Why can't it be a new phenomenon? Why can't it be an evolutionary step that has just recently started to appear as an anomoly, and since it isn't that useful or controlled right now, it's being ignored by natural selection as a factor?
I'm not arguing for it, I'm not arguing against it. I'm just pointing out your logic is bull.
Oh really? Now how about you stop trolling and produce evidence of how it was flawed? I will give a lot to skeptics, but flaws of methodology were not something this lab had. Many times they were under review board and many times they never got stopped because of unsound or unscientific methods. So start giving facts or start shushing.
It's one thing to spread nonsense because you dislike someone, it's another to spread nonsense because you're ignorant and dislike what someone is studying.
I disagree. (disclaimer: I'm a Computer Science major, within the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering, Department of CS)
Saying that a software engineer is just a programmer is complete and utter crap. As is saying that a software engineer is the same as a computer science graduate. I am assuming you lack a lot of the subtle knowledge of the difference, so let me try to point out what little I believe i've learned, at least how it applies at OU.
Programmers, henceforth referred to as codemonkeys, in my eye are people who can code things that are put before them, with very little real understanding of how their systems work or the real ideals behind the principles of what they program. A codemonkey is named such because it is reminiscent of the thousand monkeys at the thousand typewriters. They will eventually produce a good working product.
A computer scientist is not taught how to code. A computer scientist is taught logic, then how the world around them, in this case, the digital and analog computer, acts and reacts, and the rules thereof. A CS is then taught how to visualize and alter one's view of problems to allow them to be implemented in such a world. Then they learn the theoretical limits and current assumptions about how that world works, as well as projects about how they think it should work and how current situations can be changed to allow for new opprotunities in the future. If all you are getting out of ANY cs degree is just some new tricks to program something, you need to go to a votech, because you are not learning what is important about your degree, whetehr it's your fault or the fault of your college. CS majors are language, and for the most part, situationally independent. You give a CS major a set of rules and logics, whether it be real or imaginary/digital, and a problem, and they should be able to give you a solution with why it is the way it is.
Now you tell me how that isn't an engineer. Just because most of the work of a CS major is with bits and electricity doesn't make it any less of an engineering degree. The argument that it is just because we work under a different set of rules besides gravity and force interactions does not hold water.
Can you call someone an engineer who has such an obviously smallsighted view of the world around them?
Is it just me or do the pictures look almost fake. I can appreciate that bad camera angles were used but the rabbits seriously looked photoshopped in. The top right eat or the main rabbit always looks about the same and doesn't seem to have discoloration due to the lighting in any of the pictures, along with other parts of the fur. Are rabbits just odd to photograph like that or is this some partial fake?
I reject your facts as being either false statements/interpretations of logic, or discussing something that is irrelevant in an attempt to prove a misguided point.
Quote: FACT: There is NOTHING that Bill Gates has done that someone else couldn't do; he just did it first and best. Regardless of how he got to where he was, you cannot deny the fact that in terms of adoption rate, income, and market penetration, NOBODY is ahead of Microsoft right now. NOBODY.
First off, yes, Bill Gates has done things that others in his position COULD do. However that does not make them MORALLY right or acceptable. That's like arguing everyone could shoot people they disagree with, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Also, Your statement of facts about the success of microsoft are pointless and misleading, as discussed below.
Quote: FACT: There is nothing stopping someone else from toppling Microsoft; Linux and Apple could do it...although I think Apple is in a better position to do so than Linux. Linux being open source actually kind of hurts Linux in this regard only because it makes it harder to get a definate measure of "success"; if I develop my own distro of Linux, it's not the same as your distro and thus is not the same operating system. But that's an entirely different conversation.)
FACT: WE THE CONSUMERS created this monopoly. No one but the general consumers made this company a massive force in the computing world. They didn't magically pull money out of their ass; WE THE CONSUMERS gave it to them.
I disagree. Microsoft achieved where it was through marketing a monopolistic product and using agreesive and otherwise unethical business practices. The company became a massive force once it started deviating from normal practices and instead squashing the competition, as well as locking in end users and corporations for future exploitation. The consumers did not create a monopoly, consumers allowed a good business model to flourish, which then turned bad and started essentially cheating to stay ahead.
Your assertion that nothing is stopping others from getting ahead of Microsoft is also false, and you try to reinforce it by directing attention away from that point and instead blaming linux as being open source and impossible to measure, while that has NOTHING to do with your contention. Your contention is that microsoft can be toppled. It wouldn't matter what topples it, or who has what market share, so measuring it is irrelevant. The reasons your contention is false is that microsoft practices aggressive and amoral market preservation tactics, such as forcing vendor lockin, as well as using their monopolistic position to force OEMS and other distributors to use windows, even to the point of punishing them if they don't use windows, or even just sell a computer with a blank hard drive. Also their extensive FUD compaign on the nation's media networks, which is backed by money and therefore not available to anyone who isn't a millionaire or with a huge financial backing. That campaign holds sway over the lower ranks of the general populace due to the fact that it is distributed by microsoft, and therefore holds some assumption that it would be in their best interest to believe it.
Now please return to the topic at hand, which is philanthropy, and not microsoft's business practices.
"programmers are privileging speed and efficiency over security..."
This comment, at least the way I read it, is actually rather language independent. It has to do with programmers writing bad code in the first place. It has to do with them using variables that are too small to hold what they need to hold. Other bad practices is allowing users to define what goes into a variable, but then not validating the user input to make sure it is a valid and nonerroneous input. Most programmers nowadays are just being taught to just write an error handler for the basic stupid shit that may happen, instead of just writing a handler to prevent stupid stuff from ever causing an error in the program in the first place, which brings why the parent post mentioned java, as it has better erroneous variable control then it's predecessors.
However i again mention that it is language independent, and it's more bad programming practice then anything.
Not particularly. Your argument in terms of piracy has one fatal flaw, and it's the same flaw the RIAA uses in its' extortion schemes in the U.S. Justice System.
The loss of revenue is variable. For some people, piracy costs the RIAA absolutely NOTHING. Other's it may cost them a couple hundreds of dollars. The question here is whether or not the person would have bought it in the first place.
If these reviewers, most of which from the looks of it were either against microsoft vista, or had pretty shaky views of microsoft in general, were never going to buy windows vista, microsoft loses the couple of dollars it costs to press a windows VISTA disk, because the person wouldn't have bought it anyway.
It's the same reason why microsoft has abused its' monopoly status to strongarm ALL major computer assemblers to ship their computers with windows. I believe there was even a couple articles about it recently how it actually costs companies like dell and gateway MORE To ship a computer without windows then one with it. It doesn't cost microsoft anything to make a copy of a software program, and for some people, forcing them to have it is the only way they will sell it in the first place.
As for the other post that replied, i know this isn't a direct thread but you cannot include management and other overhead costs in this cost evalutation, because these are not commercial sales. These are gifts from a corporation. It's the same reason why companies give employees discounts. There is no overhead, because you don't market to employees, you don't give sales pitches to employees. Most employees pay the Cost of Manufacture for items from their employers, which in this case would be a couple dollars for a dvd press. Microsoft already recoups it's devlopment, marketing, and other overhead costs in their commercial products, it's figured that way in the budget when it sets the price to sell it at.
Um, i think what you mean is that for the price of ONE of these laptops, they could send out vista discs to thousands of influential people. You do realize their ONLY production cost when giving out freebies on vista is the cost to press a dvd/cd/whatever it is stored on.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&ne wsid=12673
Honestly, That's just one story of many that i take great interest in. I've found, and talked to many psychologists about this, that there are quite a number of activities that can replicate some of the affects of sleep, such as some forms of meditation or even reading a simple book.
If one has a quiet enough lifestyle, or merely takes time out to organize their mind and let it run it's background processes while retaining consciousness, is sleep really neccessary?
People say it must have a good reason since evolution hasn't done away with it, but what if that reason is just that we use up such a huge % of our brain during normal daytime activity of hunting, protection,etc, that we sleep so our brain can do it's normal background processes/cleanup/memory consolidation?
Sony is obviously trying to extend from home electronics into the home heating business. Since most kids never move from their gaming consoles, these will remotely heat just the area immediatly around them, saving you tons on heading for kids who never use the rest of the house!
"And before everyone jumps on me that you can just mail out a cd/dvd with the source on it after charging handling, yes that's legit, but thats not what the original people were asking, i'm just trying to clear up some of the confusion." Next time try reading the rest of my post please.
So, if i'm to understand that correctly, if you use the grey area rule a bit, that can be construed as to allow anyone exemption if they were considered an agent of a foreign power... And terrorists are certainly a foreign power.. so if they wanted to say i'm a suspected terrorrist, then i'm obviously connected to a foreign terrorist cell, and i'm free game for no legal protection? Or am i just missing something....
A lot of comments right now are to the effect of, "Why is it so hard to distribute the source?". Well, let me ask you this, do you run or rent a web site at this time? Do you have any clue how massive the original sources for some of these derivative projects are? Imagine, for instance, you're a small freelancer who writes say, 4 mb of changes to a project, but then you find you have to provide the source for the 500 mb+ original. Most people cannot afford that kind of bandwidth. And before everyone jumps on me that you can just mail out a cd/dvd with the source on it after charging handling, yes that's legit, but thats not what the original people were asking, i'm just trying to clear up some of the confusion.
MOD PARENT DOWN: that's not insightful, that's ignorance. No offense. But most computer users don't realize other people can use their wireless network, or that they can gain access to not only their bandwidth, but their intranet as well. By not letting people into the network, they're both protecting the bandwidth and the data.
Surely such technology will only promote filesharing and pirating of movies! We must alert the MPAA and take down this horrid threat to the american way of life! Ohh.... wait... it's done by a corporation that charges you money to use it, therefore it can't be illegal or morally wrong. Carry on!
You know, it kinda defeats the purpose. First microsoft says it won't with-hold critical updates from pirated versions due to the security risk and the potential lawsuit, and now they release the windows genuine POS. Even though i have legit, i have refused to install it because it is frivolous and just one more piece of windows in the background that phones home. If that prevents me from getting critical updates, then i figure microsoft is saying that i can't do what i want, i.e. get it to run fast w/o background crap, with a product i bought from them, which last i checked, is illegal, since it isn't in any license. It's fine if it's unbundled... but witholding future updates is criminal.
Umm, it already is against the law. That's why it states quite clearly if they are asked if they are employees, they responded no.
Impersonating an employee or customer is illegal, not too heavy a sentence but it's still something i wouldn't want to spend.
MOD PARENT DOWN, ignorance-flaimbait-poor thought.
I have rarely seen a less thought out and more ignorant post in a majority of my life.
"Making a GLBT "friendly" guild is fucking dumb. Mind-numbingly idiotic. You are supposed to be in a game making guilds about game-ish things... "
Lets see, How about playing the game for fun? Maybe it is not fun or satisfying to play a game where people use homophobic language and slang in a derogatory manner to detonate that one's way of life is inherently bad or evil? Surely making a guild so you can ENJOY THE GAME is a "game-ish" thing?
"Again, keep your choices about flesh and sex out of the god damn game. If sombody uses the word "gay" and it offends you, then we're all terribly sorry that a word that describes your sexual orientation has also come to be synonymous with something bad. Maybe you should see a phsychiatrist about that and leave players alone."
IGNORANCE! I don't think they were complaining about people saying "oh no, did you hear jimmy is gay?". No, it wasn't that the word has "become" synonymous, it is that it was USED as a SYNONYM to designate something bad. EX: "That's gay" "You fag" "stupid Homo".
Also lets draw eyes to that last line, "Maybe you should see a phsychiatrist about that and leave players alone.". SO because people are offended by people saying that they are worthless and their way of life is bad and evil, they need to see a psychiatrist? It's ignorance like this that promotes unhealthy social interactions that the youth of this nation have become accustomed to.
Disclaimer: I am a white male college student who is of a straight orientation, before you think i'm biased.
However ignorance offends me to such an extent, and yours borders on stupidity.
here's the problem with this.
The analog hole will always exist. Because humans have eyes and ears. Even if it's reduced to good recording equipment and a microphone, it can still be pirated. And that's running under the assumption that no one will ever crack the HD cables and make it jack into a recorder anyway.
Locks keep an honest man honest, but a thief will break in anyway. They're shooting themselves in the foot with overcomplicating a simple thing. Old folks can barely use VCRs, what makes the corporations think that they will be more interested in getting a $2000 TV, and $4000 worth of connectors and additional equipment + liscencing fees to play a single movie.
and it's wondering why this tiny planet named earth is trying to kill it from the inside.
I mean look at it, if there's a universal organism, we're as close to a parasitic infection as you can get.
Long live captialism McKing Fries w/ extra nonbiodegradable plastic and toxic waste sauce!
Atari has once again predicted the future...
Now you will see the US DoD pulling out it's old atari training simulators to teach soldiers how to use their new M.U.L.E. and colonize the barren wasteland of the middle east.
New hidden feature: Cave hunt every round for a chance at bonus cash for finding osama
Obviously this talk about "never expiring" passwords means those that are written down on post-it notes and therefore are left for even archaeologists thousands of years in the future to read.
Therefore a simple solution is needed: Exploding post it notes with a 1 day timer.
This post will self detonate in 3
2
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Make sure to change your password! It was fudge.
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Why can't it be a new phenomenon? Why can't it be an evolutionary step that has just recently started to appear as an anomoly, and since it isn't that useful or controlled right now, it's being ignored by natural selection as a factor?
I'm not arguing for it, I'm not arguing against it. I'm just pointing out your logic is bull.
Oh really? Now how about you stop trolling and produce evidence of how it was flawed? I will give a lot to skeptics, but flaws of methodology were not something this lab had. Many times they were under review board and many times they never got stopped because of unsound or unscientific methods. So start giving facts or start shushing. It's one thing to spread nonsense because you dislike someone, it's another to spread nonsense because you're ignorant and dislike what someone is studying.
I disagree. (disclaimer: I'm a Computer Science major, within the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering, Department of CS)
Saying that a software engineer is just a programmer is complete and utter crap. As is saying that a software engineer is the same as a computer science graduate. I am assuming you lack a lot of the subtle knowledge of the difference, so let me try to point out what little I believe i've learned, at least how it applies at OU.
Programmers, henceforth referred to as codemonkeys, in my eye are people who can code things that are put before them, with very little real understanding of how their systems work or the real ideals behind the principles of what they program. A codemonkey is named such because it is reminiscent of the thousand monkeys at the thousand typewriters. They will eventually produce a good working product.
A computer scientist is not taught how to code. A computer scientist is taught logic, then how the world around them, in this case, the digital and analog computer, acts and reacts, and the rules thereof. A CS is then taught how to visualize and alter one's view of problems to allow them to be implemented in such a world. Then they learn the theoretical limits and current assumptions about how that world works, as well as projects about how they think it should work and how current situations can be changed to allow for new opprotunities in the future. If all you are getting out of ANY cs degree is just some new tricks to program something, you need to go to a votech, because you are not learning what is important about your degree, whetehr it's your fault or the fault of your college. CS majors are language, and for the most part, situationally independent. You give a CS major a set of rules and logics, whether it be real or imaginary/digital, and a problem, and they should be able to give you a solution with why it is the way it is.
Now you tell me how that isn't an engineer. Just because most of the work of a CS major is with bits and electricity doesn't make it any less of an engineering degree. The argument that it is just because we work under a different set of rules besides gravity and force interactions does not hold water.
Can you call someone an engineer who has such an obviously smallsighted view of the world around them?
Is it just me or do the pictures look almost fake. I can appreciate that bad camera angles were used but the rabbits seriously looked photoshopped in. The top right eat or the main rabbit always looks about the same and doesn't seem to have discoloration due to the lighting in any of the pictures, along with other parts of the fur. Are rabbits just odd to photograph like that or is this some partial fake?
I reject your facts as being either false statements/interpretations of logic, or discussing something that is irrelevant in an attempt to prove a misguided point.
Quote:
FACT: There is NOTHING that Bill Gates has done that someone else couldn't do; he just did it first and best. Regardless of how he got to where he was, you cannot deny the fact that in terms of adoption rate, income, and market penetration, NOBODY is ahead of Microsoft right now. NOBODY.
First off, yes, Bill Gates has done things that others in his position COULD do. However that does not make them MORALLY right or acceptable. That's like arguing everyone could shoot people they disagree with, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Also, Your statement of facts about the success of microsoft are pointless and misleading, as discussed below.
Quote:
FACT: There is nothing stopping someone else from toppling Microsoft; Linux and Apple could do it...although I think Apple is in a better position to do so than Linux. Linux being open source actually kind of hurts Linux in this regard only because it makes it harder to get a definate measure of "success"; if I develop my own distro of Linux, it's not the same as your distro and thus is not the same operating system. But that's an entirely different conversation.)
FACT: WE THE CONSUMERS created this monopoly. No one but the general consumers made this company a massive force in the computing world. They didn't magically pull money out of their ass; WE THE CONSUMERS gave it to them.
I disagree. Microsoft achieved where it was through marketing a monopolistic product and using agreesive and otherwise unethical business practices. The company became a massive force once it started deviating from normal practices and instead squashing the competition, as well as locking in end users and corporations for future exploitation. The consumers did not create a monopoly, consumers allowed a good business model to flourish, which then turned bad and started essentially cheating to stay ahead.
Your assertion that nothing is stopping others from getting ahead of Microsoft is also false, and you try to reinforce it by directing attention away from that point and instead blaming linux as being open source and impossible to measure, while that has NOTHING to do with your contention. Your contention is that microsoft can be toppled. It wouldn't matter what topples it, or who has what market share, so measuring it is irrelevant. The reasons your contention is false is that microsoft practices aggressive and amoral market preservation tactics, such as forcing vendor lockin, as well as using their monopolistic position to force OEMS and other distributors to use windows, even to the point of punishing them if they don't use windows, or even just sell a computer with a blank hard drive. Also their extensive FUD compaign on the nation's media networks, which is backed by money and therefore not available to anyone who isn't a millionaire or with a huge financial backing. That campaign holds sway over the lower ranks of the general populace due to the fact that it is distributed by microsoft, and therefore holds some assumption that it would be in their best interest to believe it.
Now please return to the topic at hand, which is philanthropy, and not microsoft's business practices.
"programmers are privileging speed and efficiency over security..."
This comment, at least the way I read it, is actually rather language independent. It has to do with programmers writing bad code in the first place. It has to do with them using variables that are too small to hold what they need to hold. Other bad practices is allowing users to define what goes into a variable, but then not validating the user input to make sure it is a valid and nonerroneous input. Most programmers nowadays are just being taught to just write an error handler for the basic stupid shit that may happen, instead of just writing a handler to prevent stupid stuff from ever causing an error in the program in the first place, which brings why the parent post mentioned java, as it has better erroneous variable control then it's predecessors.
However i again mention that it is language independent, and it's more bad programming practice then anything.
Not particularly. Your argument in terms of piracy has one fatal flaw, and it's the same flaw the RIAA uses in its' extortion schemes in the U.S. Justice System. The loss of revenue is variable. For some people, piracy costs the RIAA absolutely NOTHING. Other's it may cost them a couple hundreds of dollars. The question here is whether or not the person would have bought it in the first place. If these reviewers, most of which from the looks of it were either against microsoft vista, or had pretty shaky views of microsoft in general, were never going to buy windows vista, microsoft loses the couple of dollars it costs to press a windows VISTA disk, because the person wouldn't have bought it anyway. It's the same reason why microsoft has abused its' monopoly status to strongarm ALL major computer assemblers to ship their computers with windows. I believe there was even a couple articles about it recently how it actually costs companies like dell and gateway MORE To ship a computer without windows then one with it. It doesn't cost microsoft anything to make a copy of a software program, and for some people, forcing them to have it is the only way they will sell it in the first place. As for the other post that replied, i know this isn't a direct thread but you cannot include management and other overhead costs in this cost evalutation, because these are not commercial sales. These are gifts from a corporation. It's the same reason why companies give employees discounts. There is no overhead, because you don't market to employees, you don't give sales pitches to employees. Most employees pay the Cost of Manufacture for items from their employers, which in this case would be a couple dollars for a dvd press. Microsoft already recoups it's devlopment, marketing, and other overhead costs in their commercial products, it's figured that way in the budget when it sets the price to sell it at.
Um, i think what you mean is that for the price of ONE of these laptops, they could send out vista discs to thousands of influential people. You do realize their ONLY production cost when giving out freebies on vista is the cost to press a dvd/cd/whatever it is stored on.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&ne wsid=12673
Honestly, That's just one story of many that i take great interest in. I've found, and talked to many psychologists about this, that there are quite a number of activities that can replicate some of the affects of sleep, such as some forms of meditation or even reading a simple book.
If one has a quiet enough lifestyle, or merely takes time out to organize their mind and let it run it's background processes while retaining consciousness, is sleep really neccessary?
People say it must have a good reason since evolution hasn't done away with it, but what if that reason is just that we use up such a huge % of our brain during normal daytime activity of hunting, protection,etc, that we sleep so our brain can do it's normal background processes/cleanup/memory consolidation?
Sony is obviously trying to extend from home electronics into the home heating business. Since most kids never move from their gaming consoles, these will remotely heat just the area immediatly around them, saving you tons on heading for kids who never use the rest of the house!
"And before everyone jumps on me that you can just mail out a cd/dvd with the source on it after charging handling, yes that's legit, but thats not what the original people were asking, i'm just trying to clear up some of the confusion." Next time try reading the rest of my post please.
So, if i'm to understand that correctly, if you use the grey area rule a bit, that can be construed as to allow anyone exemption if they were considered an agent of a foreign power... And terrorists are certainly a foreign power.. so if they wanted to say i'm a suspected terrorrist, then i'm obviously connected to a foreign terrorist cell, and i'm free game for no legal protection? Or am i just missing something....
A lot of comments right now are to the effect of, "Why is it so hard to distribute the source?". Well, let me ask you this, do you run or rent a web site at this time? Do you have any clue how massive the original sources for some of these derivative projects are? Imagine, for instance, you're a small freelancer who writes say, 4 mb of changes to a project, but then you find you have to provide the source for the 500 mb+ original. Most people cannot afford that kind of bandwidth. And before everyone jumps on me that you can just mail out a cd/dvd with the source on it after charging handling, yes that's legit, but thats not what the original people were asking, i'm just trying to clear up some of the confusion.
In soviet russia, paper clip trades you for house!
MOD PARENT DOWN: that's not insightful, that's ignorance. No offense. But most computer users don't realize other people can use their wireless network, or that they can gain access to not only their bandwidth, but their intranet as well. By not letting people into the network, they're both protecting the bandwidth and the data.
Surely such technology will only promote filesharing and pirating of movies! We must alert the MPAA and take down this horrid threat to the american way of life! Ohh.... wait... it's done by a corporation that charges you money to use it, therefore it can't be illegal or morally wrong. Carry on!
You know, it kinda defeats the purpose. First microsoft says it won't with-hold critical updates from pirated versions due to the security risk and the potential lawsuit, and now they release the windows genuine POS. Even though i have legit, i have refused to install it because it is frivolous and just one more piece of windows in the background that phones home. If that prevents me from getting critical updates, then i figure microsoft is saying that i can't do what i want, i.e. get it to run fast w/o background crap, with a product i bought from them, which last i checked, is illegal, since it isn't in any license. It's fine if it's unbundled... but witholding future updates is criminal.
Umm, it already is against the law. That's why it states quite clearly if they are asked if they are employees, they responded no. Impersonating an employee or customer is illegal, not too heavy a sentence but it's still something i wouldn't want to spend.
MOD PARENT DOWN, ignorance-flaimbait-poor thought. I have rarely seen a less thought out and more ignorant post in a majority of my life. "Making a GLBT "friendly" guild is fucking dumb. Mind-numbingly idiotic. You are supposed to be in a game making guilds about game-ish things... " Lets see, How about playing the game for fun? Maybe it is not fun or satisfying to play a game where people use homophobic language and slang in a derogatory manner to detonate that one's way of life is inherently bad or evil? Surely making a guild so you can ENJOY THE GAME is a "game-ish" thing? "Again, keep your choices about flesh and sex out of the god damn game. If sombody uses the word "gay" and it offends you, then we're all terribly sorry that a word that describes your sexual orientation has also come to be synonymous with something bad. Maybe you should see a phsychiatrist about that and leave players alone." IGNORANCE! I don't think they were complaining about people saying "oh no, did you hear jimmy is gay?". No, it wasn't that the word has "become" synonymous, it is that it was USED as a SYNONYM to designate something bad. EX: "That's gay" "You fag" "stupid Homo". Also lets draw eyes to that last line, "Maybe you should see a phsychiatrist about that and leave players alone.". SO because people are offended by people saying that they are worthless and their way of life is bad and evil, they need to see a psychiatrist? It's ignorance like this that promotes unhealthy social interactions that the youth of this nation have become accustomed to. Disclaimer: I am a white male college student who is of a straight orientation, before you think i'm biased. However ignorance offends me to such an extent, and yours borders on stupidity.
I hate to say this but this has been a "feature" of YIM for some time now... Yahoo does it's own dupes, who needs slashdot!
here's the problem with this. The analog hole will always exist. Because humans have eyes and ears. Even if it's reduced to good recording equipment and a microphone, it can still be pirated. And that's running under the assumption that no one will ever crack the HD cables and make it jack into a recorder anyway. Locks keep an honest man honest, but a thief will break in anyway. They're shooting themselves in the foot with overcomplicating a simple thing. Old folks can barely use VCRs, what makes the corporations think that they will be more interested in getting a $2000 TV, and $4000 worth of connectors and additional equipment + liscencing fees to play a single movie.
and it's wondering why this tiny planet named earth is trying to kill it from the inside. I mean look at it, if there's a universal organism, we're as close to a parasitic infection as you can get. Long live captialism McKing Fries w/ extra nonbiodegradable plastic and toxic waste sauce!
Atari has once again predicted the future... Now you will see the US DoD pulling out it's old atari training simulators to teach soldiers how to use their new M.U.L.E. and colonize the barren wasteland of the middle east. New hidden feature: Cave hunt every round for a chance at bonus cash for finding osama
Obviously this talk about "never expiring" passwords means those that are written down on post-it notes and therefore are left for even archaeologists thousands of years in the future to read.
Therefore a simple solution is needed: Exploding post it notes with a 1 day timer.
This post will self detonate in 3
2
1
Make sure to change your password! It was fudge.
*answers his cell phone*
What boy? There's trouble at the well? Little timmy's stuck?
GOOD BOY! I'll be there right away!