Posting on Slashdot isn't a Sport because Romanians are good at it. Mod points also max out at 5 which goes against all sports logic. Posting on Slashdot is really just a variation of ping pong. It's racketless free-for-all ping pong played on a computer and keyboard with no net while sitting in a chair.
I've never been modded up to a 5 on Slashdot but one time, I had 5 of my comments modded up to a 2 and in my mind, that should count.
I don't think it held anything back because those OSes you mentioned all had the same problem: they were built to sell hardware. There's no way you'd ever see an Amiga or Atari OS running on IBM (or compatible) hardware. IBM PC hardware wasn't that great but it was seen as "professional" hardware. If you'll remember correctly, there was already an IBM PC sales boom starting before Windows was really popular. DOS of all things was the OS installed on most of those PCs. The first reasonable GUI-heavy OS on the IBM PC platform was poised to be king. If Windows didn't do it, OS/2 would have. I refuse to see how that would've been any better. The brilliant OSes that Atari and Amiga designed would be forever attached to what was considered "toy" hardware by most.
"Mandating that proof could thus have the pernicious effect of depriving copyright owners of a practical remedy against massive copyright infringement in many instances."
If they can't prove the distribution, then how do they know the copyright infringement is happening?
"Most people don't need trucks and SUV's are really not practical for anyone."
SUVs became practical when vans stopped being able to tow anything. I need to tow up to 5000lbs 60 miles or so about 30 times a year and I need to haul 6 or 7 people around fairly frequently (at least once a week). My only options these days besides a 3-row SUV are an Econoline or the GM equivalent. Either would cost just as much (if not more) and get just as bad (or worse) gas mileage.
They're going to rip out most of the themes and keep a skeleton of the plot. Then they may throw in some man vs. machine stuff and some other easily-identifiable themes that mainstream moviegoers will pick up on in the place of some of the original themes. Then they'll throw in some martial arts and blow their entire budget on CGI. Oh, and they'll have to stretch it out into a trilogy even if it doesn't work out well. Then they'll have to do something about the title. Maybe instead of focusing on the spray can, they can just come up with a cool name for the artificial environment. Maybe they could call it The Matrix?
Yeah... You are aware that scams like this easily predate the invention of e-mail, right? Scams are scams. Even if you've never seen this particular one before, it's easy enough to spot from a mile away. Some people are going to fall for this kind of thing but I see no reason to believe that like email users before them and phone call/telegraph/letter recipients before them the vast majority of those 20%ers will spot the scam for what it is right off the bat.
"If timeshifting is a court-granted right, then a broadcaster saying you can't do it and a recording system believing them should be plenty of evidence that it's time to change to a system you control."
Then it's a good thing for broadcasters that time shifting is not a "court-granted right." For that, you'd have to assume A implies B is equivalent to B implies A. The specific case of record television shows to watch later does not violate copyright laws. That does not mean that broadcasters have to make the recording of television shows easy or even possible. Timeshifting is merely a legally valid excuse for what would normally be considered copyright infringement. The court has granted you no rights forcing timeshifting to be made available.
"All development is in Plano and Frisco now, and none of it is anywhere near as cool as what I grew up with in Dallas."
I hate to break it to you but if you're in your 20's now then there was no real development in Dallas when you were a kid either. 20-something years ago, you could easily make the statement "All development is in Arglinton and Duncanville now." Given the blight in those areas, I can't help but feel Plano isn't far behind.
Just the other day, I saw a guy and girl riding on horseback over where they're demolishing Forum 303 Mall in Arlington. He saw the Montgomery Ward sign sticking up out of the ground, hopped off his horse and started yelling, "My God they went and did it! Damn you all! DAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!" I'm not sure what that means but it can't be good.
In the long term it may be cheaper to go e-book but when it comes down to it, if I have $400 in my pocket I'd rather buy $400 worth of books than a device that allows me to read books I may buy in the future. It's kind of like CD organizers. They cost as much as a CD. When I have the money I'm willing to spend on an organizer, why buy it when I could get another CD? If the device-makers really want e-books to catch on, they need to find a way to push a business model where they can give away (or seriously cut the price of) the device and make the money back on the book sales.
That wasn't Life on Mars. That was the season 3 finale of Doctor Who. I see how you could get confused since John Simm was in both but that was definitely Doctor Who. And if you bothered to watch the whole thing you'd see that the doom was averted and even retconned.
Yeah, that kind of reminds me of the construction workers who chase hurricanes. They'd swarm in on a hurricane-hit area and rebuild. Then a few months later, my dad's construction crews were called in left and right to fix the messes they left in their wake.
"- Computer science is changing very quickly. What is being taught now could be completely irrelevant in 15 years. Aggressive technical exposure might not be as valuable as you think."
No it's not. Pick 10 random EWDs and see how many of them don't still apply today. If you're actually being taught computer science, the info you're learning should be useful for a very long time.
"which admittedly was a cool series, but it made Iron Man the bad guy"
Yeah, he was a lot more of a good guy when he went around forcefully disabling other super heroes' suits because they maybe might have some sort of Stark-designed equipment in them, especially when he accidentally kills someone in the process. Or that time he decided to kill the Supreme Intelligence even after the Avengers as a team agreed not to. When you have to pretend you're not your regular guy alter-ego just to stay on your super hero team, you're far from a good guy in the traditional sense. Iron Man has always made ethically questionable decisions. Personally, I think he's right on some and wrong on some but that's just the way he's always going to be. The down side to that is that he'll always be a much more effective character in team-based series than in an individual series because he really needs to play off of a peer.
"This is the Roscoe P Coltrane method of generating revenue through law enforcement"
Hey! Show a little respect. Roscoe has to get his revenue money somehow. He goes through 5 to 10 cop cars a day. You think after a while he'd start to notice those pre-fabricated ramps someone keeps putting all over the roads in Hazard County.
"Douglas Adams wrote a couple of serials and did script editing."
And script editing in the classic Doctor Who sense meant writing a script based on the title of the original script and then tossing out the rest of the original script. Those "script editors" put more lines on screen than the actual writers of the show in most cases.
"Please don't spend money on this software so you can scream wildly and make a hardly listenable tune... The majority of us "classically trained musicians" aren't nearly as snooty and erudite as culture would have us look"
Or that you would have yourselves look? You do yourself no favors by assuming that any music made with this new software will be "hardly listenable tune." The process of making music is always getting simpler. This is just potentially another facet of that. I'm sure it's not a 100% solution but nothing ever is.
There really isn't a real equivalent from the source material 21 used. No, I'm not talking about some blackjack book. I'm talking about the real source material: Risky Business. That's where 21 got almost all of its plot material. They just made a few substitutions like hookers were replaced with gambling and Joey Pants was replaced with Cowboy Curtis and Princeton was replaced with Harvard Med. Wherever they didn't already have some plot worked out, they'd throw in a little MIT card counting stuff from a book they had lying around. Rosa doesn't really have an equivalent in Risky Business. I'd like to think that Rosa is Curtis Armstrong since Rosa is the one who gets the Joel... I mean Ben... involved but I guess he could also be Bronson Pinchot. I kind of imagine the Asian kid from 21 being Pinchot though. It's really hard to tell but I think Kaiser Soze is Booger, not Balkie.
"In the end I had to disable the motherboards soundcard at startup (sorry can't remember how at the moment but it involved hacking about in some script)"
I have the exact same dual sound card setup on one of my boxen. Disabling onboard sound in the BIOS worked for me. I haven't had a soundcard issue since.
"Because many IT folks were fed libertarian talking points throughout their adolescence in the form of American science fiction."
I'd wager that's more an effect than a cause. In my personal experience, those libertarian themes drew me to the writings of Anderson, Stephenson, and Niven, not the other way around.
Sure the Wii hardware is nothing special. A PC could easily provide the horsepower. The problem is getting Wii software to run as well on that cheap hardware with the hardware abstraction and multi-process environment of a modern OS. I'd rather just have another box to handle my torrents, emails, TV show recording, etc than have to stop all of that every time I want to play a game. If I'm going to need a separate box anyways, might as well be one with a standardized hardware platform and control scheme.
Did Netwon give up when the Germans bomber Pearl Harbor?! Hell no! And it ain't over now because when the going gets tough.......uh......the tough get going! Who's with me? What the fuck happened to the scientists I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to talk science to a polarized US audience, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this.
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"Are you kidding? The Republicans have been embarrassingly behind the times when it comes to IT stuff."
That image has helped the Republicans immensely. Emails? We... uh... we lost those. Sorry. Never underestimate the other side.
Posting on Slashdot isn't a Sport because Romanians are good at it. Mod points also max out at 5 which goes against all sports logic. Posting on Slashdot is really just a variation of ping pong. It's racketless free-for-all ping pong played on a computer and keyboard with no net while sitting in a chair.
I've never been modded up to a 5 on Slashdot but one time, I had 5 of my comments modded up to a 2 and in my mind, that should count.
I don't think it held anything back because those OSes you mentioned all had the same problem: they were built to sell hardware. There's no way you'd ever see an Amiga or Atari OS running on IBM (or compatible) hardware. IBM PC hardware wasn't that great but it was seen as "professional" hardware. If you'll remember correctly, there was already an IBM PC sales boom starting before Windows was really popular. DOS of all things was the OS installed on most of those PCs. The first reasonable GUI-heavy OS on the IBM PC platform was poised to be king. If Windows didn't do it, OS/2 would have. I refuse to see how that would've been any better. The brilliant OSes that Atari and Amiga designed would be forever attached to what was considered "toy" hardware by most.
"Mandating that proof could thus have the pernicious effect of depriving copyright owners of a practical remedy against massive copyright infringement in many instances."
If they can't prove the distribution, then how do they know the copyright infringement is happening?
"Most people don't need trucks and SUV's are really not practical for anyone."
SUVs became practical when vans stopped being able to tow anything. I need to tow up to 5000lbs 60 miles or so about 30 times a year and I need to haul 6 or 7 people around fairly frequently (at least once a week). My only options these days besides a 3-row SUV are an Econoline or the GM equivalent. Either would cost just as much (if not more) and get just as bad (or worse) gas mileage.
It's about time a game company steps up and reaches out to the LGBT community... oh, it said Qore. I read that wrong. Nevermind.
They're going to rip out most of the themes and keep a skeleton of the plot. Then they may throw in some man vs. machine stuff and some other easily-identifiable themes that mainstream moviegoers will pick up on in the place of some of the original themes. Then they'll throw in some martial arts and blow their entire budget on CGI. Oh, and they'll have to stretch it out into a trilogy even if it doesn't work out well. Then they'll have to do something about the title. Maybe instead of focusing on the spray can, they can just come up with a cool name for the artificial environment. Maybe they could call it The Matrix?
Yeah... You are aware that scams like this easily predate the invention of e-mail, right? Scams are scams. Even if you've never seen this particular one before, it's easy enough to spot from a mile away. Some people are going to fall for this kind of thing but I see no reason to believe that like email users before them and phone call/telegraph/letter recipients before them the vast majority of those 20%ers will spot the scam for what it is right off the bat.
"If timeshifting is a court-granted right, then a broadcaster saying you can't do it and a recording system believing them should be plenty of evidence that it's time to change to a system you control."
Then it's a good thing for broadcasters that time shifting is not a "court-granted right." For that, you'd have to assume A implies B is equivalent to B implies A. The specific case of record television shows to watch later does not violate copyright laws. That does not mean that broadcasters have to make the recording of television shows easy or even possible. Timeshifting is merely a legally valid excuse for what would normally be considered copyright infringement. The court has granted you no rights forcing timeshifting to be made available.
"All development is in Plano and Frisco now, and none of it is anywhere near as cool as what I grew up with in Dallas."
I hate to break it to you but if you're in your 20's now then there was no real development in Dallas when you were a kid either. 20-something years ago, you could easily make the statement "All development is in Arglinton and Duncanville now." Given the blight in those areas, I can't help but feel Plano isn't far behind.
Just the other day, I saw a guy and girl riding on horseback over where they're demolishing Forum 303 Mall in Arlington. He saw the Montgomery Ward sign sticking up out of the ground, hopped off his horse and started yelling, "My God they went and did it! Damn you all! DAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!" I'm not sure what that means but it can't be good.
In the long term it may be cheaper to go e-book but when it comes down to it, if I have $400 in my pocket I'd rather buy $400 worth of books than a device that allows me to read books I may buy in the future. It's kind of like CD organizers. They cost as much as a CD. When I have the money I'm willing to spend on an organizer, why buy it when I could get another CD? If the device-makers really want e-books to catch on, they need to find a way to push a business model where they can give away (or seriously cut the price of) the device and make the money back on the book sales.
That wasn't Life on Mars. That was the season 3 finale of Doctor Who. I see how you could get confused since John Simm was in both but that was definitely Doctor Who. And if you bothered to watch the whole thing you'd see that the doom was averted and even retconned.
Yeah, that kind of reminds me of the construction workers who chase hurricanes. They'd swarm in on a hurricane-hit area and rebuild. Then a few months later, my dad's construction crews were called in left and right to fix the messes they left in their wake.
Wow, then you could screw yourself with Perl code instead of just screwing anyone who actually tries to read the code later.
Can ksplice be installed without rebooting?
"- Computer science is changing very quickly. What is being taught now could be completely irrelevant in 15 years. Aggressive technical exposure might not be as valuable as you think."
No it's not. Pick 10 random EWDs and see how many of them don't still apply today. If you're actually being taught computer science, the info you're learning should be useful for a very long time.
"which admittedly was a cool series, but it made Iron Man the bad guy"
Yeah, he was a lot more of a good guy when he went around forcefully disabling other super heroes' suits because they maybe might have some sort of Stark-designed equipment in them, especially when he accidentally kills someone in the process. Or that time he decided to kill the Supreme Intelligence even after the Avengers as a team agreed not to. When you have to pretend you're not your regular guy alter-ego just to stay on your super hero team, you're far from a good guy in the traditional sense. Iron Man has always made ethically questionable decisions. Personally, I think he's right on some and wrong on some but that's just the way he's always going to be. The down side to that is that he'll always be a much more effective character in team-based series than in an individual series because he really needs to play off of a peer.
"This is the Roscoe P Coltrane method of generating revenue through law enforcement"
Hey! Show a little respect. Roscoe has to get his revenue money somehow. He goes through 5 to 10 cop cars a day. You think after a while he'd start to notice those pre-fabricated ramps someone keeps putting all over the roads in Hazard County.
"Douglas Adams wrote a couple of serials and did script editing."
And script editing in the classic Doctor Who sense meant writing a script based on the title of the original script and then tossing out the rest of the original script. Those "script editors" put more lines on screen than the actual writers of the show in most cases.
"Please don't spend money on this software so you can scream wildly and make a hardly listenable tune... The majority of us "classically trained musicians" aren't nearly as snooty and erudite as culture would have us look"
Or that you would have yourselves look? You do yourself no favors by assuming that any music made with this new software will be "hardly listenable tune." The process of making music is always getting simpler. This is just potentially another facet of that. I'm sure it's not a 100% solution but nothing ever is.
There really isn't a real equivalent from the source material 21 used. No, I'm not talking about some blackjack book. I'm talking about the real source material: Risky Business. That's where 21 got almost all of its plot material. They just made a few substitutions like hookers were replaced with gambling and Joey Pants was replaced with Cowboy Curtis and Princeton was replaced with Harvard Med. Wherever they didn't already have some plot worked out, they'd throw in a little MIT card counting stuff from a book they had lying around. Rosa doesn't really have an equivalent in Risky Business. I'd like to think that Rosa is Curtis Armstrong since Rosa is the one who gets the Joel... I mean Ben... involved but I guess he could also be Bronson Pinchot. I kind of imagine the Asian kid from 21 being Pinchot though. It's really hard to tell but I think Kaiser Soze is Booger, not Balkie.
"In the end I had to disable the motherboards soundcard at startup (sorry can't remember how at the moment but it involved hacking about in some script)"
I have the exact same dual sound card setup on one of my boxen. Disabling onboard sound in the BIOS worked for me. I haven't had a soundcard issue since.
"Because many IT folks were fed libertarian talking points throughout their adolescence in the form of American science fiction."
I'd wager that's more an effect than a cause. In my personal experience, those libertarian themes drew me to the writings of Anderson, Stephenson, and Niven, not the other way around.
Sure the Wii hardware is nothing special. A PC could easily provide the horsepower. The problem is getting Wii software to run as well on that cheap hardware with the hardware abstraction and multi-process environment of a modern OS. I'd rather just have another box to handle my torrents, emails, TV show recording, etc than have to stop all of that every time I want to play a game. If I'm going to need a separate box anyways, might as well be one with a standardized hardware platform and control scheme.
Did Netwon give up when the Germans bomber Pearl Harbor?! Hell no! And it ain't over now because when the going gets tough.... ...uh... ...the tough get going! Who's with me? What the fuck happened to the scientists I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to talk science to a polarized US audience, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this.