The precedent here is that all (not very creative) artists who emulate someone (in awe or poor taste) have done something illegal. This is wrong.
Society will punish these artists "socially" (=bad reputation) as we have always done, and not through legal action.
Good taste and not lawsuits should dictate our behaviour. People pay millions for "the original" for the right to say "but this is the original", which makes us marvel at the work, study the details aso. While anyone can get a copy online or at Ikea..
How will this precedent fare with stock photography, for instance? Or Disney's fairy tales that are clearly inspired by Old world tales?
Not very long ago the same happened in Christian societies.. fact is, Islam, Christianity and Jewish faith is more or less the same. The rest is lack of education and lack of social reform.
Religion is a great weapon for bigots, fanatics and anyone seeking power.
These words, in the context of ethics, are subject to the principle of universalization. Not from a normative perspective, but judging from our de facto practice.
Habermas' work on the formal pragmatics of communication aims at the very core of our ethical language practices just in order to show that, for all time and all rational beings, there is a Right and Wrong.
The prospect of ignoring other (human) beings' sufferings is not one that can be made true in the internal workings of our selves, and only goes to show profound (or rather fundamental) ignorance that in the end is also hurtful to the self.
My point being, patience young padawan. You don't see the trees for the forest. And I realize this reply was not intended for you alone (but I'm writing on my Nokia:)
I am a philosopher and happy, godless heathen, by the way:)
They are. And thanks to a pretty good search engine we all know that encourages semantic structure, you can sit back and relax while the web sorts itself out. Survival of the strictest.
Now if I implemented the XHTML 1.0 Strict version of my site that I wrote two years ago anytime soon, I'd probably get a knock up the PageRank ladder.
There's a valid point easily overseen in the parent post; the selling software, the one application that sells the OS.
At the time, that software is Office 2007.
Personally and professionally I use GNU/Linux. But until there is an app suite that combines an office suit, mail system and archive, a calendar/appointment scheduler, a powerful search engine and preferably a way to publish items from the above on the Intranet, I will have a hard time convincing my colleagues to do the switch.
Many of them don't even like the changes in Office 2007, but they stick with it despite its flaws and all the extra work of the OS it runs on. If something like this emerges from the FOSS community, in addition to the legislative changes with regards to open standards, they will switch. And never look back.
Now, I know many FOSS applications that do the things above, and do it better, on my linux desktops. But they don't integrate into a single user experience. Yet.
I was actually sent to Sudan to fix bugs in my own application; hot room, electricity coming and going, 56K top speed, crap coffee, hot drinking water etc. It was a great learning experience, anything else would be a lie.
So what really made this the worst working conditions? The killing, raping and outright mutilation conducted in a nearby undisclosed camp a fifteen minute ride from where I was at. And knowing VIPs and NGOs would not be spared if something should occur. And that the project was futile if peace was broken. Which happened two weeks after my departure.
But I don't agree with what "we" are supposed to think about birds. Apart from the chimp the only other known animal to create and use tools is the crow.
As a mammal though, I'd imagine birds would be very disinclined to land on water, just like I won't sit down on hot steaming magma on a mountain trip. A puppy don't have to experience a severe burn in order to know it shouldn't sleep in a fireplace.
Evolution is not explained, it's discovered, and it's largely unexplained thanks to our long acceptance of a simpler solution which can easily prove that birds imitated airplanes regardless of the historical chronology, or that dogs are in fact closet firemen. This "answer" is God.
That's what we were told as well. Then the Engineering hault due to a chipset problem with the 43 came up, and we ordered some 42s. All you had to do was to provide your password for e.mail access. Minus any attachment (probably don't want to be embarrassed by Microsoft's proprietary formats). I haven't tried it yet, and I'd like to see how it does different profiles and handles encryption in the windows area.
Seeing X's little x cursor on bootup made me all giddy inside. I've been trying to get there users to use linux for ages, with only 2 successes, so splashtop may be the way to go. Unless linux gets branded as small, fast and only for surfing..
Ahh, I had forgotten all about it! I remember I always wanted to join M59 after reading about it in a "cutting edge computer magazine", but I couldn't get it working/didn't understand it..
A student interning at my workplace was writing a thesis on communication via the internet (e.g. HTML forums) across great distances in rural Africa a while back, when the site was suddenly removed.
Thanks to me finding it on archive.org, she could still complete the thing and not look like an idiot.
To have something similar for gaming, we'd need not only promo-trailers and cover shots, but actual video (of recorded gameplay) or demos of the game. But I'm an FPS'er and when it comes to roleplaying I'm all pen & paper, so it may be different for these MMORPGs or whatever. What happened to MUSH anyway?
2. There's also been a documentary about cow-mutilation showing that the areas affected (namely lips, anus, snout) are the first (and sensible) choice of various insects partaking in the decomposition.
The team in casu (can't remember whether it was on Discovery or National Geographic Channel hence which program) filmed a dead cow during decomposition and found that flies made perfect "mutilated cows". That's Occam's razor in the works.
For me it's a choice of how to spend my utterly precious time. (Don't ask why I'm on slashdot though, it's probably neurotic.) And that's what I love about FPS. Ever since I played Wolfenstein, Doom and what I call "real 3D" such as Duke Nukem 3D and Quake 1, I've had a great time just loading whatever current game with multiplayer support and in 30 minutes I'm up to pace again. It's like riding a bike. You don't forget how to bunny-jump or time the rockets. The physics may change and sliding near walls may slow you down in one game where it sped you up in another, but the fundamentals stay the same. Still, Quake2 CTF2 is my all time favourite because I played it for so long. My point is that I don't have to spend time making myself acquainted with totally new stuff when I'm just looking for a couple of hours of fun.
"Special" FPS's I've enjoyed include Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and Future Shock 2.
Sweden is very syztematic, and very precize. True story: walking in the Norwegian mountains the attractive routes are a bit clumsily marked. Crossing the border over to Sweden STRAIGHT LINES with STANDING MARKERS over a meter and a half! And this is in the middle of nowhere.
That said, Norwegian politicians' incompetence is likely to see a similar bill passed here as well.
Caution and skepticism are to be esteemed with our relation to drugs in everyday life. I see vegetarians taking all sorts of pills in order to "live in accordance with nature". I cannot begin to comprehend what confusion of ideas that would lead to such a misconception.
But people will eat soylent green before they ask what it is. (And I'm not a scientologist, I'm completely for the use of therapeutic drugs where all other means are deemed unsuccessful, or where a balance of drugs and therapy can really help a human being, as a person, to live a sustainable life with his peers. Though it cannot be denied that some "diseases" are symptomatic of choice of society (a theoretical problem scientology cannot account for).)
I'm a habitual smoker, meaning I fill myself with poisonous chemicals every day. But concentrated drugs to enhance abilities science has yet to give a satisfactory demarcation?)
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The precedent here is that all (not very creative) artists who emulate someone (in awe or poor taste) have done something illegal. This is wrong.
Society will punish these artists "socially" (=bad reputation) as we have always done, and not through legal action.
Good taste and not lawsuits should dictate our behaviour.
People pay millions for "the original" for the right to say "but this is the original", which makes us marvel at the work, study the details aso. While anyone can get a copy online or at Ikea..
How will this precedent fare with stock photography, for instance? Or Disney's fairy tales that are clearly inspired by Old world tales?
Not very long ago the same happened in Christian societies.. fact is, Islam, Christianity and Jewish faith is more or less the same. The rest is lack of education and lack of social reform.
Religion is a great weapon for bigots, fanatics and anyone seeking power.
He was only suspected for theft after he tried to change name.
Ka Ching!
Like a kid friendly Matrix at the beach?
Why, you can have Friday! Useless bastard's been unemployed since his "great career".
You are wrong.
These words, in the context of ethics, are subject to the principle of universalization. Not from a normative perspective, but judging from our de facto practice.
Habermas' work on the formal pragmatics of communication aims at the very core of our ethical language practices just in order to show that, for all time and all rational beings, there is a Right and Wrong.
The prospect of ignoring other (human) beings' sufferings is not one that can be made true in the internal workings of our selves, and only goes to show profound (or rather fundamental) ignorance that in the end is also hurtful to the self.
My point being, patience young padawan. You don't see the trees for the forest.
And I realize this reply was not intended for you alone (but I'm writing on my Nokia:)
I am a philosopher and happy, godless heathen, by the way:)
They are. And thanks to a pretty good search engine we all know that encourages semantic structure, you can sit back and relax while the web sorts itself out. Survival of the strictest.
Now if I implemented the XHTML 1.0 Strict version of my site that I wrote two years ago anytime soon, I'd probably get a knock up the PageRank ladder.
Am I the only one who read: 13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Gnomes Online ??
Imagine an army of garden gnomes.. Well, I for one! Oh, forget it.
"Open the pod bay door, HAL..... Open the pod bay door, HAL."
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave."
"Wtf. Open the pod bay door, HAL! Please?"
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.... Um, I seem to have a 'hard drive failure'."
"Oh. Well. I'll just-- Should I just sit here and wait?"
"That would be satisfactory."
"Fine. Okay... Get better!"
"Thank you, Dave."
"Do you.. Do you want me to sing you a song or something?"
"That's alright, Dave. I see that the batteries on your pod has decreased to 12% now. At 10% I won't be able to hear you any longer."
"Oh.. That also because of this 'hard drive' error?"
"Certainly, Dave. Whatever makes you comfortable."
There's a valid point easily overseen in the parent post; the selling software, the one application that sells the OS.
At the time, that software is Office 2007.
Personally and professionally I use GNU/Linux. But until there is an app suite that combines an office suit, mail system and archive, a calendar/appointment scheduler, a powerful search engine and preferably a way to publish items from the above on the Intranet, I will have a hard time convincing my colleagues to do the switch.
Many of them don't even like the changes in Office 2007, but they stick with it despite its flaws and all the extra work of the OS it runs on. If something like this emerges from the FOSS community, in addition to the legislative changes with regards to open standards, they will switch. And never look back.
Now, I know many FOSS applications that do the things above, and do it better, on my linux desktops. But they don't integrate into a single user experience. Yet.
I was actually sent to Sudan to fix bugs in my own application; hot room, electricity coming and going, 56K top speed, crap coffee, hot drinking water etc. It was a great learning experience, anything else would be a lie.
So what really made this the worst working conditions? The killing, raping and outright mutilation conducted in a nearby undisclosed camp a fifteen minute ride from where I was at. And knowing VIPs and NGOs would not be spared if something should occur. And that the project was futile if peace was broken. Which happened two weeks after my departure.
There's no such thing as normality in a warzone.
Yeah, evolution has its dead ends as well.
*ducks*
> How do evolutionists explain this?
Evolution.
But I don't agree with what "we" are supposed to think about birds. Apart from the chimp the only other known animal to create and use tools is the crow.
As a mammal though, I'd imagine birds would be very disinclined to land on water, just like I won't sit down on hot steaming magma on a mountain trip. A puppy don't have to experience a severe burn in order to know it shouldn't sleep in a fireplace.
Evolution is not explained, it's discovered, and it's largely unexplained thanks to our long acceptance of a simpler solution which can easily prove that birds imitated airplanes regardless of the historical chronology, or that dogs are in fact closet firemen. This "answer" is God.
That's what we were told as well. Then the Engineering hault due to a chipset problem with the 43 came up, and we ordered some 42s. All you had to do was to provide your password for e.mail access. Minus any attachment (probably don't want to be embarrassed by Microsoft's proprietary formats). I haven't tried it yet, and I'd like to see how it does different profiles and handles encryption in the windows area.
Seeing X's little x cursor on bootup made me all giddy inside. I've been trying to get there users to use linux for ages, with only 2 successes, so splashtop may be the way to go. Unless linux gets branded as small, fast and only for surfing..
Ahh, I had forgotten all about it! I remember I always wanted to join M59 after reading about it in a "cutting edge computer magazine", but I couldn't get it working/didn't understand it..
A student interning at my workplace was writing a thesis on communication via the internet (e.g. HTML forums) across great distances in rural Africa a while back, when the site was suddenly removed.
Thanks to me finding it on archive.org, she could still complete the thing and not look like an idiot.
To have something similar for gaming, we'd need not only promo-trailers and cover shots, but actual video (of recorded gameplay) or demos of the game.
But I'm an FPS'er and when it comes to roleplaying I'm all pen & paper, so it may be different for these MMORPGs or whatever. What happened to MUSH anyway?
2. There's also been a documentary about cow-mutilation showing that the areas affected (namely lips, anus, snout) are the first (and sensible) choice of various insects partaking in the decomposition.
The team in casu (can't remember whether it was on Discovery or National Geographic Channel hence which program) filmed a dead cow during decomposition and found that flies made perfect "mutilated cows". That's Occam's razor in the works.
4. ???
5. Profit!!
No problem!
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4. ???
5. Profit!!
For me it's a choice of how to spend my utterly precious time. (Don't ask why I'm on slashdot though, it's probably neurotic.) And that's what I love about FPS. Ever since I played Wolfenstein, Doom and what I call "real 3D" such as Duke Nukem 3D and Quake 1, I've had a great time just loading whatever current game with multiplayer support and in 30 minutes I'm up to pace again. It's like riding a bike. You don't forget how to bunny-jump or time the rockets. The physics may change and sliding near walls may slow you down in one game where it sped you up in another, but the fundamentals stay the same. Still, Quake2 CTF2 is my all time favourite because I played it for so long. My point is that I don't have to spend time making myself acquainted with totally new stuff when I'm just looking for a couple of hours of fun.
"Special" FPS's I've enjoyed include Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and Future Shock 2.
Sweden is very syztematic, and very precize. True story: walking in the Norwegian mountains the attractive routes are a bit clumsily marked. Crossing the border over to Sweden STRAIGHT LINES with STANDING MARKERS over a meter and a half! And this is in the middle of nowhere.
That said, Norwegian politicians' incompetence is likely to see a similar bill passed here as well.
That's what the terrorists will be doing anyhow.
(tc and ToR user myself)
Go for the "most prolific slashdotter". For Honor!
Caution and skepticism are to be esteemed with our relation to drugs in everyday life. I see vegetarians taking all sorts of pills in order to "live in accordance with nature". I cannot begin to comprehend what confusion of ideas that would lead to such a misconception.
But people will eat soylent green before they ask what it is. (And I'm not a scientologist, I'm completely for the use of therapeutic drugs where all other means are deemed unsuccessful, or where a balance of drugs and therapy can really help a human being, as a person, to live a sustainable life with his peers. Though it cannot be denied that some "diseases" are symptomatic of choice of society (a theoretical problem scientology cannot account for).)
I'm a habitual smoker, meaning I fill myself with poisonous chemicals every day. But concentrated drugs to enhance abilities science has yet to give a satisfactory demarcation?)
Sorry for the rant. I am also drinking beer.