I realize that this doesn't matter to a lot of the Slashdot crowd, but Discussion2 is still buggy in IE (IE7, specifically). There are JS errors on the page, the weird gray and white floating box that sits on the page which is apparently there to tell you how many posts there are in the discussion overruns the left-side navigation bar (and overall who's purpose seems a bit pointless to me in general), and its rendering is completely messed up in IE. Also, I have to use FF just to disable Discussion2 on my account, because it doesn't work in IE7.
You may want to get those issues cleared up before you consider Discussion2 complete.
As my signature would indicate, I actually prefer Care2 over MySpace and Facebook. Care2 is a social networking site that caters to socially aware causes and who's users actually want to try and make some sort of impact in the world. Even at 7 million members, it's amazing to me how few of my type (the geeks) are aware of the site. Neither MySpace or Facebook really have much "purpose" to them (well, MySpace users may claim that it caters to bands, but the connection to me is pretty shallow). Facebook doesn't really have any "purpose" either. Not that there's anything wrong with that - just that I figure if I'm going to be part of a social network, why not be part of the one that aims for something respectable?
It's probably a good thing if this gets voted down by AMA. Right now most of the states' laws that are being passed in their respective legislatures are being declared unconstitutional because it has not been demonstrated that video games pose a legit risk to children or their mental health. If the AMA votes through this proposal, we could start to see states pointing to this, and seeing the courts side with the states regarding the legislation that they are passing, which are all currently and consistently being ruled unconstitutional by the courts.
Now, I wouldn't be surprised if in the few weeks/days before Halo 3, the often predicted price cut comes.
Why would Microsoft drop the price directly BEFORE the launch of Halo 3? Isn't that supposed to be their system seller? Why wouldn't they keep the price, then drop the price of the console after the sales of Halo 3 start to slow down? That seems like a much better solution (from Microsoft's perspective) to me.
Oh get off your high horse. The wealthiest 1 percent of earners in this country pay 37% of tax revenue. How that got modded as Informative is beyond me.
It would be nice if laws could be simple and unambiguous, like a well-written piece of software. Instead, laws are written over a long time by a lot of different people, just like real software. Software crashes; laws get inconsistencies.
The difference is that any viable software company usually rewrites their software essentially from the ground up from time to time to account for changes in the real world.
It certainly matters whether the epidemic is perceived or actual: no amount of law enforcement is going to reduce crime if the crime is not "actual", but just in the minds of the right-wing press.
Woh WOH WOHHH! Right-wing press? Bssssst! Try again. Last I checked, every place all these cameras were being installed is in decidedly LIBERAL areas. It seems to me that the gun-loving, gun-toting left-wingers are the people and places where there doesn't appear to be a perception of a need for these cameras to be watching them all the time. Quit trolling - I am a social liberal, but even I know better than to think that this is the fault an drive of a truely conservative movement (and not any of this neo-con bullshit we've been subject to for the last 3/4 decade).
Look, I understand people that want to take a stab at the administration - Bush's administration has done far more harm than good, but come on - bashing like this summary is just not necessary. This was a widely supported idea beyond just the US - a number of countries followed suit in the idea. At the very least, it didn't HURT anything - so why bitch about it so much? Oh well, you had to patch your systems. It's over and done with. No need to try and make this into a "prime opportunity" to bash the administration for at least trying. There's plenty of other things to gripe about when it comes to this administration - learn to pick your fights, otherwise you just end up looking like a giant douche.... or a turd sandwich.
You're not wrong, exactly, but I think that there is another factor in there - PC games have to compete with free (piracy). That also helps keep the cost of games down.
What gets me is that I know I'm not the only one who would be more likely to drop $25 or so on a game without thinking twice if they were priced as such, but when they're priced at $60... I feel more compelled to wait. Then, by the time the prices for the game actually come down, there's usually a newer version of the game out and I don't want the original anymore anyway.
If the price of games came down, I guarantee that I'd be purchasing more games.
I think the point is that you already gave them your money, so your frustrations aren't even being heard. The best way to handle this would be to return your Apple equipment and tell them why, presuming that you still can.
You didn't get it did you? The police will NOT be notified if germans have been paying for music on allofmp3 since its the creditcard companies that do the searches and not the police. Germany is actually one of the worlds best countries when it comes to privacy. http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml? cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-545223 [privacyinternational.org]
Actually, I don't think you got me. My point is that if the German government can do broad searches to find who has made transactions on a child porn site, they could just as easily do the same kind of broad requests to find out who has been "purchasing musical illegally".
And as far as privacy goes, history is pointless in regards to new efforts such as this one. It doesn't take much to go from one of the best, to one of the worst.
AFAIK, the last I checked the legality or effectiveness of signing statements (of which Bush has made hundreds of by now, pretty much attaching one to nearly every bill he has signed since he has been in office) was extremely dubious at best. The second something that tries to play off one of these signing statements goes to court, does anybody really, honestly believe that they would hold any legal water? The bill is the bill, and regardless of what little post-it note that the president attaches to it when he signs it doesn't change that fact.
Honestly, I'm not too worried about it at this point, but I'm sure others will follow up if I am completely off base, as IANAL.
Now we need to come up with a term for what will eventually prove to be its opposite. Corporate sabotage that seeks to inspire negative propoganda for another company. If Sony hadn't been repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot with a sawed-off 12 gauge lately and inspiring all their own negative publicity, I'd almost suspect that of their vomit-inducing attempt at creating buzz for the PSP.
As a matter of fact, I do have a phone through Sprint without all those features. My gripe? About 80% (no exaggeration) of my calls get dropped from my home within 5-10 minutes, while my girlfriend (Verizon) has 5 bars of coverage. What happens when I call Sprint about it to complain? I get some girl from India-based call center who tries for 15 minutes to sell me on additional services (that I don't even use and have absolutely no pertinence to my issue whatsoever) instead of acknowledging my problem and trying to help me get it resolved.
Redundant troll I am not... I just hate cell phone companies with a passion; they are the epitome of evil corporations.
I have nothing against CR. They offer great stuff. I do, however, have issues with Slashdot posting to articles that we can't read without paying for them. That is sort of the purpose of this site, ya know? Being able to read articles and talk about them.;)
Damn right they're typing their best.... marketing and fine print to make sure users are screwed and get charged as much as possible for the least possible amount of service.
I don't need TV, radio, phone, MP3, blah blah blah on my phone (and get charged for it up the wazoo)... I want *SERVICE COVERAGE*
As much as I'd love to read the article, and as informative and helpful as I'm sure it is, I can't help but wonder if an article that requires that you pay for it (not even a free registration option) has any place on Slashdot.
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That is lunacy. Coffee cups have been around for AGES. That sounds to me like a patent for "doing [x], but on the INTERNET!"
I have a hard time believing that such patents would stand up to the new standard set forth by the SCOTUS.
I'd rate you up if I had any mod points
Just out of curiosity, what is the math behind those numbers? I'm curious how you calculated those values.
I realize that this doesn't matter to a lot of the Slashdot crowd, but Discussion2 is still buggy in IE (IE7, specifically). There are JS errors on the page, the weird gray and white floating box that sits on the page which is apparently there to tell you how many posts there are in the discussion overruns the left-side navigation bar (and overall who's purpose seems a bit pointless to me in general), and its rendering is completely messed up in IE. Also, I have to use FF just to disable Discussion2 on my account, because it doesn't work in IE7.
You may want to get those issues cleared up before you consider Discussion2 complete.
As my signature would indicate, I actually prefer Care2 over MySpace and Facebook. Care2 is a social networking site that caters to socially aware causes and who's users actually want to try and make some sort of impact in the world. Even at 7 million members, it's amazing to me how few of my type (the geeks) are aware of the site. Neither MySpace or Facebook really have much "purpose" to them (well, MySpace users may claim that it caters to bands, but the connection to me is pretty shallow). Facebook doesn't really have any "purpose" either. Not that there's anything wrong with that - just that I figure if I'm going to be part of a social network, why not be part of the one that aims for something respectable?
Reasonable doubt isn't a requirement of a civil suit, only in a criminal trial.
It's probably a good thing if this gets voted down by AMA. Right now most of the states' laws that are being passed in their respective legislatures are being declared unconstitutional because it has not been demonstrated that video games pose a legit risk to children or their mental health. If the AMA votes through this proposal, we could start to see states pointing to this, and seeing the courts side with the states regarding the legislation that they are passing, which are all currently and consistently being ruled unconstitutional by the courts.
Oh get off your high horse. The wealthiest 1 percent of earners in this country pay 37% of tax revenue. How that got modded as Informative is beyond me.
The difference is that any viable software company usually rewrites their software essentially from the ground up from time to time to account for changes in the real world.
Sounds to me he picked the shareholders meeting to announce his retirement so that the shareholders don't have to announce it for him.
Woh WOH WOHHH! Right-wing press? Bssssst! Try again. Last I checked, every place all these cameras were being installed is in decidedly LIBERAL areas. It seems to me that the gun-loving, gun-toting left-wingers are the people and places where there doesn't appear to be a perception of a need for these cameras to be watching them all the time. Quit trolling - I am a social liberal, but even I know better than to think that this is the fault an drive of a truely conservative movement (and not any of this neo-con bullshit we've been subject to for the last 3/4 decade).
Look, I understand people that want to take a stab at the administration - Bush's administration has done far more harm than good, but come on - bashing like this summary is just not necessary. This was a widely supported idea beyond just the US - a number of countries followed suit in the idea. At the very least, it didn't HURT anything - so why bitch about it so much? Oh well, you had to patch your systems. It's over and done with. No need to try and make this into a "prime opportunity" to bash the administration for at least trying. There's plenty of other things to gripe about when it comes to this administration - learn to pick your fights, otherwise you just end up looking like a giant douche.... or a turd sandwich.
What about Ticketmaster?
You're not wrong, exactly, but I think that there is another factor in there - PC games have to compete with free (piracy). That also helps keep the cost of games down.
What gets me is that I know I'm not the only one who would be more likely to drop $25 or so on a game without thinking twice if they were priced as such, but when they're priced at $60... I feel more compelled to wait. Then, by the time the prices for the game actually come down, there's usually a newer version of the game out and I don't want the original anymore anyway.
If the price of games came down, I guarantee that I'd be purchasing more games.
I think the point is that you already gave them your money, so your frustrations aren't even being heard. The best way to handle this would be to return your Apple equipment and tell them why, presuming that you still can.
And as far as privacy goes, history is pointless in regards to new efforts such as this one. It doesn't take much to go from one of the best, to one of the worst.
Sounds to me like a fishing expedition.
Hope those Germans haven't been purchasing music on AllOfMp3....
AFAIK, the last I checked the legality or effectiveness of signing statements (of which Bush has made hundreds of by now, pretty much attaching one to nearly every bill he has signed since he has been in office) was extremely dubious at best. The second something that tries to play off one of these signing statements goes to court, does anybody really, honestly believe that they would hold any legal water? The bill is the bill, and regardless of what little post-it note that the president attaches to it when he signs it doesn't change that fact.
Honestly, I'm not too worried about it at this point, but I'm sure others will follow up if I am completely off base, as IANAL.
Mmhmm.. It's kind of hard to do things these days without having a bank account.
It already has a name. It's called Astroturfing.
Now we need to come up with a term for what will eventually prove to be its opposite. Corporate sabotage that seeks to inspire negative propoganda for another company. If Sony hadn't been repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot with a sawed-off 12 gauge lately and inspiring all their own negative publicity, I'd almost suspect that of their vomit-inducing attempt at creating buzz for the PSP.
As a matter of fact, I do have a phone through Sprint without all those features. My gripe? About 80% (no exaggeration) of my calls get dropped from my home within 5-10 minutes, while my girlfriend (Verizon) has 5 bars of coverage. What happens when I call Sprint about it to complain? I get some girl from India-based call center who tries for 15 minutes to sell me on additional services (that I don't even use and have absolutely no pertinence to my issue whatsoever) instead of acknowledging my problem and trying to help me get it resolved.
Redundant troll I am not... I just hate cell phone companies with a passion; they are the epitome of evil corporations.
I have nothing against CR. They offer great stuff. I do, however, have issues with Slashdot posting to articles that we can't read without paying for them. That is sort of the purpose of this site, ya know? Being able to read articles and talk about them. ;)
Damn right they're typing their best.... marketing and fine print to make sure users are screwed and get charged as much as possible for the least possible amount of service.
I don't need TV, radio, phone, MP3, blah blah blah on my phone (and get charged for it up the wazoo)... I want *SERVICE COVERAGE*
As much as I'd love to read the article, and as informative and helpful as I'm sure it is, I can't help but wonder if an article that requires that you pay for it (not even a free registration option) has any place on Slashdot.
(Cue "Slashdotters don't RTFA" jokes now)