>> I'm not sure why this is a troll, this guy is expressing a form of admiration.
Because he's not actually answering the poster's question and instead using it as a platform for his own drivel.
I read the original reports about that tribe. They came out of the jungle to let rescuers know they were fine. They simply followed nature like they've always done.
You've ID'd the main problem with MMOG's today: having to pay upfront for a subscription based game.
Basically what's happening is the same thing music fans are sick of -- having to pay the middle man. The game publishers put the money upfront for the development costs of the game which they recoup and hope to make a profit from the initial retail sale of the game. Blizzard in turn makes their money from the monthly subscription fee.
This is why you can't transfer the game.
>>Stop putting all evil on Bill's shoulders.
Actually it should be there. Gates, being the richest man in the world in charge of the biggest technology company in the world is in the unique position and power to influence many other sectors of the economy. This also makes him a role model. So yes the evil does rest on his shoulders just as mistakes in government are placed on the President's shoulder's even when its actually the House, Senate, Generals, or all a mix of them all really responsible.
Also you're setting a strawman arguement. In this instance Gates is clearly being unethical and shows how eccentric he's getting. Bottom line his company should have been actually punished when found guilty of monopolistic practices by breaking it into pieces like Standard Oil was. But it wasn't, it just got a wrist slap showing us how corrupt our government has become because it wants his money. -- That's how powerful Gates is - he influences and bullies governments.
face it MS's recent craze of Patents is their effort to stamp out any other operating systems and soon to be hardware. The PC makers that drool over the Windows OS as their os of choice should have saw the writing on the wall when MS released the xbox. All MS has to do now is make their own Windows Media Center computer and their total monopoly will be complete - oh wait! they have its called the XBOX-2!
They should have been busted up into many pieces when they were found guilty of monopoly but too many in politics had stock in them.
eh, neither one really. Some of us just like to debate/argue. That's the common denominator that atheists and fundys have is they both have an interest in religion and they both love to fight about it.
Doesn't make either one a "nut" its just another social method we humans have.
1) it runs from root
2) users of it are dumbed down intentionally by MS for "ease of use". which as a result leads to...
3) 3rd party programs users from no. 2 don't know what to install and not install so they click ad pop-ups which install spy ware, adware, and other annoying things which slow their rig down and otherwise cripple their system.
Basically it comes down to pure ignorance on the users behalf, MS isn't 100% to blame, they can be blamed for making it run from root and encouraging users to be stupid to how computers work by making things "easier" but not everything.
>>I think the only true way to escape it is to get the artists to migrate away from the labels.
Not gonna happen - ever. The labels provide money for new music equipment, money up front for them to make their music, money for sound editors and recorders, money for promotions etc etc. Getting recognized and contracted with a label or agent is the goal of every musician just like it is a high school and college football player to get recognized by a recruiter.
>>To confuse the two meanings deliberately in a children's textbook, as this does, is a deliberate lie.
Finally! Another person that understands this fact. What a travesty that an education board mucked around with the use of that word. They were basically useing the word to mean "hypotheses" when in fact evolution is no longer a "hypotheses" it is a theory (the closest biological science will come to saying something is a fact).
In the vernacular it would be accurate to say: "Evolution is a fact, the juries still out on HOW it occurs."
The scientific way is to say: "Evolution is a theory with many hypotheses and some theories as to how it occurs."
Both mean the same thing but to those too stubborn to pick up a dictionary they appear to be quite different.
licencing hardware like software must be fought at any and all levels before it becomes a standard. That's what Apple (and M$ XBox for that matter) are saying is "give us money for the privelage of using this hardware for what we tell you to and only what we tell you to".
What this amounts to is a type of rental that has no return. You're just paying for the privelage. If companies want to continue with this type of practice then they should be forced to admit that they are merely a rental, change "purchase price" to "deposit" and have an end to the rental period when the user gets their deposit back. In the case of the iPod Apple only wants it to be used for iTunes drm music so it shouldn't be hard at all to prove the case to the court that the iPod should be treated as a rental device as long as they keep users locked out since they don't truely have freedom of ownership.
The whole concept of ownership is getting lost if it hasn't already.
>>if anyone can just set their tivo, and spend 5 minutes a week burning it to dvd, the studios may take issues with that.
Do you not understand how M$ technology works? What will happen next is in order to burn to dvd you'll be prompted for an additional fee and it will be DRM'd.
After the success of that I don't doubt it if in order to watch a program even that you've recorded that in order to use the fastforeward button or commercial skip you'll have to pay a fee as well.
And the STUPID thing is people WILL pay it cuz they've been so Pavlovian trained.
Oh come on! It's also just a freaking hobby man. How many of the new people in the media industry today got there thanks to learning to computer copy tv shows and edit out commercials of their favorite ones and so on? Probably every single one of them!
Maybe I'm completely naive but what I used to d/load was Enterprise and the last season of Roswell because my cable company (Warner/AOL) doesn't have UPN!
I d/loaded the occassional movie but they were always cheaply made, didn't keep me from seeing it in the theatre or dvd rental still and were just cool to see as a hobby especially when you see those asian language subtitles and stuff and occassional munching of the cameramans popcorn it was funny. I'm also convinced that some of them were intentionally distributed on the net by the production company as free advertising to generate hype for it.
I dunno know, maybe I'm a rare case but I was at the movies yesterday and it was packed, not a seat left in the house so I don't see a dent in the movie business due to file sharing at all. If anything there profits are UP especially when you consider they make us sit through freaking commercials now instead of the good ole fashioned cartoon before the movies like the old days and yet our ticket prices keep going up.
But as usual the media industry will fight new technology instead of grasping it and using it to their advantage.
we're sick of the idiot box preaching at us. The 'net is interactive and we have more choices. Plus we do socialize on the net in email, IM's, online games (mmorg types) and so on.
Awesome! Just what the granola nuts and tree huggers have always wanted - the possible destruction of the human race! They should be rejoicing in the streets! Now they won't have to be hypocrits by driving the very cars they complain we shouldn't drive and live in the very wood houses from trees they say shouldn't be cut down!
why would one need to run 5 operating systems at once? All an O/S does is tell the hardware what to do. The actual software should be agnostic IMO and unless I'm wrong is why good old C is still such a strong and popular language.
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as if commercials in the movie theatre weren't bad enough!
>> I'm not sure why this is a troll, this guy is expressing a form of admiration. Because he's not actually answering the poster's question and instead using it as a platform for his own drivel.
Some mmorg's might work for you. EverQuest has the ability to use a voice program even.
I read the original reports about that tribe. They came out of the jungle to let rescuers know they were fine. They simply followed nature like they've always done.
You've ID'd the main problem with MMOG's today: having to pay upfront for a subscription based game. Basically what's happening is the same thing music fans are sick of -- having to pay the middle man. The game publishers put the money upfront for the development costs of the game which they recoup and hope to make a profit from the initial retail sale of the game. Blizzard in turn makes their money from the monthly subscription fee. This is why you can't transfer the game.
>>Stop putting all evil on Bill's shoulders. Actually it should be there. Gates, being the richest man in the world in charge of the biggest technology company in the world is in the unique position and power to influence many other sectors of the economy. This also makes him a role model. So yes the evil does rest on his shoulders just as mistakes in government are placed on the President's shoulder's even when its actually the House, Senate, Generals, or all a mix of them all really responsible. Also you're setting a strawman arguement. In this instance Gates is clearly being unethical and shows how eccentric he's getting. Bottom line his company should have been actually punished when found guilty of monopolistic practices by breaking it into pieces like Standard Oil was. But it wasn't, it just got a wrist slap showing us how corrupt our government has become because it wants his money. -- That's how powerful Gates is - he influences and bullies governments.
face it MS's recent craze of Patents is their effort to stamp out any other operating systems and soon to be hardware. The PC makers that drool over the Windows OS as their os of choice should have saw the writing on the wall when MS released the xbox. All MS has to do now is make their own Windows Media Center computer and their total monopoly will be complete - oh wait! they have its called the XBOX-2! They should have been busted up into many pieces when they were found guilty of monopoly but too many in politics had stock in them.
good now they just need to start denying m$'s stupid patents.
eh, neither one really. Some of us just like to debate/argue. That's the common denominator that atheists and fundys have is they both have an interest in religion and they both love to fight about it.
Doesn't make either one a "nut" its just another social method we humans have.
1) it runs from root 2) users of it are dumbed down intentionally by MS for "ease of use". which as a result leads to... 3) 3rd party programs users from no. 2 don't know what to install and not install so they click ad pop-ups which install spy ware, adware, and other annoying things which slow their rig down and otherwise cripple their system. Basically it comes down to pure ignorance on the users behalf, MS isn't 100% to blame, they can be blamed for making it run from root and encouraging users to be stupid to how computers work by making things "easier" but not everything.
cuz unless its actually walmart store shelves it introduces no one new to Linux it's just another place for ug geeks to buy a *nix box from.
>>I think the only true way to escape it is to get the artists to migrate away from the labels. Not gonna happen - ever. The labels provide money for new music equipment, money up front for them to make their music, money for sound editors and recorders, money for promotions etc etc. Getting recognized and contracted with a label or agent is the goal of every musician just like it is a high school and college football player to get recognized by a recruiter.
sounds like it still has some drm to it just it has the code on the server?
Looks like Sun's Project Looking Glass and what the next Windows will do doesn't it?
and we would believe them why????
>>To confuse the two meanings deliberately in a children's textbook, as this does, is a deliberate lie. Finally! Another person that understands this fact. What a travesty that an education board mucked around with the use of that word. They were basically useing the word to mean "hypotheses" when in fact evolution is no longer a "hypotheses" it is a theory (the closest biological science will come to saying something is a fact). In the vernacular it would be accurate to say: "Evolution is a fact, the juries still out on HOW it occurs." The scientific way is to say: "Evolution is a theory with many hypotheses and some theories as to how it occurs." Both mean the same thing but to those too stubborn to pick up a dictionary they appear to be quite different.
licencing hardware like software must be fought at any and all levels before it becomes a standard. That's what Apple (and M$ XBox for that matter) are saying is "give us money for the privelage of using this hardware for what we tell you to and only what we tell you to". What this amounts to is a type of rental that has no return. You're just paying for the privelage. If companies want to continue with this type of practice then they should be forced to admit that they are merely a rental, change "purchase price" to "deposit" and have an end to the rental period when the user gets their deposit back. In the case of the iPod Apple only wants it to be used for iTunes drm music so it shouldn't be hard at all to prove the case to the court that the iPod should be treated as a rental device as long as they keep users locked out since they don't truely have freedom of ownership. The whole concept of ownership is getting lost if it hasn't already.
get stolen too. But I salute them in the spirit of ingenuity anyway.
>>if anyone can just set their tivo, and spend 5 minutes a week burning it to dvd, the studios may take issues with that. Do you not understand how M$ technology works? What will happen next is in order to burn to dvd you'll be prompted for an additional fee and it will be DRM'd. After the success of that I don't doubt it if in order to watch a program even that you've recorded that in order to use the fastforeward button or commercial skip you'll have to pay a fee as well. And the STUPID thing is people WILL pay it cuz they've been so Pavlovian trained.
Oh come on! It's also just a freaking hobby man. How many of the new people in the media industry today got there thanks to learning to computer copy tv shows and edit out commercials of their favorite ones and so on? Probably every single one of them! Maybe I'm completely naive but what I used to d/load was Enterprise and the last season of Roswell because my cable company (Warner/AOL) doesn't have UPN! I d/loaded the occassional movie but they were always cheaply made, didn't keep me from seeing it in the theatre or dvd rental still and were just cool to see as a hobby especially when you see those asian language subtitles and stuff and occassional munching of the cameramans popcorn it was funny. I'm also convinced that some of them were intentionally distributed on the net by the production company as free advertising to generate hype for it. I dunno know, maybe I'm a rare case but I was at the movies yesterday and it was packed, not a seat left in the house so I don't see a dent in the movie business due to file sharing at all. If anything there profits are UP especially when you consider they make us sit through freaking commercials now instead of the good ole fashioned cartoon before the movies like the old days and yet our ticket prices keep going up. But as usual the media industry will fight new technology instead of grasping it and using it to their advantage.
we're sick of the idiot box preaching at us. The 'net is interactive and we have more choices. Plus we do socialize on the net in email, IM's, online games (mmorg types) and so on.
in pieces....
Awesome! Just what the granola nuts and tree huggers have always wanted - the possible destruction of the human race! They should be rejoicing in the streets! Now they won't have to be hypocrits by driving the very cars they complain we shouldn't drive and live in the very wood houses from trees they say shouldn't be cut down!
tongue in cheek of course.
why would one need to run 5 operating systems at once? All an O/S does is tell the hardware what to do. The actual software should be agnostic IMO and unless I'm wrong is why good old C is still such a strong and popular language.
Perhaps I misunderstand though, let me know.
Rob
the fundy's push for more power and control once again.