IANAL but I would imagine the right to not incriminate yourself should apply. But just to be sure make sure your media is on a completely encrypted drive or partition not marked as a partition.
Truecrypt... pity its not a bios product!:P
Google isint breaking new ground with this move, they already have Google Video which has much the same content as Youtube (Youtube still looks awful, but better than goole video by far) and they havent been sued for content infingement yet so I dont see how aquiring youtube will expose them to litigation.
There is nothing groundbreaking or revelutionary about this deal, google is all about eyeballs, they just bought YouTube's eyballs.
Im in a queue for AB so could be called away any second....
Seriosly -
The games industry has a big problem. I have been gaming for over 20 years and started WoW about a year and a half ago. After 8 months I stopped playing altogether and closed my wow account hoping to find pastures new.
But there was nothing. The game industry is in a serious creative vacum of FPS's, crappy recycled sports franchises (Tiger Woods 2004 vs 2005? WTF?) and MMORPG's that all mimic each other with slight variations.
So it was back to WoW! Why? Because there quite simply is nothing else out there at the moment that gives the same satifaction as joining 40 other fellow players and downing Ragnaros.
Blaming WoW for the drop in games sales is a deperate attemt to draw attention away from the mess the MBA's have made of the gaming scene.
Im probably inviting a lynching from the zealots but...
Linux aint much better! I have been messing with linux in one form or another (started with slack in the mid 90's but have since moved to ubuntu and suse 10.1) and it is still messy to get things done in the gui environments without logging as root (note: I didnt say it CANT be done, its just easier as root)!
I anticipate Vista to have the same hangups I have come to find annoying with linux... the need to punch in my loooong root password every time I want to do something as simple as install an app or navigate my own system freely.
I just want it to be simple, the same as everyone else. I also want it to be secure enough that i dont constantly have to visit my friends and relatives without having to bring along my antivirus and antispyware kit.
It easy for everyone to knock it but I dont see many people actually offering any helpful solutions. Who cares wether its Windows, Linux, OSX, BeOS, *nix or any other OS. As long as it gets the job done with a minimum of fuss.
Blogger Arik Hesseldahl needs to consider Mac users now use Intel hardware I hardly see how they are not "PC" buyers themselves and therefore just as stupid as the rest of the computer using world...
And considering the latest stories in the press it hardly seems that the affluent (read gulliable) are getting a better deal than anyone else! http://theinquirer.net/?article=31375
Even Woz isin't confident in apple's hardware these days!
IF Training = 0 AND management="clueless" THEN FindNewJob=Now
ELSE
SET KeepHeadDown="YES" AND GOSUB PrayNothingGoesWrong.
ON ERROR Gosub YouWillBeBlamedAndFired
END
Star trek is a classic of the "Short Story" tradition of Sci-Fi. Each episode was meant to be a self contained story in itself and it is in no small part to this concept that it has been such a success, outlasting every single other kind of tv show in history.
Fans of the original and TNG knew the characters were flat and 2 dimensional (The heroic captain, the caring ethical doctor, the logical vulcan etc...) but they were secondary to the story itself. What little character development there was was not integral to the stories themselves.
ST and TNG allowed us to tell ludicrous tales and place ourselves in bizzare scenarios all the while emerging triumphant and/or more learned in the cheeseiest of ways. It didnt matter when you became a fan or which episode was your first, you knew what was going on and could automatically engage with the wider audience.
Follow on sieries, Voyager & DS9 tended to follow the same lines of self contained episodes but added the character develpment dimension. This was both a blessing and a curse as it allowed the casual fan thier allocation of sci-fi cheese but also groomed the hardcore trekker and allowed him/her/it to become one with the ST universe and boast of in depth knowlege and experience. Harmless stuff but already the concentration on character developemnt was taking its toll on the casual fan who could simply watch the dross offered up by more character driven TV for thier daily fix of soap opera antics sans sci-fi element.
Enterprise was the final nail in the ST coffin however. A laaaaarge over arching plotline (the salvation of earth no less), the abandoning of cheese and the adoption of 'serious' plotlines and character developemnt without any over the top bizzareness meant that even the hardcore fans were pressed to swallow some of the plotlines and dialogue and nothing pisses people off more that another bloody "Continued..." sieries of episodes.
I mean I wastch ST if its on and i stumble across it on a channel surf, I dont want to have in depth knowlegde of every character in order to make sense of whats going on!
As for new(er) examples of the genre - I hardly think that Lost (another "Continued next episode" pile of Sh1t)can be considered "Sci-Fi" any more than ST can be considered "Drama".
Battlestar Galactica is the new (or old?!?) example of TV Sci-fi... SG-1, Firefly, hell even Andromeda or Farscape are better examples of where Sci-Fi actually is.
But show some respect as we bury ST. Were it not for Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry and his dedicated fans we might all be holding up "Buck Rogers" as the best example of early TV Sci-Fi!!!
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IANAL but I would imagine the right to not incriminate yourself should apply. But just to be sure make sure your media is on a completely encrypted drive or partition not marked as a partition. Truecrypt... pity its not a bios product! :P
Google isint breaking new ground with this move, they already have Google Video which has much the same content as Youtube (Youtube still looks awful, but better than goole video by far) and they havent been sued for content infingement yet so I dont see how aquiring youtube will expose them to litigation. There is nothing groundbreaking or revelutionary about this deal, google is all about eyeballs, they just bought YouTube's eyballs.
Pity you have to own a PC to read the article explianing why consoles are better! :P
You have killed my parent thread! Prepare to die!
"John Romero doesent need this!"
Im in a queue for AB so could be called away any second.... Seriosly - The games industry has a big problem. I have been gaming for over 20 years and started WoW about a year and a half ago. After 8 months I stopped playing altogether and closed my wow account hoping to find pastures new. But there was nothing. The game industry is in a serious creative vacum of FPS's, crappy recycled sports franchises (Tiger Woods 2004 vs 2005? WTF?) and MMORPG's that all mimic each other with slight variations. So it was back to WoW! Why? Because there quite simply is nothing else out there at the moment that gives the same satifaction as joining 40 other fellow players and downing Ragnaros. Blaming WoW for the drop in games sales is a deperate attemt to draw attention away from the mess the MBA's have made of the gaming scene.
!worthhacking != Secure
Im probably inviting a lynching from the zealots but... Linux aint much better! I have been messing with linux in one form or another (started with slack in the mid 90's but have since moved to ubuntu and suse 10.1) and it is still messy to get things done in the gui environments without logging as root (note: I didnt say it CANT be done, its just easier as root)! I anticipate Vista to have the same hangups I have come to find annoying with linux... the need to punch in my loooong root password every time I want to do something as simple as install an app or navigate my own system freely. I just want it to be simple, the same as everyone else. I also want it to be secure enough that i dont constantly have to visit my friends and relatives without having to bring along my antivirus and antispyware kit. It easy for everyone to knock it but I dont see many people actually offering any helpful solutions. Who cares wether its Windows, Linux, OSX, BeOS, *nix or any other OS. As long as it gets the job done with a minimum of fuss.
And considering the latest stories in the press it hardly seems that the affluent (read gulliable) are getting a better deal than anyone else! http://theinquirer.net/?article=31375
Even Woz isin't confident in apple's hardware these days!
Oh, and lastly, !WorthHacking != Secure
IF Training = 0 AND management="clueless" THEN FindNewJob=Now ELSE SET KeepHeadDown="YES" AND GOSUB PrayNothingGoesWrong. ON ERROR Gosub YouWillBeBlamedAndFired END
I have to disagree with the article...
I come not to Praise Star Trek, but to Bury it.
Star trek is a classic of the "Short Story" tradition of Sci-Fi. Each episode was meant to be a self contained story in itself and it is in no small part to this concept that it has been such a success, outlasting every single other kind of tv show in history.
Fans of the original and TNG knew the characters were flat and 2 dimensional (The heroic captain, the caring ethical doctor, the logical vulcan etc...) but they were secondary to the story itself. What little character development there was was not integral to the stories themselves.
ST and TNG allowed us to tell ludicrous tales and place ourselves in bizzare scenarios all the while emerging triumphant and/or more learned in the cheeseiest of ways. It didnt matter when you became a fan or which episode was your first, you knew what was going on and could automatically engage with the wider audience.
Follow on sieries, Voyager & DS9 tended to follow the same lines of self contained episodes but added the character develpment dimension. This was both a blessing and a curse as it allowed the casual fan thier allocation of sci-fi cheese but also groomed the hardcore trekker and allowed him/her/it to become one with the ST universe and boast of in depth knowlege and experience. Harmless stuff but already the concentration on character developemnt was taking its toll on the casual fan who could simply watch the dross offered up by more character driven TV for thier daily fix of soap opera antics sans sci-fi element.
Enterprise was the final nail in the ST coffin however. A laaaaarge over arching plotline (the salvation of earth no less), the abandoning of cheese and the adoption of 'serious' plotlines and character developemnt without any over the top bizzareness meant that even the hardcore fans were pressed to swallow some of the plotlines and dialogue and nothing pisses people off more that another bloody "Continued..." sieries of episodes.
I mean I wastch ST if its on and i stumble across it on a channel surf, I dont want to have in depth knowlegde of every character in order to make sense of whats going on!
As for new(er) examples of the genre - I hardly think that Lost (another "Continued next episode" pile of Sh1t)can be considered "Sci-Fi" any more than ST can be considered "Drama".
Battlestar Galactica is the new (or old?!?) example of TV Sci-fi... SG-1, Firefly, hell even Andromeda or Farscape are better examples of where Sci-Fi actually is.
But show some respect as we bury ST. Were it not for Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry and his dedicated fans we might all be holding up "Buck Rogers" as the best example of early TV Sci-Fi!!!
Just my 2 dime's worth!
C.