purpose of my argument, you have games which function as toys on the tv screen/monitor and what the suggestive masses have referred to as "mature" or "realistic." To summerise simply, its everything else.
Miyomoto-esque games are toys. Just that. At a conceptual level, they are playtime with a controller.
The "other" games find their base in conflict in some form. Violence easily serves as a vehicle for the conflict the game is based around and just that; and it can be done extremely well. To cite an example, I point towards Half-Life where the player is dropped into a brutally hostile environment with a group of other bystanders where the goal is to survive to live another day (which boasts familiarities with some other aspects of life... heh) or any of the Marathon Trilogy in a universe where the player is kicked around and manipulated by entities with more power and insight into the larger situation than he.
Yes, games don't HAVE to be violent to be fun, but they CAN use those elements to make it so, and I think that's a fair conclusion.
Social justice is a beautiful thing. You know, I bet Fritz Hollings' mailbox isn't very heavy...
I dunno, build more bombs? Realistically, that's what would happen. Come on, you know I'm right!
Superior management? HAH! The only reason we can do big projects at all is because we disperse the money as widely as possible so congressman from ____ doesn't call it "mismanagement" and raise all sorts of hell because his state is getting a piece of the pie.
I'm going to take a dissenting view and say the first episode seemed like a rehash of all the done to death on the discovery channel paranormal concepts. Three hours missing time, bloody noses, car won't start up, aliens can read minds, obnoxious overwieght child actors etc. Nothing original.
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed for this...
Our new governor-elect, Mitt Romney, is a fine specimen of business-buddy republican. I wouldn't be totally shocked if he threw a wrench into this.
Hehehe, I needed a good laugh this morning:
[...]you won't be able to discreetly make love on the opposite end of the house from your guests with your SO.
Clearly if this is a concern, you aren't in the target demographic.
I only listen to NPR, what are they going to sell me? A platter of dead tree? Hah!
Or better yet; "Its better to be a pirate than to join the navy" -Steve Jobs
There are actually multiple lobbies for tech related issues. Some are just starting out, though most have some efforts occuring right now.
I guess the meat of my proposal had more to do with bringing these issues to the attention of the Banzai-Buddy using general public by expanding on what these Farscape fanboys are doing. Secondly, I expressed a wish for a "geek lobby."
In hindsight, those are two different things. Airing an ad on your local news station saying "tell your congressmen not to vote for the ________ act which does ______ and will hurt you by ______" is different from going directly to the people with power potentially with our wallets open.
Now, let me say, additionally, we very much need both of these things. Campiegn contributions from groups, at one level, will go a LONG way (further than any letters/fax/phone calls we Slashdotters could immediatly invoke) to making sure our voices are heard and taken into account. That is what I had immediately in mind when I spoke of the geek lobby.
When I've brought issues like DMCA up with a friend (you guys are doing this too, right?), even the non-technical think they're horrible. We have the advantage of being the "good guys" in the eyes of anyone who doesn't own an Evil Corporation or believes the RIAA's Indoctrination. But this advantage is useless if people just don't know. This is where we emulate the followers of Farscape."
Maybe Bruce would like to volunteer?
I'm sitting here wondering why we Slashdotters aren't raising money to air our own awareness ads regarding DMCA, SSSCA, and other Bad Things. We need a geek lobby. Now.
Of course not! Such science would be entirely frivolous. We already have "very tiny shell scripts."
There certianly are groups that test these sorts of components.
Not many, I should hope. Just as we have "server grade" components in the tech industry, other standards exist in different industries.