You missed the point. No shit he can't carry a SCUD around. But you would expect him to have a better gun than a AK-47. AK-47s have been in use since at least 1949. If he can get his hands on stuff to make nuclear bombs and such wouldn't it follow that he could also get a better gun?
Right. They found him with one or possible two AK-47s and a pistol. He didn't even have a grenade. Nice Weapons of Mass Destruction. To quote Bill Hicks, "you can get harder shit on the streets of New York." He didn't even fire a single shot. Wow, what a ruthless killer, he was definitely a treat to national security. If he was a terrorist why wasn't his cell wired with explosives, that he could trigger to kill the 600 soldiers from the 4th infantry division as well as himself. Thus becoming a martyr and hero amongst those that want to kill Americans.
I'm a very ideologic person. I think the most basic thing a company can do to be ethical is be an ethical employer. I think there is only one way to accomplish this. Don't have employees. Instead if you need to have people work for (with) you make them business partners. That way everyone is an equal. This is where the problem arises.
I've come to realize that this would jeopardize my stake in the company should my partners decide profits are more important than ethics. So instead I would have to settle for being a benevolent employer with a profit sharing policy, yet maintain all ownership and authority. So your right in that context it is pretty straightforward.
...but you better find a way to cover your ass. It has been a dream of mine to create a ethical company as well.
However, the founder of the Computer Game Developers' Conference, Chris Crawford, wanted to CGDC to be a non-profit organization. But their treasurer wanted a for-profit corporation, he convinced the other members of the board that this was the way to go. Eventually the board members kicked Crawford out, took his stock and sold the conference for $3 million, giving Crawford only a small piece of what the others got.
I had second thoughts when I read this in the book "Chris Crawford on Game Design." All it takes is the other people in your company to decide your ethical ways of doing things are compromising profit. If this happens your screwed.
But by all means don't let something like this stop you from trying, I'm sure there are ways to prevent take overs, I just don't know what they are.
No need for Final Cut Pro, you can do a similar thing with iMovie. To avoid being redundant, but at the expense of seeming narcissistic, I'll link to my earlier post.
Open iMovie drag an m4p file into the time line, select export, chose "To QuickTime", chose "Expert Settings", then click "Export." Save the file. Drag the file into iTunes select "Convert Selection to MP3."
In summary: Download, export, convert it voila no DRM...
I've already installed Security Update 2003-11-19 and QuitTime for Java Update v2.0. No problems so far. Great to see Apple keeping their promise and supporting Jaguar.
I wandered around his various web sites and found that the "revolutionary" task-based user interface is simply making everything you can do with your computer require a wizard dressed up with HTML.
This is exactly what I thought. So Microsoft's big innovation is to make controlling a computer just like surfing the web. Big deal. Instead of options buried in tabs and menus they'll be buried in layers of web page like interfaces navigated by clicking hyper links.
In a abstract way this reminds me of goto statement in code. Longhorn, I dub the spaghetti OS.
Most of the time they don't even open the box - they just read what's on the back cover.
Um, ok. Lets imagine you have a job reviewing software. First you wouldn't apply for such a job if you didn't love using computers. In fact you wouldn't get hired if you didn't act enthusiastic during your interview. Now imagine you have a pile of software sent to from various venders-- for free. What are you going to do? Read the boxes, hell no. Your going to play with every piece of software for an hour or more, you might even use it for a week. All the while your going to be thinking, "they actually pay me for this, I sure have the best job in the world."
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You missed the point. No shit he can't carry a SCUD around. But you would expect him to have a better gun than a AK-47. AK-47s have been in use since at least 1949. If he can get his hands on stuff to make nuclear bombs and such wouldn't it follow that he could also get a better gun?
Right. They found him with one or possible two AK-47s and a pistol. He didn't even have a grenade. Nice Weapons of Mass Destruction. To quote Bill Hicks, "you can get harder shit on the streets of New York." He didn't even fire a single shot. Wow, what a ruthless killer, he was definitely a treat to national security. If he was a terrorist why wasn't his cell wired with explosives, that he could trigger to kill the 600 soldiers from the 4th infantry division as well as himself. Thus becoming a martyr and hero amongst those that want to kill Americans.
WMD definitely fall into the category of things "that existed merely as a figment of someone's imagination."
I wish I had some mod points. Honestly, LOL.
Of course, he is wearing G5 Shorts, arguably the longest [personal] shorts on the planet.
http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml
Is missing:
BLISSe
Cecil
Demeter
Elf
Escher
Hop
Infer
NESL
Obliq
Proteus
SGML
Sisal
Theta
Tycoon
emacs
Lotus 1,2,3
Unisys' WFL
OWL
MFC
ZApp
Zinc
And those are just the languages listed that don't have a link at the Hello World! page http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml
PLEASE GIVE UP No one said it was complete.
Or you can download the archive
Here is Hello World! in Brainfuck.
I've come to realize that this would jeopardize my stake in the company should my partners decide profits are more important than ethics. So instead I would have to settle for being a benevolent employer with a profit sharing policy, yet maintain all ownership and authority. So your right in that context it is pretty straightforward.
However, the founder of the Computer Game Developers' Conference, Chris Crawford, wanted to CGDC to be a non-profit organization. But their treasurer wanted a for-profit corporation, he convinced the other members of the board that this was the way to go. Eventually the board members kicked Crawford out, took his stock and sold the conference for $3 million, giving Crawford only a small piece of what the others got.
I had second thoughts when I read this in the book "Chris Crawford on Game Design." All it takes is the other people in your company to decide your ethical ways of doing things are compromising profit. If this happens your screwed.
But by all means don't let something like this stop you from trying, I'm sure there are ways to prevent take overs, I just don't know what they are.
Why not call it Dogcow Linux.
In case of slashdoting here is a still of the John Romero interview.
Yes, it works with files I bought from the iTunes music store.
No need for Final Cut Pro, you can do a similar thing with iMovie. To avoid being redundant, but at the expense of seeming narcissistic, I'll link to my earlier post.
In summary: Download, export, convert it voila no DRM...
I'm poor. Not really, just haven't bought Panther yet.
I've already installed Security Update 2003-11-19 and QuitTime for Java Update v2.0. No problems so far. Great to see Apple keeping their promise and supporting Jaguar.
Google News: Radio Netherlands British Newspaper Claims Security Breach at Buckingham Palace
One of these is not news can you guess which one?
Ok.
Mac OS X come with Project Builder
It comes with XCode now.
This is exactly what I thought. So Microsoft's big innovation is to make controlling a computer just like surfing the web. Big deal. Instead of options buried in tabs and menus they'll be buried in layers of web page like interfaces navigated by clicking hyper links.
In a abstract way this reminds me of goto statement in code. Longhorn, I dub the spaghetti OS.
Very funny.
I like there slogan: "We are not evil." Very reassuring. Seriously though, they have some quality artist, based on what I heard on their streams.
Vender is a variation of vendor. Anyway, thanks for pointing out that I make mundane typos when I haven't slept.
Oh yeah, why not capitalize your sentences?