Why not send an email to CEO of Valve, Gabe Newell and tell him how you feel.
gaben@valvesoftware.com
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he does not consider himself a pirate at all, and makes no claim to the title.
This is believable. After all nobody likes every song ever written, so obviously he is not downloading songs in order to listen to them (well not all of them), but moreso to archive them.
I don't believe that the effort to rig an election differs much whether the voting machines are developed out or in house.
In any case I'm not talking about rigging elections, I'm talking about accuracy and security of the software, which could be influenced by someone wanting to rig an election but could also be influenced by someone rushing the job or being careless.
Without doubt. This is the whole problem, you contract a private company to create this system for you and we all know what happens then. They try to get it out the door as quick as possible in order to get paid. result is an inferior product.
There is absolutely no need to have voting machines installed in record time. The development of these machines should be handled by a government dept. The project deadline should be "when it's ready".
I've been using foobar2000 for the last 3 or 4 months extensively (I had used it before, but it always had a little niggle that forced me back to winamp).
Now it's my number 1 music player, loads of customisations, I love the way you can make the tray icon pop up a balloon with the artist and song name. It's much less obtrusive in this sense than winamp where you always need the window in view. Also has great sound.
Well if we consider punishment based on a per person affected basis (which i think is normal (if you kill 2 ppl you get 2 life sentences)), then we can view this sentence (assuming 1 million spam emails sent for sake of argument) as 1 million consecutive sentences of 4.73 minutes each. This sentence (4.73 minutes per person) stacks up favourably with rape sentence of 2 years per person.
As GBS pointed out in The Intelligent Women's Guide to Capitalism and Communism crime and many social ills are directly related to poverty. Rich people are the most affected by crime. Therefore it is in the interests of the rich to subsidise the poor. Even if the poor are lazy bastards who just don't want to work (there will always be a % of the population with this attitude, making them poor doesn't make them want to work), it is still in the interests of people who want to live without crime to keep them above the poverty line via handouts.
Which is why Democratic states on the east and west coasts should cede from the Union and *join* Canada. Most of them are on Canadas borders so this should be no problem. And then Canada will be the powerhouse of North America with the USA cradled in her arms....mwahahaha. and everyone will be much happier.
wow, I have owned my own pcs since about 1992 and been online since about 1994 and I have NEVER had ANY virus software on any of my pc's (windows xp os currently on my main pc) which are on and connected 24/7.
Don't believe the rubbish these idiots spew. The only virus software you need is common sense.
I just don't buy it. Maybe the code drones who work in big corporates will become extinct (who cares, right?). But so much programming is innovation, look to small companies to continue in this field as they always have, it'll never die.
You can't easily outsource a product in it's infant stages.
why does he need the money? surely its the charities that lost out here, not him, since he was going to donate the proceeds to charities (yeah right). so donate to a charity if you feel sorry for him.
How many people are going to want to use Mono to execute COM objects running on Windows boxes?
uhm all windows developers? you are right in what you say, we dont want com to run on linux but there is an awful lot of com "legacy" code out there which is very valuable. maybe this is rightly not the focus for mono, but if you want to take away sales from MS then it would be good.
should it pay for the processor time that keeps it alive?
an AI is like a border collie, it has inherently strong work ethic and asks nothing in return. it cannot survive very well on its own - it is dependant living in processor time but you keep it alive, nothing else - like a goldfish in a bowl.
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Why not send an email to CEO of Valve, Gabe Newell and tell him how you feel.
gaben@valvesoftware.com
he does not consider himself a pirate at all, and makes no claim to the title.
This is believable. After all nobody likes every song ever written, so obviously he is not downloading songs in order to listen to them (well not all of them), but moreso to archive them.
I don't believe that the effort to rig an election differs much whether the voting machines are developed out or in house.
In any case I'm not talking about rigging elections, I'm talking about accuracy and security of the software, which could be influenced by someone wanting to rig an election but could also be influenced by someone rushing the job or being careless.
Without doubt. This is the whole problem, you contract a private company to create this system for you and we all know what happens then. They try to get it out the door as quick as possible in order to get paid. result is an inferior product.
There is absolutely no need to have voting machines installed in record time. The development of these machines should be handled by a government dept. The project deadline should be "when it's ready".
I've been using foobar2000 for the last 3 or 4 months extensively (I had used it before, but it always had a little niggle that forced me back to winamp).
Now it's my number 1 music player, loads of customisations, I love the way you can make the tray icon pop up a balloon with the artist and song name. It's much less obtrusive in this sense than winamp where you always need the window in view. Also has great sound.
Better app than clunky old winamp imo.
Well if we consider punishment based on a per person affected basis (which i think is normal (if you kill 2 ppl you get 2 life sentences)), then we can view this sentence (assuming 1 million spam emails sent for sake of argument) as 1 million consecutive sentences of 4.73 minutes each. This sentence (4.73 minutes per person) stacks up favourably with rape sentence of 2 years per person.
As GBS pointed out in The Intelligent Women's Guide to Capitalism and Communism crime and many social ills are directly related to poverty. Rich people are the most affected by crime. Therefore it is in the interests of the rich to subsidise the poor. Even if the poor are lazy bastards who just don't want to work (there will always be a % of the population with this attitude, making them poor doesn't make them want to work), it is still in the interests of people who want to live without crime to keep them above the poverty line via handouts.
Which is why Democratic states on the east and west coasts should cede from the Union and *join* Canada. Most of them are on Canadas borders so this should be no problem. And then Canada will be the powerhouse of North America with the USA cradled in her arms....mwahahaha. and everyone will be much happier.
wow, I have owned my own pcs since about 1992 and been online since about 1994 and I have NEVER had ANY virus software on any of my pc's (windows xp os currently on my main pc) which are on and connected 24/7.
Don't believe the rubbish these idiots spew. The only virus software you need is common sense.
I just don't buy it.
Maybe the code drones who work in big corporates will become extinct (who cares, right?). But so much programming is innovation, look to small companies to continue in this field as they always have, it'll never die.
You can't easily outsource a product in it's infant stages.
What do my fellow code-dinosaurs plan to do before the asteroid hits?
The asteriod has already hit and this is the nuclear winter...
Is there some rule somewhere that says if you are an evil hacker from Korea, you can only connect to the net from Korea?
Renault built probably the most dominant Formula 1 engine of the 1990's
have to agree with you.
why does he need the money? surely its the charities that lost out here, not him, since he was going to donate the proceeds to charities (yeah right). so donate to a charity if you feel sorry for him.
How many people are going to want to use Mono to execute COM objects running on Windows boxes?
uhm all windows developers? you are right in what you say, we dont want com to run on linux but there is an awful lot of com "legacy" code out there which is very valuable. maybe this is rightly not the focus for mono, but if you want to take away sales from MS then it would be good.
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Does your AI "die"
an AI "dies" when it looses its saved state.
what kind of psychological damage will occur
nothing - twins dont suffer any damage.
should it pay for the processor time that keeps it alive?
an AI is like a border collie, it has inherently strong work ethic and asks nothing in return. it cannot survive very well on its own - it is dependant living in processor time but you keep it alive, nothing else - like a goldfish in a bowl.
I would say legally OR technically sound.
Freenet is an example of a network that (in theory) could survive by being technically sound but not legally sound.