But teh gsit of teh sotry was ture. Terhe is a lot of rdeandncuy in the lagnuage nad if th rerhesecars are rghit, yuor bairn reelis mroe on crroect ltteres awanyy.
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No, you are WRONG! Cellphones are useless to me, so they must be useless to EVERYONE. There is no point in carrying with you a phone, when you can use a pay phone or ask to use the phone in the place you visit. There is no reason to send SMS when you can use e-mail. There is no reason to play games, because PSP and Gameboy are better at it. There is no reason to wirelessly connect to the Net via GPRS because you should use WiFi on your notebook.
I may be alone in my opinion, but personally I can't stand popular music because the content of the songs is so banal, bland and boring. Why should 8 songs out of 10 be about love/sex? Aren't there any other interesting topics besides kissing lips and holding hands?
P.S. I just checked the lyrics to the albums you mentioned and as far as I can tell, they too consist of the same boring drivel about luv.
Open Source in game development needs valid business models to prosper. Currently OSS companies can make money mostly on support, which is not a valid option for games - even commercial companies don't provide much in terms of support and not much is needed anyway.
One way to charge people money is what already is used to combat piracy - online play. If a company would be paid for maintaining servers, it may reliquish the code control and lean towards open source. One example is Second Life, which, in a sense, is a successful open source game.
As for the mainstream singleplayer games, the problem is that most of the effort goes into art and design, where you can't find enough qualified volunteers and where distributing work is more difficult (as well as version control).
This isn't to say that opening the source is impossible, but a different approach is needed. If we want to see companies actively using OSS as a development model and not just throwing bones to the community (by releasing the source several years after game release), the model should provide some benefits to the developers without taking too much control away from them.
Companies may look more favourably at sharing code with a limited number of partners and with certain non-competition (time-limited) clauses, instead of open sharing with the world via GPL.
You are paying 200$ for the quality and support. These things don't come free, you know. This G5 iMac is unbelievably cheap, really. Trying to always get a bargain is really stupid - there are cases when paying a premium is rational and makes a lot of sense.
P.S. You forget the design. This is as sleek as it gets. Not "in-your-face" sleekness of the last iMac, but extremely impressive in a very discreet way.
There is a similiar Russian joke about reforms. It goes:
The government published their reform program. It consists of one point: 1. To make the people rich and happy (Note: see Appendix 1 for the list of the people).
The culprits are the intellectuals who fear science. We hear about it all the time - crisis of the science, we need to reconcile science with faith and all that crap. Meanwhile, 52% of the Europeans agree with the statement "Science and technology can solve any problem we are faced with" (Eurobarometer 2003 survey - link). So despite all the "mad scientist" crap people still are extremely positive and optimistic about science.
If we didn't have illiterate retards running the media (the overwhelming majority of people in the same survey agreed that journalists are not qualified enough to cover science and 30% think science is portraied too negatively), it would become obvious just how much the "Average Joe" loves science, scientists and even science spendings.
Many of the manuscripts contained within The Library were aquired by means no more legitimate than today's file sharing; copying without permission. I think they were acquired by double piracy - armed guards raided the ships in the port of Alexandria, confiscated (temporarily) all scrolls and copied them without permission from the copyright holder (or even the owner). Why didn't RIAA (Recording Industry Association of the Ancients) do something?
Giving feedback to companies is better than voting, because, as a rule, companies actually care about their clients (even potential ones), as opposed to politicians, who don't give a shit anyway. In many cases management simply doesn't have a good idea about what their clients might want. Actually telling them really helps a lot.
I was surprised to see so many Amishes, Amish lovers or just plain rude people here on Slashdot. Let me elaborate on my point to clear the confusion.
1. Amish society is not sustainable. They use a lot of producs developed outside of their economy. Their ability to buy them is simply a result of imbalance in market pricing. Furthermore, they do contribute to global warming, pollution, depletion of natural resources, etc. 2. What a nice society of religious retards they are who stop education after 8 years and forsake human knowledge for the fucking bible. 3. I didn't mean to say that individual Amish are bad and individual people in the rest of America (world) are good. The comment applied strictly to societies. 4. There was in fact a lot of progress in the world. By most indicators the progress was and is happening. Life in a modern society on average is much better than life in industrial society which in turn is better than life in feudal society, etc. Particular problems that your particular modern society has (like lotsa fat and TV) do not invalidate this general observation. 5. Technology can and will solve the near-term problem of sustainability. I though you'd knew that by now. Nanotechnology and fusion are just two words that you must have heard. 6. Living in a sustainable society is not progress (or moving forward). At best it is staying where you are, at worst - slow degradation. 7. Amish are not fully human. Nowdays anyone who stops their education after 8 years is less than a fully developed intelligent human. So I have little respect for the average Amish.
OK then. But in regards to this particular company, I tend to believe in their technology a little bit more. Sure it's just thier words, but if they managed to do everything from writing information (and not a few bytes, but a multi-Gb movie, presumably) to reading it and showing it, they are much closer to a finished product than many companies before them.
you can call me when these things are an actual PRODUCT You know, it's not like anyone called you here in the first place. This is Slashdot and we discuss technologies that are being developed. Don't like it? Then leave it. Go read Consumer Reports instead.
Individually they may be OK. As a society they may be OK. But their ways are wrong and they are useless when you consider the humanity as a whole. Amish won't move humankind forward, civilizations with respects for science and technology will.
There is a difference between piracy and littering. I care about my city and will never throw the banana skin on the street. But I don't care about the movie industry. I have a responsibility to keep the city clean, or at least not to contribute to the mess. But I don't and will never have a responsibility to support the movie industry. I don't care if Hollywood dies tomorrow and no new blockbusters are made. I simply don't care. If there aren't enough people who care to support it, let them die.
I don't want to hear "set builders are starving", because I don't care about their jobs. If there are no more money in it, do something else. I don't need the movie industry and I will not support it. But as long as it already exists (and I don't care why) there is no reason why I should not download some free films.
I am not taking content simply because it's expensive and there's no victim. I am not taking it because I won't get caught. I am taking it for one and only reason - I want to see a film, but don't want to support the industry.
That area is subject to frequent floodings, you know... or, why would otherwise perfectly good map of Europe in MS Office clipart have Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania, right where (or so I was told) the Kaliningrad Region was (a Russian enclave).
Politically this is even worse than removing Poland, because the status of Kaliningrad is a topic of mild controversy, now that it is separated from the mainland (before 1991 it was directly connected to the rest of the Soviet Union, as Lithuania was part of it).
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But teh gsit of teh sotry was ture. Terhe is a lot of rdeandncuy in the lagnuage nad if th rerhesecars are rghit, yuor bairn reelis mroe on crroect ltteres awanyy.
No, you are WRONG! Cellphones are useless to me, so they must be useless to EVERYONE. There is no point in carrying with you a phone, when you can use a pay phone or ask to use the phone in the place you visit. There is no reason to send SMS when you can use e-mail. There is no reason to play games, because PSP and Gameboy are better at it. There is no reason to wirelessly connect to the Net via GPRS because you should use WiFi on your notebook.
QED. Cellphones are useless.
I may be alone in my opinion, but personally I can't stand popular music because the content of the songs is so banal, bland and boring. Why should 8 songs out of 10 be about love/sex? Aren't there any other interesting topics besides kissing lips and holding hands?
P.S. I just checked the lyrics to the albums you mentioned and as far as I can tell, they too consist of the same boring drivel about luv.
Open Source in game development needs valid business models to prosper. Currently OSS companies can make money mostly on support, which is not a valid option for games - even commercial companies don't provide much in terms of support and not much is needed anyway.
One way to charge people money is what already is used to combat piracy - online play. If a company would be paid for maintaining servers, it may reliquish the code control and lean towards open source. One example is Second Life, which, in a sense, is a successful open source game.
As for the mainstream singleplayer games, the problem is that most of the effort goes into art and design, where you can't find enough qualified volunteers and where distributing work is more difficult (as well as version control).
This isn't to say that opening the source is impossible, but a different approach is needed. If we want to see companies actively using OSS as a development model and not just throwing bones to the community (by releasing the source several years after game release), the model should provide some benefits to the developers without taking too much control away from them.
Companies may look more favourably at sharing code with a limited number of partners and with certain non-competition (time-limited) clauses, instead of open sharing with the world via GPL.
Or:
Student: Professor, no fair! You changed the quality of my paper by grading it!
You are paying 200$ for the quality and support. These things don't come free, you know. This G5 iMac is unbelievably cheap, really. Trying to always get a bargain is really stupid - there are cases when paying a premium is rational and makes a lot of sense.
P.S. You forget the design. This is as sleek as it gets. Not "in-your-face" sleekness of the last iMac, but extremely impressive in a very discreet way.
Montreal Canada based radio station also caught the queen Elizabeth 2, the Pope, and recently, the president of formula1 !
Eh, I think it's you, who "have built up this image of an idiot" with your post. Of yourself.
Please feel free to contribute to the Wikipedia article on Administrative resource. It seems a US perspective could really be used today.
There is a similiar Russian joke about reforms. It goes:
The government published their reform program. It consists of one point:
1. To make the people rich and happy (Note: see Appendix 1 for the list of the people).
What if the delay is for the sake of looking for something to charge him with?
The culprits are the intellectuals who fear science. We hear about it all the time - crisis of the science, we need to reconcile science with faith and all that crap. Meanwhile, 52% of the Europeans agree with the statement "Science and technology can solve any problem we are faced with" (Eurobarometer 2003 survey - link). So despite all the "mad scientist" crap people still are extremely positive and optimistic about science.
If we didn't have illiterate retards running the media (the overwhelming majority of people in the same survey agreed that journalists are not qualified enough to cover science and 30% think science is portraied too negatively), it would become obvious just how much the "Average Joe" loves science, scientists and even science spendings.
No, but Yandex, the main Russian search engine does. Most are in Russian, though...
Many of the manuscripts contained within The Library were aquired by means no more legitimate than today's file sharing; copying without permission.
I think they were acquired by double piracy - armed guards raided the ships in the port of Alexandria, confiscated (temporarily) all scrolls and copied them without permission from the copyright holder (or even the owner). Why didn't RIAA (Recording Industry Association of the Ancients) do something?
It might be legal to make exact-size one-sided copies. Not sure about the US legislation, but it's certainly legal in some other countries.
Giving feedback to companies is better than voting, because, as a rule, companies actually care about their clients (even potential ones), as opposed to politicians, who don't give a shit anyway. In many cases management simply doesn't have a good idea about what their clients might want. Actually telling them really helps a lot.
I was surprised to see so many Amishes, Amish lovers or just plain rude people here on Slashdot. Let me elaborate on my point to clear the confusion.
1. Amish society is not sustainable. They use a lot of producs developed outside of their economy. Their ability to buy them is simply a result of imbalance in market pricing. Furthermore, they do contribute to global warming, pollution, depletion of natural resources, etc.
2. What a nice society of religious retards they are who stop education after 8 years and forsake human knowledge for the fucking bible.
3. I didn't mean to say that individual Amish are bad and individual people in the rest of America (world) are good. The comment applied strictly to societies.
4. There was in fact a lot of progress in the world. By most indicators the progress was and is happening. Life in a modern society on average is much better than life in industrial society which in turn is better than life in feudal society, etc. Particular problems that your particular modern society has (like lotsa fat and TV) do not invalidate this general observation.
5. Technology can and will solve the near-term problem of sustainability. I though you'd knew that by now. Nanotechnology and fusion are just two words that you must have heard.
6. Living in a sustainable society is not progress (or moving forward). At best it is staying where you are, at worst - slow degradation.
7. Amish are not fully human. Nowdays anyone who stops their education after 8 years is less than a fully developed intelligent human. So I have little respect for the average Amish.
OK then. But in regards to this particular company, I tend to believe in their technology a little bit more. Sure it's just thier words, but if they managed to do everything from writing information (and not a few bytes, but a multi-Gb movie, presumably) to reading it and showing it, they are much closer to a finished product than many companies before them.
you can call me when these things are an actual PRODUCT
You know, it's not like anyone called you here in the first place. This is Slashdot and we discuss technologies that are being developed. Don't like it? Then leave it. Go read Consumer Reports instead.
Individually they may be OK. As a society they may be OK. But their ways are wrong and they are useless when you consider the humanity as a whole. Amish won't move humankind forward, civilizations with respects for science and technology will.
Obviously the Internet Archive has one
here.
Hmmm. Was a typical usage pattern one IBM Mainframe running Linux per employee?
There is a difference between piracy and littering. I care about my city and will never throw the banana skin on the street. But I don't care about the movie industry. I have a responsibility to keep the city clean, or at least not to contribute to the mess. But I don't and will never have a responsibility to support the movie industry. I don't care if Hollywood dies tomorrow and no new blockbusters are made. I simply don't care. If there aren't enough people who care to support it, let them die.
I don't want to hear "set builders are starving", because I don't care about their jobs. If there are no more money in it, do something else. I don't need the movie industry and I will not support it. But as long as it already exists (and I don't care why) there is no reason why I should not download some free films.
I am not taking content simply because it's expensive and there's no victim. I am not taking it because I won't get caught. I am taking it for one and only reason - I want to see a film, but don't want to support the industry.
You can write a user CSS that would deal with that. In Opera can definitely do it, perhaps with Firefox too.
That area is subject to frequent floodings, you know... or, why would otherwise perfectly good map of Europe in MS Office clipart have Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania, right where (or so I was told) the Kaliningrad Region was (a Russian enclave).
Politically this is even worse than removing Poland, because the status of Kaliningrad is a topic of mild controversy, now that it is separated from the mainland (before 1991 it was directly connected to the rest of the Soviet Union, as Lithuania was part of it).