I got down OFF OF the horse.....I got down FROM the horse....potato, potahto.
If you're going to be anal, at least try and be anal about something that is really gramatically incorrect. While perhaps not the best choice of verbage for someone as affluent as a CEO, his sentence is valid.
So does this mean that if they're allowed to do this that the P2P networks can attack them back? I mean, if someone jumps you on the street, you're allowed to defend yourself. They're not operating in any sort of law enforcement capacity, so they have no legal privelege of protection from retaliation. (i.e. this is why retail security guards are told not to lay a hand on shoplifters)
If it comes down to a DoS pissing match between the RIAA and millions of P2P users, my money's on the P2P users. I can just see it now...a Kazaa option to "Flood RIAA attack servers during idle time" option.
I highly doubt this bill will ever pass anyway. If my bandwidth dies suddenly because they're launching attacks on someone on the same node as my cable link, you can bet your ass there's going to be a class action law suit started.
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The worst part of all this is, the arabic number system is not just American, it's used pretty much everywhere. So, if you can't tell the difference between your numbers, you're either an uneducated savage or just a plain old-fashioned stupid fer'ner. Either way, neither party qualifies as a major portion of our Gross Domestic Product.
Yep...that reminds me of the old tenet that developers use when being pressed for deadlines and cost contstraints....
Good quality, fast development, low price.....choose 2
I for one don't tolerate mediocrity in my software if I've paid for it. I'll return a piece of software if it doesn't meet my expectations in a heartbeatr.
On the contraverse, you could say that money from the drug trade and organized crime is going to support pirate CDs. Which is more evil to you....a couple tons of fine Turkish hash or 1,000,000 copies of a Britney Spears cd?
All flipness aside, they're just going for the same angle that fucking "I helped kill a judge" anti-drug commercial that's on TV every 10 minutes....partake of what we consider "bad" and you're supporting anti-patriotic and evil deeds. Fucking propagandist pigs. This is why I don't buy CDs anymore. That's why I eat puppies.
Here's a list of player-run worlds that include a few old-school modules/worlds. I'm still looking for the site that listed all the single modules that were on the list for conversion. Chew on this for new....email me if you want, I'll let you know if I found anything else.
I didn't *HATE* Morrowind, it just didn't "do it" for me. I thought the 3d engine was pretty weak (poor physics and weird clipping) and the textures were all kinda the same....every dungeon looked like every other (with the exception of Daedric ruins) and all the landscape looked alike no matter what the "climate."
The economy in the game is awful, warriors are way overbalanced compared to any other type of character, and the organization of journal information is terrible.
On the upside, the magic system rocks and some of the cities and ruins are pretty cool looking. Oh, and you can become a vampire...that makes it fun for another day or two. I enjoyed the game for about a week of heavy playing between spring and summer semesters...I guess it was worth the net $15 I payed for it after selling it on half.com.
After being rather disappointed with the last few RPGs to come my way (Morrowind being the latest) I'm hoping this lives up to the good Bioware name. Fan sites are already working on plans to mod all the old D&D modules we knew and loved back in the day....Ravenloft, Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, the Drow and Giants series', Temple of Elemental Evil....all the good old stuff I played in high school. It will be worth it for nostalgia's sake alone.
Another plus to this game is that I'll be able to game with all my old friends back home again, just us, not as part of an MMORPG, and in modules of our own design. I'm really looking forward to it.
Going gold has nothing to do with who is selling it to you....it's a term that means there are no more changes being made to code or content, and the final copy is being sent to the publisher for mass distribution.
Mr Love, when exactly did you make the transition from porn to linux, and what prompted this change? Did you realize that you very well may never have sex again in this business?
Yeah, you said it, brother! What Clinton realized that Shrub and his papa never did is that when you put a little more disposable cash into the lower classes hands via healthcare cost reductions and less taxes, it still puts plenty of money into the rich people's pockets. What do you think we poor slobs do with our extra money after our bills are paid? We buy worthless shit that we don't need! The profits from which go back to lining the pockets of executives and shareholders of corporations that manufacture the products we buy.
That is EXACTLY why Clinton's financial policy contributed to the economic boon of the 90s (not the only contributing factor of course) and why Shrub and the rest of the silver-spoon Republicans will never, ever get themselves away from deficit spending. By cutting taxes mostly for the wealthy and cutting programs for the lower classes, thus bypassing the extra cash flow from the lower classes to the upper classes via disposable cash spending, our economy will never be what it once was.
The logic of the original post is unbelievably faulty...there is no comparison between corporate bullying and game developers trying to make their game more fun.
Skipping commercials, pirating music, and stealing cable doesn't hurt or bother anyone but faceless corporations.
cheating at Quake III or Counterstrike annoy the hell out of everyone else that's playing fair and generally make the game a futile experience.
Game developers aren't taking people to court for cheating at their games, nor are they threatening to. In some cases, like Everquest or DAoC, they're banning accounts, but that's still a far cry from the ruinous litagations being put out by the likes of the RIAA and MPAA.
There's just no comparison between these events until the first time a game developer/publisher sues someone for an aim-script hack.
Why is this marked as flamebait? This is the smartest fucking thing anyone's said in response to this article...the guy's absolutely right. Our government seems to have a privacy-removing agenda going on lately, from nuts like Ashcroft all the way up to Bush. There's even a bill being repeatedly sent through Congress to ban yet even more handguns/small arms on the grounds they could be used in "terrorist acts." I mean come on...these guys used freakin box cutters on their airplanes...this is isn't Afghanistan, you need certain qualifications to even BUY a gun. (like citizenship, a drivers license, and the ability to pass a background check) And buying on the black market...well, that's going to be even easier if more guns get banned.
Not to mention the so-called Patriot Act and its provisions to make electronic intrusion a "terrorist act."
All this in the name of fighting terrorism. Someone mod this guy back up. -1 Flamebait, my ass.
I don't know if it's still the case now, but Time Warner's Roadrunner services were subject to the same thing....we scored free cable off a splice from our cable modem, basic cable anyway. This was around two years ago, (I moved out of the area) so it may or may not still be that way.
The problem with the oceans "soaking up" too much CO2 is that when CO2 combines with water, you get carbonic acid (H2CO3), the main component of carbonated beverages....the change in pH if too much CO2 were to dissolve into the ocean could seriously damage the ecosystem. (Ever try and maintain a salt-water aquarium? Screw the pH up more than a fraction and your fish die)
That being said, the ocean doesn't have infinite ability to take on CO2 anyway, as it's not very soluble unless under pressure or at very low temperature....not to mention the sea water has significant amounts of salt already present leaving less room to maximum saturation levels.
No, selling a service (i.e. seller/customer relationship) is completely different from requesting to be employed (employer/employee relationship) by a company. (this is my interpretation of US law, keep in mind, but I doubt EU is that much different in the differentiation between the two)
If you're a contractor and you're trying to pimp your services, that might be another story as that's getting into a client relationship. I suspect this EU law covers bulk transmissions pretty much exclusively.
If you could never, ever ask a person or business on an individual level to buy something from you, no one would ever drum up new business. In other words...if I ask just you to buy my product, that's probably ok under this law and it's really not spam....if I ask 100,000 other people at the same time, that's no good....and that's what this law is trying to prevent. Unsolicited bulk commercial email....spam.
Why is Mandarin one of the first four languages translated?
Because, on a global population-based scale, it's the most commonly spoken language. Haven't you ever heard that old statistics joke about how according to the population statistics for the entire world, 1 in 4 people speak Mandarin Chinese?
It varies with location....unlike DSL, cable customers usually do not get to choose their bandwidth configuration, you just take what is the standard in your area. The standard bandwidth is presumably whatever AT&T's main trunk and equipment is set up to allow in your locality. For instance, in the Denver Colorado area the bandwidth is 1.5Mbs downstream, 128Kbs upstream. I pay about $50 after taxes and fees. They're actually pretty good about not saturating the link with oversubscribing and my service has only gone out on me once since I've had it (1 year) and that was when @Home went tits-up and AT&T took over ISP duties. And that was only a 2 day outage.
I lease my modem so this doesn't really affect me anyway. I learned the hard way when I had DSL at my last apartment that owning a $200 broadband router bites if you don't renew the same service. Anyone wanna buy a cisco 675?
Keep in mind that not everyone leaves Kazaa connected all the time and many folks don't share anything out. The number is quite probably much higher than 5800.
Because it's been said 6.02x10^23 times before....copyright violation is not stealing. If you pirate a CD, it doesn't mean the publisher/artist does not have it anymore. If you walk into someone's house and take the CD from their player and leave, THAT is stealing.
Copyright violation is not a criminal offense, it is a civil offense. Do you understand the difference?
Are you looking to get away from M$ entirely, or just Office because of its hideous licensing scheme?
You're in for a real treat if you're going to try and get an alternative OS going in an environment that's not filled with techies....most of these people took years just to "learn" Windows, Linux (or whatever) is going to be a nightmare for them.
Maybe you should just look into a different office suite.
As a side note, it really bites my ass that M$ is trying to leverage companies into paying more money because of the fear of having to switch to new apps that possibly might be incompatible with other companies' documents. Yet another reason proprietary technology sucks. There needs to be an industry-wide switch to open document formats....RTF and whatever the spreadsheet and presentation software equivalents might be.
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I got down OFF OF the horse.....I got down FROM the horse....potato, potahto.
If you're going to be anal, at least try and be anal about something that is really gramatically incorrect. While perhaps not the best choice of verbage for someone as affluent as a CEO, his sentence is valid.
So does this mean that if they're allowed to do this that the P2P networks can attack them back? I mean, if someone jumps you on the street, you're allowed to defend yourself. They're not operating in any sort of law enforcement capacity, so they have no legal privelege of protection from retaliation. (i.e. this is why retail security guards are told not to lay a hand on shoplifters)
If it comes down to a DoS pissing match between the RIAA and millions of P2P users, my money's on the P2P users. I can just see it now...a Kazaa option to "Flood RIAA attack servers during idle time" option.
I highly doubt this bill will ever pass anyway. If my bandwidth dies suddenly because they're launching attacks on someone on the same node as my cable link, you can bet your ass there's going to be a class action law suit started.
The worst part of all this is, the arabic number system is not just American, it's used pretty much everywhere. So, if you can't tell the difference between your numbers, you're either an uneducated savage or just a plain old-fashioned stupid fer'ner. Either way, neither party qualifies as a major portion of our Gross Domestic Product.
Yep...that reminds me of the old tenet that developers use when being pressed for deadlines and cost contstraints....
Good quality, fast development, low price.....choose 2
I for one don't tolerate mediocrity in my software if I've paid for it. I'll return a piece of software if it doesn't meet my expectations in a heartbeatr.
On the contraverse, you could say that money from the drug trade and organized crime is going to support pirate CDs. Which is more evil to you....a couple tons of fine Turkish hash or 1,000,000 copies of a Britney Spears cd?
All flipness aside, they're just going for the same angle that fucking "I helped kill a judge" anti-drug commercial that's on TV every 10 minutes....partake of what we consider "bad" and you're supporting anti-patriotic and evil deeds. Fucking propagandist pigs. This is why I don't buy CDs anymore. That's why I eat puppies.
Here's a list of player-run worlds that include a few old-school modules/worlds. I'm still looking for the site that listed all the single modules that were on the list for conversion. Chew on this for new....email me if you want, I'll let you know if I found anything else.
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http://www.planetneverwinter.com/community/proj
I didn't *HATE* Morrowind, it just didn't "do it" for me. I thought the 3d engine was pretty weak (poor physics and weird clipping) and the textures were all kinda the same....every dungeon looked like every other (with the exception of Daedric ruins) and all the landscape looked alike no matter what the "climate."
The economy in the game is awful, warriors are way overbalanced compared to any other type of character, and the organization of journal information is terrible.
On the upside, the magic system rocks and some of the cities and ruins are pretty cool looking. Oh, and you can become a vampire...that makes it fun for another day or two. I enjoyed the game for about a week of heavy playing between spring and summer semesters...I guess it was worth the net $15 I payed for it after selling it on half.com.
After being rather disappointed with the last few RPGs to come my way (Morrowind being the latest) I'm hoping this lives up to the good Bioware name. Fan sites are already working on plans to mod all the old D&D modules we knew and loved back in the day....Ravenloft, Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, the Drow and Giants series', Temple of Elemental Evil....all the good old stuff I played in high school. It will be worth it for nostalgia's sake alone.
Another plus to this game is that I'll be able to game with all my old friends back home again, just us, not as part of an MMORPG, and in modules of our own design. I'm really looking forward to it.
Going gold has nothing to do with who is selling it to you....it's a term that means there are no more changes being made to code or content, and the final copy is being sent to the publisher for mass distribution.
You meant drive SUVs right?
Mr Love, when exactly did you make the transition from porn to linux, and what prompted this change? Did you realize that you very well may never have sex again in this business?
Yeah, you said it, brother! What Clinton realized that Shrub and his papa never did is that when you put a little more disposable cash into the lower classes hands via healthcare cost reductions and less taxes, it still puts plenty of money into the rich people's pockets. What do you think we poor slobs do with our extra money after our bills are paid? We buy worthless shit that we don't need! The profits from which go back to lining the pockets of executives and shareholders of corporations that manufacture the products we buy.
That is EXACTLY why Clinton's financial policy contributed to the economic boon of the 90s (not the only contributing factor of course) and why Shrub and the rest of the silver-spoon Republicans will never, ever get themselves away from deficit spending. By cutting taxes mostly for the wealthy and cutting programs for the lower classes, thus bypassing the extra cash flow from the lower classes to the upper classes via disposable cash spending, our economy will never be what it once was.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The logic of the original post is unbelievably faulty...there is no comparison between corporate bullying and game developers trying to make their game more fun.
Skipping commercials, pirating music, and stealing cable doesn't hurt or bother anyone but faceless corporations.
cheating at Quake III or Counterstrike annoy the hell out of everyone else that's playing fair and generally make the game a futile experience.
Game developers aren't taking people to court for cheating at their games, nor are they threatening to. In some cases, like Everquest or DAoC, they're banning accounts, but that's still a far cry from the ruinous litagations being put out by the likes of the RIAA and MPAA.
There's just no comparison between these events until the first time a game developer/publisher sues someone for an aim-script hack.
Why is this marked as flamebait? This is the smartest fucking thing anyone's said in response to this article...the guy's absolutely right. Our government seems to have a privacy-removing agenda going on lately, from nuts like Ashcroft all the way up to Bush. There's even a bill being repeatedly sent through Congress to ban yet even more handguns/small arms on the grounds they could be used in "terrorist acts." I mean come on...these guys used freakin box cutters on their airplanes...this is isn't Afghanistan, you need certain qualifications to even BUY a gun. (like citizenship, a drivers license, and the ability to pass a background check) And buying on the black market...well, that's going to be even easier if more guns get banned.
Not to mention the so-called Patriot Act and its provisions to make electronic intrusion a "terrorist act."
All this in the name of fighting terrorism. Someone mod this guy back up. -1 Flamebait, my ass.
Freud is being used to purchase weapons - hello and welcome to the world of gunrunning
You know, sometimes an M-16 is just an M-16.
There's another famous psychiatrist who was into terrorism, too...does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
everyone get milkfaced and hum like bunnies!
OMFG, I thought I was the only one who remembers that sketch from The State. Or even remembers The State at all.
I don't know if it's still the case now, but Time Warner's Roadrunner services were subject to the same thing....we scored free cable off a splice from our cable modem, basic cable anyway. This was around two years ago, (I moved out of the area) so it may or may not still be that way.
The problem with the oceans "soaking up" too much CO2 is that when CO2 combines with water, you get carbonic acid (H2CO3), the main component of carbonated beverages....the change in pH if too much CO2 were to dissolve into the ocean could seriously damage the ecosystem. (Ever try and maintain a salt-water aquarium? Screw the pH up more than a fraction and your fish die)
That being said, the ocean doesn't have infinite ability to take on CO2 anyway, as it's not very soluble unless under pressure or at very low temperature....not to mention the sea water has significant amounts of salt already present leaving less room to maximum saturation levels.
No, selling a service (i.e. seller/customer relationship) is completely different from requesting to be employed (employer/employee relationship) by a company. (this is my interpretation of US law, keep in mind, but I doubt EU is that much different in the differentiation between the two)
If you're a contractor and you're trying to pimp your services, that might be another story as that's getting into a client relationship. I suspect this EU law covers bulk transmissions pretty much exclusively.
If you could never, ever ask a person or business on an individual level to buy something from you, no one would ever drum up new business. In other words...if I ask just you to buy my product, that's probably ok under this law and it's really not spam....if I ask 100,000 other people at the same time, that's no good....and that's what this law is trying to prevent. Unsolicited bulk commercial email....spam.
All clear?
Why is Mandarin one of the first four languages translated?
Because, on a global population-based scale, it's the most commonly spoken language. Haven't you ever heard that old statistics joke about how according to the population statistics for the entire world, 1 in 4 people speak Mandarin Chinese?
It varies with location....unlike DSL, cable customers usually do not get to choose their bandwidth configuration, you just take what is the standard in your area. The standard bandwidth is presumably whatever AT&T's main trunk and equipment is set up to allow in your locality. For instance, in the Denver Colorado area the bandwidth is 1.5Mbs downstream, 128Kbs upstream. I pay about $50 after taxes and fees. They're actually pretty good about not saturating the link with oversubscribing and my service has only gone out on me once since I've had it (1 year) and that was when @Home went tits-up and AT&T took over ISP duties. And that was only a 2 day outage.
I lease my modem so this doesn't really affect me anyway. I learned the hard way when I had DSL at my last apartment that owning a $200 broadband router bites if you don't renew the same service. Anyone wanna buy a cisco 675?
Keep in mind that not everyone leaves Kazaa connected all the time and many folks don't share anything out. The number is quite probably much higher than 5800.
Because it's been said 6.02x10^23 times before....copyright violation is not stealing. If you pirate a CD, it doesn't mean the publisher/artist does not have it anymore. If you walk into someone's house and take the CD from their player and leave, THAT is stealing.
Copyright violation is not a criminal offense, it is a civil offense. Do you understand the difference?
Are you looking to get away from M$ entirely, or just Office because of its hideous licensing scheme?
You're in for a real treat if you're going to try and get an alternative OS going in an environment that's not filled with techies....most of these people took years just to "learn" Windows, Linux (or whatever) is going to be a nightmare for them.
Maybe you should just look into a different office suite.
As a side note, it really bites my ass that M$ is trying to leverage companies into paying more money because of the fear of having to switch to new apps that possibly might be incompatible with other companies' documents. Yet another reason proprietary technology sucks. There needs to be an industry-wide switch to open document formats....RTF and whatever the spreadsheet and presentation software equivalents might be.
That's the funniest thing I've read on slashdot...ever. Here's $10, go buy yourself a steak.