For that matter, there are other game types that could be well suited to spreading the Word of God that don't require killing someone or something such as puzzle, adventure, strategy, simulation, etc.
Actually would the Spanish Inquisition be considered a simulation or a puzzle?
The only way to privatize Internet connections back to the old Mom and Pop ISP days is to have a single entity own and allow usage to all parties who wish to provide service.
However this entity may not sell line (or wireless) access directly to consumers, but rather lease the bandwidth or network infrastructure to the Providers.
"The Providers" (I'm doing those quotes with my hand by the way) in turn provide the IP addresses and other nice things like email servers, new groups, and various other things that ISP's provide at a local level. They would also provide technical support to the "end user" (more hand gestures here... I'm pretending I'm explaining this to Congress mind you).
The "providers" would compete internally providing support.
Now the "line owners" may or may not have to be a single entity. They could compete as such as Cable vs DSL does now, but currently most of the times the Cable company not owns the lines they provide the service so the "end user" has no choice in his provider. The same goes for his Phone Company and DSL though you do get a bit more choice on the matter with people like Speak Easy.
Think it as Teddy Roosevelt breaking up the Rail and steel barons of the 1900's. The only way sometimes to have Capitalism and Innovation is through some sort of company breaking regulation.
Though it's easier to just borrow your neighbors' unsecured wireless connection and forget economics all together. (You dirty commie!)
Did anyone else misread the headline and think: "Oh no! They are releasing spyware for OS X!"
*Phew!*
Still, I'm hope they made sure that Automator is secure with Mail.app unlike vbscript and Outlook Express originally was. I'd rather not have my email being Automated to send certain things to everyone on my address book.
But there are literally millions of people doing jobs they don't particularly enjoy with a high degree of skill becuase they can make a living at those jobs and fund their real passion.
Yeah... Although, if they did have a high degree of IT skill, they'd know they could just download all that porn for free instead of spending their incomes on it.
Initially, you'd be less productive (say one week, tops) and afterwards you'll probably be a lot more productive.
To add to what the parent is saying:
IMO this will start exactly when you purchase a two-button mouse for your Mac.
And you can take that as funny, but as for giving advice to anyone who has been using Windows for the past 5 years and is planning on switching to a Mac, I'm serious. I tried to make myself use the one button mouse for a few weeks and then I went out and bought a nice MS scroll wheel laser light one and OS X stopped feeling akward and everything fell into place.
Everything in OS X has support for right click so you might as well take advantage of it.
And for work flow and stability... There are a few nags and oddities, but after a while you start saying to yourself "This makes a whole lot more sense this way instead of what I used to do!"
Even bigger problem: controlling birthrates to "preserve" the human race can lead to denying the joys of child-rearing (yes, it's a joy, I have two and plan on more) to countless individuals. You have to ask yourself: if we make life on the planet so joyless for so many, what exactly are we preserving?
Not directing this at you since I am not advocating a one child policy like China, but one can also say the same thing about drug use.
Obviously drugs bring joy to the person who use it (or at least a temporary releif from the withdrawl pains), but drug use has been outlawed by most world governments because it has been deemed "bad". This of course is debatable by both sides.
I think the major reason (or least so they say) that drugs are outlawed is because it makes someone go out and cause crime in order to pay for drugs (theft, prostitution) or just to protect them from themselves.
Now the same can be said about having kids like it or not. Having a child indirectly increases the burdern on resources on the earth. Now it isn't apparent in the western world as say India, Africa, or China. I think it offends people when you say "having children is bad" so I'm not going to say that.
However one must realize if the problem isn't solved then perhaps your great great great great grand children will be faced with the fact that they do not have enough food to feed their own children and will have no joy whatsoever in their lives.
Or not... Technology might have solved the problem by then. This is all speculation, but I would hope technology will make the argument a moot point in 200 years.
What if your ship isn't under any country's flag? Well, ships without nationality are subject to boarding at any time by any nation, merely for being without nationality.
I wonder if North Korea would let you register a ship under them... I bet that would lead to complications though.
In most maajor ISPs, (and I have worked for one of them) is that I am under the impression that the people that you can reach on a phone are not allowed to speak with the people at the NOC and have no means to communicate with them other than forms or email.
Although I knew people in the NOC and could aim them, but only because I knew them from outside of work.
The question is though is how many times do you buy a ring tone? I mean I'm sure there are plenty of people that have gone ape wild and filled their phones to the max but on average I would suspect most people would have around 1-3 ringtones and that would be it. Maybe change it up every few months or so but there is no need for a ringtone per person on your phone book.
With iTunes there is basically an unlimited apeal of downloading songs, but even if I had head phone jacks for my cell phone I'd be rather reluctant to pay for a great deal of songs that aren't directly interfaced with my computer and that I can't back up since cell phones tend to have very short lifespans either through loss or just breaking.
Problem for apple is that everyone already has an ipod and it will be tough to find new people to sell to.
Well I think that was the point to sell iPods to everyone possible... It's like how Nintendo, MS, and Sony sell all their gaming consoles at a loss and make their money from games. That is what Apple seems to intend to do with iTunes (even though the iPods are kind of overpriced).
If they were to loose the lock out of being the only ones able to sell music that plays on the iPods then it's like if Nintendo had third party companies like Sony to make games for the Game Cube without a license (ala Tecmo's version of Tetris for the NES in the 80s) and they wouldn't be very tolerant of that.
That and iPods were intended to introduce people to the Mac hardware line. Once people found that they loved iPods they started looking at Mini's and then started looking for everything from Apple. Perhaps Apple will be the next Microsoft in 5 years? That's only speculation....
True, but where 5% of the population owns 90% of the wealth (I think it was around 86% or so though) should the top 5% be paying 90% of the taxes? Hell perhaps being wealthy should be a privlege and unless you earn more than $500,000 per year you shouldn't be taxed at all?
It could work in theory and the fact that government allows you to be wealthy should be a privledge (ie the government protects your from criminals and people seizing your wealth, foreign powers, and provides of means of being wealthy such as having money to begin with).
But in reality I don't think people would go for it. That and taxation and capitalism is mearly a method of fooling people into doing something so there is no point in changing the current situation, but rather to observe the system.
an upcoming invasion and occupation of Iran, economic collapse
Hrm... One would think if we occupied all the oil producing countries we'd be more wealthy now wouldn't we?
Actually... If you ever looked at American economics in detail that the dollar is actually worthless and debt and taxation have no relationship to each other with the Federal Reserve just printing money to third world nations out of thin air. It's more or less a belief in the system rather than it actually having tangible value... Since there is nothing like gold anymore backing up the American dollar the United States really just has to back it up with force.
What one should really worry about is the day that China gets pissy about the US actions in the middle east when everyone's oil is running low and no one bothered looking for altenrative sources.
No, but neither are trade secrets protected by the constitution, but rather other system of laws.
Unless you count copyrights and patents, but this is not copyright or a patent issue since you cannot tradmark or patent the fact you have done something or plan to release something... Besides corporations should not be treated as nations unto themselves otherwise they will violate the Bill of Rights via proxy.
That was supposed to be funny mods. In reality, I'm most likely going to be dragging myself to the theater the night it opens just like all the other times I went to see a horrid video game remake only to wonder why I was there... Mortal Kombat, Mario Brother, and all the other movies that were just horrid. But I'll go to the theater nonetheless in hopes that it will actually be good. I hope they actual prove me wrong because I have been a fan of Doom since I put the demo on my 486sx.
Now for Romero's movie I'll be sure will be very interesting. It's supposed to be about life about 10 years after the Dawn and Day of the Daed where humanity has just gotten used to have zombies around.
And who says that Indian guy doesn't depend on his job? Why couldn't he have built a life around it? Just because they make fewer "American" dollars than you do, doesn't mean they're poor or any less deserving of what they have.
Same reason why US CEO's steal millions of dollars from their companies and stockholders. It seems they have more money that all of us, but still need more. But they go to jail too... Just ask Martha Stewart and WorldCom CEO's. It's just human nature.
Still, indie music is probably less strong than it was before Napster came along.
I think that is a matter of preception. Out of personal experience the internet has allowed me to be slightly successful as far as an Indie label goes. (see my link)
I think we've sold more cd's online than at shows so without the internet it would just be the CD's sold at shows or threw word of mouth which the internet of course helps.
The problem still lies in getting people to know there is other stuff out there.
The reason why indie labels still aren't on the same level of majors (besides the million dollar budgets) is that you still can't punch in a url to your car radio and pick up a radio station on the internet. You can't go to a TV and punch in a url and get a indie TV station either. I think it's a matter of effort by the consumer, but once one is easier as the next people will of course consume more "non corporate" material.
That or at least I won't have to listen to crap radio while I am sitting in the car.
The app in question integrates with Office, Small Business Server, Exchange, and SQL Server.
Hrm... Entourage does have Exchange support. It's a bitch to setup (basically you have to have Exchange setup for Outlook Web Access and the interface Entourage into that)
As far as Excel, Word, PowerPoint... Microsoft has it covered. (I will not recommend Outlook for the Mac. It is a horrid application.)
You don't have Access 2003 which I will admit is a major pain, but then again you could always run that off a Terminal Server if you had too when you need a program to run in a true windows environment.
IMO all major corps should have thin clients with locked down apps either with Terminal Server or Citrix unless your job is specifically requires desktop publishing or something that needs heavy CPU usage.
What better way than have a MiniMac tied into MS Terminal Servers?
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...and they want their paranoid parents back.
For that matter, there are other game types that could be well suited to spreading the Word of God that don't require killing someone or something such as puzzle, adventure, strategy, simulation, etc.
Actually would the Spanish Inquisition be considered a simulation or a puzzle?
I jest! I jest!
The only way to privatize Internet connections back to the old Mom and Pop ISP days is to have a single entity own and allow usage to all parties who wish to provide service.
However this entity may not sell line (or wireless) access directly to consumers, but rather lease the bandwidth or network infrastructure to the Providers.
"The Providers" (I'm doing those quotes with my hand by the way) in turn provide the IP addresses and other nice things like email servers, new groups, and various other things that ISP's provide at a local level. They would also provide technical support to the "end user" (more hand gestures here... I'm pretending I'm explaining this to Congress mind you).
The "providers" would compete internally providing support.
Now the "line owners" may or may not have to be a single entity. They could compete as such as Cable vs DSL does now, but currently most of the times the Cable company not owns the lines they provide the service so the "end user" has no choice in his provider. The same goes for his Phone Company and DSL though you do get a bit more choice on the matter with people like Speak Easy.
Think it as Teddy Roosevelt breaking up the Rail and steel barons of the 1900's. The only way sometimes to have Capitalism and Innovation is through some sort of company breaking regulation.
Though it's easier to just borrow your neighbors' unsecured wireless connection and forget economics all together. (You dirty commie!)
Did anyone else misread the headline and think: "Oh no! They are releasing spyware for OS X!"
*Phew!*
Still, I'm hope they made sure that Automator is secure with Mail.app unlike vbscript and Outlook Express originally was. I'd rather not have my email being Automated to send certain things to everyone on my address book.
But there are literally millions of people doing jobs they don't particularly enjoy with a high degree of skill becuase they can make a living at those jobs and fund their real passion.
Yeah... Although, if they did have a high degree of IT skill, they'd know they could just download all that porn for free instead of spending their incomes on it.
Initially, you'd be less productive (say one week, tops) and afterwards you'll probably be a lot more productive.
To add to what the parent is saying:
IMO this will start exactly when you purchase a two-button mouse for your Mac.
And you can take that as funny, but as for giving advice to anyone who has been using Windows for the past 5 years and is planning on switching to a Mac, I'm serious. I tried to make myself use the one button mouse for a few weeks and then I went out and bought a nice MS scroll wheel laser light one and OS X stopped feeling akward and everything fell into place.
Everything in OS X has support for right click so you might as well take advantage of it.
And for work flow and stability... There are a few nags and oddities, but after a while you start saying to yourself "This makes a whole lot more sense this way instead of what I used to do!"
I really found UO to be very emotional in my life or at least really the most fun I have ever played in a video game.
I'm still bitter EA ruined the game...
I still look at Ultima Offline servers and contemplate joining one.
Even bigger problem: controlling birthrates to "preserve" the human race can lead to denying the joys of child-rearing (yes, it's a joy, I have two and plan on more) to countless individuals. You have to ask yourself: if we make life on the planet so joyless for so many, what exactly are we preserving?
Not directing this at you since I am not advocating a one child policy like China, but one can also say the same thing about drug use.
Obviously drugs bring joy to the person who use it (or at least a temporary releif from the withdrawl pains), but drug use has been outlawed by most world governments because it has been deemed "bad". This of course is debatable by both sides.
I think the major reason (or least so they say) that drugs are outlawed is because it makes someone go out and cause crime in order to pay for drugs (theft, prostitution) or just to protect them from themselves.
Now the same can be said about having kids like it or not. Having a child indirectly increases the burdern on resources on the earth. Now it isn't apparent in the western world as say India, Africa, or China. I think it offends people when you say "having children is bad" so I'm not going to say that.
However one must realize if the problem isn't solved then perhaps your great great great great grand children will be faced with the fact that they do not have enough food to feed their own children and will have no joy whatsoever in their lives.
Or not... Technology might have solved the problem by then. This is all speculation, but I would hope technology will make the argument a moot point in 200 years.
If you do a little math, you'll see that neither killing people nor exploring space are solutions to overpopulation.
Never ever underestimate man's ability to kill other men.
From the Article:
When Windows 95 was launched, people waited outside stores at midnight to buy the first copies.
I think it would be safe to say that these people were more disapointed than those who waited weeks to see Episode I.
What if your ship isn't under any country's flag? Well, ships without nationality are subject to boarding at any time by any nation, merely for being without nationality.
I wonder if North Korea would let you register a ship under them... I bet that would lead to complications though.
In most maajor ISPs, (and I have worked for one of them) is that I am under the impression that the people that you can reach on a phone are not allowed to speak with the people at the NOC and have no means to communicate with them other than forms or email.
Although I knew people in the NOC and could aim them, but only because I knew them from outside of work.
The question is though is how many times do you buy a ring tone? I mean I'm sure there are plenty of people that have gone ape wild and filled their phones to the max but on average I would suspect most people would have around 1-3 ringtones and that would be it. Maybe change it up every few months or so but there is no need for a ringtone per person on your phone book.
With iTunes there is basically an unlimited apeal of downloading songs, but even if I had head phone jacks for my cell phone I'd be rather reluctant to pay for a great deal of songs that aren't directly interfaced with my computer and that I can't back up since cell phones tend to have very short lifespans either through loss or just breaking.
Problem for apple is that everyone already has an ipod and it will be tough to find new people to sell to.
Well I think that was the point to sell iPods to everyone possible... It's like how Nintendo, MS, and Sony sell all their gaming consoles at a loss and make their money from games. That is what Apple seems to intend to do with iTunes (even though the iPods are kind of overpriced).
If they were to loose the lock out of being the only ones able to sell music that plays on the iPods then it's like if Nintendo had third party companies like Sony to make games for the Game Cube without a license (ala Tecmo's version of Tetris for the NES in the 80s) and they wouldn't be very tolerant of that.
That and iPods were intended to introduce people to the Mac hardware line. Once people found that they loved iPods they started looking at Mini's and then started looking for everything from Apple. Perhaps Apple will be the next Microsoft in 5 years? That's only speculation....
True, but where 5% of the population owns 90% of the wealth (I think it was around 86% or so though) should the top 5% be paying 90% of the taxes? Hell perhaps being wealthy should be a privlege and unless you earn more than $500,000 per year you shouldn't be taxed at all?
It could work in theory and the fact that government allows you to be wealthy should be a privledge (ie the government protects your from criminals and people seizing your wealth, foreign powers, and provides of means of being wealthy such as having money to begin with).
But in reality I don't think people would go for it. That and taxation and capitalism is mearly a method of fooling people into doing something so there is no point in changing the current situation, but rather to observe the system.
an upcoming invasion and occupation of Iran, economic collapse
Hrm... One would think if we occupied all the oil producing countries we'd be more wealthy now wouldn't we?
Actually... If you ever looked at American economics in detail that the dollar is actually worthless and debt and taxation have no relationship to each other with the Federal Reserve just printing money to third world nations out of thin air. It's more or less a belief in the system rather than it actually having tangible value... Since there is nothing like gold anymore backing up the American dollar the United States really just has to back it up with force.
What one should really worry about is the day that China gets pissy about the US actions in the middle east when everyone's oil is running low and no one bothered looking for altenrative sources.
IF a corporation builds it, it DOES, without argument, belong to the corporation (unless they donate it).
Not unless their property is seized forcefully!
Haven't you heard of Space Pirates? Yaarr!
No, but neither are trade secrets protected by the constitution, but rather other system of laws.
Unless you count copyrights and patents, but this is not copyright or a patent issue since you cannot tradmark or patent the fact you have done something or plan to release something... Besides corporations should not be treated as nations unto themselves otherwise they will violate the Bill of Rights via proxy.
That was supposed to be funny mods. In reality, I'm most likely going to be dragging myself to the theater the night it opens just like all the other times I went to see a horrid video game remake only to wonder why I was there... Mortal Kombat, Mario Brother, and all the other movies that were just horrid. But I'll go to the theater nonetheless in hopes that it will actually be good. I hope they actual prove me wrong because I have been a fan of Doom since I put the demo on my 486sx.
Now for Romero's movie I'll be sure will be very interesting. It's supposed to be about life about 10 years after the Dawn and Day of the Daed where humanity has just gotten used to have zombies around.
I wasn't planning on watching it till it came out on latenight TV and then only if there was nothing else on.
And who says that Indian guy doesn't depend on his job? Why couldn't he have built a life around it? Just because they make fewer "American" dollars than you do, doesn't mean they're poor or any less deserving of what they have.
Same reason why US CEO's steal millions of dollars from their companies and stockholders. It seems they have more money that all of us, but still need more. But they go to jail too... Just ask Martha Stewart and WorldCom CEO's. It's just human nature.
There is always North Korea.
Goddamnit! I knew I should have actually paid attention in my Japanese class!
Still, indie music is probably less strong than it was before Napster came along.
I think that is a matter of preception. Out of personal experience the internet has allowed me to be slightly successful as far as an Indie label goes. (see my link)
I think we've sold more cd's online than at shows so without the internet it would just be the CD's sold at shows or threw word of mouth which the internet of course helps.
The problem still lies in getting people to know there is other stuff out there.
The reason why indie labels still aren't on the same level of majors (besides the million dollar budgets) is that you still can't punch in a url to your car radio and pick up a radio station on the internet. You can't go to a TV and punch in a url and get a indie TV station either. I think it's a matter of effort by the consumer, but once one is easier as the next people will of course consume more "non corporate" material.
That or at least I won't have to listen to crap radio while I am sitting in the car.
The app in question integrates with Office, Small Business Server, Exchange, and SQL Server.
Hrm... Entourage does have Exchange support. It's a bitch to setup (basically you have to have Exchange setup for Outlook Web Access and the interface Entourage into that)
As far as Excel, Word, PowerPoint... Microsoft has it covered. (I will not recommend Outlook for the Mac. It is a horrid application.)
You don't have Access 2003 which I will admit is a major pain, but then again you could always run that off a Terminal Server if you had too when you need a program to run in a true windows environment.
IMO all major corps should have thin clients with locked down apps either with Terminal Server or Citrix unless your job is specifically requires desktop publishing or something that needs heavy CPU usage.
What better way than have a MiniMac tied into MS Terminal Servers?