Alternately, you'll end up with sharers in countries where the RIAA doesn't have a legal way to mess with 'em. The US will likely become 100% leech on the public P2P networks, sadly--but you can't really blame leechers when legal threats are flying, right?
Go one better--stop downloading and stop buying. Let 'em sue themselves right into the dirt.
Just out of curiousity, in which jurisdiction do you live? Certainly, one must be served notice that they're trespassing before they can be charged if the land in question is potentially public, however, in my county the minimum standard is signs every 50 ft in woods or signs every 150 ft and at the corners on open ground. Hardly a "fence" by any means.
I assume you must live on mars or something.
Additionally, it is quite strictly illegal to do anything to a fence completely on someone's property that isn't yours, even if it does face you, and fences directly on the property line (or within 6" of it) are allowed only by contract between the owners of the adjoining properties, said contract to resolve this dispute in advance.
So where do you live exactly? Not central Pennsylvania (USA), that's for sure.
I believe that the U-238 (being big, stable atoms and a dense material in general) serves as the moderator--I honestly want to say that the secondary fission reaction starts from the outside of the U-238 blanket and works its way in.
I'd think that since this baby is going to be in the middle of the ocean, they'll probably declare a maritime exclusion zone, and thus any would-be elevator sabateurs would have to bring both laser and coating-breaker with them on whatever vessel deemed fit to go to the space elevator. I'm willing to bet it might be harder than smuggling a gun onto an aircraft.
If the person shooting at the tower to break the coating doesn't also have the laser, I doubt the laser-gunner will be within range (due to curvature of the earth+middle of ocean) of any hole made by a conventional rifle.
Which also begs the question--if this is an international or private project, why is a terrorist going to attack it anyway? They do usually follow SOME logic to their attacks.
Under current designs, an un-anchored space elevator (the cable is severed) either flies off into space or hangs there, severed. It doesn't crash, because it can't. Basic physics will tell you this.
I will agree, any given Linux distro will have many more patches than microsoft for a given period of time.
This is because any given Linux distro distributes patches for 3rd-party F/OSS that comes with their distro. If Microsoft aggregated patches for AIM, Norton AV, blah blah blah, and every other 3rd-party app anyone used on their machine, you'd see a realistic comparison.
The way to compare, in my opinion, is to compare GNU tools (the common set that everyone has) and Linux Kernel bug reports to Windows Update (Which is only "core" windows stuff, supposedly), and then compare OpenOffice/StarOffice bug reports with MS Office bug reports.
Then maybe we'll see some meaningful ideas of who has more/worse bugs.
I get paid to integrate software, mine and others. I get paid to enhance that software, and release it into the ecosystem as the price I pay for the base system in the first place.
As a developer, I make money from open source. The way I look at it is thus: I sacrifice the profit potential somewhat by releasing my code as open source. I get the benefit, tho, of having all the body of GPL/BSD (I'm a GPL guy) work to base my code on.
As you may have guessed, I'm a staff developer/sysadmin at a company that doesn't sell software. The company benefits from FOSS, because I and my co-worker are cheaper than buying proprietary. We benefit because we're getting paid to do something we enjoy and that lines up with our moral values re:software.
I think a large part of the benefits of FOSS comes from a sense of moral gain from having shared, that offsets the monetary gain somewhat. But that's just my take.
Morrowind occasionally comes close. Moreso with the expansion packs, at least in my experience (see Zeriel. See Zeriel follow the wrong person and end up wrecking an entire city in a mad rage. Go, Zeriel, go.)
Meh, while I realize the tech of our phone system is inferior to Europe, I like my clunky Motorola. It fits in my pocket, it's big enough that it feels like a real phone when I talk on it, its buttons and screens are good-sized, and it has a week-long battery life.
Yeah, it's digital. 2.5G CDMA. But I get bothered enough by the text pager function without SMS to worry about as well. =P
Of the games you listed that I've played, I think Torment is the only one that really gives the OP what he wants: i.e., a world in which your moral choices dramatically affect the storyline.
The earlier article made note that the MIT research disproved the old theory, which was sketchy anyway--apparently, under the old theory, there was no explanation for how baby water striders could move as fast as their parents.
Funny, I'm 24 and don't have time to sit for hours in front of a game at a time, but I love Vice City precisely because it IS challenging. I've always been under the impression that games are getting easier since my youth, and I don't like that all that much.
Regardless, I think you do have a lack of patience if you can't enjoy Vice City playing it a few hours each day. (or even just an hour--more than ample time to finish a mission or two.)
Perhaps that lack of patience is the real problem here.
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Zzzzz...when I have kids, I hope that I'll teach them to read everything freely available--INCLUDING Al Jazeera. Because US-centrism is a BAD thing.
Sometimes I seriously wish I could secede from the US in some kind of meaningful way.
Alternately, you'll end up with sharers in countries where the RIAA doesn't have a legal way to mess with 'em. The US will likely become 100% leech on the public P2P networks, sadly--but you can't really blame leechers when legal threats are flying, right?
Go one better--stop downloading and stop buying. Let 'em sue themselves right into the dirt.
Just out of curiousity, in which jurisdiction do you live? Certainly, one must be served notice that they're trespassing before they can be charged if the land in question is potentially public, however, in my county the minimum standard is signs every 50 ft in woods or signs every 150 ft and at the corners on open ground. Hardly a "fence" by any means.
I assume you must live on mars or something.
Additionally, it is quite strictly illegal to do anything to a fence completely on someone's property that isn't yours, even if it does face you, and fences directly on the property line (or within 6" of it) are allowed only by contract between the owners of the adjoining properties, said contract to resolve this dispute in advance.
So where do you live exactly? Not central Pennsylvania (USA), that's for sure.
I believe that the U-238 (being big, stable atoms and a dense material in general) serves as the moderator--I honestly want to say that the secondary fission reaction starts from the outside of the U-238 blanket and works its way in.
I'd think that since this baby is going to be in the middle of the ocean, they'll probably declare a maritime exclusion zone, and thus any would-be elevator sabateurs would have to bring both laser and coating-breaker with them on whatever vessel deemed fit to go to the space elevator. I'm willing to bet it might be harder than smuggling a gun onto an aircraft.
If the person shooting at the tower to break the coating doesn't also have the laser, I doubt the laser-gunner will be within range (due to curvature of the earth+middle of ocean) of any hole made by a conventional rifle.
Which also begs the question--if this is an international or private project, why is a terrorist going to attack it anyway? They do usually follow SOME logic to their attacks.
Yes, they have. Several times.
Under current designs, an un-anchored space elevator (the cable is severed) either flies off into space or hangs there, severed. It doesn't crash, because it can't. Basic physics will tell you this.
*shrugs* I think you overstate the case. I see no problem with requiring a basic knoweldge about the country to vote.
How scary is it that people probably DO vote when they don't even know who the current president is.
Speaking as an amateur musician and songwriter, why not go back to the (very) old way?
I make money from performing and from commissioned works. I don't give a rats ass if you want to copy/download/perform/whatever any song I've written.
It was good enough for Mozart (y'ever notice how all the great classical composers had a "patron"? You ever wonder what that meant?)
IT all depends on whether superstores like Best Buy and such count as "record stores". I would wager they do.
Just as an aside, Medievia needs to come with a warning label. 5% of my friends dropped/failed out of college because of it.
Odd analogy, considering that every statistic I've seen has pointed to Britain's RISING crime rate since the handgun ban. =P
Sources claiming otherwise would be wonderful.
I will agree, any given Linux distro will have many more patches than microsoft for a given period of time.
This is because any given Linux distro distributes patches for 3rd-party F/OSS that comes with their distro. If Microsoft aggregated patches for AIM, Norton AV, blah blah blah, and every other 3rd-party app anyone used on their machine, you'd see a realistic comparison.
The way to compare, in my opinion, is to compare GNU tools (the common set that everyone has) and Linux Kernel bug reports to Windows Update (Which is only "core" windows stuff, supposedly), and then compare OpenOffice/StarOffice bug reports with MS Office bug reports.
Then maybe we'll see some meaningful ideas of who has more/worse bugs.
*laf* I'm an engineer. I know enough about phones not to be bs'ed. The truth is GSM < CDMA < 3G, from a technical standpoint.
At least as far as I'm concerned:
I get paid to integrate software, mine and others.
I get paid to enhance that software, and release it into the ecosystem as the price I pay for the base system in the first place.
As a developer, I make money from open source. The way I look at it is thus: I sacrifice the profit potential somewhat by releasing my code as open source. I get the benefit, tho, of having all the body of GPL/BSD (I'm a GPL guy) work to base my code on.
As you may have guessed, I'm a staff developer/sysadmin at a company that doesn't sell software. The company benefits from FOSS, because I and my co-worker are cheaper than buying proprietary. We benefit because we're getting paid to do something we enjoy and that lines up with our moral values re:software.
I think a large part of the benefits of FOSS comes from a sense of moral gain from having shared, that offsets the monetary gain somewhat. But that's just my take.
Morrowind occasionally comes close. Moreso with the expansion packs, at least in my experience (see Zeriel. See Zeriel follow the wrong person and end up wrecking an entire city in a mad rage. Go, Zeriel, go.)
Meh, while I realize the tech of our phone system is inferior to Europe, I like my clunky Motorola. It fits in my pocket, it's big enough that it feels like a real phone when I talk on it, its buttons and screens are good-sized, and it has a week-long battery life.
Yeah, it's digital. 2.5G CDMA. But I get bothered enough by the text pager function without SMS to worry about as well. =P
Of the games you listed that I've played, I think Torment is the only one that really gives the OP what he wants: i.e., a world in which your moral choices dramatically affect the storyline.
You oughta do a search for "Crimsonland", it's a very nice 20-min timewaster--it has a free trial download, and it's only about US$20 last I looked.
I never have problems running GTK apps on KDE. You just gotta make sure you have the GTK library installed.
Most good installers and package managers will handle that for you. =)
Quite right. I'd never heard of 'em.
Their price on XP Pro is still exorbiant, but what the hell.
Show me where, I'll jump all over it. I can't even find OEM versions for less than US$160.
Or don't show me, and we'll assume you're just another AC talking out of your ass.
What happens when 3GHz has half the power requirements because of this?
The cost of the chip means nothing to me. Electricty is the real expense.
You think YOU'RE confused, my fiancee's ring (a very nice silver/garnet claddagh) was all of $35.
And she loves it.
The earlier article made note that the MIT research disproved the old theory, which was sketchy anyway--apparently, under the old theory, there was no explanation for how baby water striders could move as fast as their parents.
Funny, I'm 24 and don't have time to sit for hours in front of a game at a time, but I love Vice City precisely because it IS challenging. I've always been under the impression that games are getting easier since my youth, and I don't like that all that much.
Regardless, I think you do have a lack of patience if you can't enjoy Vice City playing it a few hours each day. (or even just an hour--more than ample time to finish a mission or two.)
Perhaps that lack of patience is the real problem here.