Yes, the government uses acronyms for everything, but why?
1. Think of a longer, more technical sounding way to say something like booby trap 2. Substitute an acronym in for the phrase when you find yourself repeating it 3. ???? 4. Profit!
The reason for the acronyms is that they make the idiots at the White House sound more competent and knowledgeable than they actually are, expecially when they are forced to explain that troops are being killed by booby traps.
Seriously, google it, I have an M6811, and when I unplug it it magically turns into an 800MHz box, cpufreq be damned, lol.. I can still play quake3 or watch movies when it's like that though:)
That's funny, cause 2 years ago I got a 2.2Ghz A64 3400+ in a 15.4in lappy, and it gets over 2 hours of battery life. Then again, it underclocks to 800MHz when unplugged because the manufacturer said so.
I don't use Windows or Mac OS X, but you're lying to yourself if you think someone's going to spend an extra 200 bucks just so they can run your poorly integrated software inside a VM. The best you can hope for is to test your app in WINE, and make sure that works, but either way, you're cutting off the indignant Mac fanboy market plus the average user who doesn't want to jump through hoops market.
Excepting the 50000 a year going to the salary of the guy who runs the entire think tank, including the ID crap.. It's only 50000 compared to hundreds of millions, but it angers me nonetheless, in the same way that people spending a measly hundred bucks or two on Windows drives me nuts.
I don't think so, I think the main idea is that they are good games that were underrated in the mainstream. The goodwill comes from showing that you aren't making a game to sell it to the juicy mainstream market and make the most money possible, but for the sake of making a good game that includes some originality.
The last thing you say demonstrates that you missed the point, and should have made you stop and think. Right in the summary the idea of generating goodwill towards the developer is mentioned. I doubt that very many people feel extra goodwill towards Microsoft as a result of using Windows for the past decade - I certainly don't.
No, it's just that Ubuntu only provides mostly security updates between releases, so a lot of stuff is perpetually out of date. There are other options if you don't like this behavior, but I can't recommend one that is similar to Ubuntu because I have no resources or time to try other distributions than the two I use.
Yep, I didn't mean to imply that I disagreed with you, it's really all about the ability to use the material for everything that isn't just spinning a CD. The same applies to free software. People may try to argue that your average person doesn't want or need to be able to modify code that they run, but that's not the point, the point is that with that freedom, someone can port quake 3 to your PDA and you can benefit, geek or not. Sad how much further we need to go before such things are widely recognized (so it seems to me).
The point of copyright having any end whatsoever is so that works get added to the public domain to be remixed/reimagined by the next artist.
The public "freely enjoying" is only a distant second to ensuring that the next generation of artists has something to work with.
I don't see how this remixing/reworking/whatever is not included in the broad definition of the public freely enjoying previous works. Artists, businesses, they are all members of the public, and public domain includes all of them. In any case, my point was that the public benefits, rather than having the content locked away. An example of something that copyright stifles is the use of contemporary music with rhythmic patterns of steps or strums in games like DDR and Guitar hero.
You miss the point of reducing copyright's lifespan, which is to allow people to freely enjoy stuff once it has been <subjective>fairly</subjective> exploited by its creator. Once they've made their cut selling something, they should lose the copyright so that the information can provide a greater good than it does if it is locked away. Anyone that argues that reduced copyright will harm the economy is merely asking for us to ignore the overvalued, bubble-like falseness of our current information economy. Eventually that bubble will pop, and all of these information production industries will become service oriented, ie. people selling labour rather than products of labour. IP laws are only prolonging the bubble, both directly, and by enforcing the flawed paradigm of idea as concrete property. There are many who can't wrap their heads around the free software model, and yet at the same time, free software exists and is flourishing, regardless of whether it is well understood why anyone would bother to create it without locking it up and exploiting it. Is there any reason why the free software model cannot succeed with ideas, music, movies, and other copyrighted content? Unless there is one, it's only a matter of time before other types of information start to become freely available in large, useful quantities.
Thanks for making the web less accessible with this crap, I was hoping to be included in this dissemination of information, rather than discriminated against because of my choice in operating systems
Yes, there is a Linux beta for Flash 9, but the sound would break whenever a flash applet got starved of resources, so I had to downgrade.
I heard that though the crash is still there, the vulnerability is not. While I'm disappointed by some of the bugs that remain between releases, I'm skeptical that they would knowingly leave a critical security hole in for over 4 months. The only valid recourse for anybody who doesn't like the bugs is to either fix them, write a better browser altogether, or switch browsers, but good luck finding a better browser.
Forking takes technical skills. Accordingly, her website states that she is a "prominent author for many websites", and yet the same page carries the notice "Site Developed by IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd.". Why did she even get the attention of an article?
Sure - keep in mind that I'm talking about sensitive data, not just everything. In fact, I don't necessarily think it's necessary to encrypt the entire disk. But if a laptop contains data that a company would very much prefer not to be available to anyone outside the company, then I don't know why it should be allowed to leave the premises unencrypted. It shouldn't matter who is taking it out, the bottom line is that if it's being carried around, it could be lost or stolen, and if it is, it's nice to know that a few million credit card numbers didn't just get released to a thief.
In the context of stupid employers/empoyees losing laptops with sensitive databases on them, this isn't even a question - the data should never leave company premises unless it's encrypted, end of story. The fact that this isn't standard practice indicates widespread incompetence.
The problem with Echoes was a goofy story (with goofy troop logs), and mediocre music. Metroid prime was very faithful to elements from super metroid, and thus as nostalgic as it gets, while at the same time being somewhat gritty. Echoes was a disappointment because of that - they innovated with the gameplay, but missed the point with the presentation. I blame Nintendo, according to the extras material in the game, they meticulously specified the contents of cutscenes, probably the story as well, but I forget.:(
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Yes, the government uses acronyms for everything, but why?
1. Think of a longer, more technical sounding way to say something like booby trap
2. Substitute an acronym in for the phrase when you find yourself repeating it
3. ????
4. Profit!
The reason for the acronyms is that they make the idiots at the White House sound more competent and knowledgeable than they actually are, expecially when they are forced to explain that troops are being killed by booby traps.
Seriously, google it, I have an M6811, and when I unplug it it magically turns into an 800MHz box, cpufreq be damned, lol.. I can still play quake3 or watch movies when it's like that though :)
That's funny, cause 2 years ago I got a 2.2Ghz A64 3400+ in a 15.4in lappy, and it gets over 2 hours of battery life. Then again, it underclocks to 800MHz when unplugged because the manufacturer said so.
I don't use Windows or Mac OS X, but you're lying to yourself if you think someone's going to spend an extra 200 bucks just so they can run your poorly integrated software inside a VM. The best you can hope for is to test your app in WINE, and make sure that works, but either way, you're cutting off the indignant Mac fanboy market plus the average user who doesn't want to jump through hoops market.
Excepting the 50000 a year going to the salary of the guy who runs the entire think tank, including the ID crap.. It's only 50000 compared to hundreds of millions, but it angers me nonetheless, in the same way that people spending a measly hundred bucks or two on Windows drives me nuts.
I don't think so, I think the main idea is that they are good games that were underrated in the mainstream. The goodwill comes from showing that you aren't making a game to sell it to the juicy mainstream market and make the most money possible, but for the sake of making a good game that includes some originality.
The last thing you say demonstrates that you missed the point, and should have made you stop and think. Right in the summary the idea of generating goodwill towards the developer is mentioned. I doubt that very many people feel extra goodwill towards Microsoft as a result of using Windows for the past decade - I certainly don't.
Some people are both filthy rich and into playing video games. This is for them.
Indeed, keep in mind that 20000 yen is over $150 USD.. This isn't bumvertising, it's people being paid a chunk of cash to wait in line.
Sheesh, next thing you know, you're going to tell me that I won't become a better dancer by playing DDR..
No, it's just that Ubuntu only provides mostly security updates between releases, so a lot of stuff is perpetually out of date. There are other options if you don't like this behavior, but I can't recommend one that is similar to Ubuntu because I have no resources or time to try other distributions than the two I use.
Yep, I didn't mean to imply that I disagreed with you, it's really all about the ability to use the material for everything that isn't just spinning a CD. The same applies to free software. People may try to argue that your average person doesn't want or need to be able to modify code that they run, but that's not the point, the point is that with that freedom, someone can port quake 3 to your PDA and you can benefit, geek or not. Sad how much further we need to go before such things are widely recognized (so it seems to me).
You miss the point of reducing copyright's lifespan, which is to allow people to freely enjoy stuff once it has been <subjective>fairly</subjective> exploited by its creator. Once they've made their cut selling something, they should lose the copyright so that the information can provide a greater good than it does if it is locked away. Anyone that argues that reduced copyright will harm the economy is merely asking for us to ignore the overvalued, bubble-like falseness of our current information economy. Eventually that bubble will pop, and all of these information production industries will become service oriented, ie. people selling labour rather than products of labour. IP laws are only prolonging the bubble, both directly, and by enforcing the flawed paradigm of idea as concrete property. There are many who can't wrap their heads around the free software model, and yet at the same time, free software exists and is flourishing, regardless of whether it is well understood why anyone would bother to create it without locking it up and exploiting it. Is there any reason why the free software model cannot succeed with ideas, music, movies, and other copyrighted content? Unless there is one, it's only a matter of time before other types of information start to become freely available in large, useful quantities.
Mod parent up! you'd be surprised just how easy it is to migrate your family to Ubuntu or something similar - both my mom and younger sister use it.
Irritating KDE one-click style file selector? You can change that in KControl, and if you hate it that badly, maybe you should figure out how to.
Thanks for making the web less accessible with this crap, I was hoping to be included in this dissemination of information, rather than discriminated against because of my choice in operating systems
Yes, there is a Linux beta for Flash 9, but the sound would break whenever a flash applet got starved of resources, so I had to downgrade.
Nice list, but I don't consider any of those to be better, hence my blanket statement.
I heard that though the crash is still there, the vulnerability is not. While I'm disappointed by some of the bugs that remain between releases, I'm skeptical that they would knowingly leave a critical security hole in for over 4 months. The only valid recourse for anybody who doesn't like the bugs is to either fix them, write a better browser altogether, or switch browsers, but good luck finding a better browser.
Forking takes technical skills. Accordingly, her website states that she is a "prominent author for many websites", and yet the same page carries the notice "Site Developed by IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd.". Why did she even get the attention of an article?
Sure - keep in mind that I'm talking about sensitive data, not just everything. In fact, I don't necessarily think it's necessary to encrypt the entire disk. But if a laptop contains data that a company would very much prefer not to be available to anyone outside the company, then I don't know why it should be allowed to leave the premises unencrypted. It shouldn't matter who is taking it out, the bottom line is that if it's being carried around, it could be lost or stolen, and if it is, it's nice to know that a few million credit card numbers didn't just get released to a thief.
In the context of stupid employers/empoyees losing laptops with sensitive databases on them, this isn't even a question - the data should never leave company premises unless it's encrypted, end of story. The fact that this isn't standard practice indicates widespread incompetence.
hahaha, Canadian politics FTW!
The problem with Echoes was a goofy story (with goofy troop logs), and mediocre music. Metroid prime was very faithful to elements from super metroid, and thus as nostalgic as it gets, while at the same time being somewhat gritty. Echoes was a disappointment because of that - they innovated with the gameplay, but missed the point with the presentation. I blame Nintendo, according to the extras material in the game, they meticulously specified the contents of cutscenes, probably the story as well, but I forget. :(