You don't sound like you'te from Lafayette. The vast majority of us go to church. I would guess that over half of my high school classmates go to church - and that's probably the one demographic with the lowest religiousness. One website I saw reports around 80% church membership for Lafayette.
(Interestingly, for all that Slashdot does to promote the First Amendment, you do seem a little touchy when someone starts to use the freedom of speech to promote freedom of religion.)
Um...cheapskates? For the cheapskates, there's always the keyboard that came with your computer...or a $10 generic PS/2 keyboard. Definitely not Das Keyboard.
Not if it is a private organization. Like modern colleges and universities. Like Underwriters Labratories. Or Consumer Reports, etc.
All solutions do not have to come from the government.
Who is to prevent Rev. Falwell (to use your example) or his ilk from leading this organization? At least with the government, the citizens have a small hope of control through elections. Private organizations aren't elected.
anything became possible musically, and sound became a fundamental part of gaming experiences
There's still one thing music can't yet do in video games: change styles in synchronization with the player's actions. Sure, music comes at important points, but it starts or stops then. You still can't have a dynamic score.
For example, Halo famous musical score is only present in the single-player game, when the game knows that certain events will happen sooner or later. The multiplayer game is devoid of any music, because the important events - a bomb being planted, a flag being stolen, a large battle in one spot, whatever - are impossible to schedule and cue ahead of time. The point is that recording high-quality orchestral scores is well and good, but the next crucial step is for the music to be generated on the fly (possibly from prerecorded snippets).
10 minutes ago, NYC experienced a minor, highly localized earthquake that fractured the sidewalk outside my apartment. 7 minutes ago, I realized I was out of milk. 4 minutes ago, I stepped out of the building, tripped on the damaged sidewalk, and broke my leg in 12 places.
And instead of going to the hospital, you promptly go to Slashdot and post your story in an article about copyright law.
Instead it would give ultimate control of the country to corporations.
Congress will never cede control of the country to corporations. Ever. They'll keep the power flowing through themselves so the corporations have to make appropriate "campaign contributions" to be delegated that power.
What incentive is there for most of Congress to just give up their control?
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Well, both groups maintain that the minigame isn't accessible through unmodified GTA, so what's the problem? Suppose I created a movie where there is a blinking LED that just happens to spell out some obscenities in binary (the exact blinking pattern isn't part of the plot). That alone won't affect the ratings of that movie, will it? So why should something in GTA that you only get through a mod affect the rating of the original game?
It makes about as much sense as changing a game's rating just because someone made a nudie patch for it, and instead of changing the clothing textures the patch simply prevented the clothing from being rendered. Do we change the rating because the characters were naked under the clothes that they always wear?
The Right to be Wrong is the #1 basic right because the second thee or me presumes to sit in judgement of a parent's choice we presume to 1) be their master and 2) be wise enough to make their decisions for them. If parents are going to be empowered to truly make educational decisions for their children we must accept decisions we don't approve of.
The only place for the State to intervene is in cases which could rightly be called abuse/neglect.
It is never in the advantage of the State to let its citizenry be stupid. Sure, it may be a human right, but if the State can get away suppressing it, then it has a very powerful advantage against the other states that don't.
The ability to accept and allow others to make decisions we don't approve of is an admirable goal, and the main tenet of libertarianism. However, in the context of education, it's tantamount to the self-esteem nonsense that says that little Johnny's horrendous grammar is as good as correct English usage, simply because his parents, them uses the same grammar.
There is a point where parents can be poor parents yet still not be abusive or neglecting. After all, if little Johnny wants to be a quantum physicist (assuming he's smart enough to be one), and his parents are rural farmers, how do they afford to send him to a private school where he can learn -- correctly -- even the foundations of Newtonian physics? If they send him to a private school, how do they know the teachers are qualified?
And if you suggest a regulatory board over private schools, that takes away the fundamental advantage of them not being public schools.
Uh...the installer disk isn't "really" OS X. Sure, it's got the base components, but it doesn't even have the Finder (as far as I've seen), nor a login window, nor the dock, nor...
It's got the kernel, so that it can boot and access drives, and a the display system, and Installer, and Disk Utility. And that's it, I think. I wish it had more (like the old CDs, which were full OS installs plus an installer program), because it would be so useful for repairing systems.
"It's not identity theft, it's identity infringement! You're social security number and credit card number aren't stolen, because you still have them! You haven't lost anything! Don't call it 'theft'!"
Ignoring the trespassing aspects, isn't this essentially the same thing as taking intellectual property without paying?
Actually, trespassing is the only aspect here (relevant to the legal situation). If you build an art museum through whose glass windows the art can be seen, and people stand outside on the streets and look through, there's not much, legally speaking, that you can do to them. But I assume your museum has closed walls, and you either have to go in the front door and pay, or sneak in the back door.
I think you hit the mark with that analogy. Software companies/curators sell you a $50 license/ticket to access their software/view the museum. You're only allowed to access it within the rules they set; you can't copy or modify the software/take photos or paint over the artwork. It's possible to pirate it/sneak in the back door, but you're trespassing and you have no rights to the access. In order to get full rights to the software/painting, you have to pay the owner millions of dollars.
Note that taking a picture (presumably with a digital camera) has infinitesmal marginal cost, just like copying software, and assuming you just want to see how the picture looks, and not necessarily the way it was painted (the "source code"), you can as well take a picture. But museums validly have "No photography allowed" signs, so software owners can say "No piracy allowed".
That is because only a C library can be called from every other language out there.
This is wrong. What you meant to say is that only a library using the C calling convention can be called from every other language out there. Heck, I can write libraries in Visual Basic of all possible languages, and still have them compile against a C program (on Windows, and I'm sure it'll work on other platforms if someone ports vbc). If a language can call C functions, then it is likely (with a little effort) to have functions called by C - or any language that can call "C".
I haven't used Python or OCaml, but if either of those languages can produce C-style.lib's,.dll's,.so's,.obj's, whatever, then they'll work as well from C. I've seen libraries fully usable in C coded in Delphi, because Delphi designed its object file format to interface with C.
What's more, you say that C can work with (at least as a library) every other language out there. So what's the problem with a small C-language interface that just calls the Python function and returns the result?
But in some cases, such as selling your games on someone else's handheld, you might make MORE MONEY by cooperating with other companies. Apparently Microsoft has decided that in the case of the DS, this is the case.
True. What if..say..MS and Sony decided to make the next GTA a 3-part game where the first two parts could be completed in either order, but the first would only be on the Xbox 360 version of the game and the second only on the PS3 version (the third would work on either console)? And if they did the same thing with a lot of games? Then fans of GTA (or whatever other game) would have to own or have access to an Xbox and a PS both. That encourages Xboxers to buy a PS, and PSers to buy an Xbox, resulting in 3. increased profit! for both companies.
terrorism the practice of causing terror to achieve political goals.
So are you allowing the terrorists to have their way with you? People need to realize that the goal of terrorism is to scare people, not to actually kill people. Remember Bill O'Reilly's (I think) intervie with Sami al-Arian? The guy defined "Death to Israel" as death to its ideology, not necessarily to any real people.
We need to let those who can (government, army, police, etc.) handle the problem, and live our life normally. Then we have truly defeated them. GET SOME PRIORITIES!
What's worse, both stories say that he got in trouble for stealing Wi-Fi. At least this summary got it halfway right by saying wardriving is a third-degree thingy.
Parking outside people's houses for hours on end while secretively using a laptop isn't exactly the kind of thing you can do without repercussions.
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You don't sound like you'te from Lafayette. The vast majority of us go to church. I would guess that over half of my high school classmates go to church - and that's probably the one demographic with the lowest religiousness. One website I saw reports around 80% church membership for Lafayette.
(Interestingly, for all that Slashdot does to promote the First Amendment, you do seem a little touchy when someone starts to use the freedom of speech to promote freedom of religion.)
In Slashdot Korea, only old people remember that line.
(Hint: it's a double-entendre.)
I kinda worry I just completely stated the obvious.
Don't worry. What's obvious for you is rarely obvious for most of Slashdot.
Tomb Raider 9 3/4
A little over-enthused about the new Harry Potter release, are you?
"Price: $79.99"
Um...cheapskates? For the cheapskates, there's always the keyboard that came with your computer...or a $10 generic PS/2 keyboard. Definitely not Das Keyboard.
Not if it is a private organization. Like modern colleges and universities. Like Underwriters Labratories. Or Consumer Reports, etc.
All solutions do not have to come from the government.
Who is to prevent Rev. Falwell (to use your example) or his ilk from leading this organization? At least with the government, the citizens have a small hope of control through elections. Private organizations aren't elected.
Quebec was outraged but plans to observe the traditional proprieties with a full surrender ceremony.
So the language isn't the only thing they inherited from France, then.
how can the UN decide that they can control this?
The same way they were able to enforce their resolutions about Iraq and prevent the US from going to war.
anything became possible musically, and sound became a fundamental part of gaming experiences
There's still one thing music can't yet do in video games: change styles in synchronization with the player's actions. Sure, music comes at important points, but it starts or stops then. You still can't have a dynamic score.
For example, Halo famous musical score is only present in the single-player game, when the game knows that certain events will happen sooner or later. The multiplayer game is devoid of any music, because the important events - a bomb being planted, a flag being stolen, a large battle in one spot, whatever - are impossible to schedule and cue ahead of time. The point is that recording high-quality orchestral scores is well and good, but the next crucial step is for the music to be generated on the fly (possibly from prerecorded snippets).
10 minutes ago, NYC experienced a minor, highly localized earthquake that fractured the sidewalk outside my apartment. 7 minutes ago, I realized I was out of milk. 4 minutes ago, I stepped out of the building, tripped on the damaged sidewalk, and broke my leg in 12 places.
And instead of going to the hospital, you promptly go to Slashdot and post your story in an article about copyright law.
Instead it would give ultimate control of the country to corporations.
Congress will never cede control of the country to corporations. Ever. They'll keep the power flowing through themselves so the corporations have to make appropriate "campaign contributions" to be delegated that power.
What incentive is there for most of Congress to just give up their control?
Well, both groups maintain that the minigame isn't accessible through unmodified GTA, so what's the problem? Suppose I created a movie where there is a blinking LED that just happens to spell out some obscenities in binary (the exact blinking pattern isn't part of the plot). That alone won't affect the ratings of that movie, will it? So why should something in GTA that you only get through a mod affect the rating of the original game?
It makes about as much sense as changing a game's rating just because someone made a nudie patch for it, and instead of changing the clothing textures the patch simply prevented the clothing from being rendered. Do we change the rating because the characters were naked under the clothes that they always wear?
The Right to be Wrong is the #1 basic right because the second thee or me presumes to sit in judgement of a parent's choice we presume to 1) be their master and 2) be wise enough to make their decisions for them. If parents are going to be empowered to truly make educational decisions for their children we must accept decisions we don't approve of.
The only place for the State to intervene is in cases which could rightly be called abuse/neglect.
It is never in the advantage of the State to let its citizenry be stupid. Sure, it may be a human right, but if the State can get away suppressing it, then it has a very powerful advantage against the other states that don't.
The ability to accept and allow others to make decisions we don't approve of is an admirable goal, and the main tenet of libertarianism. However, in the context of education, it's tantamount to the self-esteem nonsense that says that little Johnny's horrendous grammar is as good as correct English usage, simply because his parents, them uses the same grammar.
There is a point where parents can be poor parents yet still not be abusive or neglecting. After all, if little Johnny wants to be a quantum physicist (assuming he's smart enough to be one), and his parents are rural farmers, how do they afford to send him to a private school where he can learn -- correctly -- even the foundations of Newtonian physics? If they send him to a private school, how do they know the teachers are qualified?
And if you suggest a regulatory board over private schools, that takes away the fundamental advantage of them not being public schools.
Uh...the installer disk isn't "really" OS X. Sure, it's got the base components, but it doesn't even have the Finder (as far as I've seen), nor a login window, nor the dock, nor...
It's got the kernel, so that it can boot and access drives, and a the display system, and Installer, and Disk Utility. And that's it, I think. I wish it had more (like the old CDs, which were full OS installs plus an installer program), because it would be so useful for repairing systems.
Awesome analogy, which inspires this parody:
"It's not identity theft, it's identity infringement! You're social security number and credit card number aren't stolen, because you still have them! You haven't lost anything! Don't call it 'theft'!"
How much money does the government receive from various association? Hmm, I think a lot.
It's like the old saying, "We have the best government money can buy."
a Avatar of Yawhe,
By "avatar" I hope you don't mean "incarnation." Because that would have made Bush the Second Coming.
Ignoring the trespassing aspects, isn't this essentially the same thing as taking intellectual property without paying?
Actually, trespassing is the only aspect here (relevant to the legal situation). If you build an art museum through whose glass windows the art can be seen, and people stand outside on the streets and look through, there's not much, legally speaking, that you can do to them. But I assume your museum has closed walls, and you either have to go in the front door and pay, or sneak in the back door.
I think you hit the mark with that analogy. Software companies/curators sell you a $50 license/ticket to access their software/view the museum. You're only allowed to access it within the rules they set; you can't copy or modify the software/take photos or paint over the artwork. It's possible to pirate it/sneak in the back door, but you're trespassing and you have no rights to the access. In order to get full rights to the software/painting, you have to pay the owner millions of dollars.
Note that taking a picture (presumably with a digital camera) has infinitesmal marginal cost, just like copying software, and assuming you just want to see how the picture looks, and not necessarily the way it was painted (the "source code"), you can as well take a picture. But museums validly have "No photography allowed" signs, so software owners can say "No piracy allowed".
Mmmm...chocolate frappucino... ...with an apple...?
If society collapses from overpopulation, then it would be a "buffer overflow" in a sense...
That is because only a C library can be called from every other language out there.
.lib's, .dll's, .so's, .obj's, whatever, then they'll work as well from C. I've seen libraries fully usable in C coded in Delphi, because Delphi designed its object file format to interface with C.
This is wrong. What you meant to say is that only a library using the C calling convention can be called from every other language out there. Heck, I can write libraries in Visual Basic of all possible languages, and still have them compile against a C program (on Windows, and I'm sure it'll work on other platforms if someone ports vbc). If a language can call C functions, then it is likely (with a little effort) to have functions called by C - or any language that can call "C".
I haven't used Python or OCaml, but if either of those languages can produce C-style
What's more, you say that C can work with (at least as a library) every other language out there. So what's the problem with a small C-language interface that just calls the Python function and returns the result?
If Microsoft hadn't gone after Lindows, and another company came along and did something more evil....
Something more evil - would that be a Sin-dows?
But in some cases, such as selling your games on someone else's handheld, you might make MORE MONEY by cooperating with other companies. Apparently Microsoft has decided that in the case of the DS, this is the case.
True. What if..say..MS and Sony decided to make the next GTA a 3-part game where the first two parts could be completed in either order, but the first would only be on the Xbox 360 version of the game and the second only on the PS3 version (the third would work on either console)? And if they did the same thing with a lot of games? Then fans of GTA (or whatever other game) would have to own or have access to an Xbox and a PS both. That encourages Xboxers to buy a PS, and PSers to buy an Xbox, resulting in 3. increased profit! for both companies.
terror a state of irrational fear.
terrorism the practice of causing terror to achieve political goals.
So are you allowing the terrorists to have their way with you? People need to realize that the goal of terrorism is to scare people, not to actually kill people. Remember Bill O'Reilly's (I think) intervie with Sami al-Arian? The guy defined "Death to Israel" as death to its ideology, not necessarily to any real people.
We need to let those who can (government, army, police, etc.) handle the problem, and live our life normally. Then we have truly defeated them. GET SOME PRIORITIES!
What's worse, both stories say that he got in trouble for stealing Wi-Fi. At least this summary got it halfway right by saying wardriving is a third-degree thingy.
Parking outside people's houses for hours on end while secretively using a laptop isn't exactly the kind of thing you can do without repercussions.