Ah, yes, from the burning of Atlanta to the trashing of Beirut and Belgrade to the current good conduct in the Ivory Coast, civil wars are always so... civil.
People also need working servers, or there'll be no email or websites to work with. Not everyone can afford Sun gear or blades, and a whole lotta people aren't going anywhere near IIS on Windows.
If Dell and HP would like to let go of the server market, they can, but someone else (Shuttle, maybe?) will step in with uncrippled boxes that aren't locked out of the net.
Where are the google links to the americans body parts being dragged through streets and hung upside down from overpasses?
That's well-documented, and horrific. It also has nothing to do with detainees in Afghanistan.
If I was a soldier there and someone was laughing about blowing up cafe's full of children promising he will one day do it again, you know I might just beat him to death too, on accident
Well, then I'm glad you're not a soldier there. Not for high ideals, but because it makes ME less safe.
Torture produces bad intelligence. People will say anything to make it stop.
Public knowledge that we torture and kill prisoners is also a fine recruitment tool for terrorists.
Considering that the founding fathers preceded the industrial revolution, freud, marx, full-time conscripted armies, large-scale financial markets, modern firearms, railroads, telecommunications, and a world with even 1 billion human beings, I'd say they did a pretty damn good job, but times change and society must adapt.
Note that I'm not saying the 4th is in any way outmoded; I'm very much a civil libertarian. Just not against government as a whole in the modern sense, as your argument implies.
Someone in cuba only gets 3 hours of sleep a day.. thats just.. hitler would be proud. I wont even mention the fact they don't have cable. I get chills everytime I think of it.
As soon as you get save slots you might as well buy PS2s and X-Boxes. There is suddenly no difference between PCs and X-Boxes then aside from that you can upgrade them and the hardware compatibility is not to be depended on.
Yeah, my keyboard/mouse plays EXACTLY like a dual shock. And I play all my games at 640x480 on a blurry screen, too.
I don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be. In the past year: Darwinia Cave Story Gish Dark Horizons Lore (and everything else in the Bravetree/Torque Engine community) The homebrew shmup otaku offerings (Tumuki fighter, etc.) Katamari Damacy Alien Hominid Popcap All the interactive fiction festival entries All the IGF entries Student games, now that there are game dev schools (see above) All the modding communities producing high-quality stuff - Natural Selection, ETF, etc. even the Privateer remake posted the other day, if you count that as indie
and I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I'm forgetting. Furthermore, the difference between indie films and indie games is that you don't need to live near the right kind of theatre to experience them.
Development costs can be (and are) brought down three ways by indie developers: -Volunteer labor (e.g. Counterstrike) -Design that avoids the need for lots of art assets (e.g. Uplink) -Obsession and long development cycles (e.g. Cave Story)
Additionally, some medium-size risk takers are doing so to create a calling card for paid game development (e.g. Trauma Studios, who developed Desert Combat for BF1942).
By prosecuting the people who do it, we're raising that barrier to entry you mention. Right now it's easy money, but if there is a risk of real jail time attached, that money looks less easy, and the 200 replacements are harder to find. Rinse and repeat, adding large monetary penalties to credit card companies for not policing spammer merchant accounts if needed.
The drug kingpin analogy is flawed. There is a voracious demand for recreational drugs, and econ 101 tells us someone will create a supply where there exists a demand. Spam isn't like that - NOBODY wants it, and profits come from exploiting a loophole in the market, rather than satisfying a demand.
Finally, from what I've read spam actually isn't all that global - a very large fraction originates from within the US, so a US legal solution can go a long way.
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You need to have about 5 MB of free space on the swap partition for voodoo reasons. Making the drive invisible helps with that.
Ah, yes, from the burning of Atlanta to the trashing of Beirut and Belgrade to the current good conduct in the Ivory Coast, civil wars are always so... civil.
With the engine off?
Here you go.
Your mouse and screen are within easy reach of your bed? Scary.
Sorry.
When was the last time you talked to an end user?
If Dell and HP would like to let go of the server market, they can, but someone else (Shuttle, maybe?) will step in with uncrippled boxes that aren't locked out of the net.
Would the company in question be PURE/Renderdrive?
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That's well-documented, and horrific. It also has nothing to do with detainees in Afghanistan.
If I was a soldier there and someone was laughing about blowing up cafe's full of children promising he will one day do it again, you know I might just beat him to death too, on accident
Well, then I'm glad you're not a soldier there. Not for high ideals, but because it makes ME less safe.
Torture produces bad intelligence. People will say anything to make it stop.
Public knowledge that we torture and kill prisoners is also a fine recruitment tool for terrorists.
How's this?
Note that I'm not saying the 4th is in any way outmoded; I'm very much a civil libertarian. Just not against government as a whole in the modern sense, as your argument implies.
How about beating inmates to death? Is that a problem?
It's Napoleon Dynamite's web comic.
Where I live, stringing Cat5 from the broadband router to the living room would be a friggin' nightmare.
Yeah, my keyboard/mouse plays EXACTLY like a dual shock. And I play all my games at 640x480 on a blurry screen, too.
Tell that to a professional photographer.
How about psychosis?
But it's not how stars are paid in any field.
Anyone else playing Kiss in the open category? I keep becoming an eskimo pariah, hated by all, and wondering if anyone's been more successful.
I don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be.
In the past year:
Darwinia
Cave Story
Gish
Dark Horizons Lore (and everything else in the Bravetree/Torque Engine community)
The homebrew shmup otaku offerings (Tumuki fighter, etc.)
Katamari Damacy
Alien Hominid
Popcap
All the interactive fiction festival entries
All the IGF entries
Student games, now that there are game dev schools (see above)
All the modding communities producing high-quality stuff - Natural Selection, ETF, etc.
even the Privateer remake posted the other day, if you count that as indie
and I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I'm forgetting. Furthermore, the difference between indie films and indie games is that you don't need to live near the right kind of theatre to experience them.
Development costs can be (and are) brought down three ways by indie developers:
-Volunteer labor (e.g. Counterstrike)
-Design that avoids the need for lots of art assets (e.g. Uplink)
-Obsession and long development cycles (e.g. Cave Story)
Additionally, some medium-size risk takers are doing so to create a calling card for paid game development (e.g. Trauma Studios, who developed Desert Combat for BF1942).
That's what the Monty Python "Fish License" sketch is about - it's a parody of the enforcment methods:
"What van?"
"The cat detector van!"
"The loony detector van, more like..."
"He said they could pinpoint a purr at 400 yards, and Eric, bein' such a 'appy cat..."
etc.
The drug kingpin analogy is flawed. There is a voracious demand for recreational drugs, and econ 101 tells us someone will create a supply where there exists a demand. Spam isn't like that - NOBODY wants it, and profits come from exploiting a loophole in the market, rather than satisfying a demand.
Finally, from what I've read spam actually isn't all that global - a very large fraction originates from within the US, so a US legal solution can go a long way.
How about 200 spammers? That's the figure I see most often as size of the core group without which most of the spam problem would disappear.
"*sigh* Only to ten, Mudhead."