You appear to have missed the point (as well as have a stick up your ass). The parent was differentiating between giving a friend a copy of a windows cd or downloading an image and walking into one's favorite SE Asian tech mall and buying Windows XP Pro for $25 US. He made no assertions regarding the financial harm or moral ambiguities involved in using pirated software.
Public snafu's aside, the point being, since either Bush Sr. approved the DEA program and Clinton allowed it to continue or Clinton approved it, that our previous administration had some secretive, shadowy, unaccountable programs that bare a striking resemblance to the secretive, shadowy, unaccountable programs of the current administration. So while preemptively Old News-ing any Bush apologists it also seems that there might be some Democrat apologists that need to reevaluate the overall current state of our politics and politicians as well. This seems to me to be a much better course of action than our current system of voting for the lesser of two evils because the 3rd parties are viable and if you waster your vote on some green, the guy you really don't want to gain office might do just that.
Didn't we have a different administration for most of the 1990's? I am pretty sure that Slick Willie was in the White House from 93 until the end of 2000. While I understand your comment, I think that as a group that is of the opinion that we are smarter than the masses, we really need to stop buying into the Democrat/Republican B.S. and remember that the vast majority of politicians, regardless of of party, are crooks, liars and cheats who hold the interests of their constituents fairly low on their list of priorities. Obviously that excludes election time, and then it's just a matter of how much crap they can shove down our throats to get reelected.
If I remember correctly (it's been close to 10 years since I used one) even the IBM Wheelwriter electric typewriter has similar functionality for special characters. I think they called it the code key. Plus, since you obviously looked at the website, it should have been obvious that the photo of each regions keyboard is the same with some hackitty hack hack photoshop work done on it to hide the characters that are not available on that "model". Furthermore, it looks surprisingly similar to a keyboard I used with my DX66 in 93/94, obviously without the extra shift keys, but with most of the same special characters printed on it and available via other modifier key combinations.
I understand the idea, but I am pretty sure that in a few years when my roomba craps out, I will still remember how to vacuum the old fashioned way. Also, remeber that your new car, your computer, your ipod, your spiffy super-mod bent plywood Scandivanivan-ish dining room chairs are all built, at least partially, by robots. So, you, as the "average American comnsumer" might be disinterested in robots, but you sure as hell are dependent on them.
Now sure, I would love to have some 20 year old chick clean my house in a skimpy outfit while I sit my ass on the couch and stare, but I think my life would become very unpleasant if I even mentioned that in front of my wife. So, I guess the next best thing is to come home from work and find that the carpet has been vacuumed and the kitchen floor washed and hopfully, some day in the future, the laundry done and the dishes cleaned without a) doing it myself b) paying someone, who will more than likely not be a hot 20 Russian girl, but a middle aged woman with a sour disposition or c) hearing about how a certain someone spent all day cleaning and if I think I am going to sit in front of the TV all night I can think again because at some point, in a state of either weakness or alcohol induced fog, I promised I would paint the trim/clean the garage/fix the loose shelf in the kitchen cabinet.
So, I guess that leaves me either living in filth or getting me some damn robots. And if one of those robots happens to be able to get me a beer and change the baby so much the better.
I don't know about all the patents they hold, but their website says they just bought 10 new ones in September. The news blurb says that they bought them becuase they felt that there was infringing already going on. This sounds like pure patent troll to me.
OTTAWA, Canada - September 13, 2007 - Wi-LAN Inc. (or "Wi-LAN") announced today that it has acquired a portfolio of 10 issued and pending U.S. patents which are essential to multi-mode and multi-standard communication devices ...
"We believe these patents have several claims that would be infringed by most cellular handsets sold in the United States today," said Andrew Parolin, VP Business Development. "What is particularly exciting is that we believe GSM/Edge cell phones, which is a format used by most GSM phones sold in the U.S. today, will require a license."
I don't know about all the patents they hold, but their website says they just bought 10 new ones in September. The news blurb says that they bought them becuase they felt that there was infringing already going on. This sounds like pure patent troll to me.
OTTAWA, Canada - September 13, 2007 - Wi-LAN Inc. (or "Wi-LAN") announced today that it has acquired a portfolio of 10 issued and pending U.S. patents which are essential to multi-mode and multi-standard communication devices ...
"We believe these patents have several claims that would be infringed by most cellular handsets sold in the United States today," said Andrew Parolin, VP Business Development. "What is particularly exciting is that we believe GSM/Edge cell phones, which is a format used by most GSM phones sold in the U.S. today, will require a license."
While not entirely on topic, but since you brought up the GIMP, I think it would behoove all of us to remember that the GPL, BSD, etc. licenses all are based on copyright and IP laws. That's why we can all bitch about fun stuff like companies that don't release source when using GPL'd code in their product and the authors of said code have legal right to do something about it
I think that the id software/DOSBox thing was recent enough for many of us to remember and it appears that instead of telling the DOSBox guys to shove off, id software fixed the issue. If there was no IP issue there, id could easily told everyone where they could shove it and I doubt that many of the users of said service would care one way or another who wrote the code or anything else as long as they got to play a working version of the game.
can I create a new partition on any of my drives without destroying the data that's there?
I find gparted to work well for creating new partitions on windows disks. There is a live CD available on sourceforge (gparted.sourceforge.net I believe). I find it more intuitive than most linux install disks and my personal preference is to have the partitions set up prior to installing a second OS. Someone above mentioned that you are creating the partition based on available space, so obviously if you have no space, you can't create the partition.
How big should I make the partition? Can partitions be shared between OSs?
Depends on how much you are going to install, how many disks you have and what you think you might do with the machine. On my dual boot machine with one HD, I have something like 3 gigs for windows, 20 gigs for CentOS and the rest is a NTFS partition that is mounted at boot time to hold files that I share between the OSs(music, video, etc). However, I am not a huge windows user and primarily use Linux, so if you are going to use windows most, you will probably want to set up your machine differently.
As for the moral of the story, dual booting, while overall fairly easy, might not be the best way to start off. Try taking an old machine that runs like a dog with XP and load Ubuntu on that. I think you will be suprised at how fast it will run. You will also have the flexiblity to break your Linux box (and if you keep using it, you probably will at some point) and not be SOL. When I started I didn't have a second computer, so I ended up booting into windows to search for stuff online and then needed to reboot into Linux try the fix, find it didn't work, reboot to windows, read some more, and so on. Luckly I was in between jobs and had too much time so... Also, I found (and still find) IRC to be a huge help. There are very knowlegable and usually helpful people on most times who can at least give you a direction if not an answer to solve many problems. Also the man pages are your best friend.
While I haven't bought a console in quite a long time so there is the possiblility that I might be mistaken here, but I don't think you are getting a license to use an XBOX when you buy one. You OWN the damn thing and can void the warranty all you like. If you chose to take it apart that is totally your business what you do with it once EBGames or whoever has put your cash in their register.
If you buy a toatser do they have the right to raid your house if you purchase some magic slot widing device so you can fit a whole english muffin in there, I doubt it.
What amazes me is that from my understanding of the Betamax thing is that from past precident that mod chips should be fine since, as some people have posted here and in the comments on TFA, they the only way to run alternative OS's (Linux) on these systems is to mod it.
I wonder if anyone who has been raided is in this situation and if tha lack of pirated games will be a defence or if they are screwed either way
I think that you and I see things in a similar way. What I was specifically responding to was the statement:
I feel very strongly that in any interaction, you can either be truthful about your identity or you can be anonymous. There is no middle ground; you are not allowed to lie about who you are
I think that 100 years ago living that way would have been the norm and probably the only people who had to disguise their identity were up to something suspect. 50 years ago, well, I don't know about the 50's, but even 20 years ago, I don't see that there was much need to use psudonyms except maybe if you were some girl at a bar and didn't want to give some dumbass your name or phone number. Now I think most people (the slashdot type of people) have become accustomed to giving out bogus data to some extent or another. As for the NYT example, it's easy, all you have to do is make sure that either the email address looks valid or is a throwaway account depending on whats needed. But, at the same time, I do have a mostly-ficticous set of data that I use when I know that I will want to access whatever account I just set up again, or maybe if they have reason to contact me for some reason, but i don't want to have to deal with potential marketers outside of the occasional flyer.
I know this is inherently dishonest, but we seem to have reached a point where companies are compensating for the impersonal nature of the interweb by collecting more personal data than needed so that they can market to you any time 24 hours a day.
I am just really interested to know if the parent really lives up to this or has a point where it's ok to tell a little white lie and maybe give a fake email to the midwestern po-dunk daily website in order to read one article that was linked to from slashdot or if he/she feels it is ok for a girl to give some drunk guy at a bar a fake name because she thinks he's creepy and doesn't really want them to know who she is.
How far do you feelings of total truthfulness or anonymity extend? I know this is a strange concept for most/. readers, but what if you wanted to RTFA on the NYT site or somewhere else you need to register to access content. Are you always truthful about who you are and give your real name and a real email address, by which I mean one that you check on a regular enough basis that they could be reasonably sure that they will get in contact with you in a reasonable amount of time, or do you do what I assume most of us do and put in a garbage name and a check once a month hotmail account just for the confirmation that you'll never check again until you sign up for something else with a confirm email?
How about some drunk clown on the bus? Do you give him your real name or some "John" name when he asks, or do you tell him to bugger off and hope he stays pleasant and doesn't decide he suddenly wants to punch you?
I find that while I am usually a truthful person, there are plenty of times where I am inclined to give people or entities a psudonym rather than argue with them about why they really don't need my name and I find that there is no given rule about when thats going to happen. What about the use of screennames on places like slashdot? Nobody knows who you really are, but posting here is obvoiusly interaction between you and the community at large.
Alge blooms are generally bad for everything else near them in the ocean. They suck up the surrounding oxygen and block sunlight, both of which are detremental to near coastal species (crab, striped bass, as well as everyones favorite pinnipeds). Furthermore, swimmers, surfers and divers can no longer use those areas without risking getting sick and obviously it harms the local fishing industry. Besides all that, I assume it would require 28,000 sq km of surface area, which comes out to a square approx. 165 km to a side. That translates to about a third of the Gulf of California. Another way of thinking about it is that 1 x 28,000 km long strip would stretch from the Mexican Border to somewhere just around the Canadian Border.
In reality you would have to break it up into many small chuncks on both coasts which would make local production easier, but with hurricanes and winter storms mobbing up and down the east coast and the storms coming from the Gulf of Alaska and generally the whole Pacific Ocean arbitrarly pounding the crap out of the West Coast, added together with every frigging ex-hippie with a bmw and an ocean view bitching, it would cost more to produce and do more damage than anyone could ever imagine. I don't think it really seems like such a hot idea.
I guess you didn't rtfa. Here is the relevant info:
Fees paid to the City:
$600,000 in guaranteed payments for access to the City's right of way.
An estimated $40,000 per year for the use of City facilities (street light poles);
A 5% share of all gross access revenues, estimated to generate $300,000 per year, depending on paying subscriber uptake. These funds may be used to fund computer and other equipment, training and self-help programs and community relevant content development.
So I guess the answer is free as in Earthlink thinks that between advertising and subscribers to the 1Mbps tier, the service will produce enough profit to far out weigh the costs. And, if it doesn't, i'm sure Earthlink will find some way around the privacy clause and start selling personal info on top of the huge amount of marketing that we are bound to put up with for access.
As a matter of my and possibly others curiosity and edification, could you possibly explain how or why Russias inclusion into the EU's free trade zone is determinied by their inclusion into the WTO. Thanks
1. Many people seem to want the shortest way to something that at least works, and then customize it to their needs afterwards instead of 'building something to spec'.
2. The 'just tell me how to do it' part could be lazyness, but I rather regard it as an attempt to optimize the result of the efford being spent (to its ultimate consequence, full result without efford).
I think both of these address exactly what I was saying in the second part of my post. I understand that it is unrealistic to expect every user out there who wants to host a few webpages to go through the process of installing apache from source and at least becoming familiar with the documentation instead of just using a package manager or clicking on the "web server" box when they do the initial install, but per a previous post the problem of the root directory changing between one fedora release to another becomes moot if you have spent any decent amount of time configuring apache since you know exactly what you are looking for. So then it becomes the users responsibilty to learn what they are working on instead of relying on the community at large to get it done easily. That is not to say that every seemingly stupid quesion should get flamed, but rather by extension it becomes the community at large's responsiblity to promote user competence and the responsibility of developers to make documentation a realistic read for people who don't have CS degrees. When I started out I was definately one of those people looking for the easy answer partly because of the "Damn it, just work" mentality, but also becuase I felt that much of the documentation was geared torward someone with considerably more experience and understanding than I had. But, the most helpful answers to my questions weren't the ones where it was just thrown out there, they were the ones where I was told why I was having a problem and where to look for the answer. After all, if you want a point and click OS you've got windows and OS X. the great part about Linux and the BSD's is that for a bit more work, you get a whole lot more reward when it comes to software, customization and RELIABLILTY.
OpenBSD very well might have great documentation, I don't know, but I find that just like on slashdot, many users hate to RTFM/RTFD, so there is a good chance it is just laziness, not a real lack of documentation that drives new users to post on the mailing lists (or in this case such a lack of linux documentation that converts to OpenBSD post with out realizing the documentation is all pretty and easy). Look at any Linux IRC channel for proof postitive in real time. Many questions can be self answered in less time with man than it takes to wait for a response on IRC, but people will sit and wait for someone to answer. Though, maybe there is a learning curve that makes using documentation or man pages daunting or difficult for new users.
In fact I would think that a linux to OpenBSD convert would be less likely to post since any real experience with Linux should have taught them them patience of a buddhist monk and given them the ability to search documentation at ludicrous speed.:)
As an aside, in my opinion, once a user gets to the point of setting up servers and productions boxes, it is time to abandon package managers and click through installations, for a time at least. The documentation for programs is usually much better than for distributions, so if the user is forced to sit through all the FAQ's and documentation just to install, it will be harder for the distributions to foil them with silly changes. If they switch back to apt or rpm later, well, at least they have built their kernel, apache, samba, sendmail and all the modules from source at least once and should know more than enough to get them running when they switch from suse to fedora or whatever.
I don't quite know if you are replying specifically to me or just in general, but the point of recycling is to save resources: maybe money, maybe ore, maybe environment. The parent question was, who is responsible for the "deposit" which, agree or not with the process, is the consumer either through a deposit, tax or cost pass through. My post was a reply that the whole "it's a lot of money' thing since 10 dollars is definately not a lot of money. It is two beers at a bar (with tip (my wife is a bartender so pay up schlubs)), 1.5 meal deals, two whole trips across the golden gate bridge, etc etc. However, slashdotters react as if they have been asked to go to sunday school since the big, bad, corporate-ass-kissing, evil, mean, whatever you feel like calling it, CALIFORNIA government is making them do it (oh wait, I am making the erronious assumption that most of the complaints come from californians and not random anti-establisment types). I mean, shit, I have at least 6 montors in my garage that I have not recycled since they wanted $20 s pop at the dump to get rid of them. Now I can take them over there and drop em and they don't end up in the ditch and maybe, just maybe weird heavy metals won't end up in the pacific and then in me next time I go surf (if the wind ever stops here)
It seems that people have missed the point. It's 10 dollars max. The guy who can't afford another 1 percent on the deal probably isn't buying computers or TV from stores, He's buying them at garage sales. Get a grip people
I didn't see this posted so I thought I would add it. You can get it yourself at http://www.ultracade.com/openoffer.pdf. I don't know how it really helps, but I would assume that the original MAME authors would be as interested as he is about not allowing people to mootch off their work to make cash, and more so should probably own the tradmarks and copyrights associated with their own sweat and blood.
February 21, 2005 An open offer to the M.A.M.E. community. Our recent actions to protect our products have met with a lot of controversy. Many people have been quick to judge and make accusations about what we are attempting to do, and what we have already done. It is my understanding that the spirit of the M.A.M.E. community is ""M.A.M.E.'s purpose is to preserve these decades of videogame history." It is further my understanding that "Selling either is not allowed" with regards to M.A.M.E. Given this understanding, we are willing to help promote these goals and work to provide the original authors with the protection they deserve. Our goal is to prevent the commercial offering of machines with illegally obtained ROMs. I believe our goals can work in parallel. Furthermore, we have a long standing relationship with many publishers of many games, and we are constantly working to obtain more and more licenses for these games. Our goal in filing the trademark for the name M.A.M.E. was simply to give us leverage against those companies that promote and sell machines with M.A.M.E. installed on it, and more importantly, provide their customers with the means to illegally obtain the ROMs. This doesn't help our sales of our products. This doesn't help the community in general. We have no desire to use the M.A.M.E. name or logos; we simply wish to find ways to prevent illegal distribution of classic arcade games. We will be happy to cancel our application and work with the M.A.M.E. team to assign it to its rightful owners; however we do want to prevent it from being awarded to someone that intends to use it commercially. I am available to work with the community to ensure that this happens, and to help get more games made available to the community at a reasonable price. David R. Foley CEO UltraCade Technologies
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The funny thing about that-The people who really dislike the war are the same people who really dislike anyone owning guns.
You appear to have missed the point (as well as have a stick up your ass). The parent was differentiating between giving a friend a copy of a windows cd or downloading an image and walking into one's favorite SE Asian tech mall and buying Windows XP Pro for $25 US. He made no assertions regarding the financial harm or moral ambiguities involved in using pirated software.
We could say Microsoft is The Raft
It would be pretty damn funny to see somebody whip out a sword and hack up some IBM senior management avatars
Public snafu's aside, the point being, since either Bush Sr. approved the DEA program and Clinton allowed it to continue or Clinton approved it, that our previous administration had some secretive, shadowy, unaccountable programs that bare a striking resemblance to the secretive, shadowy, unaccountable programs of the current administration. So while preemptively Old News-ing any Bush apologists it also seems that there might be some Democrat apologists that need to reevaluate the overall current state of our politics and politicians as well. This seems to me to be a much better course of action than our current system of voting for the lesser of two evils because the 3rd parties are viable and if you waster your vote on some green, the guy you really don't want to gain office might do just that.
Didn't we have a different administration for most of the 1990's? I am pretty sure that Slick Willie was in the White House from 93 until the end of 2000. While I understand your comment, I think that as a group that is of the opinion that we are smarter than the masses, we really need to stop buying into the Democrat/Republican B.S. and remember that the vast majority of politicians, regardless of of party, are crooks, liars and cheats who hold the interests of their constituents fairly low on their list of priorities. Obviously that excludes election time, and then it's just a matter of how much crap they can shove down our throats to get reelected.
If I remember correctly (it's been close to 10 years since I used one) even the IBM Wheelwriter electric typewriter has similar functionality for special characters. I think they called it the code key. Plus, since you obviously looked at the website, it should have been obvious that the photo of each regions keyboard is the same with some hackitty hack hack photoshop work done on it to hide the characters that are not available on that "model". Furthermore, it looks surprisingly similar to a keyboard I used with my DX66 in 93/94, obviously without the extra shift keys, but with most of the same special characters printed on it and available via other modifier key combinations.
I understand the idea, but I am pretty sure that in a few years when my roomba craps out, I will still remember how to vacuum the old fashioned way. Also, remeber that your new car, your computer, your ipod, your spiffy super-mod bent plywood Scandivanivan-ish dining room chairs are all built, at least partially, by robots. So, you, as the "average American comnsumer" might be disinterested in robots, but you sure as hell are dependent on them.
Now sure, I would love to have some 20 year old chick clean my house in a skimpy outfit while I sit my ass on the couch and stare, but I think my life would become very unpleasant if I even mentioned that in front of my wife. So, I guess the next best thing is to come home from work and find that the carpet has been vacuumed and the kitchen floor washed and hopfully, some day in the future, the laundry done and the dishes cleaned without a) doing it myself b) paying someone, who will more than likely not be a hot 20 Russian girl, but a middle aged woman with a sour disposition or c) hearing about how a certain someone spent all day cleaning and if I think I am going to sit in front of the TV all night I can think again because at some point, in a state of either weakness or alcohol induced fog, I promised I would paint the trim/clean the garage/fix the loose shelf in the kitchen cabinet.
So, I guess that leaves me either living in filth or getting me some damn robots. And if one of those robots happens to be able to get me a beer and change the baby so much the better.
http://www.wi-lan.com/press-centre/press-releases/press-release.aspx?listingid=506
OTTAWA, Canada - September 13, 2007 - Wi-LAN Inc. (or "Wi-LAN") announced today that it has acquired a portfolio of 10 issued and pending U.S. patents which are essential to multi-mode and multi-standard communication devices
"We believe these patents have several claims that would be infringed by most cellular handsets sold in the United States today," said Andrew Parolin, VP Business Development. "What is particularly exciting is that we believe GSM/Edge cell phones, which is a format used by most GSM phones sold in the U.S. today, will require a license."
http://www.wi-lan.com/press-centre/press-releases/press-release.aspx?listingid=506
OTTAWA, Canada - September 13, 2007 - Wi-LAN Inc. (or "Wi-LAN") announced today that it has acquired a portfolio of 10 issued and pending U.S. patents which are essential to multi-mode and multi-standard communication devices
"We believe these patents have several claims that would be infringed by most cellular handsets sold in the United States today," said Andrew Parolin, VP Business Development. "What is particularly exciting is that we believe GSM/Edge cell phones, which is a format used by most GSM phones sold in the U.S. today, will require a license."
While not entirely on topic, but since you brought up the GIMP, I think it would behoove all of us to remember that the GPL, BSD, etc. licenses all are based on copyright and IP laws. That's why we can all bitch about fun stuff like companies that don't release source when using GPL'd code in their product and the authors of said code have legal right to do something about it
I think that the id software/DOSBox thing was recent enough for many of us to remember and it appears that instead of telling the DOSBox guys to shove off, id software fixed the issue. If there was no IP issue there, id could easily told everyone where they could shove it and I doubt that many of the users of said service would care one way or another who wrote the code or anything else as long as they got to play a working version of the game.
I don't know if you actually care, but here goes:
can I create a new partition on any of my drives without destroying the data that's there?
I find gparted to work well for creating new partitions on windows disks. There is a live CD available on sourceforge (gparted.sourceforge.net I believe). I find it more intuitive than most linux install disks and my personal preference is to have the partitions set up prior to installing a second OS. Someone above mentioned that you are creating the partition based on available space, so obviously if you have no space, you can't create the partition.
How big should I make the partition? Can partitions be shared between OSs? Depends on how much you are going to install, how many disks you have and what you think you might do with the machine. On my dual boot machine with one HD, I have something like 3 gigs for windows, 20 gigs for CentOS and the rest is a NTFS partition that is mounted at boot time to hold files that I share between the OSs(music, video, etc). However, I am not a huge windows user and primarily use Linux, so if you are going to use windows most, you will probably want to set up your machine differently.
As for the moral of the story, dual booting, while overall fairly easy, might not be the best way to start off. Try taking an old machine that runs like a dog with XP and load Ubuntu on that. I think you will be suprised at how fast it will run. You will also have the flexiblity to break your Linux box (and if you keep using it, you probably will at some point) and not be SOL. When I started I didn't have a second computer, so I ended up booting into windows to search for stuff online and then needed to reboot into Linux try the fix, find it didn't work, reboot to windows, read some more, and so on. Luckly I was in between jobs and had too much time so... Also, I found (and still find) IRC to be a huge help. There are very knowlegable and usually helpful people on most times who can at least give you a direction if not an answer to solve many problems. Also the man pages are your best friend.
Good Luck
While I haven't bought a console in quite a long time so there is the possiblility that I might be mistaken here, but I don't think you are getting a license to use an XBOX when you buy one. You OWN the damn thing and can void the warranty all you like. If you chose to take it apart that is totally your business what you do with it once EBGames or whoever has put your cash in their register.
If you buy a toatser do they have the right to raid your house if you purchase some magic slot widing device so you can fit a whole english muffin in there, I doubt it.
What amazes me is that from my understanding of the Betamax thing is that from past precident that mod chips should be fine since, as some people have posted here and in the comments on TFA, they the only way to run alternative OS's (Linux) on these systems is to mod it.
I wonder if anyone who has been raided is in this situation and if tha lack of pirated games will be a defence or if they are screwed either way
I think that you and I see things in a similar way. What I was specifically responding to was the statement:
I feel very strongly that in any interaction, you can either be truthful about your identity or you can be anonymous. There is no middle ground; you are not allowed to lie about who you are
I think that 100 years ago living that way would have been the norm and probably the only people who had to disguise their identity were up to something suspect. 50 years ago, well, I don't know about the 50's, but even 20 years ago, I don't see that there was much need to use psudonyms except maybe if you were some girl at a bar and didn't want to give some dumbass your name or phone number. Now I think most people (the slashdot type of people) have become accustomed to giving out bogus data to some extent or another. As for the NYT example, it's easy, all you have to do is make sure that either the email address looks valid or is a throwaway account depending on whats needed. But, at the same time, I do have a mostly-ficticous set of data that I use when I know that I will want to access whatever account I just set up again, or maybe if they have reason to contact me for some reason, but i don't want to have to deal with potential marketers outside of the occasional flyer.
I know this is inherently dishonest, but we seem to have reached a point where companies are compensating for the impersonal nature of the interweb by collecting more personal data than needed so that they can market to you any time 24 hours a day.
I am just really interested to know if the parent really lives up to this or has a point where it's ok to tell a little white lie and maybe give a fake email to the midwestern po-dunk daily website in order to read one article that was linked to from slashdot or if he/she feels it is ok for a girl to give some drunk guy at a bar a fake name because she thinks he's creepy and doesn't really want them to know who she is.
This is not a dig, but a real question.
/. readers, but what if you wanted to RTFA on the NYT site or somewhere else you need to register to access content. Are you always truthful about who you are and give your real name and a real email address, by which I mean one that you check on a regular enough basis that they could be reasonably sure that they will get in contact with you in a reasonable amount of time, or do you do what I assume most of us do and put in a garbage name and a check once a month hotmail account just for the confirmation that you'll never check again until you sign up for something else with a confirm email?
How far do you feelings of total truthfulness or anonymity extend? I know this is a strange concept for most
How about some drunk clown on the bus? Do you give him your real name or some "John" name when he asks, or do you tell him to bugger off and hope he stays pleasant and doesn't decide he suddenly wants to punch you?
I find that while I am usually a truthful person, there are plenty of times where I am inclined to give people or entities a psudonym rather than argue with them about why they really don't need my name and I find that there is no given rule about when thats going to happen. What about the use of screennames on places like slashdot? Nobody knows who you really are, but posting here is obvoiusly interaction between you and the community at large.
Alge blooms are generally bad for everything else near them in the ocean. They suck up the surrounding oxygen and block sunlight, both of which are detremental to near coastal species (crab, striped bass, as well as everyones favorite pinnipeds). Furthermore, swimmers, surfers and divers can no longer use those areas without risking getting sick and obviously it harms the local fishing industry. Besides all that, I assume it would require 28,000 sq km of surface area, which comes out to a square approx. 165 km to a side. That translates to about a third of the Gulf of California. Another way of thinking about it is that 1 x 28,000 km long strip would stretch from the Mexican Border to somewhere just around the Canadian Border.
In reality you would have to break it up into many small chuncks on both coasts which would make local production easier, but with hurricanes and winter storms mobbing up and down the east coast and the storms coming from the Gulf of Alaska and generally the whole Pacific Ocean arbitrarly pounding the crap out of the West Coast, added together with every frigging ex-hippie with a bmw and an ocean view bitching, it would cost more to produce and do more damage than anyone could ever imagine. I don't think it really seems like such a hot idea.
I guess you didn't rtfa. Here is the relevant info:
Fees paid to the City:
$600,000 in guaranteed payments for access to the City's right of way.
An estimated $40,000 per year for the use of City facilities (street light poles);
A 5% share of all gross access revenues, estimated to generate $300,000 per year, depending on paying subscriber uptake. These funds may be used to fund computer and other equipment, training and self-help programs and community relevant content development.
So I guess the answer is free as in Earthlink thinks that between advertising and subscribers to the 1Mbps tier, the service will produce enough profit to far out weigh the costs. And, if it doesn't, i'm sure Earthlink will find some way around the privacy clause and start selling personal info on top of the huge amount of marketing that we are bound to put up with for access.
As a matter of my and possibly others curiosity and edification, could you possibly explain how or why Russias inclusion into the EU's free trade zone is determinied by their inclusion into the WTO. Thanks
It might be hacky, but I wrote it not you so g++ away
http://libra.sfsu.edu/~peb/rps.cpp
1. Many people seem to want the shortest way to something that at least works, and then customize it to their needs afterwards instead of 'building something to spec'.
2. The 'just tell me how to do it' part could be lazyness, but I rather regard it as an attempt to optimize the result of the efford being spent (to its ultimate consequence, full result without efford).
I think both of these address exactly what I was saying in the second part of my post. I understand that it is unrealistic to expect every user out there who wants to host a few webpages to go through the process of installing apache from source and at least becoming familiar with the documentation instead of just using a package manager or clicking on the "web server" box when they do the initial install, but per a previous post the problem of the root directory changing between one fedora release to another becomes moot if you have spent any decent amount of time configuring apache since you know exactly what you are looking for. So then it becomes the users responsibilty to learn what they are working on instead of relying on the community at large to get it done easily. That is not to say that every seemingly stupid quesion should get flamed, but rather by extension it becomes the community at large's responsiblity to promote user competence and the responsibility of developers to make documentation a realistic read for people who don't have CS degrees. When I started out I was definately one of those people looking for the easy answer partly because of the "Damn it, just work" mentality, but also becuase I felt that much of the documentation was geared torward someone with considerably more experience and understanding than I had. But, the most helpful answers to my questions weren't the ones where it was just thrown out there, they were the ones where I was told why I was having a problem and where to look for the answer. After all, if you want a point and click OS you've got windows and OS X. the great part about Linux and the BSD's is that for a bit more work, you get a whole lot more reward when it comes to software, customization and RELIABLILTY.
OpenBSD very well might have great documentation, I don't know, but I find that just like on slashdot, many users hate to RTFM/RTFD, so there is a good chance it is just laziness, not a real lack of documentation that drives new users to post on the mailing lists (or in this case such a lack of linux documentation that converts to OpenBSD post with out realizing the documentation is all pretty and easy). Look at any Linux IRC channel for proof postitive in real time. Many questions can be self answered in less time with man than it takes to wait for a response on IRC, but people will sit and wait for someone to answer. Though, maybe there is a learning curve that makes using documentation or man pages daunting or difficult for new users.
In fact I would think that a linux to OpenBSD convert would be less likely to post since any real experience with Linux should have taught them them patience of a buddhist monk and given them the ability to search documentation at ludicrous speed.:)
As an aside, in my opinion, once a user gets to the point of setting up servers and productions boxes, it is time to abandon package managers and click through installations, for a time at least. The documentation for programs is usually much better than for distributions, so if the user is forced to sit through all the FAQ's and documentation just to install, it will be harder for the distributions to foil them with silly changes. If they switch back to apt or rpm later, well, at least they have built their kernel, apache, samba, sendmail and all the modules from source at least once and should know more than enough to get them running when they switch from suse to fedora or whatever.
I don't quite know if you are replying specifically to me or just in general, but the point of recycling is to save resources: maybe money, maybe ore, maybe environment. The parent question was, who is responsible for the "deposit" which, agree or not with the process, is the consumer either through a deposit, tax or cost pass through. My post was a reply that the whole "it's a lot of money' thing since 10 dollars is definately not a lot of money. It is two beers at a bar (with tip (my wife is a bartender so pay up schlubs)), 1.5 meal deals, two whole trips across the golden gate bridge, etc etc. However, slashdotters react as if they have been asked to go to sunday school since the big, bad, corporate-ass-kissing, evil, mean, whatever you feel like calling it, CALIFORNIA government is making them do it (oh wait, I am making the erronious assumption that most of the complaints come from californians and not random anti-establisment types). I mean, shit, I have at least 6 montors in my garage that I have not recycled since they wanted $20 s pop at the dump to get rid of them. Now I can take them over there and drop em and they don't end up in the ditch and maybe, just maybe weird heavy metals won't end up in the pacific and then in me next time I go surf (if the wind ever stops here)
It seems that people have missed the point. It's 10 dollars max. The guy who can't afford another 1 percent on the deal probably isn't buying computers or TV from stores, He's buying them at garage sales. Get a grip people
if eveyone is so pissed off about this... slashdot em www.afp.com
I didn't see this posted so I thought I would add it. You can get it yourself at http://www.ultracade.com/openoffer.pdf. I don't know how it really helps, but I would assume that the original MAME authors would be as interested as he is about not allowing people to mootch off their work to make cash, and more so should probably own the tradmarks and copyrights associated with their own sweat and blood. February 21, 2005 An open offer to the M.A.M.E. community. Our recent actions to protect our products have met with a lot of controversy. Many people have been quick to judge and make accusations about what we are attempting to do, and what we have already done. It is my understanding that the spirit of the M.A.M.E. community is ""M.A.M.E.'s purpose is to preserve these decades of videogame history." It is further my understanding that "Selling either is not allowed" with regards to M.A.M.E. Given this understanding, we are willing to help promote these goals and work to provide the original authors with the protection they deserve. Our goal is to prevent the commercial offering of machines with illegally obtained ROMs. I believe our goals can work in parallel. Furthermore, we have a long standing relationship with many publishers of many games, and we are constantly working to obtain more and more licenses for these games. Our goal in filing the trademark for the name M.A.M.E. was simply to give us leverage against those companies that promote and sell machines with M.A.M.E. installed on it, and more importantly, provide their customers with the means to illegally obtain the ROMs. This doesn't help our sales of our products. This doesn't help the community in general. We have no desire to use the M.A.M.E. name or logos; we simply wish to find ways to prevent illegal distribution of classic arcade games. We will be happy to cancel our application and work with the M.A.M.E. team to assign it to its rightful owners; however we do want to prevent it from being awarded to someone that intends to use it commercially. I am available to work with the community to ensure that this happens, and to help get more games made available to the community at a reasonable price. David R. Foley CEO UltraCade Technologies