I'd like to point out that my local ISP (Cogeco, Ontario, Canada) actually runs a local Linux FTP mirror for use only by customers. Its quite nice getting my yum updates at 800KB/s or more.
I still use BitTorrent for other things, but they've made better use of their incoming and outgoing bandwidth by providing this mirror themselves directly to customers.
It'd be nice to always spell correctly when tossing my ideas out on Slashdot, but 'need'? I don't need to be able to spell any specific word correctly in a Slashdot reply, even though I do try.
Last I checked, high level mages are supposed to be overpowering.
Seriously, despite how easy it might make the game if you level your character a lot, don't you think a high-level wizard/should/ be able to lay waste to an entire army?
This is fantasy people...
And if you don't like the role, play a thief or fighter. Its a single player game, its not like there's balance needed like in MMORPGs.
Actually, knowing how Nintendo has played its cards with the Gameboy, I wouldn't be surprised if they re-released the Revoultion with HDTV support a couple years down the road.
They can make it backward compatible with existing games and also supporting HDTV output and possibly DTS sound after the hardware becomes cheaper.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, nobody's forcing anyone to buy those crappy games that come out alongside or in between the good ones.
For example, I'd dare say the PS2 has more "excellent" games than the XBox. Not just more games (that's indisputable) but more "excellent" rated games (according to actual players). Besides, I love that I can find the niche games I enjoy for the PS2 and my friends can play their sports games on their PS2s and we're both happy.
If you like the games available on another platform, enjoy them. However, a huge library with a lot of variety is an excellent goal -- especially since console makers make most of their money from the licensing, not the console itself.
I think there's at least 20 games still on my "definately want to play" list for the PS2 that I haven't got to yet.
P2P downloading is not (in legal terms). Its barely hit the courts for all intents and purposes.
For that matter, a settlement by nature doesn't infer any liability, but the legal system pretty much forces you to take the settlements because of high legal costs.
Last time I had a bogus speeding ticket, I took it to court. Why? Because its free to fight it in court & win. Why not?
When Columbia House told me I owed them money for CDs I didn't purchase, I told them where to stick that too.
The RIAA is trying very hard to get these cases settled out of court to avoid the court system themselves. If they cared about legal precedent and thought they had an open-shut case, they wouldn't offer the steeply discounted settlements.
It says very little -- I made an intelligent comment on what I read, and nothing on the rest.
If I commented on the rest of your comment without reading it, it was entirely by accident (obviously). My comment was (as stated) directed at what I read of your opinion. Unless you said what I replied to for no reason at all or simply to reverse positions later (something I have no intentions of checking on), what I said holds.
It got good moderation points too, because I had a point. Feel free to actually debate my comments next time, instead of meaningless "what does that say about you" retorts.
I was thinking similarly -- Marketing obviously didn't write his responses for him to that question.
"Brainwashed" would infer that his view is entirely political and not necessarily factual.
Considering that to 'google' is a verb these days, I'm sure his kids are perfectly aware of it (and have used it) as well as iPods (which I personally have no love for anyway).
He should have said that everyone in his family prefers MSN search and his kids chat online all the time with Messenger or some such. Poor Steve:-)
Just because Novell wasn't that "popular" by the time Win2k came out doesn't mean it didn't bring LDAP to the majority of computer business users in its own day.
Active Directory is a copycat product, like most MS innovations.
In fact, I love watching my dwarf monk on zoom-in dodging attacks and getting in last second blows while I choose what special moves to have him do, or which enemy to focus on.
I stopped reading your post entirely after the first paragraph.
Copyright exists, not to benefit the copyright holder, but to benefit society by encouraging the creation of new works.
Original american Copyright legislation was enacted with the specific statement 'for a limited time' as a nod to the fact that Copyright is needed to encourage the creation of new works (books, plays, paintings) so that the holder can sell such works, but only for a (very) limited time. After this time period, those works fall into the public domain and are available for the benefit of all.
Those who tried to foresee the future of what Copyright would do didn't want works to be limited to those who'd paid for copies, they wanted everyone to have free access to all media, but conceded a time limit wherein creators could benefit financially from their works.
Unfortunately, that time limitation has grown again and again, and is now practically a joke.
Being all-powerful, I'm sure Jesus would be pretty good at tap dancing if he felt like it:-)
That said, although 'lm_sensors' and such can be a royal pain to manage at a low level when starting out, many higher-level tools exist to manage entire networks of Linux machines and their status data.
See the related apps page on the rrdtool homepage.
It allows the forbidding of running unauthorized applications on company hardware.
It allows companies to lock down data like customer lists that they put on handheld PCs.
It allows the transmission of secure data to secure remote machines to insecure persons without letting them make instantaneous large-scale digital copies.
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So let me get this straight, you can't talk to your passengers while driving either?
Get off the road.
There's no difference (if you have a clue) between talking on your cell phone hands-free and talking to a passenger.
For that matter, I talk to my passengers and drink coffee while driving, how's that different from cell phone use?
Anyone who thinks talking is that distracting just can't drive.
Its a private hyper-conservative college.
Duh.
If you don't belong, and you want to weasel your way in, then get caught, don't be surprised they aren't happy about it.
Go to one of those colleges that actually fits your standards instead.
I'd like to point out that my local ISP (Cogeco, Ontario, Canada) actually runs a local Linux FTP mirror for use only by customers. Its quite nice getting my yum updates at 800KB/s or more.
:-)
I still use BitTorrent for other things, but they've made better use of their incoming and outgoing bandwidth by providing this mirror themselves directly to customers.
Now if only they advertised such things
... which is why you'd change it to 10.0.0.254 which is an IP of a machine on your LAN with no forwarding allowed.
And there's no way I'd fake that with a Linux gateway box intercepting the calls and faking the replies.
I'd strongly disagree.
It'd be nice to always spell correctly when tossing my ideas out on Slashdot, but 'need'? I don't need to be able to spell any specific word correctly in a Slashdot reply, even though I do try.
They did in fact, and the only version I played for that matter.
:-)
I miss Commander Keen too
Last I checked, high level mages are supposed to be overpowering.
/should/ be able to lay waste to an entire army?
...
Seriously, despite how easy it might make the game if you level your character a lot, don't you think a high-level wizard
This is fantasy people
And if you don't like the role, play a thief or fighter. Its a single player game, its not like there's balance needed like in MMORPGs.
Actually, knowing how Nintendo has played its cards with the Gameboy, I wouldn't be surprised if they re-released the Revoultion with HDTV support a couple years down the road.
They can make it backward compatible with existing games and also supporting HDTV output and possibly DTS sound after the hardware becomes cheaper.
Well said.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, nobody's forcing anyone to buy those crappy games that come out alongside or in between the good ones.
For example, I'd dare say the PS2 has more "excellent" games than the XBox. Not just more games (that's indisputable) but more "excellent" rated games (according to actual players). Besides, I love that I can find the niche games I enjoy for the PS2 and my friends can play their sports games on their PS2s and we're both happy.
If you like the games available on another platform, enjoy them. However, a huge library with a lot of variety is an excellent goal -- especially since console makers make most of their money from the licensing, not the console itself.
I think there's at least 20 games still on my "definately want to play" list for the PS2 that I haven't got to yet.
Its still like that out there in meat space. Luckily, there's mail order and ham radio ;-)
Speeding is an enforceable well-defined offence.
P2P downloading is not (in legal terms). Its barely hit the courts for all intents and purposes.
For that matter, a settlement by nature doesn't infer any liability, but the legal system pretty much forces you to take the settlements because of high legal costs.
Last time I had a bogus speeding ticket, I took it to court. Why? Because its free to fight it in court & win. Why not?
When Columbia House told me I owed them money for CDs I didn't purchase, I told them where to stick that too.
The RIAA is trying very hard to get these cases settled out of court to avoid the court system themselves. If they cared about legal precedent and thought they had an open-shut case, they wouldn't offer the steeply discounted settlements.
That's just too funny for words :-)
If the UMD were compatible with future BlueRay players, I would've understood.
Its not however, so there goes that.
The fact that the PSP allows people to rip their own movies to memory stick means buying and ripping the DVD is smarter anyway.
You'd think this was a goal of China, not the USA ... but there's not that much difference these days, is there?
It says very little -- I made an intelligent comment on what I read, and nothing on the rest.
If I commented on the rest of your comment without reading it, it was entirely by accident (obviously). My comment was (as stated) directed at what I read of your opinion. Unless you said what I replied to for no reason at all or simply to reverse positions later (something I have no intentions of checking on), what I said holds.
It got good moderation points too, because I had a point. Feel free to actually debate my comments next time, instead of meaningless "what does that say about you" retorts.
I was thinking similarly -- Marketing obviously didn't write his responses for him to that question.
:-)
"Brainwashed" would infer that his view is entirely political and not necessarily factual.
Considering that to 'google' is a verb these days, I'm sure his kids are perfectly aware of it (and have used it) as well as iPods (which I personally have no love for anyway).
He should have said that everyone in his family prefers MSN search and his kids chat online all the time with Messenger or some such. Poor Steve
"Without Copyright" is a nonstatement.
Unless you specifically release your papers in the public domain, Copyright always applies to anything you write (or draw, etc).
The fact that you do not enforce your rights as the author is also irrelevant. Unlike trademarks, Copyright need not be defended. It simply is.
Wait wait, I know this one.
Novell.
About 5 years prior?
Just because Novell wasn't that "popular" by the time Win2k came out doesn't mean it didn't bring LDAP to the majority of computer business users in its own day.
Active Directory is a copycat product, like most MS innovations.
I bought a cheap Panasonic DVD player at Walmart last year for about $125 that supported DivX, WMV and several others.
This is not a big deal to include, its just paying the licensing.
In fact, I love watching my dwarf monk on zoom-in dodging attacks and getting in last second blows while I choose what special moves to have him do, or which enemy to focus on.
I stopped reading your post entirely after the first paragraph.
Copyright exists, not to benefit the copyright holder, but to benefit society by encouraging the creation of new works.
Original american Copyright legislation was enacted with the specific statement 'for a limited time' as a nod to the fact that Copyright is needed to encourage the creation of new works (books, plays, paintings) so that the holder can sell such works, but only for a (very) limited time. After this time period, those works fall into the public domain and are available for the benefit of all.
Those who tried to foresee the future of what Copyright would do didn't want works to be limited to those who'd paid for copies, they wanted everyone to have free access to all media, but conceded a time limit wherein creators could benefit financially from their works.
Unfortunately, that time limitation has grown again and again, and is now practically a joke.
Being all-powerful, I'm sure Jesus would be pretty good at tap dancing if he felt like it :-)
That said, although 'lm_sensors' and such can be a royal pain to manage at a low level when starting out, many higher-level tools exist to manage entire networks of Linux machines and their status data.
See the related apps page on the rrdtool homepage.
DRM has excellent uses in business.
It allows the forbidding of running unauthorized applications on company hardware.
It allows companies to lock down data like customer lists that they put on handheld PCs.
It allows the transmission of secure data to secure remote machines to insecure persons without letting them make instantaneous large-scale digital copies.
Well there's myself, and my boss. His partner is a programmer and my co-worker is also a programmer.
Four programmers, two of which are inter-network techs, two of which own the company.
Its a fun environment.