What does this mean for web statistics? Who owns them? Does the number of hits a website get mean that I can't say that exactly 0 people have been to my neighbours crappy website without him taking me to court?
a) There was fun things to do. b) That didn't cost an arm and a leg (or at least costs more than I am prepared to pay for such entertainment) c) It was safe from muggers, rapists, paedophiles and generaly dangerous people. d) That I didn't risk getting run over when stepping out my front door.
Going outside (bar the healthy excercise aspect) is just another class of comercial organisations getting money out of you: drinks, snacks, food, skateboards, bikes, transport etc. etc. It is Capitalism, get used to it, you should be already you ARE a lawyer (and an American one at THAT).
No, I think I will stay at home, play my "escapism" game (why I should need to escape from this life is fairly self-explanatory...real life sucks: work, shopping, war, famine, Tsunami, Hurricanes) and head to the fridge for a Coke when I get thirsty thanks...
One could argue that if one shouldn't be partaking in video game that shoot people then the requirement to bear arms is mute and unnecessary. Ergo, the constitution of the USA (I am British) is irrelevant and should be abolished.
Good luck in getting the US citizens to agree to that one...
I never knew that Europe had 75 times the number of the world population! CIA puts world population approaching 6.5 billion so 450 billion people in Europe is mightily impressive...
Can you imagine a world with 450 billion people? It would be like rush hour on the tube in Tokyo at all times of the day...
These honey port machines, a.k.a venus fly trap, become sentient and hold the entire human race to ransom...Doomsday monguering it may be, but I would not like to be on the receiving end of a narked virus honey pot...
So it is ok to let North korea and Iran develop Nuclear Weapons of Mass destruction? By preventing them it is only censorship so your argument stands that they should be allowed to.
What about me in my basement, am I able to develop chemical weapons through information i receive and/or dirty bombs etc?
While I admire your naive utopia, it is only possible in a world where people are utopian and are unlikely to want to cause harm to one another. Unfortunately as US/UK, and many other countries have shown, this is not possible. Human nature is to want more and the only means of gaining is war, it is a fact of nature...The strong survive but can be ganged up against to fracture control.
I am afraid to burst your ideal bubble, but we live in a controlled society. It is called law and your suggestion concerning censorship is tantamount to saying we should get rid of law in all forms. We would then be thrust thousands of years back into our darkest periods of society.
I can see the Windows Media Version of Vista forcing you to sit through 10 minutes of advertising before the main movie, that could pay for piracy! Now if only they could get the beauty to serve me ice cream and turn the lights up and down...hmmm
This is utter tripe that is spouted from the mouths of those that do not approve. They call themselves scientists but they are anti-gamers at heart. There is nothing in my gaming habit that is anthing like my smoking, weed, alcohol, crack and heroine addiction right...NOTHING. And if you try and stop me from playing games I will rip your eyes out with a blunt fork...You get me...I am NOT addicted...NOT!
Right, now I got that off of my chest I do love games...However I have never stolen someone else's property to pay for my next hit; ok I admit that MOST (and I am sincere here) are original with FEW torrented files. However thos that are torrented are to check if I will like the game prior to paying for it, usually the answer is no.
Do I get withdrawal symptoms when I go on holiday? Hell no! Do I sit and quiver in my hotel bed seeing things for 24 hours deprivation, hell no.
Now, do I get exicited at the prospect of beating that next target in a computer game? Of course I do, but I don't need to do it tonight or tomorrow, I can still choose; that part of my so-called "addiction" is still in my control and is what seperates games from hard-drug crack and like...I still choose.
Well that's Zelda out of the question for my 14 year-old son. All that killing and all. Not to mention Space Invaders, murdering aliens. Halo...nope...hell, even the US Army's own American Army...Nope (so how will they recruit now?)
This is like giving them a load of tractors so that they can plough the land. Nice in principle but they forgot to train anyone to fix them when they break down...Now they're hunks of metal dotting the countryside.
While Bill is write that the price of software is not important (in fact software/hardware in general), he is talking about the educated elite in these countries and not the farmer working 12 hours in a field somewhere for 6 bucks a month.
Food, water and shelter are a good start, but so is education. What is the west afraid of (or is THAT a silly question)...
FTA: "I was to be part of a team of highly skilled, versatile,.NET Ninjas. We were going to produce top-notch software for the nuclear power industry"
So teams developing nuclear power station software are being sourced from Uni? What about experience? This sounds like an accident waiting to happen...
Arrrggghhh, pathetic...2 x 7800 GTX cards...pfft, at that price they should be the Ultra...Maybe when we get the Platinum and Extreme versions too they should be the ones in this rig...GTX pfft...
In fact can we get 7 names:
7800 Turbo (as in we nick yer system ram but sell cheap) 7800 LE 7800 GT 7800 GTX 7800 Ultra 7800 Platinum 7800 Extreme Edition (or EE)
Then depending on the version of vista you buy... Hey, OEM bundling...now there's an idea for MS and NVidia...Lawsuits from ATI...pfft...
OH, your OpenSource Evangelist; We made a mistake...We thought OSS was OpenServer...As in...Oh, you know SCO? uh-huh...uh-huh...Yes well we think that SCO are a mature and...Yes, uh-huh...Yes I know that they...uh-huh...And that we gave them...uh-huh...Ok, so you don't want to work for MS then...Can I ask why you why?....
Oh mark the parent post up, that is SOOOO funny...
On another note for another post, would fat kids be able to walk fast enough to generate such power? If not then there is the incentive...Here is a gameboy, keep walking...At the point where their speed is good they can play...
If only slashdotters spent the time writing letters to their local MP (or US equivalnet, senator is it?) than they do complaining on slashdot then that would assist said MPs to be more aware of the situation.
Maybe joining a large campaign (I am part of the ffs in europe fighting the software patent bill trying to be pushed through the European Union).
Vent, but vent in the right direction otherwise you will achieve nothing (image local MP waking to the sound of his letterbox rattling endlessly as 1000 mails come through!)
If printed works can be EULA'd then shouldn't an EULA also be EULA'd?
That way, to read the EULA that describes the software one would have to read the EULA'd EULA and agree to that, thereby agreeing to anything that is in the software EULA before even knowing anything about the software.
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What does this mean for web statistics? Who owns them? Does the number of hits a website get mean that I can't say that exactly 0 people have been to my neighbours crappy website without him taking me to court?
Well we would go outside if:
a) There was fun things to do.
b) That didn't cost an arm and a leg (or at least costs more than I am prepared to pay for such entertainment)
c) It was safe from muggers, rapists, paedophiles and generaly dangerous people.
d) That I didn't risk getting run over when stepping out my front door.
Going outside (bar the healthy excercise aspect) is just another class of comercial organisations getting money out of you: drinks, snacks, food, skateboards, bikes, transport etc. etc. It is Capitalism, get used to it, you should be already you ARE a lawyer (and an American one at THAT).
No, I think I will stay at home, play my "escapism" game (why I should need to escape from this life is fairly self-explanatory...real life sucks: work, shopping, war, famine, Tsunami, Hurricanes) and head to the fridge for a Coke when I get thirsty thanks...
Karem
Good luck in getting the US citizens to agree to that one...
M$ may have 1000 times more bugs, but they are not always reported
Can you imagine a world with 450 billion people? It would be like rush hour on the tube in Tokyo at all times of the day...
These honey port machines, a.k.a venus fly trap, become sentient and hold the entire human race to ransom...Doomsday monguering it may be, but I would not like to be on the receiving end of a narked virus honey pot...
What about me in my basement, am I able to develop chemical weapons through information i receive and/or dirty bombs etc?
While I admire your naive utopia, it is only possible in a world where people are utopian and are unlikely to want to cause harm to one another. Unfortunately as US/UK, and many other countries have shown, this is not possible. Human nature is to want more and the only means of gaining is war, it is a fact of nature...The strong survive but can be ganged up against to fracture control.
I am afraid to burst your ideal bubble, but we live in a controlled society. It is called law and your suggestion concerning censorship is tantamount to saying we should get rid of law in all forms. We would then be thrust thousands of years back into our darkest periods of society.
Karem
Sony issues recall for overheating PS2 AC Adaptors
Latest PS2 has compatibility issues
Read Disc Errors
Not to mention the Y-plug mouse and keyboard issue...
Nope, nothing wrong at all...
Isn't this called "logging in"?
Karem
They are called lemmings...
Right, now I got that off of my chest I do love games...However I have never stolen someone else's property to pay for my next hit; ok I admit that MOST (and I am sincere here) are original with FEW torrented files. However thos that are torrented are to check if I will like the game prior to paying for it, usually the answer is no.
Do I get withdrawal symptoms when I go on holiday? Hell no! Do I sit and quiver in my hotel bed seeing things for 24 hours deprivation, hell no.
Now, do I get exicited at the prospect of beating that next target in a computer game? Of course I do, but I don't need to do it tonight or tomorrow, I can still choose; that part of my so-called "addiction" is still in my control and is what seperates games from hard-drug crack and like...I still choose.
Karem
I have been waiting for years for this, this is an excellent innovation by M$...oh wait...I use linux...
What are the odds that this will be import only and you won't be able to write the open document standard?
Karem
While Bill is write that the price of software is not important (in fact software/hardware in general), he is talking about the educated elite in these countries and not the farmer working 12 hours in a field somewhere for 6 bucks a month.
Food, water and shelter are a good start, but so is education. What is the west afraid of (or is THAT a silly question)...
Karem
So teams developing nuclear power station software are being sourced from Uni? What about experience? This sounds like an accident waiting to happen...
Karem
What's wrong /.? getting to 1 hour without a new story that a reject story needed being posted? Come on!
Karem
Arrrggghhh, pathetic...2 x 7800 GTX cards...pfft, at that price they should be the Ultra...Maybe when we get the Platinum and Extreme versions too they should be the ones in this rig...GTX pfft...
... Hey, OEM bundling...now there's an idea for MS and NVidia...Lawsuits from ATI...pfft...
In fact can we get 7 names:
7800 Turbo (as in we nick yer system ram but sell cheap)
7800 LE
7800 GT
7800 GTX
7800 Ultra
7800 Platinum
7800 Extreme Edition (or EE)
Then depending on the version of vista you buy
OH, your OpenSource Evangelist; We made a mistake...We thought OSS was OpenServer...As in...Oh, you know SCO? uh-huh...uh-huh...Yes well we think that SCO are a mature and...Yes, uh-huh...Yes I know that they...uh-huh...And that we gave them...uh-huh...Ok, so you don't want to work for MS then...Can I ask why you why?....
1) Your office filetypes are made public
2) Your publicises the OS system server calls.
3) Stop funding biased reports.
4) Hey, while your at it: open-source Windows OS (all of them)...
On another note for another post, would fat kids be able to walk fast enough to generate such power? If not then there is the incentive...Here is a gameboy, keep walking...At the point where their speed is good they can play...
Maybe joining a large campaign (I am part of the ffs in europe fighting the software patent bill trying to be pushed through the European Union).
Vent, but vent in the right direction otherwise you will achieve nothing (image local MP waking to the sound of his letterbox rattling endlessly as 1000 mails come through!)
glass
That way, to read the EULA that describes the software one would have to read the EULA'd EULA and agree to that, thereby agreeing to anything that is in the software EULA before even knowing anything about the software.