NPD is great and all, really, but let's not burry our head in the sand and ignore the fact that the ONLY federal political party actually working for the citizen, doing it's job as an opposition party and having a real record of total and uncompromising integrity is the separatist Bloc Québecois party... food for your thought...
The NPD is merely a drop in the Canadian political pond, I voted for them but their message just don't get accross because they seem more busy playing whore with the liberal party, I lost confidence in their ability to lead and in their integrity...
For starters it enforces the DMCA, thinks it can control who has the right to devellop what, sues other jurisdiction for stuff it considers crime but aren't in said country. They control the traffic and monitors it (carnivore et al.), if something goes wrong in the US the rest of the world internet traffic goes dark... and so on and so on
Internationnal infrastructures should be under the control of internationnal institutions. Don't agree with the UN? Fine, then just promote the creation of an internationnal body to take care of this internationnal infrastructure.
Adversely, what does the rest of the world has ever done to hinder YOUR internet experience? Provide you with content and tools considered illegal in your country is one, giving you access to extreme privacy services illegal in your country is another, giving you access to encryption levels beyond what's permitted in your country is yet another...
Blame your country for being stupid enough to sell the internet as a free infrastructure (free as in speech) to the rest of the world when it was their mean of controlling the world's communications, they fail.
on another lighter note, Deus Ex visions of future societies was prophetic, everyday news keeps giving me more proof of it...
"If we were to announce today that we intend to hang all capitalists tomorrow, they would trip over each other trying to sell us the rope."
Vladimir Lenin (or so they say...)
Capitalism just suck, in the name of economic freedom personnal freedom need to be set asside because they are bad for the economy. Although I believe communism also suck for many other reasons (there is more to life than capitalism OR communism, a huge grey area in between and quite a lot of space before reaching boundaries, heck we could even think of something new...) I still quote a communist leader who said something about capitalism that trully resume what's happening here, like it or not, Vladimir Lenin was right this time.
and a complete lack of knowledge of what you are criticising
It's not about who thought of it first but who MADE it first, I have lots of idea, lots but until I realize them they are meaningless, Appple might not have thought of what it implemented but it MADE it first and that's what counts. Intel might have invented USB but without Apple you wouldn't have heard of it, the GUI might have been invented by Xerox but without Apple you wouldn't have it, MS was clearly not heading this way, same goes with hardware accelerated GUI, centralized media management/coding/decoding (Quicktime), System-wide color management, MPEG4 (which is QT based), and so on... I honestly don't have the time to educate you...
Absoluteley unrelated and offtopic, i didn't in any case even implied that osX was the extension of system7 or anything I am just pointing out that from the kernel to the GUI it embraced this plug-in philosophy... RTFP
Before people go down on MS software culture take a serious look at Linux and its devellopement model, all of the slashdotters are doing their best to mod down post pointing this out and escaping the comment, but take a serious look at Linux before you try to post as an intelligent coding practice critic...
You forget Apple, they reinvented themselves more than once AND always have managed to be the frontrunner of computer innovation...
The lego block analogy apply to how Apple wrote code for a while, I would go as far as saying since system6 but more realistically system7 with its core os and extensions attaching to it, they invented plug-ins before browsers were even invented...
That ultimately gave us osX, the ultimate in plug-in philosophy, from the kernel to the GUI.
Dude there is more to life and politic than capitalism or socialism, there is a huge grey area in between and quite a lot of space before reaching boundaries.
And how about we get original for once and actually try to learn from the past and build on the future? How about conceiving a new political philosophy a new system that wasn't possible before all this technology came along or even something not related to technology but taking into account the mistake we made and including the new stuff that's been patched on old philosophy but as an integral part of the system and not an add-on.
Everytime I bring forth the fact that capitalism as it is now is a serious mistake that will simply destroy humanity there is always that "intellectual" guy that point me that socialism is bad too, I didn't even talk about socialism, at all, its all just in your mind. There is more option than the blue or red pill you know, the world isn't flat.
It just suck, but of course we'll say its great cause the USA want us too but I think its about time we realize the very nasty nature of capitalism: consenting slow self-destruction. Our society, freedoms and aspirations are just all going down the drain but it good for the economy so...
The Register was once my homepage but since their editorialists started trowing sissy fits at mac users I decided I would just drop them. I tried to find the various articles but their inept site doesn't have a search feature (for the archives at least) and I just don't want to go trough all of their trash stories again just to find those. The register staff is populated with brand whores and "journalists" who write what the hell is submited to them by their advertisers. I use a PC, so this is not a mac fanboy post countrary to what would please their defenders.
Bottom line is, I agree hate speech laws can be easilly abused but well managed they actually encourage free speech, respectfull free speech. Hate speech laws basically say: say what you want but don't incite to illegal action towards members of some group, wheter ethnic, religious, social, whatever, nothing more nothing less, therefore saying:
Jews control the economy is a stupid saying but even in countries where hate speech laws exist it is legal to say it.
We should burn jews however has nothing to do with free speech, it is an incitation to violent actions and therefore is illegal. I am all for it, opinions are great, incitation to violence isn't.
WoW is good for the industry extremely good. Do you remember when Bill Gates explained that his software was half-working, not working as marketed and absolutely not stable because progamming an OS was hard, a huge job into which errors would be made (I really don't feel to go trough the web for a link to this story... sry)?
remember?
The fucking judge agreed so now its common practice to market stuff you just don't deliver, to ship non-working product, to sell extremely low quality product very expensively to consummers (in computing of course, where bad products are the norm). WoW is bringing that mentality to gaming. WoW is the single most despicable product to have hit my computer in years. Their servers are constantly down, the amount of bugs in the game is stagerring, dupe and exploit are used by wise-ass no-life players and Blizzard does nothing about it. This game is an EXTREMELY bad product. The game in itself is a load of fun, for real, leveling a character by making him run trough spots of creatures that look like they were painted on the landscape using a cloning tool, who aimlessly move about with no other purpose than being killed, is fun, experiencing great adventures trough a series of one paragraph text with multiple english errors which are fed to you each 15-20 creature killed is a blast, I'm sarcastic but this game truly is fun, for real, I especially like to PVP in the battleground, its just that you have to experience the rest of the game to fight in battleground, anyways, I challenge anyone here to spend 5 minute in the game without encountering at least one bug (creature placing themselves over you, they litteraly go trough you, you stand in the middle of them while the fight go on, so you have problem selecting yourself and it constantly tells you you are facing the wrong way, etc., telling you you are too far from a creature when you are hugging it, creatures dispearing after a stun just to see them reappear amidst their mob friend who will gladfully all jump on you... and so on and so forth), just that, 5 min.
Wow is a benediction to all game company, it is the new standard for whats acceptable as far as mediocrity goes in gaming, if hordes of morons can pay 15$ per month for that...
You use 100% of your brain, 10% as an average at a time. If you would use 100% of your brain at any given moment you'd do all it can do at the same time... and that's not good.
While technical issues were a problem for the first few months of retail service, prompt patching and additional world servers have left the game in excellent shape.
That is absolutely not true, the game suffers from way more issues now than it did when I bought it, a lot. The servers are constantly down for any reason, disconnect are frequent and lag is absolutely ridiculous. Stupid bugs like being told by the system that you arent facing a creature while you are straight facing it, telling you you are too far from the creature while actually hugging it and so on... Many instances crashes during important even and people can't access them and retry for hours if not days...
This article is uther bullshit for saying such a lie as if it was a universally accepted truth, WoW is absolutely NOT stable and very laggy, the fact that some other games are too doesn't excuse it. Actually it is impossible to play for 10 min without encountering a bug... An you pay for this, every month...
which you won't get with point and shoot cameras in the first place
Read my post again I was talking about professionnal cameras and professionnal photographers. I happens to have a few professionnal photographers amongst my friends and I tend to believe in their expertise and knowledge concerning their profession.
It's going to be everywhere except in your hands. Vinyls aren't dead, at all, skratch artists almost can't do without them, I own Final Skratch from Stanton and despite all the phoney claims it doesn't hold its own against a real vinyl, even if it comes really really close, and until some technology comes along that truly make the vinyl obsolete we'll see tons of them under dj's hands.
35mm pictures will be everywhere, in magazine, large displays and so on but all the while consummers won't be able to procure the films and material to themselves easily.
Lets face it, for consummers digital is way more convenient, not better, convenient. If digital was better marketing wouldn't compare it to analog they would simply show it. Digital technologies have never been strong because they were good, they always caught up because they were convenient but professionnal will drop convenience really fast if it can produce better results. Think high end studio recording, we stuck to analog reels for very long until digital finally became so good that we could embrace its convenience but not at the expense of quality, not even 5 years ago spliccing was still common in studio. Therefore I don't think 35mm is dying, as much as vinyls aren't dead, they're just hidden from "normal people"(;) ) probably until digital has more resolution than 35mm films (around 22megapixels it seems).
The article doesn't say if the database has it's entry linked to people or store and that is the information I wanted. If they contain people name and infos I'm against it, their suppliers can buy an access to the database and that alone scares me about it. If their database simply is linked to a store then it becomes a really good idea with a lot of practical uses and none of the big brother scare.
However the important point in the article isn't the database, it's the fact that a company is becomming big NOT by becomming cheaper but by becomming better and that alone should be a lesson to many capitalist out there.
Not really sadly, that's what I thought at first but it seems it's just about using the nanotube electrical properties. The chip is the same size but the conductive element will be nanotubes, which is still a great thing since it offers no resistance (almost) to electrical current. Obvisouly the purpose of their research is further miniaturization but as of now, in this research, they still work with conventionnal size chips.
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NPD is great and all, really, but let's not burry our head in the sand and ignore the fact that the ONLY federal political party actually working for the citizen, doing it's job as an opposition party and having a real record of total and uncompromising integrity is the separatist Bloc Québecois party... food for your thought...
The NPD is merely a drop in the Canadian political pond, I voted for them but their message just don't get accross because they seem more busy playing whore with the liberal party, I lost confidence in their ability to lead and in their integrity...
For starters it enforces the DMCA, thinks it can control who has the right to devellop what, sues other jurisdiction for stuff it considers crime but aren't in said country. They control the traffic and monitors it (carnivore et al.), if something goes wrong in the US the rest of the world internet traffic goes dark... and so on and so on
Internationnal infrastructures should be under the control of internationnal institutions. Don't agree with the UN? Fine, then just promote the creation of an internationnal body to take care of this internationnal infrastructure.
Adversely, what does the rest of the world has ever done to hinder YOUR internet experience? Provide you with content and tools considered illegal in your country is one, giving you access to extreme privacy services illegal in your country is another, giving you access to encryption levels beyond what's permitted in your country is yet another...
Internationnal infrastructures = internationnal institutions supervision
Blame your country for being stupid enough to sell the internet as a free infrastructure (free as in speech) to the rest of the world when it was their mean of controlling the world's communications, they fail.
on another lighter note, Deus Ex visions of future societies was prophetic, everyday news keeps giving me more proof of it...
You obviously are wrong since our freedoms are constantly being trampled for the good of the economy...
witty comment don't change anything about it, have you even read the thread subject...
"If we were to announce today that we intend to hang all capitalists tomorrow, they would trip over each other trying to sell us the rope."
Vladimir Lenin (or so they say...)
Capitalism just suck, in the name of economic freedom personnal freedom need to be set asside because they are bad for the economy. Although I believe communism also suck for many other reasons (there is more to life than capitalism OR communism, a huge grey area in between and quite a lot of space before reaching boundaries, heck we could even think of something new...) I still quote a communist leader who said something about capitalism that trully resume what's happening here, like it or not, Vladimir Lenin was right this time.
All my post was written on a PC, my home computer which runs WindowsXP...
the fanboy claim don't hold sorry
dude you have issues...
and a complete lack of knowledge of what you are criticising
It's not about who thought of it first but who MADE it first, I have lots of idea, lots but until I realize them they are meaningless, Appple might not have thought of what it implemented but it MADE it first and that's what counts. Intel might have invented USB but without Apple you wouldn't have heard of it, the GUI might have been invented by Xerox but without Apple you wouldn't have it, MS was clearly not heading this way, same goes with hardware accelerated GUI, centralized media management/coding/decoding (Quicktime), System-wide color management, MPEG4 (which is QT based), and so on... I honestly don't have the time to educate you...
Absoluteley unrelated and offtopic, i didn't in any case even implied that osX was the extension of system7 or anything I am just pointing out that from the kernel to the GUI it embraced this plug-in philosophy... RTFP
Linux, linux linux linux...
Before people go down on MS software culture take a serious look at Linux and its devellopement model, all of the slashdotters are doing their best to mod down post pointing this out and escaping the comment, but take a serious look at Linux before you try to post as an intelligent coding practice critic...
At least MS finally understood...
You forget Apple, they reinvented themselves more than once AND always have managed to be the frontrunner of computer innovation...
The lego block analogy apply to how Apple wrote code for a while, I would go as far as saying since system6 but more realistically system7 with its core os and extensions attaching to it, they invented plug-ins before browsers were even invented...
That ultimately gave us osX, the ultimate in plug-in philosophy, from the kernel to the GUI.
Dude there is more to life and politic than capitalism or socialism, there is a huge grey area in between and quite a lot of space before reaching boundaries.
And how about we get original for once and actually try to learn from the past and build on the future? How about conceiving a new political philosophy a new system that wasn't possible before all this technology came along or even something not related to technology but taking into account the mistake we made and including the new stuff that's been patched on old philosophy but as an integral part of the system and not an add-on.
Everytime I bring forth the fact that capitalism as it is now is a serious mistake that will simply destroy humanity there is always that "intellectual" guy that point me that socialism is bad too, I didn't even talk about socialism, at all, its all just in your mind. There is more option than the blue or red pill you know, the world isn't flat.
It just suck, but of course we'll say its great cause the USA want us too but I think its about time we realize the very nasty nature of capitalism: consenting slow self-destruction. Our society, freedoms and aspirations are just all going down the drain but it good for the economy so...
The Register was once my homepage but since their editorialists started trowing sissy fits at mac users I decided I would just drop them. I tried to find the various articles but their inept site doesn't have a search feature (for the archives at least) and I just don't want to go trough all of their trash stories again just to find those. The register staff is populated with brand whores and "journalists" who write what the hell is submited to them by their advertisers. I use a PC, so this is not a mac fanboy post countrary to what would please their defenders.
Bottom line is, I agree hate speech laws can be easilly abused but well managed they actually encourage free speech, respectfull free speech. Hate speech laws basically say: say what you want but don't incite to illegal action towards members of some group, wheter ethnic, religious, social, whatever, nothing more nothing less, therefore saying:
Jews control the economy is a stupid saying but even in countries where hate speech laws exist it is legal to say it.
We should burn jews however has nothing to do with free speech, it is an incitation to violent actions and therefore is illegal. I am all for it, opinions are great, incitation to violence isn't.
Yeah hate speech laws are bad, I mean I'd really like to live in a place were I could just incite people to burn niggers and gas jews...
fucking dumbass american trash, wait... isn't that hate speech? Then again, since you like it, might as well give it a try... USA prick
WoW is good for the industry extremely good. Do you remember when Bill Gates explained that his software was half-working, not working as marketed and absolutely not stable because progamming an OS was hard, a huge job into which errors would be made (I really don't feel to go trough the web for a link to this story... sry)?
remember?
The fucking judge agreed so now its common practice to market stuff you just don't deliver, to ship non-working product, to sell extremely low quality product very expensively to consummers (in computing of course, where bad products are the norm). WoW is bringing that mentality to gaming. WoW is the single most despicable product to have hit my computer in years. Their servers are constantly down, the amount of bugs in the game is stagerring, dupe and exploit are used by wise-ass no-life players and Blizzard does nothing about it. This game is an EXTREMELY bad product. The game in itself is a load of fun, for real, leveling a character by making him run trough spots of creatures that look like they were painted on the landscape using a cloning tool, who aimlessly move about with no other purpose than being killed, is fun, experiencing great adventures trough a series of one paragraph text with multiple english errors which are fed to you each 15-20 creature killed is a blast, I'm sarcastic but this game truly is fun, for real, I especially like to PVP in the battleground, its just that you have to experience the rest of the game to fight in battleground, anyways, I challenge anyone here to spend 5 minute in the game without encountering at least one bug (creature placing themselves over you, they litteraly go trough you, you stand in the middle of them while the fight go on, so you have problem selecting yourself and it constantly tells you you are facing the wrong way, etc., telling you you are too far from a creature when you are hugging it, creatures dispearing after a stun just to see them reappear amidst their mob friend who will gladfully all jump on you... and so on and so forth), just that, 5 min.
Wow is a benediction to all game company, it is the new standard for whats acceptable as far as mediocrity goes in gaming, if hordes of morons can pay 15$ per month for that...
You use 100% of your brain, 10% as an average at a time. If you would use 100% of your brain at any given moment you'd do all it can do at the same time... and that's not good.
It's time to "liberate" the chinese citizen it seems...
Dam hit the post button too fast, I meant:
;)
Of course you have to be original, the guy wasn't talking about open-source *duck*
but now it kinda has lost its momentum...
Of course you have to be original, the guy said INVENT stuff not copy it...
(nobody kills shaman, they're a trifle imbalanced)
I actually often slay Shammans, in Battlegrounds, in raids, in normal PVP, whatever, I do kill them more often than they kill me.
So why don't you apply your post to yourself, meaning, it's not because YOU can't beat a Shamman that Shammans are ubergood unbeatable...
I have a pally btw but I kill shammans even with my hunter, I'll give you a trick: kill the totems... and a gnomish death ray does help.
While technical issues were a problem for the first few months of retail service, prompt patching and additional world servers have left the game in excellent shape.
That is absolutely not true, the game suffers from way more issues now than it did when I bought it, a lot. The servers are constantly down for any reason, disconnect are frequent and lag is absolutely ridiculous. Stupid bugs like being told by the system that you arent facing a creature while you are straight facing it, telling you you are too far from the creature while actually hugging it and so on... Many instances crashes during important even and people can't access them and retry for hours if not days...
This article is uther bullshit for saying such a lie as if it was a universally accepted truth, WoW is absolutely NOT stable and very laggy, the fact that some other games are too doesn't excuse it. Actually it is impossible to play for 10 min without encountering a bug... An you pay for this, every month...
which you won't get with point and shoot cameras in the first place
Read my post again I was talking about professionnal cameras and professionnal photographers. I happens to have a few professionnal photographers amongst my friends and I tend to believe in their expertise and knowledge concerning their profession.
It's going to be everywhere except in your hands. Vinyls aren't dead, at all, skratch artists almost can't do without them, I own Final Skratch from Stanton and despite all the phoney claims it doesn't hold its own against a real vinyl, even if it comes really really close, and until some technology comes along that truly make the vinyl obsolete we'll see tons of them under dj's hands.
;) ) probably until digital has more resolution than 35mm films (around 22megapixels it seems).
35mm pictures will be everywhere, in magazine, large displays and so on but all the while consummers won't be able to procure the films and material to themselves easily.
Lets face it, for consummers digital is way more convenient, not better, convenient. If digital was better marketing wouldn't compare it to analog they would simply show it. Digital technologies have never been strong because they were good, they always caught up because they were convenient but professionnal will drop convenience really fast if it can produce better results. Think high end studio recording, we stuck to analog reels for very long until digital finally became so good that we could embrace its convenience but not at the expense of quality, not even 5 years ago spliccing was still common in studio. Therefore I don't think 35mm is dying, as much as vinyls aren't dead, they're just hidden from "normal people"(
The article doesn't say if the database has it's entry linked to people or store and that is the information I wanted. If they contain people name and infos I'm against it, their suppliers can buy an access to the database and that alone scares me about it. If their database simply is linked to a store then it becomes a really good idea with a lot of practical uses and none of the big brother scare.
However the important point in the article isn't the database, it's the fact that a company is becomming big NOT by becomming cheaper but by becomming better and that alone should be a lesson to many capitalist out there.
Not really sadly, that's what I thought at first but it seems it's just about using the nanotube electrical properties. The chip is the same size but the conductive element will be nanotubes, which is still a great thing since it offers no resistance (almost) to electrical current. Obvisouly the purpose of their research is further miniaturization but as of now, in this research, they still work with conventionnal size chips.