Even if something results in a gain for someone, if they feel it's a nuisance, it's a nuisance.
At this point it probably doesn't make much of a difference, as you have to jump through hoops to get it running. In a few years, now...we'll have to wait and see.
Stopping someone from cracking this sort of thing by strengthening the protection won't work simply because of the number of skillful people hammering at it. I expect more of a shift towards nailing the people who crack it and tell others how to the wall.
...why an officially atheistic government would try to ban pornography. What thought process are they going through to determine that it's wrong, even criminal? It seems to me that they'd want to allow it and then use censorship in other countries as an example to their citizens of "how well off they are". Not that there's too much censorship of it in Western countries, but hey, it's China; they could just make it up.
New Hampshire's an oddity then, though a fairly nice one in this case. Those things are universal where I've been, either by law or by consensus. To clear up a couple of things:
"5. You want to pay for anything with a check or credit card (and places that sell expensive items don't always accept cash!). Is a credit card or a check an ID card, or an electronic money payment system?"
I wasn't referring to the card or check as an ID. I've always been required to show ID when using them.
"8. You want to get an ID (Yes, really, even if this isn't exactly what the law says. I've been through this). I guess I don't understand what you're saying here. I don't want an ID card!"
There are situations where you have to show a government-issued ID in order to get a government-issued ID, like when you move to another state. Usually you can prepare for this (ie, have your old ID ready). When a pair of Mexican gangsters obtain your old ID before you get the new one, however...weird shit goes down.
"1. True, you must register, though you only need to present ID if you have provided reasonable suspicion first"
That may be the law, but I've met law enforcement officials who disagree.
"4. Absolutely false. Your bank might make you present ID, for their own protection. So go to another bank, or to your mother/brother/uncle/neighbor/boss/etc. and have them cash your check. I have *never* presented ID to cash a check in my life."
Even people who know me ask for my ID, and claim that it's necessary.
"5. Retailers are not required to ask for ID, they're just liable for charges made without authorization, as they should be. Are you suggesting that retailer's don't have the right to require the card user to convince them of the user's authority with resepect to the card? Are you going to cover the credit card fraud chargebacks?"
This wasn't so much something I disagreed with as one of the best examples of how much we rely on ID now. I'm more annoyed by the fact that some businesses DON'T TAKE CASH.
"6. Are you suggesting that schools aren't authorized to know who attends? They'll just take you're word that you're Bingles Bobenheim and leave it at that? How exactly is the registrar supposed to keep records if they can't identify you? They could, in theory, set up an internal-only ID system that links you with a non-name identifier, but then how would you recover your identity if you lost the card they issued, and how would the school verify your test scores, or employers verify your attendance?"
Both colleges I went to had a system like that in addition to requiring a gov't-issued ID. Recovering the school ID required showing another ID (gov't-issued or otherwise). There was a procedure they had in case you didn't have one, but I never had to deal with it.
"7. Absolutely false. You must show proof-of-age. Is there a cheap and widely trusted system to prove age but not identity, not that I'm aware, but the requirement is for age not identity."
Perhaps that's what the law technically says, but that's not what the store-owners,signs, and law enforcement officials say.
"8. Also false. You need a certified birth certifcate and a social security card to get a state-issued ID, at least in IA and WI. Neither of those is proof of identity. Think back to when you got your first driver's license -- what documents did you present?"
My first driver's license required, in addition to the two things you listed, a parent/guardian with a state-issued ID and record of school attendance (dropouts here can't get a license until they're 18).
Once you're 18, the rules change and it's a bit more of a pain in the ass if you don't already have an ID. Proof of address and an "approved" ID are added to the list. The latter's a bit hard to get if you don't have an old ID and aren't going to school.
No, I'm referring to a Government-issued ID. In fact, many of them (ie, getting on an airplane, opening a bank account) require two IDs and one of them must be a Government-issued ID.
How much could someone make selling those, though? Especially when there are hobbyists cloning them and giving them away for free. As you said, development time is very short for simple games.
If you want to do anything more than odd jobs around the neighborhood, then yes, you do. And if you do find someone who will employ you without checking, good luck cashing that paycheck.
While games on cell phones are alright as timewasters, I don't see any way that they're superior to the games kids write on their TI-83s when they get bored in high school. Anyone who wanted a really good portable game would probably buy a handheld device made specifically for that. Why would anyone think that there would be a big market here? I'd expect some hobbyist developer communities, but people actually trying to make big money off of it?
At this point in the US, ID cards are mandatory if:
1. You want to drive. 2. You want to travel on an airplane (and most inter-city bus systems say you have to show one when asked, though they don't usually check). 3. You want to buy a firearm or ammunition (in most states). 4. You want to cash a check (read: get paid). 5. You want to pay for anything with a check or credit card (and places that sell expensive items don't always accept cash!). 6. You want to enroll in school. 7. You want to buy cigarettes or alcohol. 8. You want to get an ID (Yes, really, even if this isn't exactly what the law says. I've been through this).
I'm not sure if it's legal or not (I don't know of any law prohibiting it), but artificially limiting the ability of a technology in order to make a competitor look bad is, as far as I'm concerned, a jackass thing to do. If my monitor began to only work properly, regardless of having correct drivers, when I used a particular operating system, I'd be pretty pissed.
Would my not liking it do anything about it? Probably not. Most people only see what works and what doesn't and aren't interested in why, but I'd still refuse to buy from the vendor at fault out of principle/spite (is there usually even a difference?).
Of course, a person running a flame site probably isn't going to get the corporation's full attention. He'll get an occasional C&D letter that the company's lawyers send on the off chance that it'll spook him, but they (usually) aren't going to put a significant portion of their resources into pursuing it.
It's all about how important the case is to the corporation, and how much they think it'll cost them.
I still give a thumbs up to the people who don't give in to half-assed C&D letters, but they shouldn't delude themselves into thinking that it's the same as taking on a corporation's full legal team in court...Individuals who do that generally get buried, unfortunately.
From what I understand, the majority of the forms of Judaism are mandatory and can't be added to or altered without making a faction "non-Jewish". I wasn't talking about open-ness in relation to people, but in related to standards; remember what the post was joking about.
1. It has a kernel (belief in Jesus and God) and you can put different forms on top of that (barring a few that go against the license), leading to different branches and forks.
2. Most of its followers are friendly, though there are a few loud zealots who give the rest a bad name.
3. It sprouted from an older, less "open", religion, many of the followers of which are still around today.
In that hypothetical situation, those rebelling wouldn't have to actually defeat the military, law enforcement, et cetera. They would just have to give the government a choice between giving in or killing millions of its own citizens. Even if every politician in DC had no moral qualms about it, doing so would set the country back decades and probably spark international conflict as well.
Not to mention a huge portion (likely the majority) of the military and law enforcement would already be on the side of the rebels.
The computer I'm on at the moment is a 750 Mhz Duron with 320 MB of RAM, and the Linux version of Open Office is running at a nice rate...even when it's sharing resources with Firefox, X-Chat, and Gaim.
I've tried it on a coppermine celeron similar to the one in your post, and it still runs at a usable rate.
The abortion clinic bombers believe that innocent lives are being destroyed, and that the abortionists are murderers, not because it "offends them". The people going into a frenzy over the cartoons are performing acts of violence simply because they feel they've been insulted.
Just how important is it that you have broadband? I know some jobs just about require it, but if it's mostly an entertainment thing, I'd drop it in a second if my ISP pulled that crap.
Better a slow horse that goes where you lead than a charger that'll throw and trample you.
He released it as an open source project. He can't do anything about people modding it any more than Linus Torvalds could do anything about someone modding the Linux kernel--not that he would.
However, also like LT and most other major project figureheads, he holds a certain amount of political sway. His disapproval may be enough to keep some developers from pursuing certain paths. Of course, not everyone will care about what he thinks, but he does have SOME power.
If products that have been in Beta for forever are classified as vaporware, WINE deserves at least an honorable mention. How long has it been in Alpha now?;)
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I don't think Intel chips below the Pentium 4 have SSE2.
Even if something results in a gain for someone, if they feel it's a nuisance, it's a nuisance.
At this point it probably doesn't make much of a difference, as you have to jump through hoops to get it running. In a few years, now...we'll have to wait and see.
Stopping someone from cracking this sort of thing by strengthening the protection won't work simply because of the number of skillful people hammering at it. I expect more of a shift towards nailing the people who crack it and tell others how to the wall.
...why an officially atheistic government would try to ban pornography. What thought process are they going through to determine that it's wrong, even criminal? It seems to me that they'd want to allow it and then use censorship in other countries as an example to their citizens of "how well off they are". Not that there's too much censorship of it in Western countries, but hey, it's China; they could just make it up.
New Hampshire's an oddity then, though a fairly nice one in this case. Those things are universal where I've been, either by law or by consensus. To clear up a couple of things:
"5. You want to pay for anything with a check or credit card (and places that sell expensive items don't always accept cash!).
Is a credit card or a check an ID card, or an electronic money payment system?"
I wasn't referring to the card or check as an ID. I've always been required to show ID when using them.
"8. You want to get an ID (Yes, really, even if this isn't exactly what the law says. I've been through this).
I guess I don't understand what you're saying here. I don't want an ID card!"
There are situations where you have to show a government-issued ID in order to get a government-issued ID, like when you move to another state. Usually you can prepare for this (ie, have your old ID ready). When a pair of Mexican gangsters obtain your old ID before you get the new one, however...weird shit goes down.
"1. True, you must register, though you only need to present ID if you have provided reasonable suspicion first"
That may be the law, but I've met law enforcement officials who disagree.
"4. Absolutely false. Your bank might make you present ID, for their own protection. So go to another bank, or to your mother/brother/uncle/neighbor/boss/etc. and have them cash your check. I have *never* presented ID to cash a check in my life."
Even people who know me ask for my ID, and claim that it's necessary.
"5. Retailers are not required to ask for ID, they're just liable for charges made without authorization, as they should be. Are you suggesting that retailer's don't have the right to require the card user to convince them of the user's authority with resepect to the card? Are you going to cover the credit card fraud chargebacks?"
This wasn't so much something I disagreed with as one of the best examples of how much we rely on ID now. I'm more annoyed by the fact that some businesses DON'T TAKE CASH.
"6. Are you suggesting that schools aren't authorized to know who attends? They'll just take you're word that you're Bingles Bobenheim and leave it at that? How exactly is the registrar supposed to keep records if they can't identify you? They could, in theory, set up an internal-only ID system that links you with a non-name identifier, but then how would you recover your identity if you lost the card they issued, and how would the school verify your test scores, or employers verify your attendance?"
Both colleges I went to had a system like that in addition to requiring a gov't-issued ID. Recovering the school ID required showing another ID (gov't-issued or otherwise). There was a procedure they had in case you didn't have one, but I never had to deal with it.
"7. Absolutely false. You must show proof-of-age. Is there a cheap and widely trusted system to prove age but not identity, not that I'm aware, but the requirement is for age not identity."
Perhaps that's what the law technically says, but that's not what the store-owners,signs, and law enforcement officials say.
"8. Also false. You need a certified birth certifcate and a social security card to get a state-issued ID, at least in IA and WI. Neither of those is proof of identity. Think back to when you got your first driver's license -- what documents did you present?"
My first driver's license required, in addition to the two things you listed, a parent/guardian with a state-issued ID and record of school attendance (dropouts here can't get a license until they're 18).
Once you're 18, the rules change and it's a bit more of a pain in the ass if you don't already have an ID. Proof of address and an "approved" ID are added to the list. The latter's a bit hard to get if you don't have an old ID and aren't going to school.
No, I'm referring to a Government-issued ID. In fact, many of them (ie, getting on an airplane, opening a bank account) require two IDs and one of them must be a Government-issued ID.
If someone is walking up to me and picks up a crowbar along the way, am I supposed to wait until they start swinging it to get defensive?
How much could someone make selling those, though? Especially when there are hobbyists cloning them and giving them away for free. As you said, development time is very short for simple games.
"You don't need an ID card to get a job"
If you want to do anything more than odd jobs around the neighborhood, then yes, you do. And if you do find someone who will employ you without checking, good luck cashing that paycheck.
While games on cell phones are alright as timewasters, I don't see any way that they're superior to the games kids write on their TI-83s when they get bored in high school. Anyone who wanted a really good portable game would probably buy a handheld device made specifically for that. Why would anyone think that there would be a big market here? I'd expect some hobbyist developer communities, but people actually trying to make big money off of it?
At this point in the US, ID cards are mandatory if:
1. You want to drive.
2. You want to travel on an airplane (and most inter-city bus systems say you have to show one when asked, though they don't usually check).
3. You want to buy a firearm or ammunition (in most states).
4. You want to cash a check (read: get paid).
5. You want to pay for anything with a check or credit card (and places that sell expensive items don't always accept cash!).
6. You want to enroll in school.
7. You want to buy cigarettes or alcohol.
8. You want to get an ID (Yes, really, even if this isn't exactly what the law says. I've been through this).
I'd say that's pretty damn compulsory.
I'm not sure if it's legal or not (I don't know of any law prohibiting it), but artificially limiting the ability of a technology in order to make a competitor look bad is, as far as I'm concerned, a jackass thing to do. If my monitor began to only work properly, regardless of having correct drivers, when I used a particular operating system, I'd be pretty pissed.
Would my not liking it do anything about it? Probably not. Most people only see what works and what doesn't and aren't interested in why, but I'd still refuse to buy from the vendor at fault out of principle/spite (is there usually even a difference?).
Of course, a person running a flame site probably isn't going to get the corporation's full attention. He'll get an occasional C&D letter that the company's lawyers send on the off chance that it'll spook him, but they (usually) aren't going to put a significant portion of their resources into pursuing it.
It's all about how important the case is to the corporation, and how much they think it'll cost them.
I still give a thumbs up to the people who don't give in to half-assed C&D letters, but they shouldn't delude themselves into thinking that it's the same as taking on a corporation's full legal team in court...Individuals who do that generally get buried, unfortunately.
From what I understand, the majority of the forms of Judaism are mandatory and can't be added to or altered without making a faction "non-Jewish". I wasn't talking about open-ness in relation to people, but in related to standards; remember what the post was joking about.
If anything, Christianity is more like Linux:
1. It has a kernel (belief in Jesus and God) and you can put different forms on top of that (barring a few that go against the license), leading to different branches and forks.
2. Most of its followers are friendly, though there are a few loud zealots who give the rest a bad name.
3. It sprouted from an older, less "open", religion, many of the followers of which are still around today.
In that hypothetical situation, those rebelling wouldn't have to actually defeat the military, law enforcement, et cetera. They would just have to give the government a choice between giving in or killing millions of its own citizens. Even if every politician in DC had no moral qualms about it, doing so would set the country back decades and probably spark international conflict as well.
Not to mention a huge portion (likely the majority) of the military and law enforcement would already be on the side of the rebels.
The computer I'm on at the moment is a 750 Mhz Duron with 320 MB of RAM, and the Linux version of Open Office is running at a nice rate...even when it's sharing resources with Firefox, X-Chat, and Gaim.
I've tried it on a coppermine celeron similar to the one in your post, and it still runs at a usable rate.
The abortion clinic bombers believe that innocent lives are being destroyed, and that the abortionists are murderers, not because it "offends them". The people going into a frenzy over the cartoons are performing acts of violence simply because they feel they've been insulted.
There's no comparison there.
Just how important is it that you have broadband? I know some jobs just about require it, but if it's mostly an entertainment thing, I'd drop it in a second if my ISP pulled that crap.
Better a slow horse that goes where you lead than a charger that'll throw and trample you.
He released it as an open source project. He can't do anything about people modding it any more than Linus Torvalds could do anything about someone modding the Linux kernel--not that he would.
However, also like LT and most other major project figureheads, he holds a certain amount of political sway. His disapproval may be enough to keep some developers from pursuing certain paths. Of course, not everyone will care about what he thinks, but he does have SOME power.
If products that have been in Beta for forever are classified as vaporware, WINE deserves at least an honorable mention. How long has it been in Alpha now? ;)
(yes, I know it's often useful nonethess, but...)
!Xabbu and his girlfriend finally got out of Otherland and into business. ;)
More seriously, if it works the way !Xabbu's was in the book, it could actually be educational.
To do the Heart of Darkness quest. Willing to split silver that the yellow cons and up drop.
The Government has rented hundreds of these.
Possibly, the reason it didn't hit so hard was the fact that it was so hyped.
If someone warns me that I'm about to get hit by a car, and I move and avoid being hit, I wouldn't say that there was nothing to be worried about.