Your point 2 is the most important reason why the Germans lost. Hitler was so convinced about his Final Solution that he spent a vast amount of the German military's resources on killing all the inferior races instead of keeping supplies to his front line. That coupled with the two front war. Wikipedia's (they're down for maintence at the moment) article states that had the German troops not gone through Belgium to get to France the English wouldn't have gotten involved as early as they did.
Austrailia has done a good job with thwarting forgery in more than just the media that the bills are printed on. Really good counterfeiting operations in the United States take a batch of one dollar bills and bleach them to remove all the stuff from the one, except they protect the serial number, then they reprint a higher bill's value onto it. That won't work in Austrailia, because every bill has braille and the larger the note's value, the larger the note. A one and a five arn't the same size.
Actully, the people that founded the United States didn't seek freedom of any kind, they were just sick of being taxed, and after they won independence they still kept slavery and sexist views. The Constitution is a good piece of literature, but it's only that, a piece of literature. When people make a piece of writing that's supposed to last through the years it has to look good and noble, and the people that wrote it are supposed to be view as benevolent, selfless people.
If you plan on making a society that exists for sole freedom of others, make sure you view both sides of the fence, any discontinuty with your ideals and it'll all come crashing down.
Actully those events have transpired three times since the British Empire claimed land in North America. First there were the witch trials in Salem, then the Red Scare, spear headed by Senator McCarthey back in the 50's, and the most recent one with people speaking out against the government as being "unpatriotic and a terrorist". You'd think people would learn from the past already...
UT2k4 brought back more than just Assault from the original UT. It has a software renderer again. So anybody with an x86 processor meeting the cpu, ram, and hard drive requirements should be able to run it. Hell, they even made a Mac port, so the x86 part is optional.
Aliens wiping out the earth was in the pilot episode. When Fry is in the cyro tube it shows the world being destroyed by flying saucers, then being rebuilt to around a bronze age and being destroyed again. I think it was mainly a satire of The Time Machine.
Sure, legally speaking they're different, but the core idea behind the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright is basically the same. I'm just trying to show that these legal methods of claiming ownership are no longer being used to promote innovation, but to harass the little companies that can't feed the insatiable lawyers.
I disagree. Through the millenia that humans have been around the diagnosis and treatment for diabetes is fairly new. From a biological stand point when you get something like diabetes, it's time for you to check out and no longer contribute to the gene pool, but we've evolved to make it so that isn't a problem.
Music on the other hand, has been around longer than medicine. It could be considered entertainment, but it's a very important facet of human life. Almost everyone listens to music in one form or another, it's something that keeps us from going insane with boredom. I'd say it's more important than insulin.
Shit like this is why patents are becomming a much larger burdon on society. First SCO claims Unix, then Microsoft claims the word "windows" and the double click. Does this mean that Atari is coming in to patent the use of a keyboard in a video game?
What are our options? First of all, the PATRIOT act was passed almost unanimously, and we only pick at best one senator and one representative every vote cycle. It would take at least 4 years to replace everyone that's currently in Congress to fix this thing.
This brings up the second issue. Who would fix it? Democrats and Republicans sided with the bill. It isn't a matter of changing out one group of people for another, because it won't improve things. We need honest politians, but that's an oxymoron.
Business software will become free. I'm as much of a proponant of OSS as much as the next person on/., but I don't think Microsoft will let go of the general consumer bracket in my lifetime. That's not to say that the techno-savy person won't install GNU/Windows on his computer instead of Longhorn, because it's been shown that their business ended technology is far superior to their personal iterations.
There's also the principle behind games. Most serious games that feature multiplayer aspects, as well as huge MMORPGS, won't be open source, because the risk of hacking is just too great.
I think the only way it's possible for someone to interview oneself is if you're Zaphod. If you only have one head, it's very hard to hold a conversation.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to smell-o-vision? Forget HDTV, let me smell the ribs from the Applebee's ad, or the Tacos from the Mexian sitcom.
You're not using Sony's offical terminology. You assume that "PSX" means Playstation, but it actully means Sony's new console, almost identical to the new Xbox that this article is talking about. It's a Playstation2 with a built in Tivo and MP3 playback, etc. Esstially a media center that acts like a Playstation 2.
Are the video capabilities of the console interchangeable with a stand alone PC? No.
By the time this system comes out a video card that can out perform the next gen cards from Nvidia or ATI will be less than the price of the Xbox, I can assure you.
When Bush offered Cheney the job of being his running mate Cheney had to leave his job at Halliburton, as a thank you for his years of hard work, he was given about 40 million dollars. Halliburton was the first company given oil rights in Iraq during the war. Do the math. The oil companies arn't paying Bush and Cheney, they already paid them, and now they're collecting their dues.
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Your point 2 is the most important reason why the Germans lost. Hitler was so convinced about his Final Solution that he spent a vast amount of the German military's resources on killing all the inferior races instead of keeping supplies to his front line. That coupled with the two front war. Wikipedia's (they're down for maintence at the moment) article states that had the German troops not gone through Belgium to get to France the English wouldn't have gotten involved as early as they did.
A virus for Windows just sends spam to people, but a virus written for MacOS can destroy an entire race of invading aliens! "Jollyroger" indeed.
Austrailia has done a good job with thwarting forgery in more than just the media that the bills are printed on. Really good counterfeiting operations in the United States take a batch of one dollar bills and bleach them to remove all the stuff from the one, except they protect the serial number, then they reprint a higher bill's value onto it. That won't work in Austrailia, because every bill has braille and the larger the note's value, the larger the note. A one and a five arn't the same size.
Actully, the people that founded the United States didn't seek freedom of any kind, they were just sick of being taxed, and after they won independence they still kept slavery and sexist views. The Constitution is a good piece of literature, but it's only that, a piece of literature. When people make a piece of writing that's supposed to last through the years it has to look good and noble, and the people that wrote it are supposed to be view as benevolent, selfless people.
If you plan on making a society that exists for sole freedom of others, make sure you view both sides of the fence, any discontinuty with your ideals and it'll all come crashing down.
"Ever hear of the Salem witch trials in America?"
Actully those events have transpired three times since the British Empire claimed land in North America. First there were the witch trials in Salem, then the Red Scare, spear headed by Senator McCarthey back in the 50's, and the most recent one with people speaking out against the government as being "unpatriotic and a terrorist". You'd think people would learn from the past already...
Let's see if this is more funny than insightful...
I live in the U.S., you insensitive clod!
I agree whole heartedly, and if I might add.. They've more chance of knitting fog.
That's the coolest damn phrase I've ever heard.
UT2k4 brought back more than just Assault from the original UT. It has a software renderer again. So anybody with an x86 processor meeting the cpu, ram, and hard drive requirements should be able to run it. Hell, they even made a Mac port, so the x86 part is optional.
Aliens wiping out the earth was in the pilot episode. When Fry is in the cyro tube it shows the world being destroyed by flying saucers, then being rebuilt to around a bronze age and being destroyed again. I think it was mainly a satire of The Time Machine.
Sure, legally speaking they're different, but the core idea behind the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright is basically the same. I'm just trying to show that these legal methods of claiming ownership are no longer being used to promote innovation, but to harass the little companies that can't feed the insatiable lawyers.
I disagree. Through the millenia that humans have been around the diagnosis and treatment for diabetes is fairly new. From a biological stand point when you get something like diabetes, it's time for you to check out and no longer contribute to the gene pool, but we've evolved to make it so that isn't a problem.
Music on the other hand, has been around longer than medicine. It could be considered entertainment, but it's a very important facet of human life. Almost everyone listens to music in one form or another, it's something that keeps us from going insane with boredom. I'd say it's more important than insulin.
Shit like this is why patents are becomming a much larger burdon on society. First SCO claims Unix, then Microsoft claims the word "windows" and the double click. Does this mean that Atari is coming in to patent the use of a keyboard in a video game?
Limewire doesn't support eDonkey or Bittorrent.
That's why the AGP bus goes to the north bridge, and the IDE channel goes to the south bridge, sharing it with the PCI channel.
VROOOOOOOOM!
In the beginning there was speed.
SCREEEEECH!
Now there's a wrecked server... we're talking serious momentum for a car travelling at 9 times the speed of sound.
What are our options? First of all, the PATRIOT act was passed almost unanimously, and we only pick at best one senator and one representative every vote cycle. It would take at least 4 years to replace everyone that's currently in Congress to fix this thing.
This brings up the second issue. Who would fix it? Democrats and Republicans sided with the bill. It isn't a matter of changing out one group of people for another, because it won't improve things. We need honest politians, but that's an oxymoron.
The actual quote is:
"Those that would give up liberty to obtain security deserve neither liberty, nor security."
Business software will become free. I'm as much of a proponant of OSS as much as the next person on /., but I don't think Microsoft will let go of the general consumer bracket in my lifetime. That's not to say that the techno-savy person won't install GNU/Windows on his computer instead of Longhorn, because it's been shown that their business ended technology is far superior to their personal iterations.
There's also the principle behind games. Most serious games that feature multiplayer aspects, as well as huge MMORPGS, won't be open source, because the risk of hacking is just too great.
After the Phoebe flyby, it's on to the ringed planet
All the gas giants have rings, not just Saturn. They're not as easy to see, but they have been detected.
I think the only way it's possible for someone to interview oneself is if you're Zaphod. If you only have one head, it's very hard to hold a conversation.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to smell-o-vision? Forget HDTV, let me smell the ribs from the Applebee's ad, or the Tacos from the Mexian sitcom.
You're not using Sony's offical terminology. You assume that "PSX" means Playstation, but it actully means Sony's new console, almost identical to the new Xbox that this article is talking about. It's a Playstation2 with a built in Tivo and MP3 playback, etc. Esstially a media center that acts like a Playstation 2.
Is the new Xbox coming out tomorrow? No.
Are the video capabilities of the console interchangeable with a stand alone PC? No.
By the time this system comes out a video card that can out perform the next gen cards from Nvidia or ATI will be less than the price of the Xbox, I can assure you.
Actully we're trying to.
When Bush offered Cheney the job of being his running mate Cheney had to leave his job at Halliburton, as a thank you for his years of hard work, he was given about 40 million dollars. Halliburton was the first company given oil rights in Iraq during the war. Do the math. The oil companies arn't paying Bush and Cheney, they already paid them, and now they're collecting their dues.