First of all, the web is not the internet, but this has been said allready. I'm part of a huge gaming community over a service called Kali (best 20 bucks i've ever spent in my life). I go into the chat rooms everyday and talk with friends i've known for over 4 years, but never met in person. We interact through gaming, Duke Nukem 3D, Half-life (counter-strike), Starcraft, Quake 3. People forge REAL bonds by playing games together. There's no better way to become close to someone (or a group of people) then by saving their ass in Counter-Strike, or fragging them in Quake 3. Gaming offers communities more then just talking to each other, it offers people a way of interacting with each other, even if it is with just a skinned marine, for the time your playing that game, you BECOME the marine, or the terrorist, and the others become either your friends or your enemies. If thats not a community, i dont know what is.
The current sharing model that Napster uses *is* illegal. Napster is not illegal because of the simple fact that u can trade legal mp3s through it as well. This is why those tibetan (sp?) stores are able to sell bongs and pipes, sure you can smoke weed in them, but you can also smoke tobacco, incense, and many other legal substances.
How can the president whos in the executive branch have any infulence over what happens in the courts, which is the judiciary branch of government. Seperation of powers is one of the corner stones of our government.
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I know the article said that you can't levitate people, but what would happen if a person is inside a large plastic, bubble shaped container of water (in diving gear maybe), and this force is applied, wouldn't the bubble of water rise along with the person inside, and the person inside would hit the edge of the plastic bubble and start to rise, or is my logic wrong someplace.
If this were possible many applications could be thought up, like having a large thing of water under an elevator to make an elevator operated by zero g.
Now, granted the dual processor G4 looks great, and so does the cube, but Apple cheaps out on some important parts. The cube comes with only 64 megs of ram? Come on, I realize that it's a machine meant for the average (below average) home user who probably doesn't need much power, but 64 is barely enough to run some software programs. Now, the dual G4 has no excuse for the lack of ram. Also, an ATI video card with only 16 megs of ram?! A much better system (expensive too) would include at least 128 megs of ram and possibly a Voodoo 4 or 5.
I always thought it was a comedy. I mean come on, could someone purposely make this bad of a movie, I thought it was a parody or something. Oh and I laughed my ass off for about 15 minutes with the flying "man animals" scene.
Everyone has freedom, and freedom can never truely be taken away. Using the trespassing sign analogy, you can put up a "No Trespassing" sign, but then I am free to go and rip the sign down. If your not happy with the current government, your free to go and shoot the president if you like. It is the consequences, and threatened consequences of your free actions that keep you from doing such things. Maybe the issue isn't freedom, but what is morally right and wrong. But then you have to ask, what is right or wrong?
Now, i know of a LOT of underground record labels and bands that release their songs to the public LEGALLY. One example being Fat Wreck Chords (www.fatwreck.com) which releases a few of it's artist's mp3s. How can they shut down Napster if it's trading both legal AND illegal mp3s. It seems to me that this would be like making lighters illegal because you can use them to light pot (not the best analogy, I know).
This stuff was expected in 2025, that is, it was expected in 2025 4 years ago, and with the exponential speed of technological improvement, this stuff can probably be expected in the next 10-15 years.
On another point, whats scary is that they're actually planning on doing some of this stuff.
btw, this allready happened with the racial profiling on the NJ Parkway. Ironic that the geek profiling and racial profiling were going on at the same time.
My question is, how can this be legal? I mean, im sure Pinkerton has thousands of super lawyers waiting to defend their product, but think about it. If this was a program for adults, where u turn in your next door neighbor because you saw him with a steak knife, this would immediatly be branded discrimination. But, since children in the US of today have no rights, the fat cats can do what they want.
Did you ever get the feeling that we're living on a train, going full speed in a dark tunnel, and the conductor has no fucking clue what he's doing? Things like this program must be stopped now, before they show other companies it's ok to do this...
this idea reminds me of the book Idoru by William Gibson, where there was a secret "village" on the net that was "a killfile turned inside out" a private place where laws were inapplicable, sounds like a great idea to me.
In recent months, I have bought more cd's -because- of mp3's then I ever would have if it was not for them. Thats the greatest thing about mp3s, if you hear about a band, you can download an mp3, see if you like them, and if they are good enough, you go out and buy their cd. MP3 quality is -not- perfect, but it can be a sort of free sample before you go and buy the actual album. On another point, sites like http://www.mp3.com allow you to experience bands that you would never have heard otherwise.
The biggest problem that I see with todays schools, is that schools don't use the money they have in the right areas. For example, the schools system I go to bought something like 100 new computers. The problem with this is that the teachers in the school have absolutly no knowledge of them, so the computers sit there unused. The teachers have no idea of how to work them into a lesson plan, or use them constructivly. Instead of buying 100 new computers, they could have trained teachers how to really use the computers and buy less of them. Or spend the money on desperatly needed textbooks (I once had a physics book from '82).
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First of all, the web is not the internet, but this has been said allready. I'm part of a huge gaming community over a service called Kali (best 20 bucks i've ever spent in my life). I go into the chat rooms everyday and talk with friends i've known for over 4 years, but never met in person. We interact through gaming, Duke Nukem 3D, Half-life (counter-strike), Starcraft, Quake 3. People forge REAL bonds by playing games together. There's no better way to become close to someone (or a group of people) then by saving their ass in Counter-Strike, or fragging them in Quake 3. Gaming offers communities more then just talking to each other, it offers people a way of interacting with each other, even if it is with just a skinned marine, for the time your playing that game, you BECOME the marine, or the terrorist, and the others become either your friends or your enemies. If thats not a community, i dont know what is.
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The current sharing model that Napster uses *is* illegal.
Napster is not illegal because of the simple fact that u can trade legal mp3s through it as well. This is why those tibetan (sp?) stores are able to sell bongs and pipes, sure you can smoke weed in them, but you can also smoke tobacco, incense, and many other legal substances.
How can the president whos in the executive branch have any infulence over what happens in the courts, which is the judiciary branch of government. Seperation of powers is one of the corner stones of our government. -
I know the article said that you can't levitate people, but what would happen if a person is inside a large plastic, bubble shaped container of water (in diving gear maybe), and this force is applied, wouldn't the bubble of water rise along with the person inside, and the person inside would hit the edge of the plastic bubble and start to rise, or is my logic wrong someplace.
If this were possible many applications could be thought up, like having a large thing of water under an elevator to make an elevator operated by zero g.
Ignorance
Now, granted the dual processor G4 looks great, and so does the cube, but Apple cheaps out on some important parts. The cube comes with only 64 megs of ram? Come on, I realize that it's a machine meant for the average (below average) home user who probably doesn't need much power, but 64 is barely enough to run some software programs. Now, the dual G4 has no excuse for the lack of ram. Also, an ATI video card with only 16 megs of ram?! A much better system (expensive too) would include at least 128 megs of ram and possibly a Voodoo 4 or 5.
I wonder what type of cracker caused this. Maybe one of those evil ritz with peanut butter ones.
Oh my god, its a saltene (sp?)! Kill it! Kill it!
There is a windows port of GIMP that uses GTK+
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located at: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/
most of it works, except for some random crashes
I always thought it was a comedy. I mean come on, could someone purposely make this bad of a movie, I thought it was a parody or something. Oh and I laughed my ass off for about 15 minutes with the flying "man animals" scene.
FLY LIL GUY FLY!
Everyone has freedom, and freedom can never truely be taken away. Using the trespassing sign analogy, you can put up a "No Trespassing" sign, but then I am free to go and rip the sign down. If your not happy with the current government, your free to go and shoot the president if you like. It is the consequences, and threatened consequences of your free actions that keep you from doing such things. Maybe the issue isn't freedom, but what is morally right and wrong. But then you have to ask, what is right or wrong?
Now, i know of a LOT of underground record labels and bands that release their songs to the public LEGALLY. One example being Fat Wreck Chords (www.fatwreck.com) which releases a few of it's artist's mp3s. How can they shut down Napster if it's trading both legal AND illegal mp3s. It seems to me that this would be like making lighters illegal because you can use them to light pot (not the best analogy, I know).
This stuff was expected in 2025, that is, it was expected in 2025 4 years ago, and with the exponential speed of technological improvement, this stuff can probably be expected in the next 10-15 years.
On another point, whats scary is that they're actually planning on doing some of this stuff.
btw, this allready happened with the racial profiling on the NJ Parkway. Ironic that the geek profiling and racial profiling were going on at the same time.
My question is, how can this be legal? I mean, im sure Pinkerton has thousands of super lawyers waiting to defend their product, but think about it. If this was a program for adults, where u turn in your next door neighbor because you saw him with a steak knife, this would immediatly be branded discrimination. But, since children in the US of today have no rights, the fat cats can do what they want.
Did you ever get the feeling that we're living on a train, going full speed in a dark tunnel, and the conductor has no fucking clue what he's doing? Things like this program must be stopped now, before they show other companies it's ok to do this...
this idea reminds me of the book Idoru by William Gibson, where there was a secret "village" on the net that was "a killfile turned inside out" a private place where laws were inapplicable, sounds like a great idea to me.
In recent months, I have bought more cd's -because- of mp3's then I ever would have if it was not for them. Thats the greatest thing about mp3s, if you hear about a band, you can download an mp3, see if you like them, and if they are good enough, you go out and buy their cd. MP3 quality is -not- perfect, but it can be a sort of free sample before you go and buy the actual album. On another point, sites like http://www.mp3.com allow you to experience bands that you would never have heard otherwise.
Seems that Slider's has been saying this the entire time =)
Most probably they have no incentive to, it would be much easier to sit in ignorance.
The biggest problem that I see with todays schools, is that schools don't use the money they have in the right areas. For example, the schools system I go to bought something like 100 new computers. The problem with this is that the teachers in the school have absolutly no knowledge of them, so the computers sit there unused. The teachers have no idea of how to work them into a lesson plan, or use them constructivly. Instead of buying 100 new computers, they could have trained teachers how to really use the computers and buy less of them. Or spend the money on desperatly needed textbooks (I once had a physics book from '82).