I'll tell ya what, when that little snot got caned many years back, I was cheering it.
That's what we need in this country; Extremely painful punishment for kids in the justice system. Jr got caught tagging a freeway sign? Cane'em. Little shit spams death threats? Cane'em.
*Or to quote Linus, "he who writes the code, dictates the license". And to borrow another slashdotism. "If you don't like the license, don't use the code".
You got modded troll, but you are actually really insightful.
It's somewhat sad that you are as insightful as you are, I would expect this to be common sense.
If you don't agree with the movie industry, don't support them. If you don't agree with the music industry, don't support them. By extension, that means all the electronic companies out there trying to screw you for them by proxy.
Show me an employer who places indiscriminate blocks on numbers that you can call during the day, in order to prevent you from making calls that *might* be personal.
I dunno about your workplace, but every place I've worked has had 976 numbers blocked.
At least, that's what a friend tells me. Because I'd never, personally you know, call any of those types of numbers. Further, I wouldn't spend all day trying to figure out how to get around such a block at work. Because it'd be wrong, WRONG I TELL YOU.
Given the current market penetration for linux on the desktop, there is no incentive for MS to give their competitors a bullet point. And without more reasons to switch ( like Office on linux, which would be a big one ), linux desktops aren't going to get that critical mass.
Which isn't a bad thing as far as I'm concerned. While I would like an alternative to windows, I think linux shines in server land, and that's where we should be focusing our efforts.
Macrovision's best-known form of copy protection inserts noise into analog video signals to make it difficult to get a good copy of the DVD or VHS recording
Is that what they are trying to do. I never can tell, the window that pops up to tell me what DRM scheme is being bypassed flashes by WAY too quickly for me to catch it.
I hate to break it to you, but 1-60 is actually pretty fun. I love it. The dungeons, the small groups, the pvp ( the possiblity of getting ganked on a moment's notice ).
Once I hit 60 I retire that character. The 60+ farming isn't fun, I won't argue that. Oh, I may pull him out to do one of the lower 60 dungoens a couple times, but I refuse to grind.
presumably oblivious to the possibility the first kid on the block to get one will tell all his friends about his experiences.
I predict that soon, because of these observations, consumers will have to file an NDA before purchasing one of these systems. They will be forbidden from taking pictures of these things, or speaking about them outside of their family ( don't want to be draconian now, do we? ).
Serious men in serious black suits will be checking up on you to make sure you don't tell your friends how crappy your new bluray/hddvd is.
This is news...why? We all know it's addictive, that's kinda the point to these games; To make them as addictive as possible.
So the real story here is that only 40% of the people playing are addicted. This indicates to me that
1) Blizz isn't doing their job correctly if they are capturing under half the population in this way 2) These docs need a new yaht 3) The study is bogus and was carried out incorrectly, invalidating the results.
Guess which one I'm a fan of? ( that's right, all three, for those of you keeping score at home )
Yes, a wireless mouse is nice because it doesn't snag, but why do I need a wireless printer? Or a wireless monitor? Or anything else that's largely static for its lifetime?
Actually, I like the idea of a wireless printer. Or keyboard. Or speakers. Or everything else, for that matter.
What I don't like is the complexity and security involved with all this wireless. If I could build myself an antenna next door and sniff your key strokes, or your mouse movements, or what you've printed, or even what's on your monitor, I would call this a bad idea. Therefore, you'd need security. Likely culprit would be wpa or some variation of said protocol.
Now add into this the fact that I have several systems operating in close proximity; Assuming the devices are intelligent enough to pick their own channels, I would still run the risk of overloading the "channel" with my multiple keyboards and mouses, oh and pritners and monitors.
So while it sounds good on paper, the practicality of wireless is still missing from the equation.
I've yet to see this happen and I've tried with my cable modem. I saturated my connection with torrents and then tried making and receiving a vonage call. I didn't notice any difference except my torrents slowed down a little and web pages loaded very slowly. Actual phone service had no noticeable difference.
The router vonage sends you does QoS. I was merely using vonage in the hopes more people would know that.
I suppose I could have used Skype as well and had the same effect.
Can you really reprioritize your packets coming from your desktop in such a way that you make a significant gain after it hits your ISP? Or is this just cyberpenis enlargement? Seems to me that, unless you're hosting a bunch of internet spyware or network-heavy background processes, you're not going to be making much of a gain.
In a single device network, this is mostly true. However, most people have at least two devices on their network ( at the very least, two seperate systems ). And it's not about saturating the line, it's about saturating the line for brief moments of time.
Case in point; VoIP. Plenty of people have vonage. You always want time sensitive packets like VoIP packets to go out ahead of all other traffic. In a theoretical situation, it's possible that even random web traffic could delay voip getting out in a timely manner, which you'd hear as pops and crackles.
Not that this is relevant to the card; It's a marked up POS looking for a sucker to buy it.
Coats even sees this as a driver of open source software. 'If you can get (open source software) you can't be shut down.' But that's harder to do in highly custom applications."
Er...BECAUSE it's open source, it's easier to customize. That's one of the major selling points.
Maybe someone missed that memo.
Subject change; This company is based in Clearwater, FL. Anybody else get a sneaking suspicion that this has something to do with scientology?
People like you both amuse and scare the hell out of me. Principle be damned, let them do as they please. Pull me away from the game console when they're good at it. That attitude is soft cowardice masquerading as 'hard realism', of questionable coherence, and as the comments here show dangerously common. They will eventually succeed. By then it's too late. You are not that superior. Wake up.
So what, get your tits up in an uproar then? Mail every politician within 30 miles of your district?
Here's a clue; They don't listen to their constituents ( if that is how you spell it ). At least in the US they don't. So let them carry this off, pass it into law or whatever. Hell, let them succede.
1) The likelyhood of any organization pulling this is remote. 2) Even if they do, there will be loop holes to exploit to get around it. 3) The more draconian the government gets, the closer we get to people actually waking up and taking an interest in it.
As it stands right now, here in the status quo ( well, not really status quo. Patriot act anybody? ), people aren't pay attention. People are sheep, so they won't actually start paying attention until these drracionian measure start effecting their daily lives. The sooner that happens, the happier I will be.
So let the disease cause a fever, because at least then the patient will be aware of it.
is to underestimate the opponent. This mistake can be fatal.
I'm actually over estimating their abilities here by saying it will be worked on. In all likelyhood, it will never make it out of some industrial group meetings, where it will be held for further discussion.
1) I don't live in the UK 2) Natural incompetency will prevent this from ever seeing the light of day. They'll be a lot of noise about it, then a year or so before it's supposed to go live, there will be story after story about how this jack holes never managed to figure out what a database was, let alone link them to others.
1) Not play on CD players ( given it's a dvd and all ) 2) Not be copyable to a computer ( given the same dvd DRM already in place. Stop snickering in the back )
So their target audience must be...uh...hmm.
The young and the gullible? But I don't think they'd be willing to drop this kind of scratch on a whole new music infrastructure ( car, home, portable ). So make that the young, gullible with rich parents.
A remarkably small subset. It would seem these folks are taking a page out of Sony's play book when promoting new formats.
In cases of monopoly this might make sense, but Sony is trying to lauch a new format here. Keeping the prices inflated (for any reason) is going to drive consumers towards HD-DVD.
This is SONY we're talking about. They don't know how to push a new format; They think that by pushing it at a high price it'll drive the format. They haven't learned any lessons in 20 years.
Establishing your own identity is a bad thing? What?
You're having a hard time with this whole reading thing, huh? I never said it was a bad thing. I merely pointed out that it happens, and it's usually the teenager's fault. It was a counter-argument to your "it's the parent's fault" mentality.
The majority of fighting and angst by teenagers is definitely caused by their parents, who go batshit crazy trying to prevent... fighting and angst.
No, in general, it's caused by the teenager 'rebelling' against their parents ( ala: establishing their own identities ). It has little to do with parents actually.
You should read more before you make bullshit statements, you could have at least tried to sound a bit more intelligent.
If there's no good reason to monitor what your kid eats (like they are both diabetic and completely devoid of self-control), parents need to chill the fuck out.
There is a good reason, it's to help the kids know what is healthy and what isn't. Given the state of health in this country related to food, I would say this is one of the most important issues a parent could take on today.
Now, let me guess; You are somewhere between 15 and 22. Am I right?
True, but to really make an investment of undeveloped land, you need to buy it with cash. If you buy it with a loan, you're only making the difference between its appreciation rate and the loan rate, minus the fees, etc associated with the loan.
My brother does this, actually. What he does is finds property that will soon be developed and goes in with a bunch of other investors to buy the property. They sit on it for a couple years until it's just about ready to have it's first tenents. Then he sells.
If you are patient and have good timing,you can usually walk out of such a deal with a 50-100% return on your intial investment.
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I'll tell ya what, when that little snot got caned many years back, I was cheering it.
That's what we need in this country; Extremely painful punishment for kids in the justice system. Jr got caught tagging a freeway sign? Cane'em. Little shit spams death threats? Cane'em.
*Or to quote Linus, "he who writes the code, dictates the license". And to borrow another slashdotism. "If you don't like the license, don't use the code".
You got modded troll, but you are actually really insightful.
It's somewhat sad that you are as insightful as you are, I would expect this to be common sense.
If you don't agree with the movie industry, don't support them. If you don't agree with the music industry, don't support them. By extension, that means all the electronic companies out there trying to screw you for them by proxy.
it's quite simple really.
Show me an employer who places indiscriminate blocks on numbers that you can call during the day, in order to prevent you from making calls that *might* be personal.
I dunno about your workplace, but every place I've worked has had 976 numbers blocked.
At least, that's what a friend tells me. Because I'd never, personally you know, call any of those types of numbers. Further, I wouldn't spend all day trying to figure out how to get around such a block at work. Because it'd be wrong, WRONG I TELL YOU.
Given the current market penetration for linux on the desktop, there is no incentive for MS to give their competitors a bullet point. And without more reasons to switch ( like Office on linux, which would be a big one ), linux desktops aren't going to get that critical mass.
Which isn't a bad thing as far as I'm concerned. While I would like an alternative to windows, I think linux shines in server land, and that's where we should be focusing our efforts.
Macrovision's best-known form of copy protection inserts noise into analog video signals to make it difficult to get a good copy of the DVD or VHS recording
Is that what they are trying to do. I never can tell, the window that pops up to tell me what DRM scheme is being bypassed flashes by WAY too quickly for me to catch it.
Bitter much?
I hate to break it to you, but 1-60 is actually pretty fun. I love it. The dungeons, the small groups, the pvp ( the possiblity of getting ganked on a moment's notice ).
Once I hit 60 I retire that character. The 60+ farming isn't fun, I won't argue that. Oh, I may pull him out to do one of the lower 60 dungoens a couple times, but I refuse to grind.
presumably oblivious to the possibility the first kid on the block to get one will tell all his friends about his experiences.
I predict that soon, because of these observations, consumers will have to file an NDA before purchasing one of these systems. They will be forbidden from taking pictures of these things, or speaking about them outside of their family ( don't want to be draconian now, do we? ).
Serious men in serious black suits will be checking up on you to make sure you don't tell your friends how crappy your new bluray/hddvd is.
This is news...why? We all know it's addictive, that's kinda the point to these games; To make them as addictive as possible.
So the real story here is that only 40% of the people playing are addicted. This indicates to me that
1) Blizz isn't doing their job correctly if they are capturing under half the population in this way
2) These docs need a new yaht
3) The study is bogus and was carried out incorrectly, invalidating the results.
Guess which one I'm a fan of? ( that's right, all three, for those of you keeping score at home )
Yes, a wireless mouse is nice because it doesn't snag, but why do I need a wireless printer? Or a wireless monitor? Or anything else that's largely static for its lifetime?
Actually, I like the idea of a wireless printer. Or keyboard. Or speakers. Or everything else, for that matter.
What I don't like is the complexity and security involved with all this wireless. If I could build myself an antenna next door and sniff your key strokes, or your mouse movements, or what you've printed, or even what's on your monitor, I would call this a bad idea. Therefore, you'd need security. Likely culprit would be wpa or some variation of said protocol.
Now add into this the fact that I have several systems operating in close proximity; Assuming the devices are intelligent enough to pick their own channels, I would still run the risk of overloading the "channel" with my multiple keyboards and mouses, oh and pritners and monitors.
So while it sounds good on paper, the practicality of wireless is still missing from the equation.
I've yet to see this happen and I've tried with my cable modem. I saturated my connection with torrents and then tried making and receiving a vonage call. I didn't notice any difference except my torrents slowed down a little and web pages loaded very slowly. Actual phone service had no noticeable difference.
The router vonage sends you does QoS. I was merely using vonage in the hopes more people would know that.
I suppose I could have used Skype as well and had the same effect.
All the founders met at the University of Texas while getting their MBAs.
That says all that needs to be said for the article.
Can you really reprioritize your packets coming from your desktop in such a way that you make a significant gain after it hits your ISP? Or is this just cyberpenis enlargement? Seems to me that, unless you're hosting a bunch of internet spyware or network-heavy background processes, you're not going to be making much of a gain.
In a single device network, this is mostly true. However, most people have at least two devices on their network ( at the very least, two seperate systems ). And it's not about saturating the line, it's about saturating the line for brief moments of time.
Case in point; VoIP. Plenty of people have vonage. You always want time sensitive packets like VoIP packets to go out ahead of all other traffic. In a theoretical situation, it's possible that even random web traffic could delay voip getting out in a timely manner, which you'd hear as pops and crackles.
Not that this is relevant to the card; It's a marked up POS looking for a sucker to buy it.
Coats even sees this as a driver of open source software. 'If you can get (open source software) you can't be shut down.' But that's harder to do in highly custom applications."
Er...BECAUSE it's open source, it's easier to customize. That's one of the major selling points.
Maybe someone missed that memo.
Subject change; This company is based in Clearwater, FL. Anybody else get a sneaking suspicion that this has something to do with scientology?
People like you both amuse and scare the hell out of me. Principle be damned, let them do as they please. Pull me away from the game console when they're good at it. That attitude is soft cowardice masquerading as 'hard realism', of questionable coherence, and as the comments here show dangerously common. They will eventually succeed. By then it's too late. You are not that superior. Wake up.
So what, get your tits up in an uproar then? Mail every politician within 30 miles of your district?
Here's a clue; They don't listen to their constituents ( if that is how you spell it ). At least in the US they don't. So let them carry this off, pass it into law or whatever. Hell, let them succede.
1) The likelyhood of any organization pulling this is remote.
2) Even if they do, there will be loop holes to exploit to get around it.
3) The more draconian the government gets, the closer we get to people actually waking up and taking an interest in it.
As it stands right now, here in the status quo ( well, not really status quo. Patriot act anybody? ), people aren't pay attention. People are sheep, so they won't actually start paying attention until these drracionian measure start effecting their daily lives. The sooner that happens, the happier I will be.
So let the disease cause a fever, because at least then the patient will be aware of it.
is to underestimate the opponent. This mistake can be fatal.
I'm actually over estimating their abilities here by saying it will be worked on. In all likelyhood, it will never make it out of some industrial group meetings, where it will be held for further discussion.
Then two things occured to me;
1) I don't live in the UK
2) Natural incompetency will prevent this from ever seeing the light of day. They'll be a lot of noise about it, then a year or so before it's supposed to go live, there will be story after story about how this jack holes never managed to figure out what a database was, let alone link them to others.
So this new and exciting product will
1) Not play on CD players ( given it's a dvd and all )
2) Not be copyable to a computer ( given the same dvd DRM already in place. Stop snickering in the back )
So their target audience must be...uh...hmm.
The young and the gullible? But I don't think they'd be willing to drop this kind of scratch on a whole new music infrastructure ( car, home, portable ). So make that the young, gullible with rich parents.
A remarkably small subset. It would seem these folks are taking a page out of Sony's play book when promoting new formats.
Yeah, so you shield it, just like you'd shield a reactor. Next question?
What an interesting idea. Use this process to create managable energy.
I am intreged.
I'll stick with DVDs. Probably for another decade at least.
Same. If and when it stops becoming a valid option, I have pretty much resigned myself to not buying videos anymore.
Let's hear it for hollywood!
In cases of monopoly this might make sense, but Sony is trying to lauch a new format here. Keeping the prices inflated (for any reason) is going to drive consumers towards HD-DVD.
This is SONY we're talking about. They don't know how to push a new format; They think that by pushing it at a high price it'll drive the format. They haven't learned any lessons in 20 years.
Consumers.
Establishing your own identity is a bad thing? What?
You're having a hard time with this whole reading thing, huh? I never said it was a bad thing. I merely pointed out that it happens, and it's usually the teenager's fault. It was a counter-argument to your "it's the parent's fault" mentality.
The majority of fighting and angst by teenagers is definitely caused by their parents, who go batshit crazy trying to prevent... fighting and angst.
No, in general, it's caused by the teenager 'rebelling' against their parents ( ala: establishing their own identities ). It has little to do with parents actually.
You should read more before you make bullshit statements, you could have at least tried to sound a bit more intelligent.
If there's no good reason to monitor what your kid eats (like they are both diabetic and completely devoid of self-control), parents need to chill the fuck out.
There is a good reason, it's to help the kids know what is healthy and what isn't. Given the state of health in this country related to food, I would say this is one of the most important issues a parent could take on today.
Now, let me guess; You are somewhere between 15 and 22. Am I right?
Evil contains the seeds of it's own destruction.
True, but to really make an investment of undeveloped land, you need to buy it with cash. If you buy it with a loan, you're only making the difference between its appreciation rate and the loan rate, minus the fees, etc associated with the loan.
My brother does this, actually. What he does is finds property that will soon be developed and goes in with a bunch of other investors to buy the property. They sit on it for a couple years until it's just about ready to have it's first tenents. Then he sells.
If you are patient and have good timing,you can usually walk out of such a deal with a 50-100% return on your intial investment.