It's not hypocritical, it's poor taste.
Saying the music isn't worth downloading and then downloading it would be hypocritical, saying the new Pauly Shore movie is pure box-office poison and then going to see it anyway is poor taste. See the difference?
"Copyright infringement isn't theft isn't an excuse to break the law, but it is a court ruling and a defense against the __AA assault (now including movie trailers) that "copyright infringement is theft."
Maybe because you don't feel justified spending the resources, or expanding the plague that is humanity to other planets, and that's perfectly justified.
I, for one, think it's a neat idea, and I don't see anybody else using all that space, If there is I guess we'd find out pretty soon.
I would, except that my statement is not limited to insulting the arguer, but is also the argument against him; that his arguement is inferior to making a statement about the actual issue.
For the cost and ease of management (ie no time spent transfering things peicemeal to other mediums) huge hard drives are the best solution I've seen so far. There's always the possibility of data corruption from leaving your precious 300GB harddrive running nonstop in a poorly ventilated case with your up and down pipes going fullblast with bittorrents but it's not like you stand to lose much except your computers time.
I guess some people have legitimate archiving operations, and they stand to lose a lot of work from corruptions, but if you keep the heat low and the workload managable (and of course maintain backups) everything should be fine.
Of course I miss a lot of tech development if I leave the house for a few days.
Hit the pothole, your suspension will care but you wont if you were paying attention. Hit the rabbit, see above. What if it isn't a rabbit, say it's a deer, well, same thing applies, except you try to slow down alot.
Animals and poor roads are things that happen to everyone, reacting improperly isn't.
As for the tire, whether you can keep control or not is a matter of luck and skill, but being educated and having a properly maintained vehicle can help.
Of the people incarcerated inthe U.S. how many of them had access to the evidence arrayed against them?
Almost all of them.
Of the people who are not given access to the evidence, not charged, not informed of their situation, how many of them do you think find themselves there completely arbitrarly.
Some, but I'd doubt anywhere close to all.
Secret evidence is not non-existant evidence and it has been stated here the variety of reasons why some evidence cannot just be broadcasted around the globe. I'm not saying the system isn't open to abuse, or that it isn't being abused, just that it's a completely understandable system and assuming that it's only use is to be abused is nuts.
Yes, now put yourself in a mildly sound dampening box out in the woods. Then you get pretty much total silence, and every time I expereience that I feel like my head's about to explode.
I give them the benifit of the doubt because for every mass corruption we see there are 1,000 perfectly legitimate happenings. For every innocent man who goes to jail there are 1,000 that are guilty of their crimes. For every soldier soldier that rapes a girl in Japan there are 1,000 that are busy guarding the DMZ in Korea. We can look at instances and say that the world has truly gone to hell, or we can look at the bigger picture and say maybe things aren't really all that bad.
There's nothing wrong with openess and accountability, but there is something wrong with today's common mindset that the government is always doing something shifty. Obviously everyone in jail is innocent, obviously George Bush is pouring sugar in your gas tank while sodomizing your mother. I think the government should be held accountable, as should corperation and everyone, but I don't think they should ever just be presumed guilty based on previous mistakes.
Thankfully for your piece of mind I don't run the shredder.
I also don't undersatand why people bother to comment on spelling. I know how to spell. I know how to use spellcheck. I don't bother. If you think the thousands of readers of/. are that worth impressing you go right ahead. I'll stick to making relevant posts.
Which is worse, a reasonable assumetion (blind trust) or cynical parnoia. Obviously the government is rotten to the core and the coming of the anti-christ, don't be so fucking dense.
Donkey Kong for GBA: $19.99
Super Mario Bros. for GBA: $19.99
Paperboy for GBA: $19.99
Zelda for GBA: $19.99
etc. etc.
Nintendo will give away games they can make a profit off of when hell freezes over.
As for game quality, the current Gamecube games leave me woefully enimpressed. For every great game they can muster PS2 seems to have three. Though it's yet to be seen if Revolution with have backwards compatibility, which seems standard on consoles these days. I hope for its sake that it does.
Scourched Earth will never die, and it's sad that there isn't enough of a market for strategy games, classic games, or non-graphically impressive games in todays market. A part of me weaps for Commander Keen and Mutant Beach.
You don't need to know anything about clipping, holding, time management, or god forbid safeties, to enjoy the game of football. A long pass or a runner in motion are an artform. Get the ball into the endzone, stay between the lines, the rest in minutia and even if you don't have a clue what's going on it's fun to watch.
Baseball, on the other hand, can barely keep my attention even on the highlight reals. Man hits ball, ball goes over fence. Man doesn't hit ball. Sometimes even man runs and catches ball, in an open feild, with a basket. It's a really big feild, I guess, but I'd like to see him doing that with a 250lb linebacker about to lay him flat.
The lines in footbal just make it easier to see visually what people already know is there. THe first down mark and line of scrimmage. The reason you don't need these lines in baseball is that they're already painted on the feild because they never change.
What is more easy to understand for someone who doesn't know the rules?
A) A sacrifice fly, walking a heavy hitter, or even a homerun
B) Guy runs the ball towards one end of the feild, other guys try to stop him.
And before anyone replies "In your example A should be "try to score a run" becuase that's the equivilent of scoring a touchdown, I'm not listing the object of the game, I'm listing situation that people could find excting.
Yes there are dull parts in football, but atleast in football I don't have to watch atleast 3 batters an inning go to a full count, then take 3 more pitches for foul tips before either striking out or hitting a single grounder through the gap.
As someone who has been responcible for disposing of the local FBI offices hardware I can tell you they're atleast mildly responcible. I work for a comapany that handles, among other things, secure data destrcution, and received a pallat of FBI laptops with cool names like "WMD Laptop" and "Project Saber use only". All of the laptops were ordered to be completely destroyed with none of the parts going to resale or refurbishing, even things of little or no security risk like processors. The final step was all of the hardcrives going through a giant industrial shredder and being mixed in with the shredded remains of hundreds of other harddrives.
If you tell the teacher that you don't have your homework right now, is it more likely because you staid up all night playing videogames and didn't do, or because the homework is just too freaking awesome for her to comprehend and you'll get it to her in a year?
You can't write Nintendo out for having absolutely nothing to show, but even more so you can't praise something based on hopes and dreams."
It was more an issue of required developement time and needed space than system release time. THere were early games on DVD and early games on CD. If your game didn't have the extra length or media neccessitating a DVD you wouldn't want to pay for it, which is why I have 2 or 3 games that were not early releases that came out on CD. As the standards were raised for releases (hi res textures, voice acting for RPGs, FMV abound) the DVD became the only option.
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It's not hypocritical, it's poor taste. Saying the music isn't worth downloading and then downloading it would be hypocritical, saying the new Pauly Shore movie is pure box-office poison and then going to see it anyway is poor taste. See the difference? "Copyright infringement isn't theft isn't an excuse to break the law, but it is a court ruling and a defense against the __AA assault (now including movie trailers) that "copyright infringement is theft."
Shush! Supporting colonization for any reason is wrong, even if it's in direct response to someone asking.
Why not?
Maybe because you don't feel justified spending the resources, or expanding the plague that is humanity to other planets, and that's perfectly justified.
I, for one, think it's a neat idea, and I don't see anybody else using all that space, If there is I guess we'd find out pretty soon.
I would, except that my statement is not limited to insulting the arguer, but is also the argument against him; that his arguement is inferior to making a statement about the actual issue.
For ever person with a legitimate use for an SUV I know 10 that do it because it's expensive, big, and excesive.
It's always easier to attack the person than to attack their argument, I guess.
Were you suggesting tape drives? CDs? DVDs?
For the cost and ease of management (ie no time spent transfering things peicemeal to other mediums) huge hard drives are the best solution I've seen so far. There's always the possibility of data corruption from leaving your precious 300GB harddrive running nonstop in a poorly ventilated case with your up and down pipes going fullblast with bittorrents but it's not like you stand to lose much except your computers time.
I guess some people have legitimate archiving operations, and they stand to lose a lot of work from corruptions, but if you keep the heat low and the workload managable (and of course maintain backups) everything should be fine.
Of course I miss a lot of tech development if I leave the house for a few days.
Hit the pothole, your suspension will care but you wont if you were paying attention. Hit the rabbit, see above. What if it isn't a rabbit, say it's a deer, well, same thing applies, except you try to slow down alot.
Animals and poor roads are things that happen to everyone, reacting improperly isn't.
As for the tire, whether you can keep control or not is a matter of luck and skill, but being educated and having a properly maintained vehicle can help.
Of the people incarcerated inthe U.S. how many of them had access to the evidence arrayed against them?
Almost all of them.
Of the people who are not given access to the evidence, not charged, not informed of their situation, how many of them do you think find themselves there completely arbitrarly.
Some, but I'd doubt anywhere close to all.
Secret evidence is not non-existant evidence and it has been stated here the variety of reasons why some evidence cannot just be broadcasted around the globe. I'm not saying the system isn't open to abuse, or that it isn't being abused, just that it's a completely understandable system and assuming that it's only use is to be abused is nuts.
Yes, now put yourself in a mildly sound dampening box out in the woods. Then you get pretty much total silence, and every time I expereience that I feel like my head's about to explode.
I give them the benifit of the doubt because for every mass corruption we see there are 1,000 perfectly legitimate happenings. For every innocent man who goes to jail there are 1,000 that are guilty of their crimes. For every soldier soldier that rapes a girl in Japan there are 1,000 that are busy guarding the DMZ in Korea. We can look at instances and say that the world has truly gone to hell, or we can look at the bigger picture and say maybe things aren't really all that bad.
Corruption of a few does not imply absolute corruption of all.
There's nothing wrong with openess and accountability, but there is something wrong with today's common mindset that the government is always doing something shifty. Obviously everyone in jail is innocent, obviously George Bush is pouring sugar in your gas tank while sodomizing your mother. I think the government should be held accountable, as should corperation and everyone, but I don't think they should ever just be presumed guilty based on previous mistakes.
Thankfully for your piece of mind I don't run the shredder. I also don't undersatand why people bother to comment on spelling. I know how to spell. I know how to use spellcheck. I don't bother. If you think the thousands of readers of /. are that worth impressing you go right ahead. I'll stick to making relevant posts.
Which is worse, a reasonable assumetion (blind trust) or cynical parnoia. Obviously the government is rotten to the core and the coming of the anti-christ, don't be so fucking dense.
Yep. Unless you can give me another reason I downloaded Alone in the Dark.
Donkey Kong for GBA: $19.99 Super Mario Bros. for GBA: $19.99 Paperboy for GBA: $19.99 Zelda for GBA: $19.99 etc. etc. Nintendo will give away games they can make a profit off of when hell freezes over. As for game quality, the current Gamecube games leave me woefully enimpressed. For every great game they can muster PS2 seems to have three. Though it's yet to be seen if Revolution with have backwards compatibility, which seems standard on consoles these days. I hope for its sake that it does. Scourched Earth will never die, and it's sad that there isn't enough of a market for strategy games, classic games, or non-graphically impressive games in todays market. A part of me weaps for Commander Keen and Mutant Beach.
You don't need to know anything about clipping, holding, time management, or god forbid safeties, to enjoy the game of football. A long pass or a runner in motion are an artform. Get the ball into the endzone, stay between the lines, the rest in minutia and even if you don't have a clue what's going on it's fun to watch. Baseball, on the other hand, can barely keep my attention even on the highlight reals. Man hits ball, ball goes over fence. Man doesn't hit ball. Sometimes even man runs and catches ball, in an open feild, with a basket. It's a really big feild, I guess, but I'd like to see him doing that with a 250lb linebacker about to lay him flat.
The lines in footbal just make it easier to see visually what people already know is there. THe first down mark and line of scrimmage. The reason you don't need these lines in baseball is that they're already painted on the feild because they never change.
What is more easy to understand for someone who doesn't know the rules?
A) A sacrifice fly, walking a heavy hitter, or even a homerun
B) Guy runs the ball towards one end of the feild, other guys try to stop him.
And before anyone replies "In your example A should be "try to score a run" becuase that's the equivilent of scoring a touchdown, I'm not listing the object of the game, I'm listing situation that people could find excting.
Yes there are dull parts in football, but atleast in football I don't have to watch atleast 3 batters an inning go to a full count, then take 3 more pitches for foul tips before either striking out or hitting a single grounder through the gap.
You've been violated MS patents for 13 years? You better find a good legal team real fast!
As someone who has been responcible for disposing of the local FBI offices hardware I can tell you they're atleast mildly responcible. I work for a comapany that handles, among other things, secure data destrcution, and received a pallat of FBI laptops with cool names like "WMD Laptop" and "Project Saber use only". All of the laptops were ordered to be completely destroyed with none of the parts going to resale or refurbishing, even things of little or no security risk like processors. The final step was all of the hardcrives going through a giant industrial shredder and being mixed in with the shredded remains of hundreds of other harddrives.
What do you do with all the aluminium after it goes into the incinerator?
People tell me MD is pretty popular in Europe, lord only knows who cares though.
If you tell the teacher that you don't have your homework right now, is it more likely because you staid up all night playing videogames and didn't do, or because the homework is just too freaking awesome for her to comprehend and you'll get it to her in a year? You can't write Nintendo out for having absolutely nothing to show, but even more so you can't praise something based on hopes and dreams."
It was more an issue of required developement time and needed space than system release time. THere were early games on DVD and early games on CD. If your game didn't have the extra length or media neccessitating a DVD you wouldn't want to pay for it, which is why I have 2 or 3 games that were not early releases that came out on CD. As the standards were raised for releases (hi res textures, voice acting for RPGs, FMV abound) the DVD became the only option.