Being that the USA is a melting pot, we have been taught to respect the belief's and values of other cultures.
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The laws in other countries differ, you can marry as young as 14 and still be legal. Should we exempt someone dealing in kiddie porn just because their site is offshore? No! Of course not.
Does anyone else realize that halflife being as old as it is can still bring a top of the line machine to it's knees?
That's not my experience. My current gaming platform is an Athlon 1333 w/ GeForce 3 Ti200. Nice but hardly cutting edge. I play all the mods at 1600 x 1200, 32 bit colour, full textures. The max FPS is artificially limited to 97 as I don't see the point of going much above the monitor's 85 Hz refresh rate, and during the most intense on-line action with all the net graphs running it rarely dips below 96. Halflife didn't support resolutions greater than twelve by nine until the last patch. The graphics are still much cruder than MOHAA or RTCW.
Besides the development tools, I would say Halflife's greatest assest is that it's easy on the hardware. It makes for great on-line game play. In contrast I find Medal of Honour unplayable on-line. For me the best combination of responsiveness and graphic capability is RTCW. Now all it needs are mods.
Since you didn't bother to explain the first time, how are choice and competition bad? They're normally considered the core drives behind evolution and healthy capitalism.
....because there's nothing out there to compete with their desktop software.
In terms of useless features and annoying wizards, I totally agree. Ironically, a medium size company I do a fair amount of business with, to the tune of around a half-mil last year, just decided to drop MS Office for Open Office. Not only do they find the price of Office repugnant, they like Sun's product better.
And from a business perspective, lack of these things, particularly in a world economy dominated by post-industrial persuits that require human creativity and unfettered access to information, is the kiss of death.
Not to defend the government of China, but what about Singapore? They seem to be doing quite well with substantially less of these essential items than America.
Make you a deal, eliminate all the unfair legislation designed to destroy fair use and then we'll talk about repealing unfair legislation designed to protect fair use. Or are corporations the only entities entitled to legal protection?
If someone buys a surround sound stereo system it's because they want good sound while they watch movies.
A perfect example of where an ideal crashes against reality. Good sound requires some effort and knowledge. Properly setting up a surround system means learning where to place the speakers for imaging and balance. You can't get good sound without, at the very least, learning that these basics exist and paying a modicum of attention to them. These limitations are set by the physics of sound and there's absolutely nothing a marketing department can do other than lie about their importance. User freindliness has it's limitations in reality, at some point users can't be content to remain completely ignorant if they want to achieve their desires.
No, it's an indication of how far copyright abusers have moved the line. Libraries do what they've always done. It's also an indication of the frightening success of corporate brainwashing that some (not you in particular) argue the right of the few to make money supercedes learning for the less affluent.
I think you have it backwards, a good number of people who listen to music on their computers download mp3's. I'd wager the vast majority still use radios and personal portables. The Slashdot audience is a skewed sample.
What if you had no money, and your family and kids were starving to death?
It's not a comparable scenario. The Website Results founders wanted to know if you would trade a life for luxury goods. I suppose in their minds it was a measure of how "tough" you were, if, to use an expression of a former employer, you had "the eye of the tiger."
You're asking if it's morally sound to kill one in order to save others. From a purely utilitarian perpective, the correct thing to do is press the button. You would be saving lives, one man in trade for a family. There are other perpectives of course, for example the Judeo-Christian one that (ideally) forbids all killing. The point here is that Penna, Osborn and Smith lacked anything recognizable as morals and acted accordingly. The only real surprise is that they didn't kill anyone. I can only surmise thay weren't "tough" enough.
Highlight the text with the left mouse button, centre-click to place the selected text. It's been this way forever in X. Jumping between Windows at work and Linux at home on a daily basis, I find the X solution far quicker and more intuitive.
No reason? Well, I better remove the two servers I just installed that record the broadcast signals of three radio stations in MP3 form and make them network available by web browser. And maybe all the sound effects and music used by production.
Sometimes there is a reason to keep MP3's on the server.
100% agreement. It's something that I first noticed in the aftermath of the Savings and Loan scandal a couple decades ago. There are still people in prison from that time for using a gun to commit robbery without causing anyone bodily harm, yet the architects of the S&L scandal who destroyed the future of uncounted thousands have long finished serving their barbed-wire golf course sentences. This won't stop until the perpetrators are punished with real hard time and long (read: life) terms.
If record companies lose on 90% of their ventures, it's due to incompetent research and marketing. No one would accept this kind of excuse from other industries. Maybe it's time the cleared they ossified cruft from upper management.
Of course record companies, or anyone, need to pay to get their products placed!
The mechanism is already in place, you may have heard of it. It's called advertising. Bribes and graft are anti-competitive shortcuts, beneficial only to record companies and station owners, not the public who actually own the airwave spectrum.
A final aside, I'm so tired of posts that posture acquiesence in the face of dishonesty as "tough minded" or "realistic". It's defeatism, pure and simple.
Not where I live. Not a single person I know bought from Del, IBM, etc. unless it's a notebook. Everyone owns machines built for them in local independant shops, with a spattering of Macs here and there.
At work the corporate standard for a desktop is Compaq, but I refuse to buy them for the proprietary software we run. I don't know if Dell and IBM are similar, but the extra "features" such as bios control on the drive instead of a chip and what appear to be custom cuts of the OS with reams of useless junk almost assures the apps will break on a Compaq.
It matters because the knowledge is power. A political opponent who downloads porn or cheats on their spouse is vulnerable to that information and it can be used against them to get bills passed, look the other way in commitee hearings, decide a court case in a particular manner, etc.
Why stop at surveilance? Nothing in your argument suggests "they" shouldn't enter your house without warrant, investigate your financial dealings without cause, tail you all they please. Hell, as long as it's a qualified doctor why not random cavity searches? Some would even enjoy it and it's not too high a price in the War Against Terrorism.
Please buy a history book and find out exactly what happened whenever governments had this much power. I suggest the KGB as a good starting point.
I often buy from New Type, both personal and business. Great guys who always keep their word. When the wall behind the main counter is half covered with cooling devices, you know you're in the company of enthusiasts.
I presume the irony was unintended. You rant how people are being selfishly obtuse arguing that downloads don't hurt the record companies, then end the post with ".....I heard on the radio....." Compensating artists for air play is a relatively recent development in the history of radio. For decades prior the industry did exactly what you say should have caused the music industry fatal damage, shared their product for free. I think we'd both agree it didn't. Your argument states a case and then provides one of the most effective counter examples as an aside.
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Ever watch those appraisal shows on PBS or BBC? Tens of thousands of dollars for 19th century gradeschool needlepoint, thousands for 1930's tin toys, the list is much longer and far more frivolous. Value is created by a complex matrix of criteria and rarely reflects an object's utility. Is a quartet of stamps with an inverted bi-plane really worth that much? In this regard Trekkers are no worse than any other collectors.
You're kidding, right? I've seen players spend an afternoon shooting their team mates no matter how much verbal abuse and return fire they took. Once servers started booting after a set number of team kills, they used small arms fire to shave life points from their team. The point? Some people are just assholes and no amount of negative social stigma will ever work, because they thrive on it. The only assured solution is a technical one.
He's wrong. My bookmark file, migrated and appended from one system to the next for the last four years, weighs in under a whopping twenty kbytes. It's hard to imagine a still running system that could halt.
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Being that the USA is a melting pot, we have been taught to respect the belief's and values of other cultures.
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The laws in other countries differ, you can marry as young as 14 and still be legal. Should we exempt someone dealing in kiddie porn just because their site is offshore? No! Of course not.
sound contradictory to me.
Was your generalization about 7 billion non-Americans meant as irony? As a non-American, curious and annoying if it wasn't.
That's not my experience. My current gaming platform is an Athlon 1333 w/ GeForce 3 Ti200. Nice but hardly cutting edge. I play all the mods at 1600 x 1200, 32 bit colour, full textures. The max FPS is artificially limited to 97 as I don't see the point of going much above the monitor's 85 Hz refresh rate, and during the most intense on-line action with all the net graphs running it rarely dips below 96. Halflife didn't support resolutions greater than twelve by nine until the last patch. The graphics are still much cruder than MOHAA or RTCW.
Besides the development tools, I would say Halflife's greatest assest is that it's easy on the hardware. It makes for great on-line game play. In contrast I find Medal of Honour unplayable on-line. For me the best combination of responsiveness and graphic capability is RTCW. Now all it needs are mods.
Since you didn't bother to explain the first time, how are choice and competition bad? They're normally considered the core drives behind evolution and healthy capitalism.
In terms of useless features and annoying wizards, I totally agree. Ironically, a medium size company I do a fair amount of business with, to the tune of around a half-mil last year, just decided to drop MS Office for Open Office. Not only do they find the price of Office repugnant, they like Sun's product better.
Not to defend the government of China, but what about Singapore? They seem to be doing quite well with substantially less of these essential items than America.
Make you a deal, eliminate all the unfair legislation designed to destroy fair use and then we'll talk about repealing unfair legislation designed to protect fair use. Or are corporations the only entities entitled to legal protection?
A perfect example of where an ideal crashes against reality. Good sound requires some effort and knowledge. Properly setting up a surround system means learning where to place the speakers for imaging and balance. You can't get good sound without, at the very least, learning that these basics exist and paying a modicum of attention to them. These limitations are set by the physics of sound and there's absolutely nothing a marketing department can do other than lie about their importance. User freindliness has it's limitations in reality, at some point users can't be content to remain completely ignorant if they want to achieve their desires.
No, it's an indication of how far copyright abusers have moved the line. Libraries do what they've always done. It's also an indication of the frightening success of corporate brainwashing that some (not you in particular) argue the right of the few to make money supercedes learning for the less affluent.
I think you have it backwards, a good number of people who listen to music on their computers download mp3's. I'd wager the vast majority still use radios and personal portables. The Slashdot audience is a skewed sample.
It's not a comparable scenario. The Website Results founders wanted to know if you would trade a life for luxury goods. I suppose in their minds it was a measure of how "tough" you were, if, to use an expression of a former employer, you had "the eye of the tiger."
You're asking if it's morally sound to kill one in order to save others. From a purely utilitarian perpective, the correct thing to do is press the button. You would be saving lives, one man in trade for a family. There are other perpectives of course, for example the Judeo-Christian one that (ideally) forbids all killing. The point here is that Penna, Osborn and Smith lacked anything recognizable as morals and acted accordingly. The only real surprise is that they didn't kill anyone. I can only surmise thay weren't "tough" enough.
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Doesn't exactly sound like a ready for the desktop product to me.
Highlight the text with the left mouse button, centre-click to place the selected text. It's been this way forever in X. Jumping between Windows at work and Linux at home on a daily basis, I find the X solution far quicker and more intuitive.
Sometimes there is a reason to keep MP3's on the server.
100% agreement. It's something that I first noticed in the aftermath of the Savings and Loan scandal a couple decades ago. There are still people in prison from that time for using a gun to commit robbery without causing anyone bodily harm, yet the architects of the S&L scandal who destroyed the future of uncounted thousands have long finished serving their barbed-wire golf course sentences. This won't stop until the perpetrators are punished with real hard time and long (read: life) terms.
Of course record companies, or anyone, need to pay to get their products placed!
The mechanism is already in place, you may have heard of it. It's called advertising. Bribes and graft are anti-competitive shortcuts, beneficial only to record companies and station owners, not the public who actually own the airwave spectrum.
A final aside, I'm so tired of posts that posture acquiesence in the face of dishonesty as "tough minded" or "realistic". It's defeatism, pure and simple.
Some times I wonder if university psyche majors troll this forum gathering material for their research papers. No one could naturally be this obtuse.
At work the corporate standard for a desktop is Compaq, but I refuse to buy them for the proprietary software we run. I don't know if Dell and IBM are similar, but the extra "features" such as bios control on the drive instead of a chip and what appear to be custom cuts of the OS with reams of useless junk almost assures the apps will break on a Compaq.
Why stop at surveilance? Nothing in your argument suggests "they" shouldn't enter your house without warrant, investigate your financial dealings without cause, tail you all they please. Hell, as long as it's a qualified doctor why not random cavity searches? Some would even enjoy it and it's not too high a price in the War Against Terrorism.
Please buy a history book and find out exactly what happened whenever governments had this much power. I suggest the KGB as a good starting point.
I often buy from New Type, both personal and business. Great guys who always keep their word. When the wall behind the main counter is half covered with cooling devices, you know you're in the company of enthusiasts.
I presume the irony was unintended. You rant how people are being selfishly obtuse arguing that downloads don't hurt the record companies, then end the post with ".....I heard on the radio....." Compensating artists for air play is a relatively recent development in the history of radio. For decades prior the industry did exactly what you say should have caused the music industry fatal damage, shared their product for free. I think we'd both agree it didn't. Your argument states a case and then provides one of the most effective counter examples as an aside.
Ever watch those appraisal shows on PBS or BBC? Tens of thousands of dollars for 19th century gradeschool needlepoint, thousands for 1930's tin toys, the list is much longer and far more frivolous. Value is created by a complex matrix of criteria and rarely reflects an object's utility. Is a quartet of stamps with an inverted bi-plane really worth that much? In this regard Trekkers are no worse than any other collectors.
You're kidding, right? I've seen players spend an afternoon shooting their team mates no matter how much verbal abuse and return fire they took. Once servers started booting after a set number of team kills, they used small arms fire to shave life points from their team. The point? Some people are just assholes and no amount of negative social stigma will ever work, because they thrive on it. The only assured solution is a technical one.
He's wrong. My bookmark file, migrated and appended from one system to the next for the last four years, weighs in under a whopping twenty kbytes. It's hard to imagine a still running system that could halt.