Well Timmy... here in the adult world, we tend to value our time. There are many things that are free and are definitely fun that we adults could be doing. This game has to compete with the other free, fun things that we already do. If very few of our peers find it fun, why bother wasting the time when we'd likely come to the same conclusion? We'd rather keep doing our other free, fun things. Or perhaps new free things that our peers have found to be fun.
Everyone bashes anything that is free. From free t-shirts, to a free day camp for kids, to free FPS game. If it's free it is bashed. If it cost $10, it would not be nearly as criticized. There is some sort principle I've read explaining this concept somewhere.
Okay, I think we've answered the question "Are you fun?" But the original question was whether or not the game was fun.
Are you kidding? There's absolutely no double standard here, and I'm sure everybody agrees that they should get fined 80,000 times the retail price of that GPL code in order to punish them. After all, no doubt everybody here agrees that copyright infringement equals theft.
Apple notebooks are manufactured by Asus. Don't you think that if there were some kind of significant gain in technology for battey life that it would show up in other Asus-manufactured products?
That would depend on whether or not Apple was willing to license the relevant patents(*) to Asus. If Apple is unwilling, then no... the technology will not show up in Asus products.
* Assuming the technology is novel and patents exist for it.
If you get hauled in by some secret police, you're pretty much screwed regardless of what phone you had. So wouldn't having a phone with the ability to limit detection be better than one which transmits everything in the clear?
But it's NOT a valid perspective. I know of nobody here that says people shouldn't get paid to perform work.
Yes, it is a valid perspective -- it's satire. It takes a lot of pieces from what different people write and takes it to the extreme to make a point. People have written that musicians should only get paid to perform work in concerts and get paid for merchandise, rather than for sitting on their butts for example. So the poster used satire to apply that to John Carmack, saying that he should only get paid for the act of programming and not for the end product. I see a lot of different Slashdot posts in that one post and that's no doubt by accident. Its likely intent is to provoke discussion, which it appears to be successful at doing.
On the other hand, what would the damages be? Lost wages as a perfume smeller? Usually my sense of smell does but one thing: annoy me.
You find no enjoyment from the flavor and aromas of food? The sense of taste is only a small component in food enjoyment. Losing one's sense of smell would make just about every food totally bland.
This means that if my employer pays me in nickels then I also must pay more in income tax to the feds as a nickel is worth more then five cents in pure metal value these days.
No, you can go to the bank and get nickles for 5 cents each. You can not go to the bank and get $20 gold pieces for $20 each.
Furthermore, his innocence or guilt will depend on what he paid his employees. If I agreed to work for him for $20/hour and he gave me a $20 face-value gold coin per hour, then he's innocent and an idiot.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but you won't find any odd perfect numbers by finding Mersenne primes. (2^n-1)*2^(n-1) is going to be even for all n > 1.
You missed that part where every even perfect number is of that form. It says nothing about what form odd perfect numbers take, if they exist at all.
The GP's solution doesn't break any functionality while at the same time making this exploit useless. If background images can be used to detect visit status, then just load them all regardless of visit status but still display them correctly to the user. The current implementation selectively loads only the ones that will get displayed, which is what makes this exploit possible. If queried via javascript (the other attack vector) always return the unvisited state.
Everything still works 100% in that the user sees what they always expected to see, but a malicious site will not be able to gather any information. Your solution of "completely disabling browser history for link styling" breaks functionality which, to me, isn't a better fix.
But let's look at the numbers. $1 million over the last six months. That's an average of $500K per quarter. Dell made $12.3 billion in revenue for the first quarter. So Twitter sales represent about 0.004% of their sales. OMG AMAZING TWITTER IS SO EFFECTIVE!!1!1
That's what an inherent right is - one that exists already. In order for it to be inherent, it would have to be the case, at a minimum, that it was broadly-enough recognized that you didn't have to fight against the average person's natural inclination.
So black people in the United States fifty years ago did not have an inherent right of equality since they had to fight for it?
I see what you're getting at, but here's a question which I hope isn't tangential:
If MediaSentry called up the defendant over the phone and asked "Can you verbally tell me which files you are uploading to people by your use of the filesharing program Kazaa?" and the defendant verbally provided a list of such files, would that constitute MediaSentry performing an investigation in Minnesota?
At least they used to. Starting with Opera 7 you could import a set of bookmarks, setup the home page, etc. and then distribute your own customized version of Opera. Good to see Firefox starting to consider this as well.
They had some of the best cinematography-style graphics I've ever seen, and that was years ago with per-object motion blur and so on. I only hope it doesn't turn into Project Offset: Forever.
Sounds like a non-story to me. Or does the article submitter imply that whenever companies get together, they should invite the press and make it a fully open meeting?
Yeah, so they want to get paid for their work. Might as well spin this as: "Capitalism 2.0: Your time ain't free".
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It's free. Why would you even ask if it is fun?
Well Timmy... here in the adult world, we tend to value our time. There are many things that are free and are definitely fun that we adults could be doing. This game has to compete with the other free, fun things that we already do. If very few of our peers find it fun, why bother wasting the time when we'd likely come to the same conclusion? We'd rather keep doing our other free, fun things. Or perhaps new free things that our peers have found to be fun.
Wow, the bashing didn't take long.
Everyone bashes anything that is free. From free t-shirts, to a free day camp for kids, to free FPS game. If it's free it is bashed. If it cost $10, it would not be nearly as criticized. There is some sort principle I've read explaining this concept somewhere.
Okay, I think we've answered the question "Are you fun?" But the original question was whether or not the game was fun.
And what exactly is so important about the app store that it cannot be bypassed?
Profit.
If copyright were abolished, we would be free to copy and modify software without legal repercussions, so we wouldn't need to rely so much on the GPL.
That's a bit like saying that a person without arms wouldn't rely so much on gloves.
Are you kidding? There's absolutely no double standard here, and I'm sure everybody agrees that they should get fined 80,000 times the retail price of that GPL code in order to punish them. After all, no doubt everybody here agrees that copyright infringement equals theft.
Apple notebooks are manufactured by Asus. Don't you think that if there were some kind of significant gain in technology for battey life that it would show up in other Asus-manufactured products?
That would depend on whether or not Apple was willing to license the relevant patents(*) to Asus. If Apple is unwilling, then no... the technology will not show up in Asus products.
* Assuming the technology is novel and patents exist for it.
If you get hauled in by some secret police, you're pretty much screwed regardless of what phone you had. So wouldn't having a phone with the ability to limit detection be better than one which transmits everything in the clear?
Do people have a right to have access to clean water?
People only fight when they have nothing left to loose.
If you have nothing left to loose, you are probably done fighting.
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Moderation is masturbation.
Dude, looks like a few people masturbated on your post.
It's only copyright and nobody would get harmed from sharing it. Let's get Jammie Thomas to release the source.
But it's NOT a valid perspective. I know of nobody here that says people shouldn't get paid to perform work.
Yes, it is a valid perspective -- it's satire. It takes a lot of pieces from what different people write and takes it to the extreme to make a point. People have written that musicians should only get paid to perform work in concerts and get paid for merchandise, rather than for sitting on their butts for example. So the poster used satire to apply that to John Carmack, saying that he should only get paid for the act of programming and not for the end product. I see a lot of different Slashdot posts in that one post and that's no doubt by accident. Its likely intent is to provoke discussion, which it appears to be successful at doing.
On the other hand, what would the damages be? Lost wages as a perfume smeller? Usually my sense of smell does but one thing: annoy me.
You find no enjoyment from the flavor and aromas of food? The sense of taste is only a small component in food enjoyment. Losing one's sense of smell would make just about every food totally bland.
This means that if my employer pays me in nickels then I also must pay more in income tax to the feds as a nickel is worth more then five cents in pure metal value these days.
No, you can go to the bank and get nickles for 5 cents each. You can not go to the bank and get $20 gold pieces for $20 each.
Furthermore, his innocence or guilt will depend on what he paid his employees. If I agreed to work for him for $20/hour and he gave me a $20 face-value gold coin per hour, then he's innocent and an idiot.
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Well, it worked for Elvis.
Privacy and transparency are contrary goals. Given the choice, I choose transparency. Privacy should end.
Obviously privacy didn't work for Elvis, but are you saying that Elvis is now fully transparent... as in, he's a ghost?
Well, I hate to break it to you, but you won't find any odd perfect numbers by finding Mersenne primes. (2^n-1)*2^(n-1) is going to be even for all n > 1.
You missed that part where every even perfect number is of that form. It says nothing about what form odd perfect numbers take, if they exist at all.
The GP's solution doesn't break any functionality while at the same time making this exploit useless. If background images can be used to detect visit status, then just load them all regardless of visit status but still display them correctly to the user. The current implementation selectively loads only the ones that will get displayed, which is what makes this exploit possible. If queried via javascript (the other attack vector) always return the unvisited state.
Everything still works 100% in that the user sees what they always expected to see, but a malicious site will not be able to gather any information. Your solution of "completely disabling browser history for link styling" breaks functionality which, to me, isn't a better fix.
But let's look at the numbers. $1 million over the last six months. That's an average of $500K per quarter. Dell made $12.3 billion in revenue for the first quarter. So Twitter sales represent about 0.004% of their sales. OMG AMAZING TWITTER IS SO EFFECTIVE!!1!1
That's what an inherent right is - one that exists already. In order for it to be inherent, it would have to be the case, at a minimum, that it was broadly-enough recognized that you didn't have to fight against the average person's natural inclination.
So black people in the United States fifty years ago did not have an inherent right of equality since they had to fight for it?
I see what you're getting at, but here's a question which I hope isn't tangential:
If MediaSentry called up the defendant over the phone and asked "Can you verbally tell me which files you are uploading to people by your use of the filesharing program Kazaa?" and the defendant verbally provided a list of such files, would that constitute MediaSentry performing an investigation in Minnesota?
Out of curiosity, when chronologically was this?
Actually, it was back in Opera 5 days. The URL http://composer.opera.com/ seems to date back to June 30, 2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://composer.opera.com
Checking the main Opera site as of that date shows Opera 5.12 was released for Windows.
At least they used to. Starting with Opera 7 you could import a set of bookmarks, setup the home page, etc. and then distribute your own customized version of Opera. Good to see Firefox starting to consider this as well.
"sexual discrimination" does work though... just not "sex discrimination".
Speaking of which, what the hell's up with Project Offset? http://www.projectoffset.com/
They had some of the best cinematography-style graphics I've ever seen, and that was years ago with per-object motion blur and so on. I only hope it doesn't turn into Project Offset: Forever.
Linux does not exist for Google's pleasure and ease.
It also doesn't exist for my pleasure and ease. That's probably why I don't use it as my desktop OS.
Sounds like a non-story to me. Or does the article submitter imply that whenever companies get together, they should invite the press and make it a fully open meeting?
Yeah, so they want to get paid for their work. Might as well spin this as: "Capitalism 2.0: Your time ain't free".