It simply states that you can't anonymously protest on PRIVATE property. Public property is still fair game. Which is where the real protests need to happen. Protesting in front of a store will get news coverage at best. Doing it on public property (read: any non-military government facility) would be way more productive. Cut the beast off at the head, not the tail.
There's another problem to claiming music is too expensive...
My taste in music is VERY broad. In order for me to keep my collection current "legally," it would cost me thousands of dollars per year. Especially since I would have to import some stuff from the UK and EU.
As it stands right now, I pirate whatever I feel like (and anything that sounds remotely interesting). I become my own filtering machine. The garbage gets deleted (something else the record industry has no way of tracking), the good stuff gets saved.
The cream of the crop, they get purchased with the limited funds I have. Namely the local bands that I'll go to concerts and buy CDs there. The rest gets added to "The List." The List will get purchased once I'm out of school and out of (serious) debt. If the recording industry is remotely interested in keeping me as a potential *future* customer (since I'm not much of one now), they'll just leave me alone.
Slightly off-topic In the end, I stand by the "Music should be free." The real artists will keep making music whether or not they make money off it.
Quite simply, I think what a major problem with our current grade/mid/high school education is that they don't take "computer education" seriously.
When I was in elementary school, the net didn't really kick off yet. So we learned to type, play games, etc. I approve of that. At the elementary level, they need to learn the basics of using a computer.
But the school's problem is that they never took the next step beyond "elementary." Even when they taught new programs (Like Powerpoint, or Frontpage ffs) and eventually exploring the internet, they taught it at such a low level that even a 3rd grader could understand it.
They need to not just understand how to use a computer and the applications, they need to know what all us geeks know about personal PC use. That's our biggest problem with computers today. There was no formal education for maintaining a computer.
Technology is our future. Nobody can deny that. Almost every college student today has some form of desktop or laptop. Lots of them still have no clue what happens "in the magic box." Our tech support problems are only going to get exponentially worse until something is done to educate the user base. (Luckily, the largest segment of completely uneducated users will likely die off within 30 years).
I'm in favor of an "computer license." You are not permitted to own a computer until you can: A: Identify the basic parts (How many people still call the box "the hard drive?") B: Troubleshoot problems (My internet isn't working!!) C: Understand the difference between Malware, Freeware, Shareware, and Open Source. D: Prove you have common sense about online security.
I volunteer to start and run the program. Consider this an open application to all you school districts out there.:P
Just do your job and install and maintain whatever the hell management decides. If your job is only to do whatever the higher-ups tell you, you must have a pretty lame job.
Believe it or not, YOU are a company resource. If you see them going in a horribly wrong direction, it is in the best interest for both you and the company for you to intervene.
My previous boss had the guts to stand up to upper management before. They were making a huge mistake in shifting around the email servers. They proceeded without heeding his warnings. When everything went to hell, he fixed it (they ended up doing it the way he said in the beginning), and now he's in a much better position to make company decisions.
Just because you're on the bottom of the corporate ladder doesn't mean you have to stay there. Voicing your opinions (especially if you can back them up with good business sense) will give you upward mobility much faster than sitting on your ass and just doing what the hell your management tells you.
I'm going to have to agree with the coward on this one. You don't have a clue. You won't see Sun stuff on the desktops. Sun boxes have their place: The high-performance market. Where I work (hint: Feds), we have multiple Sun boxes set up, which run our virtual servers. If there's one thing that you can never get enough of in this kind of setup, it's multiple threading and RAM. The integrated networking is also a huge boost, since that's the last major bottleneck before hitting the clients.
He wasn't trying to say that Sun deserves more press. Sure, small businesses and even many large businesses don't require that kind of power. But the coward was right: Sun provides good quality at (relatively) dirt cheap prices. Hence why they make this kind of thing.
You try running 5+ heavily used virtual servers (Each running a component of Oracle) on one Intel or AMD box. Let me know how that goes for you.
Verdict: gaming sucks, way better than dialup, way way better than nothing.
Actually, as a dialup gamer, I feel a need to respond to this.
If you need the throughput (for downloading, browsing, etc), yes satellite is the way to go.
But here's my results for pinging Google on dialup:
Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=190ms TTL=243 Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=243 Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=243 Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=243
Ping statistics for 216.239.51.104:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 170ms, Maximum = 190ms, Average = 175ms
So you're looking at 175ms on dialup. Way better than satellite, and while you can't really do FPS games, it is more than sufficient for most RTS games and World of Warcraft (not enough throughput to do >20 man instances though).
So I would reccomend using the satellite for most uses, and just dial in when you need to play.
Either way, I feel sorry for you. Going from broadband to this is gonna hurt bigtime. Luckily I have no way to go but up.:)
Mod parent up. People love conspiracy theories against the party in power, and this is no different.
That being said, if people really want change, they'll vote Libertarian. Democrats are the same as Republicans, except they take their money from different interest groups.
One that's not even in Project Gutenburg. One that google won't even show you if you use moderate safesearch. One that has been banned in more countries than any other.
When the MMO chart was posted, I downloaded the demo for EVE online for the very same reason...
I havn't installed or set up a trial account yet because A: I can't afford WoW and EVE B: I don't have time to properly "abuse" a trial account right now.
But their website is very informative, and the game seems interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if this game continues to gather new players.
In fact, for those of us who don't have 1080i tv's, graphics quality isn't going to matter that much.
In fact, I think what this race is going to boil down to is number of available games (Wii might actually win this one, taking the ROM distribution into account), and price (nobody I know loves PS exclusive games enough to spend roughly 3x the money on it)
They've been doing this at my old school district for well over a year now. (South-central PA)
My sister has had friends busted for having Xanga's, Myspace's, etc which detailed either insults directed at teachers, various parties involving drinking, or direct threats to other students (the excuse they use for this in the first place). Some have even had explusion hearings based upon what was stated on their Xanga's (although in one case... it was just the straw that broke the camel's back).
While there are ways to protect your privacy in these communities, many people don't do it for the simple fact that they INTEDED to be found by their friends. The flaw in the social system is that nobody assumes that their parents would ever check these systems.
The long and short of it is: If you'd get in trouble (either parentally, scholastically, or legally) for saying it to someone's face, either use a proper layer of privacy, or DON'T FREAKING WRITE IT!
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Um...because a group buff (which is cast once) is insanely powerful and cheap?
Besides, Druids were DESIGNED to be "support", not tanks like the pally. Buffs + Combat rez FTW!/me plays a warlock. On a PvP server. You don't know ridiculous.
Maybe they'll charge a monthly fee for the old games, which you would then download on demand.
Or maybe it won't store all the ROMS on your flashdrive, instead just keeping track of the ones you have rights to, and letting you download them an infinite number of times.
If the price is right (free would cause the revolution to fly off the shelves faster than the PS2 did), this thing would make Revolution unstoppable.
We have a deployment of about 2000 workstations with a highly customized build of firefox out there. I say customized but what I mean is that it's had various GUI elements stripped, keyboard shortcuts stripped and implements locked preferences. One of those preferences is software install. The only site that can install software is our internal update site.
So why not make this build a public release?
Corporate Firefox anybody? Sounds like a winner to me.
It rules. Installing extensions is a bit of a pain (explained on his site), but if you really have that many copies of FF floating around, this may be the best option for you.
FYI...it does do OGG for tagging, but other features (like NFO generation) don't work for OGG.
MP3 Tag Tools is AWESOME. It's a little quirky at first, but once you have everything configured the way you like it (No ID3v1 tags or misc tag nfo thanks!), you can have it automatically generate playlists, sfv files, and more.
Also, configuring CDex properly for ripping your own stuff goes a long wait to good management of your MP3s (or OGGs).
I concur. FPS should not be the only way to test a system.
I think along with MMOs, newer RTS titles should be tested too. (esp since an RTS doesn't have the network lag factor)
You wanna see a game that will make even high end boxes choppy? Load up Empire Earth 2 demo and turn all the settings WAY up. Load a gigantic map, and play till the unit count is reached. If your system isn't at least mildly choppy, you've spent at least $3,000 on your gaming rig.
Which is ok, since that'll lower the price for the rest of us later:-P
If they're repeat offenders, shouldn't we just kill them so we don't have to spend thousands of dollars keeping them alive in an overcrowded system?
I'd say GPS tracking is a much better alternative than some of my ideas on the justice system.
Personally, I'd like to see even mundane charges such as robbery eventually lead up to death sentence after repeated offences (more than say 50 for something like robbery, armed robbery less).
Part of the problem is that our justice system is too concerned with "fixing" criminals through therapy. Although therapy works for victimless crimes (drugs, which the government is too involved in as is), there's only so much you can do for people who screw children and kill people repeatedly. I'd rather kill the murders than go all "Clockwork Orange" on them.
Thank you for being the voice of logic in this discussion.
Frankly, I would like to see this sort of technology applied to broadcast TV and radio as well. You know why?
If filtering was built into the client side, you could send uncensored content (esp for cable channels), and have the filter do the work of keeping it clean.
This would work out great for us college students who are not offended by "ass****" or other stupid censoring rules. Hell, I find the BLEEP that many channels use to censor more annoying than the swear word itself.
It would also give the user much more choice, instead of the FCC mandated censorship we have now.
(As far as the anti-pre-release rider goes, meh. 3 years in prison is nothing compared to what the ??AA really wants)
That's exactly what this is (if worded incorrectly). This is a hydrogen creator, for fuel cells.
A good example of how this could be used in the real world:
Instead of gas tanks, we carry around tanks full of dense wastewater. Using something like this as a converter (if it was fast enough), it would allow us to have the benefits of fuel cells, without the storage problem (Hydrogen being a gas).
On top of that, I wouldn't say NIN is that mainstrem now either. Admittedly, I havn't listened to too much rock radio, but when I do, I NEVER hear NIN songs. The only NIN song I ever hear on the radio is "Closer," which is from 1994.
I usually define "mainstream" as "what you hear on the pop radio stations." Look at what plays on most of these stations: 50 cent, Nickelback, 3 doors down, Britney Spears, etc. How many people that listen to these stations know any NIN song other than "Closer"? How many people do you know own "Still" or "The Fragile"? Have you ever heard "Something I can never have" on the FM radio?
NIN has a decent fanbase, but it is anything but "mainstream." "The Downward Spiral" was the ONLY NIN release to hit "mainstream."
Interesting read on Trent and NIN: http://empirezine.com/spotlight/trent/trent. htm
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The way that is worded however, makes sense.
It simply states that you can't anonymously protest on PRIVATE property. Public property is still fair game. Which is where the real protests need to happen. Protesting in front of a store will get news coverage at best. Doing it on public property (read: any non-military government facility) would be way more productive. Cut the beast off at the head, not the tail.
There's another problem to claiming music is too expensive...
My taste in music is VERY broad. In order for me to keep my collection current "legally," it would cost me thousands of dollars per year. Especially since I would have to import some stuff from the UK and EU.
As it stands right now, I pirate whatever I feel like (and anything that sounds remotely interesting). I become my own filtering machine. The garbage gets deleted (something else the record industry has no way of tracking), the good stuff gets saved.
The cream of the crop, they get purchased with the limited funds I have. Namely the local bands that I'll go to concerts and buy CDs there. The rest gets added to "The List." The List will get purchased once I'm out of school and out of (serious) debt. If the recording industry is remotely interested in keeping me as a potential *future* customer (since I'm not much of one now), they'll just leave me alone.
Slightly off-topic
In the end, I stand by the "Music should be free." The real artists will keep making music whether or not they make money off it.
Quite simply, I think what a major problem with our current grade/mid/high school education is that they don't take "computer education" seriously.
:P
When I was in elementary school, the net didn't really kick off yet. So we learned to type, play games, etc. I approve of that. At the elementary level, they need to learn the basics of using a computer.
But the school's problem is that they never took the next step beyond "elementary." Even when they taught new programs (Like Powerpoint, or Frontpage ffs) and eventually exploring the internet, they taught it at such a low level that even a 3rd grader could understand it.
They need to not just understand how to use a computer and the applications, they need to know what all us geeks know about personal PC use. That's our biggest problem with computers today. There was no formal education for maintaining a computer.
Technology is our future. Nobody can deny that. Almost every college student today has some form of desktop or laptop. Lots of them still have no clue what happens "in the magic box." Our tech support problems are only going to get exponentially worse until something is done to educate the user base. (Luckily, the largest segment of completely uneducated users will likely die off within 30 years).
I'm in favor of an "computer license." You are not permitted to own a computer until you can:
A: Identify the basic parts (How many people still call the box "the hard drive?")
B: Troubleshoot problems (My internet isn't working!!)
C: Understand the difference between Malware, Freeware, Shareware, and Open Source.
D: Prove you have common sense about online security.
I volunteer to start and run the program. Consider this an open application to all you school districts out there.
Believe it or not, YOU are a company resource. If you see them going in a horribly wrong direction, it is in the best interest for both you and the company for you to intervene.
My previous boss had the guts to stand up to upper management before. They were making a huge mistake in shifting around the email servers. They proceeded without heeding his warnings. When everything went to hell, he fixed it (they ended up doing it the way he said in the beginning), and now he's in a much better position to make company decisions.
Just because you're on the bottom of the corporate ladder doesn't mean you have to stay there. Voicing your opinions (especially if you can back them up with good business sense) will give you upward mobility much faster than sitting on your ass and just doing what the hell your management tells you.
I'm going to have to agree with the coward on this one. You don't have a clue. You won't see Sun stuff on the desktops. Sun boxes have their place: The high-performance market. Where I work (hint: Feds), we have multiple Sun boxes set up, which run our virtual servers. If there's one thing that you can never get enough of in this kind of setup, it's multiple threading and RAM. The integrated networking is also a huge boost, since that's the last major bottleneck before hitting the clients.
He wasn't trying to say that Sun deserves more press. Sure, small businesses and even many large businesses don't require that kind of power. But the coward was right: Sun provides good quality at (relatively) dirt cheap prices. Hence why they make this kind of thing.
You try running 5+ heavily used virtual servers (Each running a component of Oracle) on one Intel or AMD box. Let me know how that goes for you.
PS - Solaris kicks ass.
Verdict: gaming sucks, way better than dialup, way way better than nothing.
:)
Actually, as a dialup gamer, I feel a need to respond to this.
If you need the throughput (for downloading, browsing, etc), yes satellite is the way to go.
But here's my results for pinging Google on dialup:
Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=190ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=243
Reply from 216.239.51.104: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=243
Ping statistics for 216.239.51.104:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 170ms, Maximum = 190ms, Average = 175ms
So you're looking at 175ms on dialup. Way better than satellite, and while you can't really do FPS games, it is more than sufficient for most RTS games and World of Warcraft (not enough throughput to do >20 man instances though).
So I would reccomend using the satellite for most uses, and just dial in when you need to play.
Either way, I feel sorry for you. Going from broadband to this is gonna hurt bigtime. Luckily I have no way to go but up.
Mod parent up. People love conspiracy theories against the party in power, and this is no different.
That being said, if people really want change, they'll vote Libertarian. Democrats are the same as Republicans, except they take their money from different interest groups.
Thread ends here. Nothing can top that.
Seriously.
Wow.
You sir, are a genius.
For a real banned book:
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i ornate_di_Sodoma
One that's not even in Project Gutenburg.
One that google won't even show you if you use moderate safesearch.
One that has been banned in more countries than any other.
120 days of Sodom, by Marquis de Sade
Warning: NSFW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_120_Days_of_Sodo
Quite possibly the most fucked up thing ever written.
Or turned into a movie for that matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%C3%B2_o_le_120_g
People ban stuff for the silliest reasons. Half of those books were banned merely because of racism or one or two possibly offensive subjects.
This is a true banned book. If you are not offended by it, you are quite possibly a horrible human being.
Even saying that, I think you should read it. It puts perspective on things.
When the MMO chart was posted, I downloaded the demo for EVE online for the very same reason...
I havn't installed or set up a trial account yet because
A: I can't afford WoW and EVE
B: I don't have time to properly "abuse" a trial account right now.
But their website is very informative, and the game seems interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if this game continues to gather new players.
higher quality graphics, online play vs innovative games and play style
Online play is no longer a competing factor. Cue Wii website: http://wii.nintendo.com/hardware.html
In fact, for those of us who don't have 1080i tv's, graphics quality isn't going to matter that much.
In fact, I think what this race is going to boil down to is number of available games (Wii might actually win this one, taking the ROM distribution into account), and price (nobody I know loves PS exclusive games enough to spend roughly 3x the money on it)
And? So does your bank, ebay, and countless other services.
Play it smart, and don't have it sync the passwords or history if you don't want.
Bookmarks and browser settings, that I can live with.
Here's a news flash:
They've been doing this at my old school district for well over a year now. (South-central PA)
My sister has had friends busted for having Xanga's, Myspace's, etc which detailed either insults directed at teachers, various parties involving drinking, or direct threats to other students (the excuse they use for this in the first place). Some have even had explusion hearings based upon what was stated on their Xanga's (although in one case... it was just the straw that broke the camel's back).
While there are ways to protect your privacy in these communities, many people don't do it for the simple fact that they INTEDED to be found by their friends. The flaw in the social system is that nobody assumes that their parents would ever check these systems.
The long and short of it is: If you'd get in trouble (either parentally, scholastically, or legally) for saying it to someone's face, either use a proper layer of privacy, or DON'T FREAKING WRITE IT!
Um...because a group buff (which is cast once) is insanely powerful and cheap?
/me plays a warlock. On a PvP server. You don't know ridiculous.
Besides, Druids were DESIGNED to be "support", not tanks like the pally. Buffs + Combat rez FTW!
I would also like to add something, although not always "family-friendly":
http://channel101.com/
Definitely something different.
Maybe they'll charge a monthly fee for the old games, which you would then download on demand.
Or maybe it won't store all the ROMS on your flashdrive, instead just keeping track of the ones you have rights to, and letting you download them an infinite number of times.
If the price is right (free would cause the revolution to fly off the shelves faster than the PS2 did), this thing would make Revolution unstoppable.
We have a deployment of about 2000 workstations with a highly customized build of firefox out there. I say customized but what I mean is that it's had various GUI elements stripped, keyboard shortcuts stripped and implements locked preferences. One of those preferences is software install. The only site that can install software is our internal update site.
So why not make this build a public release?
Corporate Firefox anybody? Sounds like a winner to me.
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/
It rules. Installing extensions is a bit of a pain (explained on his site), but if you really have that many copies of FF floating around, this may be the best option for you.
FYI...it does do OGG for tagging, but other features (like NFO generation) don't work for OGG.
MP3 Tag Tools is AWESOME. It's a little quirky at first, but once you have everything configured the way you like it (No ID3v1 tags or misc tag nfo thanks!), you can have it automatically generate playlists, sfv files, and more.
Also, configuring CDex properly for ripping your own stuff goes a long wait to good management of your MP3s (or OGGs).
I concur. FPS should not be the only way to test a system.
:-P
I think along with MMOs, newer RTS titles should be tested too. (esp since an RTS doesn't have the network lag factor)
You wanna see a game that will make even high end boxes choppy? Load up Empire Earth 2 demo and turn all the settings WAY up. Load a gigantic map, and play till the unit count is reached. If your system isn't at least mildly choppy, you've spent at least $3,000 on your gaming rig.
Which is ok, since that'll lower the price for the rest of us later
If they're repeat offenders, shouldn't we just kill them so we don't have to spend thousands of dollars keeping them alive in an overcrowded system?
I'd say GPS tracking is a much better alternative than some of my ideas on the justice system.
Personally, I'd like to see even mundane charges such as robbery eventually lead up to death sentence after repeated offences (more than say 50 for something like robbery, armed robbery less).
Part of the problem is that our justice system is too concerned with "fixing" criminals through therapy. Although therapy works for victimless crimes (drugs, which the government is too involved in as is), there's only so much you can do for people who screw children and kill people repeatedly. I'd rather kill the murders than go all "Clockwork Orange" on them.
Thank you for being the voice of logic in this discussion.
Frankly, I would like to see this sort of technology applied to broadcast TV and radio as well. You know why?
If filtering was built into the client side, you could send uncensored content (esp for cable channels), and have the filter do the work of keeping it clean.
This would work out great for us college students who are not offended by "ass****" or other stupid censoring rules. Hell, I find the BLEEP that many channels use to censor more annoying than the swear word itself.
It would also give the user much more choice, instead of the FCC mandated censorship we have now.
(As far as the anti-pre-release rider goes, meh. 3 years in prison is nothing compared to what the ??AA really wants)
That's exactly what this is (if worded incorrectly). This is a hydrogen creator, for fuel cells.
A good example of how this could be used in the real world:
Instead of gas tanks, we carry around tanks full of dense wastewater. Using something like this as a converter (if it was fast enough), it would allow us to have the benefits of fuel cells, without the storage problem (Hydrogen being a gas).
On top of that, I wouldn't say NIN is that mainstrem now either. Admittedly, I havn't listened to too much rock radio, but when I do, I NEVER hear NIN songs. The only NIN song I ever hear on the radio is "Closer," which is from 1994.
. htm
I usually define "mainstream" as "what you hear on the pop radio stations." Look at what plays on most of these stations: 50 cent, Nickelback, 3 doors down, Britney Spears, etc. How many people that listen to these stations know any NIN song other than "Closer"? How many people do you know own "Still" or "The Fragile"? Have you ever heard "Something I can never have" on the FM radio?
NIN has a decent fanbase, but it is anything but "mainstream." "The Downward Spiral" was the ONLY NIN release to hit "mainstream."
Interesting read on Trent and NIN:
http://empirezine.com/spotlight/trent/trent
That was a rhetorical statement, but your reply is certainly what I was trying to imply.