...since even the slightest right that TSG may have originally possessed, however indirectly, they've completely trashed through their actions. Doctrine of "dirty hands" etc.
They're regarded as "primitive" because they're found fossilised in the lowest layers, but they have an enormous range and several advanced features not possessed by their peers. If we replaced our current crop of bottom-dwelling scum-suckers with trilobites, I reckon we'd be way ahead of the game. (-:
...but OTOH I don't sell MS mice except on demand anyway. The AOpen O-35G mice are cheaper, lighter, have an extra wheel and have been at least as reliable for me as the MS opticals. I guess the MS optical mice I've used in the field have been different models to yours or something, because it's not been a problem for me. I've installed with a variety of opticals including a $23 micro-mouse from Big-W (a Woolworths variant) and yukky Dexxa mice, and they all seem to work just fine. How many machines, how many different types of machine, have you seen the problem on?
...and no points left on their licence, and the objective of driving safely around the city from goal to goal while the rest of the traffic drives it like they stole it and tries to carjack them.
And, considering the illiteracy rate in prison, books just aren't gonna cut it.
The obvious first step, then, would be to do something about illiteracy. And I'm not talking about boring traditional lessons even though they would be better than nothing.
Sitting them in front of television is much worse than useless (Anton LaVey, founder of Satanism, wrote "Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (chapters and verses). It doesn't matter what is flashing on the screen - all that's important is that the TV stays on".
After noticing that, to let in an RPG that actively trains inmates to be violent thieves is just mind-blowingly dumb.
...the problem is that violent crime is a successful option in the game. It's teaching - reinforcing gently but over and over and over again - that "violent crime can get you stuff".
When David Birnie, serial killer along with his wife Catherine, was given a computer in prison to write up his life story as a warning to others, he promptly began turning out sick porn which bore an uncanny resemblance to the perversions and murders he and his wife had actually committed. It's not the computer's fault, but the computer certainly helped to propagate Birnie's lethal sickness rather than provide a catharsis or a useful warning. Nobody will be surprised that his computer was taken away again.
Given the proportion of inmates service time for violence and/or stealing, a game like GTA could most moderately be described as a bloody stupid choice for a prison. The console is not really a problem, although you could argue with some justification that part of the intent of imprisoning someone is to make the consequences of their crime unattractive to them and that the console is frustrating that intent. But given that the US Army is using first-person role-playing games as part of their troop training (and as a recruiting tool), it seems amazingly stupid to allow anything like GTA there. Any violent or destructive game hardly furthers any of the purposes of a prison, but the gobbledok who let GTA in needs his head read.
0. Profit! 1. Cause trouble for your enemies (in Microsoft's case, "everyone else") 2. Study the troubles at arms' length 3. Publish the most damaging set of results from those studies 4. Destroy "them" (see note for point 1) 5. Be the only competitor left standing 6. More profit! 7. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
...a shred of evidence that you'd done the comparison - - unless MS were proven guilty and the Shared Source licensee spoke up about it, in which case the doctrine of dirty hands would protect the licensee.
Microsoft couldn't successfully prosecute the licensee because they broke the law themselves with the item in question. OTOH, while that might stand in the way of the licensee themselves prosecuting Microsoft, others could then proceed themselves, sure in the knowledge that when discovery time came they'd be laughing. It'd even eclipse TSG's circus for a few days, maybe TSG's stock would tank because of that. (-:
There'd also be nothing to stop the licensee protecting their Shared Source access and avoiding offending Microsoft by shredding the source themselves and anonymously publishing it. Then anyone could do the comparison and point the finger. Any takers?
Here's a somewhat offbeat indirect reference (although I'm suspicious of the date, because a Committee report only a year later said "the substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced").
That gave me a name, Nicholas Wood, and this amusing-in-hindsight quote: "It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations of the enthusiastic specialists, that we shall see locomotives travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18 or 20 miles an hour; nothing could do more harm towards their adoption, or general improvement, than the promulgation of sich nonsense." From this expert opinion, it's possible to adduce that the cluelessness of the people was indeed legendary. "Enthusiast" in those days carried connotations akin to "zealot" or possibly even "madman". (-:
I'm a bit busy, else I'd dig out the paper version and key a chunk of it in for you.
I understood well what you were talking about. The House of Commons legislation was passed specifically because people would explode at speeds much above 15 miles per hour (reading between the lines, because too much air would be forced into their mouths) - or asphyxiate (because the slipstream would create a vacuum in their lungs) - go figure.
It was an improvement on the herald with the red flag.
...are doomed to misquote it, poorly. The limit imposed by the British House of Commons was 15 miles per hour.
Interesting discussion. Later articles enthuse about journalists carrying news about England at a steady 15 miles per hour, such that news happening in London on Monday might be read by even the most isolated Highlander by Friday.
...it might get TSG a seat at the trial, but it ain't in line to bleed them any damages. Not that TSG are exactly walking the line WRT mitigating their own damages. They'd have to get a thoroughly bought judge to get any damages at all after the buggerising around they've been doing so far.
...the only proven cure for AIDS is to abstain from having sex outside marriage. Church-based groups started working in Africa to teach people this (and to stop issues like AIDS-infected men raping young girls based on the idea that if you got it sleeping with an AIDS carrier you can lose it by sleeping with someone who's clean).
Guess what? The UN told them to stop because proselytising is an invasion of their rights. The drug companies (remember that Billy boy 0wnZ some of those too) began supplying their opponents - as a matter of simple business analysis: no AIDS == no customers - with various resources. Organisations promoting Atheism (some of them funded by Bill's mate Paul) threw their weight against these efforts as well.
Three strikes, you're outta there... if we can't have them, we'd rather that they died horribly and took others with them. Nice. Very philanthropic.
...profiting from those vaccinations - and probably everything else in sight - and if past history is any guide the vaccines will have viruses in them.
...since a prosecution of SGI would instantly turn into a reference to the IBM case and grind to a halt until 2005. TSG would probably do it for the publicity if they can't find anything else handy to pump their stock with. It seems to have been remarkably steady at USD$16 for the last 3 days.
"We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry," said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's Tokyo-based director for government affairs in Asia.
Hello? I think it just did. Hint: you're not among them. (-:
I asked our salesrep about this and he said that the BIOS on these demo machines was deliberately written to not run Linux due to some agreement with you-know-who.
That's innovation, not anticompetitiveness... you insensitive clod!
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...since even the slightest right that TSG may have originally possessed, however indirectly, they've completely trashed through their actions. Doctrine of "dirty hands" etc.
...TSG's threatened use of law to suppress every kernel developers' right to freely (price too) speak really does speak for itself.
...some meathead will invent a truly effective bioweapon, or discover a way to fuse nitrogen in quantity, or start a serious tsunami, or...
Feasible, even economical, but nobody wants to put up the gazillions of spondoolies needed to kick it off.
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Trilobites.
They're regarded as "primitive" because they're found fossilised in the lowest layers, but they have an enormous range and several advanced features not possessed by their peers. If we replaced our current crop of bottom-dwelling scum-suckers with trilobites, I reckon we'd be way ahead of the game. (-:
...but OTOH I don't sell MS mice except on demand anyway. The AOpen O-35G mice are cheaper, lighter, have an extra wheel and have been at least as reliable for me as the MS opticals. I guess the MS optical mice I've used in the field have been different models to yours or something, because it's not been a problem for me. I've installed with a variety of opticals including a $23 micro-mouse from Big-W (a Woolworths variant) and yukky Dexxa mice, and they all seem to work just fine. How many machines, how many different types of machine, have you seen the problem on?
...and no points left on their licence, and the objective of driving safely around the city from goal to goal while the rest of the traffic drives it like they stole it and tries to carjack them.
/ME wonders aloud how GTA is going to help with option 1.
/ME also wonders why we have to do one option at a time.
The obvious first step, then, would be to do something about illiteracy. And I'm not talking about boring traditional lessons even though they would be better than nothing.
Sitting them in front of television is much worse than useless (Anton LaVey, founder of Satanism, wrote "Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (chapters and verses). It doesn't matter what is flashing on the screen - all that's important is that the TV stays on".
After noticing that, to let in an RPG that actively trains inmates to be violent thieves is just mind-blowingly dumb.
...the problem is that violent crime is a successful option in the game. It's teaching - reinforcing gently but over and over and over again - that "violent crime can get you stuff".
When David Birnie, serial killer along with his wife Catherine, was given a computer in prison to write up his life story as a warning to others, he promptly began turning out sick porn which bore an uncanny resemblance to the perversions and murders he and his wife had actually committed. It's not the computer's fault, but the computer certainly helped to propagate Birnie's lethal sickness rather than provide a catharsis or a useful warning. Nobody will be surprised that his computer was taken away again.
Given the proportion of inmates service time for violence and/or stealing, a game like GTA could most moderately be described as a bloody stupid choice for a prison. The console is not really a problem, although you could argue with some justification that part of the intent of imprisoning someone is to make the consequences of their crime unattractive to them and that the console is frustrating that intent. But given that the US Army is using first-person role-playing games as part of their troop training (and as a recruiting tool), it seems amazingly stupid to allow anything like GTA there. Any violent or destructive game hardly furthers any of the purposes of a prison, but the gobbledok who let GTA in needs his head read.
BTW, posting this from Western Australia.
Obvious, when you think about it.
0. Profit!
1. Cause trouble for your enemies (in Microsoft's case, "everyone else")
2. Study the troubles at arms' length
3. Publish the most damaging set of results from those studies
4. Destroy "them" (see note for point 1)
5. Be the only competitor left standing
6. More profit!
7. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
...a shred of evidence that you'd done the comparison - - unless MS were proven guilty and the Shared Source licensee spoke up about it, in which case the doctrine of dirty hands would protect the licensee.
Microsoft couldn't successfully prosecute the licensee because they broke the law themselves with the item in question. OTOH, while that might stand in the way of the licensee themselves prosecuting Microsoft, others could then proceed themselves, sure in the knowledge that when discovery time came they'd be laughing. It'd even eclipse TSG's circus for a few days, maybe TSG's stock would tank because of that. (-:
There'd also be nothing to stop the licensee protecting their Shared Source access and avoiding offending Microsoft by shredding the source themselves and anonymously publishing it. Then anyone could do the comparison and point the finger. Any takers?
Here's a somewhat offbeat indirect reference (although I'm suspicious of the date, because a Committee report only a year later said "the substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced").
That gave me a name, Nicholas Wood, and this amusing-in-hindsight quote: "It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations of the enthusiastic specialists, that we shall see locomotives travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18 or 20 miles an hour; nothing could do more harm towards their adoption, or general improvement, than the promulgation of sich nonsense." From this expert opinion, it's possible to adduce that the cluelessness of the people was indeed legendary. "Enthusiast" in those days carried connotations akin to "zealot" or possibly even "madman". (-:
I'm a bit busy, else I'd dig out the paper version and key a chunk of it in for you.
I understood well what you were talking about. The House of Commons legislation was passed specifically because people would explode at speeds much above 15 miles per hour (reading between the lines, because too much air would be forced into their mouths) - or asphyxiate (because the slipstream would create a vacuum in their lungs) - go figure.
It was an improvement on the herald with the red flag.
Yah, in the future of some long-forgotten past. (-:
...are doomed to misquote it, poorly. The limit imposed by the British House of Commons was 15 miles per hour.
Interesting discussion. Later articles enthuse about journalists carrying news about England at a steady 15 miles per hour, such that news happening in London on Monday might be read by even the most isolated Highlander by Friday.
...it might get TSG a seat at the trial, but it ain't in line to bleed them any damages. Not that TSG are exactly walking the line WRT mitigating their own damages. They'd have to get a thoroughly bought judge to get any damages at all after the buggerising around they've been doing so far.
...the only proven cure for AIDS is to abstain from having sex outside marriage. Church-based groups started working in Africa to teach people this (and to stop issues like AIDS-infected men raping young girls based on the idea that if you got it sleeping with an AIDS carrier you can lose it by sleeping with someone who's clean).
Guess what? The UN told them to stop because proselytising is an invasion of their rights. The drug companies (remember that Billy boy 0wnZ some of those too) began supplying their opponents - as a matter of simple business analysis: no AIDS == no customers - with various resources. Organisations promoting Atheism (some of them funded by Bill's mate Paul) threw their weight against these efforts as well.
Three strikes, you're outta there... if we can't have them, we'd rather that they died horribly and took others with them. Nice. Very philanthropic.
...profiting from those vaccinations - and probably everything else in sight - and if past history is any guide the vaccines will have viruses in them.
...since a prosecution of SGI would instantly turn into a reference to the IBM case and grind to a halt until 2005. TSG would probably do it for the publicity if they can't find anything else handy to pump their stock with. It seems to have been remarkably steady at USD$16 for the last 3 days.
Hello? I think it just did. Hint: you're not among them. (-:
...SaMBa uses more memory but will handle more sessions on the same box.
That's innovation, not anticompetitiveness... you insensitive clod!
For printers, its called PostScript and the driver is called CUPS. The closest you'd get to a standard below that woulf be hp-PCL.