I play games alot of the time in my week, i don't think there's anything wrong w/it. It helps me relax, and kills time. And its actually pretty socail...me and my roommates talk etc while playing starcraft, and the best quake games are when you stop now and then and talk to the people you're gibbing:)
I know i've played video games all my life, and i'm not some pyscho killer. As long as parents set a proper example and explani it (what goes on in this box is ok as long as you don't do it for real and you're not affecting something for real), the kid will be fine. Besides didn't we see an article here on/. a while ago saying most game players are adult males 25-45 or something? So why would it matter if the games are violent if its mostly adults that know better playing them. I think the problem is there parents don't want to take responsibility for raising thieir kids, they just want to sit them in front of the tv|internet|game|radio so they can rest after a hard day at work and not deal w/them. Just my opinion.
I don't see what the comment above was marked as flamebait. Its the truth, however unpleasent. We had slavery here, colonialism in the early 20th cent just like other countries in europe did, and lets not forget dropping napalm on people in vient nam. We've done more then our share of bad things...lets just make sure we stop it.
I don't wnat any spam, targeted or not. They can go fuck themselves, if i want to buy something i will...not b/c i got an email about it. Actually if a company spams me, i remember NEVER to buy anything from them.
hmm...would it be illegal then to write script which finds spam, and the spams them back with "never email me again" until thier inbox fills up and possible crashes their computer? Thats what they are doing to us sometimes...
one could read into it that AOL bought Netscape only to dismantle it
I've often wondered that myself. They bought a browser company, and immediately said they would still integrate IE into the aol software. Why??? If it were my desicion, i would invest money into nestscape then when it was ready dump IE and integrate netscape. But for some reason aol never had any intent to do that...*sigh* At any rate i continue and will continue to use netscape; a web browser is not a suitable OS!
Well, i'm not sure how the law is, but it seems to me if students DON'T own their notes, then the college could dictate which pieces of knowledge a student could use in the outside world. Which seems kinda restrictive to me. Of course my school used to have a clause that said your salary when you graduate could not be higher then the professors at this college, but that was dropped when it was impossible for stuidents to find jobs like that:)
"OS - a control program that provides for running multiple processes on a computer" I've also hear d other people add something about multiple users somewhere in that clause. Of course if that were the case we couldn't say any of the windows "OSes" were real OSes:)
Ya i've wondered about this too; esp countries who's economies we might depend on. Which is why i said earlier in the week too much interdependances could be bad. Hopefully other countries took it seriously tho.
The pages he refers to seems to work fine for me...netscape 4.7. I also note that he said it only happens to netscape users with 98 or NT, he didn't meantion 95 (which i have). Perhaps this is due to some malisious coding in M$'s operation system? I dunno...
Yup, you're right, lots of consumers have VMS clusters or high end alphas and sparcs in their homes. Duh, silly me. And even if you defined isp the way you did, there would still be no monopoly by aol. I could dial up long distance. I can't buy a pc without M$ products (well i couldn't until recently). Social Security a monopoly? Odd....taxes then must be too. Problem with this is Social Security is not a buiness, its a social service. Unless you want to say police have a monopoly, or something equally as stupid
to me, is how eager many people (particularly here on Slashdot) are to see the government seize the assets of private citizens (aka "breaking them up").
Breakup seizing assests. Did the TAKE from bell labs or say you work in this area and you work here? I believe it was the 2nd...i don't recall the gov't getting any of bell labs assests.
IBM OS/2? Dead, the minute they decided not to support Win32. If their marketing slogan had been "absolutely, positively 100% Windows compatible, only better!", they would have won.
MS would have "fixed" windows so that it apps wouldn't run on OS/2. Kinda like they did with MSDOS vs. DRDOS.
Apple? The true monopoly. People dumped them because they tried to hold onto too much power
Yup
Netscape? They lost because their browser sucked. The only reason they survived as long as they did is momentum and anti-Microsoft sentiment.
Cool...keep using your IE5 browser then, and have fun with that virus that only works on win98 machines with IE5. I suppose netscape not being as popular anymore doesn't have anything to do w/the fact that MS integerates its own web browser whether you want it or not, or the fact you can't remove it. Netscape works fine; never crashes and it gets all the pages i want (if somone only codes for IE, well they wont' get my buisness).
True...at first i thought the files were on the schools servers...but if CS broke into private students computers on the network, thats different. Could those actions be considered illegal? I mean just because you put your computer ont he network doesn't mean your network provider can try to break into it, does it? If i dialed into my ISP and they broke into my linux box b/c i had stupid passwords, i could still press charges couldn't i? Anyone know for sure?
I think my college says they have the right to look thru your files on thier networks. Acordng to them (and correctly so) it is after all, thier network and their computers and their file server. Its kinda like having a computer and username for your job. Although i've never heard of my college going into anyone's account unless they had reason to.
Yeah! Yeah! Isolationalism - that's the only sensible way to go! Think how much money can be made by ripping people off because they don't have any choice of a cheaper supplier?
I didn't say isolationism was the way to go. As it is, there IS pretty much only one country that makes memory, which seems to be a reason memory prices rose recently. Which actually seems to be similar to what you said; just the reason for the increase was different.
Re:Global Harmonisation (Score:1) by Malc (Malcolm_Ferguson@yahoo.NO_SPAM_PLEASE.com) on Sunday November 07, @08:36PM EST (#168) (User Info) Yeah! Yeah! Isolationalism - that's the only sensible way to go! Think how much money can be made by ripping people off because they don't have any choice of a cheaper supplier? "Like anyone in Europe would pick up the signles generated here anyway" That's not what he(she?) said. He said that he wanted to be able buy equipment in America and not have to get rid of it before returning to the UK. It's a pain in the arse and potentially very expensive moving between countries as a lot equipment doesn't work.
Oh i forgot we'd be inconviencing the millions of people that move between the US and other countries all the time, or have a summer home in france. silly me.
Plus, there are alot of things that you just can't do over the web. And yes i refuse to downlaod 500 ActiveX controls just to view a web page, let alone do work with it. Besides i don't use IE. Anyway its just scary, image if you would do your work like that. Any one (including the company whos site your using) would be able to see what your sending. What if its a letter of complaint or about something very personal. Yuck.
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I play games alot of the time in my week, i don't think there's anything wrong w/it. It helps me relax, and kills time. And its actually pretty socail...me and my roommates talk etc while playing starcraft, and the best quake games are when you stop now and then and talk to the people you're gibbing :)
ANd i'm sur ethey became familar w/these terms long before they played any video games
Well put, i couldn't have said it better myself!
Oh, god forbid a parent should teach the child that in real life that is not acceptable. I guess that would be too much effort on the parents part.
I know i've played video games all my life, and i'm not some pyscho killer. As long as parents set a proper example and explani it (what goes on in this box is ok as long as you don't do it for real and you're not affecting something for real), the kid will be fine. Besides didn't we see an article here on /. a while ago saying most game players are adult males 25-45 or something? So why would it matter if the games are violent if its mostly adults that know better playing them. I think the problem is there parents don't want to take responsibility for raising thieir kids, they just want to sit them in front of the tv|internet|game|radio so they can rest after a hard day at work and not deal w/them. Just my opinion.
Actually communism is socialism + the dicatorship form of gov't, that was found in the ussr. Socialism only includes the economic model.
I don't see what the comment above was marked as flamebait. Its the truth, however unpleasent. We had slavery here, colonialism in the early 20th cent just like other countries in europe did, and lets not forget dropping napalm on people in vient nam. We've done more then our share of bad things...lets just make sure we stop it.
Yes, a good way to fight back! I think i'll try this, hehe.
I don't wnat any spam, targeted or not. They can go fuck themselves, if i want to buy something i will...not b/c i got an email about it. Actually if a company spams me, i remember NEVER to buy anything from them.
hmm...would it be illegal then to write script which finds spam, and the spams them back with "never email me again" until thier inbox fills up and possible crashes their computer? Thats what they are doing to us sometimes...
one could read into it that AOL bought Netscape only to dismantle it
I've often wondered that myself. They bought a browser company, and immediately said they would still integrate IE into the aol software. Why??? If it were my desicion, i would invest money into nestscape then when it was ready dump IE and integrate netscape. But for some reason aol never had any intent to do that...*sigh* At any rate i continue and will continue to use netscape; a web browser is not a suitable OS!
Well, i'm not sure how the law is, but it seems to me if students DON'T own their notes, then the college could dictate which pieces of knowledge a student could use in the outside world. Which seems kinda restrictive to me. Of course my school used to have a clause that said your salary when you graduate could not be higher then the professors at this college, but that was dropped when it was impossible for stuidents to find jobs like that :)
"OS - a control program that provides for running multiple processes on a computer" I've also hear d other people add something about multiple users somewhere in that clause. Of course if that were the case we couldn't say any of the windows "OSes" were real OSes :)
Well, laugh all you want, its the honest truth.
Ya i've wondered about this too; esp countries who's economies we might depend on. Which is why i said earlier in the week too much interdependances could be bad. Hopefully other countries took it seriously tho.
The pages he refers to seems to work fine for me...netscape 4.7. I also note that he said it only happens to netscape users with 98 or NT, he didn't meantion 95 (which i have). Perhaps this is due to some malisious coding in M$'s operation system? I dunno...
Yup, you're right, lots of consumers have VMS clusters or high end alphas and sparcs in their homes. Duh, silly me. And even if you defined isp the way you did, there would still be no monopoly by aol. I could dial up long distance. I can't buy a pc without M$ products (well i couldn't until recently). Social Security a monopoly? Odd....taxes then must be too. Problem with this is Social Security is not a buiness, its a social service. Unless you want to say police have a monopoly, or something equally as stupid
I know this is offtopic, but you didn't come up as Anonymous. :)
to me, is how eager many people (particularly here on Slashdot) are to see the government seize the assets of private citizens (aka "breaking them up").
Breakup seizing assests. Did the TAKE from bell labs or say you work in this area and you work here? I believe it was the 2nd...i don't recall the gov't getting any of bell labs assests.
IBM OS/2? Dead, the minute they decided not to support Win32. If their marketing slogan had been "absolutely, positively 100% Windows compatible, only better!", they would have won.
MS would have "fixed" windows so that it apps wouldn't run on OS/2. Kinda like they did with MSDOS vs. DRDOS.
Apple? The true monopoly. People dumped them because they tried to hold onto too much power
Yup
Netscape? They lost because their browser sucked. The only reason they survived as long as they did is momentum and anti-Microsoft sentiment.
Cool...keep using your IE5 browser then, and have fun with that virus that only works on win98 machines with IE5. I suppose netscape not being as popular anymore doesn't have anything to do w/the fact that MS integerates its own web browser whether you want it or not, or the fact you can't remove it. Netscape works fine; never crashes and it gets all the pages i want (if somone only codes for IE, well they wont' get my buisness).
Is this Redhat getting greedy? Also why would their sr. emps resign over this?
Where can i get a copy? Nothing like playing your very first 3d shooter game again :)
True...at first i thought the files were on the schools servers...but if CS broke into private students computers on the network, thats different. Could those actions be considered illegal? I mean just because you put your computer ont he network doesn't mean your network provider can try to break into it, does it? If i dialed into my ISP and they broke into my linux box b/c i had stupid passwords, i could still press charges couldn't i? Anyone know for sure?
I think my college says they have the right to look thru your files on thier networks. Acordng to them (and correctly so) it is after all, thier network and their computers and their file server. Its kinda like having a computer and username for your job. Although i've never heard of my college going into anyone's account unless they had reason to.
Yeah! Yeah! Isolationalism - that's the only sensible way to go! Think how much money can be made by ripping people off because they don't have any choice of a cheaper supplier?
I didn't say isolationism was the way to go. As it is, there IS pretty much only one country that makes memory, which seems to be a reason memory prices rose recently. Which actually seems to be similar to what you said; just the reason for the increase was different.
Re:Global Harmonisation (Score:1) by Malc (Malcolm_Ferguson@yahoo.NO_SPAM_PLEASE.com) on Sunday November 07, @08:36PM EST (#168) (User Info) Yeah! Yeah! Isolationalism - that's the only sensible way to go! Think how much money can be made by ripping people off because they don't have any choice of a cheaper supplier? "Like anyone in Europe would pick up the signles generated here anyway" That's not what he(she?) said. He said that he wanted to be able buy equipment in America and not have to get rid of it before returning to the UK. It's a pain in the arse and potentially very expensive moving between countries as a lot equipment doesn't work.
Oh i forgot we'd be inconviencing the millions of people that move between the US and other countries all the time, or have a summer home in france. silly me.
Plus, there are alot of things that you just can't do over the web. And yes i refuse to downlaod 500 ActiveX controls just to view a web page, let alone do work with it. Besides i don't use IE. Anyway its just scary, image if you would do your work like that. Any one (including the company whos site your using) would be able to see what your sending. What if its a letter of complaint or about something very personal. Yuck.