Perhaps it's just me, but it seems that there is a huge difference between Microsofta and Lindows. Microsoft is not a generic term, whereas Windows is a generic term and is not even trademarked (the trademark is Microsoft Windows). In this case, Mystic is a generic term, so I would support MS in this case (ugh). I support Mystic suing, however, as it further forces the courts to clarify this issue, something that will help everyone, IMHO.
Personally, I'm interested in politics, so I found Dude, Where's My Country? to be a very interesting work. Moore improves on Stupid White Men a lot by incorporating many more references to works cited, and elaborating his position better. For that matter, one of my textbooks made interesting reading: Gov't and Business.
Worst book? Anything by Ann Coulter. She claims in her latest book, Treason, that being liberal is a sin worse than terrorism. If that isn't hateful and just plain wacked, I don't know what is.
This was a great, if overpriced, device. Functional, geeky, sleek, and just plain cool. If it didn't sell well, it wasn't the device's fault- it was the makers for not marketing it harder, and for perhaps not working on lowering the price point.
All that aside, I wonder how much this has to do with the device, and how much it has to do with politics and not pissing of Nintendo, though I can't imagine why they'd mind. I mean, they get royalties, and the system isn't their main cash cow: that'd be the games. Oh, well. Chalk up another causualty of the console wars!
Well, 64 is better than 32. Just not in the way of faster, nessesarily. I mean, more memory address space, the ability to process 64-bit IDs in one cycle... just is better for those apps written so as to take advantage of it.
Not really. How many bank robbers have been caught by the serial numbers on the stolen cash? All it takes is a TIA-like DB that records all serial number transactions, and voila! instant lack of anonynimity! Sure, it'd make mistakes, but who cares? Certianally not corporations or the gov't...
That's not quite the same. China has a central set of e-mail servers that are easy to hack into. What I mean that one country may accept a bit of money under the table to make spam easier, yet also invite enough legitimate e-mailers so as to make wide-brush blocks difficult and ineffective.
Besides, even assuming that the law did work, who's to say that spammers can't skip the US and go live in, well, Nigeria? As long as spam makes money, there will be at least one country that invites spammers so as to boost their economy. Hence, this law, even if it had teeth, would be meaningless.
Hm... I don't see that/. loves China... all I see is that you don't seem to understand the difference between talking about the exports of a country, talking about the population of a country, and talking about the gov't of a country. This is like saying that no one should love America because we make SUVs, and have Bush for a dictator.
I find consoles much less limiting, since game makers can make assuptions about what's going on and just focus on the game. On a PS1/2/X, for example, everyone has a controller with four triggers, four shoulder buttons, two analogs (excepting early PS1s) and four directions, plus a start-select pair. No need to detect if there's a joystick or keyboard or what. Furthermore, all PS2s are equally compatible, so the game makers don't have to "scale down" graphics for less capable systems.
The end result? Less time spent on interface details and hardware detection, and more time spent making good games.
PayPal is therefore a better solution for donations >= $15.
Not nessesarily... SF gets some of the profit, and they're a good business, whom I don't mind supporting. It's like when I go buy food from a local store at 25%-50% higher costs so that I know I'm supporting a good business.
It's a damn fine product... spawned almost as many ripoffs as the iPod itself. Plus, it has the opportunity to make money if the RIAA is cut out. I mean, there's no reason that iTMS can't offer indie music as well, and then they'd be getting higher margins on the indie music, so Apple'd push it more than the RIAA tained sh**. In short, iTMS is a great product. Stable, visually attractive, functional, not DRM crippled (I'll accept iTMS's level of DRM), wide variety of music available... need I go on?
It's not that the PSX is a bad product, but who's the target market? The/. geeks decry the price, lack of MP3 support and DVD-RW support, ordinary folks will say, "eww... a PlayStation- now folks will think I hate Haitians," and gamers don't often watch TV- too busy playing games. Can it PVR and play at the same time? If so, then maybe gamers would want it, but if not, then what's the point? Point in case, they haven't aimed for a specific market, which is a nessesity in any marketing.
I'll say! Give or take, say, five exabytes or so...
Haha. Hahaha. Er, no. We know that some data was created, that's for damn sure. Look at/. over the last year. How much did the database expand? OK, now look at SourceForge. How many newe projects and releases? Now, the estimation of that in total is another matter, but we can make order of magnitude estimates fairly easily.
The future shall show which path was correct...
Maybe, but history is written by the victors, no? It is fully likely that history shall not show who was correct, but who it acceptable to believe was correct.
That's great. If you believe in God, that is. The rest of us, meanwhile, need a solution based on that which we can observe, measure and prove. Don't forget that the God-fearing portion of the population is not the entireity, and that the rest of us don't typically like having Christianity shoved down our throats. Belive what you want. That's fine, but don't make us follow your morals.
My own personal opposition to cloning comes not from moral reasons, but because we have a population problem, and the last thing we need to do is make it worse.
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I'm in Alaska and it's only 11:45 xmas-eve here, you insensitive clod!
Perhaps it's just me, but it seems that there is a huge difference between Microsofta and Lindows. Microsoft is not a generic term, whereas Windows is a generic term and is not even trademarked (the trademark is Microsoft Windows). In this case, Mystic is a generic term, so I would support MS in this case (ugh). I support Mystic suing, however, as it further forces the courts to clarify this issue, something that will help everyone, IMHO.
Personally, I'm interested in politics, so I found Dude, Where's My Country? to be a very interesting work. Moore improves on Stupid White Men a lot by incorporating many more references to works cited, and elaborating his position better. For that matter, one of my textbooks made interesting reading: Gov't and Business.
Worst book? Anything by Ann Coulter. She claims in her latest book, Treason, that being liberal is a sin worse than terrorism. If that isn't hateful and just plain wacked, I don't know what is.
I would categorize them as the year's worst work of friction.
Can I just compliment you on how well you crafted that troll?
It seems you just did.
This was a great, if overpriced, device. Functional, geeky, sleek, and just plain cool. If it didn't sell well, it wasn't the device's fault- it was the makers for not marketing it harder, and for perhaps not working on lowering the price point.
All that aside, I wonder how much this has to do with the device, and how much it has to do with politics and not pissing of Nintendo, though I can't imagine why they'd mind. I mean, they get royalties, and the system isn't their main cash cow: that'd be the games. Oh, well. Chalk up another causualty of the console wars!
Well, 64 is better than 32. Just not in the way of faster, nessesarily. I mean, more memory address space, the ability to process 64-bit IDs in one cycle... just is better for those apps written so as to take advantage of it.
All we need now are cameras in phones... oh, wait...
Not really. How many bank robbers have been caught by the serial numbers on the stolen cash? All it takes is a TIA-like DB that records all serial number transactions, and voila! instant lack of anonynimity! Sure, it'd make mistakes, but who cares? Certianally not corporations or the gov't...
That's not quite the same. China has a central set of e-mail servers that are easy to hack into. What I mean that one country may accept a bit of money under the table to make spam easier, yet also invite enough legitimate e-mailers so as to make wide-brush blocks difficult and ineffective.
Besides, even assuming that the law did work, who's to say that spammers can't skip the US and go live in, well, Nigeria? As long as spam makes money, there will be at least one country that invites spammers so as to boost their economy. Hence, this law, even if it had teeth, would be meaningless.
Actually, no, I wasn't going to do that... I was going to gzip it, then list the base-10 representation of the gzip.
Hm... I don't see that /. loves China... all I see is that you don't seem to understand the difference between talking about the exports of a country, talking about the population of a country, and talking about the gov't of a country. This is like saying that no one should love America because we make SUVs, and have Bush for a dictator.
I find consoles much less limiting, since game makers can make assuptions about what's going on and just focus on the game. On a PS1/2/X, for example, everyone has a controller with four triggers, four shoulder buttons, two analogs (excepting early PS1s) and four directions, plus a start-select pair. No need to detect if there's a joystick or keyboard or what. Furthermore, all PS2s are equally compatible, so the game makers don't have to "scale down" graphics for less capable systems.
The end result? Less time spent on interface details and hardware detection, and more time spent making good games.
PayPal is therefore a better solution for donations >= $15.
Not nessesarily... SF gets some of the profit, and they're a good business, whom I don't mind supporting. It's like when I go buy food from a local store at 25%-50% higher costs so that I know I'm supporting a good business.
It's a damn fine product... spawned almost as many ripoffs as the iPod itself. Plus, it has the opportunity to make money if the RIAA is cut out. I mean, there's no reason that iTMS can't offer indie music as well, and then they'd be getting higher margins on the indie music, so Apple'd push it more than the RIAA tained sh**. In short, iTMS is a great product. Stable, visually attractive, functional, not DRM crippled (I'll accept iTMS's level of DRM), wide variety of music available... need I go on?
It's not that the PSX is a bad product, but who's the target market? The /. geeks decry the price, lack of MP3 support and DVD-RW support, ordinary folks will say, "eww... a PlayStation- now folks will think I hate Haitians," and gamers don't often watch TV- too busy playing games. Can it PVR and play at the same time? If so, then maybe gamers would want it, but if not, then what's the point? Point in case, they haven't aimed for a specific market, which is a nessesity in any marketing.
I'm more worried about MS Minddoze that would report your to Gates... plus, Ashcroft's watching the line!
I'll say! Give or take, say, five exabytes or so... /. over the last year. How much did the database expand? OK, now look at SourceForge. How many newe projects and releases? Now, the estimation of that in total is another matter, but we can make order of magnitude estimates fairly easily.
Haha. Hahaha. Er, no. We know that some data was created, that's for damn sure. Look at
Looks over at TV... mmm... sex...
WAIT! I didn't mean it that way...
(I couldn't bring myself to link to goatse or tubgirl.)
The future shall show which path was correct...
Maybe, but history is written by the victors, no? It is fully likely that history shall not show who was correct, but who it acceptable to believe was correct.
That's great. If you believe in God, that is. The rest of us, meanwhile, need a solution based on that which we can observe, measure and prove. Don't forget that the God-fearing portion of the population is not the entireity, and that the rest of us don't typically like having Christianity shoved down our throats. Belive what you want. That's fine, but don't make us follow your morals.
My own personal opposition to cloning comes not from moral reasons, but because we have a population problem, and the last thing we need to do is make it worse.
Momentum is conserved, specifically:
(copy into OO.o for pretty print, btw)
p_i = p_f newline
m_i v_i = m_f v_f
Since m_f is much smaller than m_i, it follows that v_f must be much larger than v_i. That is, that the cyclist goes much faster than the cycle.
Just because it isn't a problem for us doesn't mean that the law agrees, er go DMCA.