Sounds a lot like that SG1 episode set in the future where the aliens gave them tons of technology and also doubled the human lifespan but make us all infertile.
I don't want to get into a big discussion on this, but I would like to point out one thing.
The parent post adopts the idea that the Bible is not to be taken literally in it entirety. This is a good stance since the vast majority of people recognoize that many of the stories of the old testament are just stories.
My question is, how do you know that the stories of Jesus are not just stories as well? How do you decide what is truth and what is fiction? Is the dividing line between testaments some magical thing that seperates the truth from the fiction?
I don't know anybody that owns a console that doesn't pirate games. (Except of course myself since I went Intellivison, Nintendo, Genesis, 64, GC). Yet everyone is saying that exact opposite. Very strange. I am sure the study was biased, but piracy is rampant for the PS2 and XBox. And you don't have to be tech savy. I know some of the least technical people in the world and they have modded console. It's not for imports either, I mean how many people do you know that play imported games?? They just know somebody who knows somebody who's poolman's doorman can mod a console. They pay 50 bucks or so and they're done.
Perhaps it's the 20 something age group, but I am personally surprise the numbers aren't higher.
M rated games are meant for mature audiences and children should not be permitted to purchase them.
I've heard rumblings they are thinking of implementing the same thing here in Ontario and I see no problem with it. If you think your child should be able to play the game then you can go rent/purchase it for him/her.
I don't believe that violent video games lead to violence, but they do desensitize.
"And please, get off this 'lock in' bullshit. You aren't even locked into a fucking thing you can hit the DELETE key and get rid of."
I agree, but are any of these guys hitting delete? They are free to remove the software, but they won't, they'll use directX, IE, and probably office. They are helping microsoft by supporting directX, IE and office standards.
Microsoft does use these lock in strats. For example. About a year ago MS offered my University a very impressive sum of money (a few million) to use C# in the computer engineering and CS programs. The school ultimately rejected the offer after much disscussion. (C# really isn't that good of a language...). But the point is had MS succedded you would have a bunch of students who get locked into a Visual Studio / Windows environment for their first year of programming, and carry that to where they work.
I don't agree. I think a good percentage of people who have pirated copies aren't tech savy at all.
I mean most people I know with pirated copies of XP (or any product for that matter) are people who just know somebody tech savy. They heard XP would make there computer so much faster and better and asked the kid down the street, or a coworker, if he can install it on their PC.
However, people like this probably wouldn't be downloading SP or patches anyways...
Everybody who's saying that purchasing toys and what not from China is hurting US buisnesses has no clue how international economics work. Please, for your own sake take a course or read a book about international econ. The more people who understand that free trade is a wonderful thing and that buying imported good only makes you better off, the sooner Western countries will stop protecting industries that are only lowering the country's indifference curve.
Here here! As a CS Major I couldn't agree with you more and I'm very offended when people think CS is coding. Coding is just a means to an end, nothing more.
It should be noted that the RIAA/MPAA aren't really "losing" money from P2P. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people who steal music using P2P wouldn't buy the albums even if there wasn't P2P. They'd just go with out. The same goes for movies and games. So while I agree that downloading the lastest hit by so and so is stealing, the RIAA isn't _losing_ money because chances are you wouldn't buy the album unless you were a big fan, and if you are a big then you will probably still go out and buy the album. So I find it ridiculous that the RIAA is blaming P2P for lost revenues.
Something else that few seem to realize is do "artists", and I use that term losely, really deserve to be million/billionaires? Does Britney Spears need to bathe in spring water? No. Especially not when Joe Sixpack is only making 50 000 a year.
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It amuses me that this was modded informative...
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Sounds a lot like that SG1 episode set in the future where the aliens gave them tons of technology and also doubled the human lifespan but make us all infertile.
I bet these "scientists" are really those aliens.
Better get my tinfoil hat.
Well are we sure we really want to discuss these seedy philosopher types? I mean,
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And René Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed
I don't want to get into a big discussion on this, but I would like to point out one thing.
The parent post adopts the idea that the Bible is not to be taken literally in it entirety. This is a good stance since the vast majority of people recognoize that many of the stories of the old testament are just stories.
My question is, how do you know that the stories of Jesus are not just stories as well? How do you decide what is truth and what is fiction? Is the dividing line between testaments some magical thing that seperates the truth from the fiction?
Zero point energy is inherently useless as a power source
Then how come we could use it to power the Stargate to get to Atlantis? eh?
No, no, no. You gotta use the elements. Come on, you remember that first season stargate episode.
Not by the article, but by the posts.
I don't know anybody that owns a console that doesn't pirate games. (Except of course myself since I went Intellivison, Nintendo, Genesis, 64, GC). Yet everyone is saying that exact opposite. Very strange. I am sure the study was biased, but piracy is rampant for the PS2 and XBox. And you don't have to be tech savy. I know some of the least technical people in the world and they have modded console. It's not for imports either, I mean how many people do you know that play imported games?? They just know somebody who knows somebody who's poolman's doorman can mod a console. They pay 50 bucks or so and they're done.
Perhaps it's the 20 something age group, but I am personally surprise the numbers aren't higher.
I personnally think this is a good thing.
M rated games are meant for mature audiences and children should not be permitted to purchase them.
I've heard rumblings they are thinking of implementing the same thing here in Ontario and I see no problem with it. If you think your child should be able to play the game then you can go rent/purchase it for him/her.
I don't believe that violent video games lead to violence, but they do desensitize.
Excellent idea. Something along the lines of Debian's stable, testing, unstable. Does kind of defeat the purpose of wikipedia though.
I'd just like to point out that the Democrates are pretty right wing, especially Kerry, who is hardly a liberal.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy doesn't work."
"And please, get off this 'lock in' bullshit. You aren't even locked into a fucking thing you can hit the DELETE key and get rid of."
I agree, but are any of these guys hitting delete? They are free to remove the software, but they won't, they'll use directX, IE, and probably office. They are helping microsoft by supporting directX, IE and office standards.
Microsoft does use these lock in strats. For example. About a year ago MS offered my University a very impressive sum of money (a few million) to use C# in the computer engineering and CS programs. The school ultimately rejected the offer after much disscussion. (C# really isn't that good of a language...). But the point is had MS succedded you would have a bunch of students who get locked into a Visual Studio / Windows environment for their first year of programming, and carry that to where they work.
I don't agree. I think a good percentage of people who have pirated copies aren't tech savy at all.
I mean most people I know with pirated copies of XP (or any product for that matter) are people who just know somebody tech savy. They heard XP would make there computer so much faster and better and asked the kid down the street, or a coworker, if he can install it on their PC.
However, people like this probably wouldn't be downloading SP or patches anyways...
Mod parent up!
Everybody who's saying that purchasing toys and what not from China is hurting US buisnesses has no clue how international economics work. Please, for your own sake take a course or read a book about international econ. The more people who understand that free trade is a wonderful thing and that buying imported good only makes you better off, the sooner Western countries will stop protecting industries that are only lowering the country's indifference curve.
Here here! As a CS Major I couldn't agree with you more and I'm very offended when people think CS is coding. Coding is just a means to an end, nothing more.
I'm Canadian eh.
I've decided to do the exact same thing. I'm gonna install OO as soon as I get home to take another look at it. Thanks MS.
It should be noted that the RIAA/MPAA aren't really "losing" money from P2P. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people who steal music using P2P wouldn't buy the albums even if there wasn't P2P. They'd just go with out. The same goes for movies and games. So while I agree that downloading the lastest hit by so and so is stealing, the RIAA isn't _losing_ money because chances are you wouldn't buy the album unless you were a big fan, and if you are a big then you will probably still go out and buy the album. So I find it ridiculous that the RIAA is blaming P2P for lost revenues. Something else that few seem to realize is do "artists", and I use that term losely, really deserve to be million/billionaires? Does Britney Spears need to bathe in spring water? No. Especially not when Joe Sixpack is only making 50 000 a year.