Hmm... I guess you haven't ever set foot in a Canadian record store. If you did you'd know that CDs are around 15-20 CDN which is a lot cheaper than what Americans pay.
Note, CD's are normally pressed in the countries they are sold in so export duties can be avoided.
Oh yes, and import CD's that you mention range from $20-30 CDN not $40 US.
Good note. This is a just one highlight of the circus that is happening at the BC Legislature in Victoria,BC Canada.
While I think it is good to discuss free speech, the banning of Soldier of Forture and other games is an act of desparation by a very unpopular provincal(state) government in BC. They sit around 13% in the polls and are looking for an election cause.
Where the US figured out years ago that low taxes and little goverment interference is the way to go, Canada latched on the tired dogma of socialism. Fortunately, Canada has smartened up in the last decade and is in the process of becoming more competitive. But with all movements, there is always an exception. BC happens to be it.
Please, all those religious and non-religious please pray so that BC can finally get an election.
I normally don't reply to people who swear but I have to as you message wasn't just flamebait.
Not all languages were created equal and I am just pointing out some of the very compelling points of English. You did make some good points. However, ending your message with lame advice that I would never follow hurts your cause rather than helps it.
The jury is still out on Japanese, so neither of us is right. If you would like to see what I am talking about in my message, watch Battlefield on PBS. It very interesting and gives and unbiased picture of WWII.
The message that I responsed to contained some incorrect so-called facts and implications that Winston Churchill was an arrogant snob. If the person who wrote message had read any of his books, he would know that Churchill knew a lot about many parts of the world through his service with the British government. I felt that I had to defend a great contributor to the 20th century.
Churchill's comments that appeared in his book are indeed correct. There are many historians who have backed this up and it is very well documented. I suggest reading about history before insulting a great former leader that kept the world free. As far as specific evidence, you need to look no further than Battlefield which airs regularly on PBS. They discuss this communication problem the Japanese had at length.
As far as English itself is concerned, which has little to do with the semantics of programming languages, it is by far the best language available for communication. While it is highly irregular, it is has room to accomidate new things. Other languages don't boast this feature to the same extent.
While English is based in European culture, it doesn't dominate it. English no longer is structured like Kings spoke it in the 1700's; it has changed with the times. I can't say the same about Japanese it is still retains many old words that have historical significance.
But that is isn't single greatest feature of English. The best feature is our alphabet which has little redudancy. Languages like Chinese and Japanese have too many characters that share meaning. This excessiveness clearly presents itself as English requires 26 characters and Kanji,Mandarin, Cantonese,Fuji are in the tens of thousands of characters. Because of this problem, I have found Japanese hard to learn and study.
Just another note. I have studied Linguistics, Pacific and Asian studies and Japanese during my undergraduate degree.
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2D/3D, it doesn't matter. The driving force behind a good movie is a good story. Titan A.E. didn't have it. Instead it relied on what most movies do these days: well-known actors, lots of effects (in this case, animation) and a so-called killer soundtrack.
I love technology when it is used well: The Matrix, Jurassic Park. However, I loathe the movie more if it is driven by effects such as Independence Day. There needs to be a balance.
However, there is some hope. Hollywood hates big flops such as Godzilla. Give it time and the market will correct the problem.
I live in BC so I feel the impact of this decision by the BC government. By having Solder of Fortune rated in this manner, I now have to go to an 'Adult' video store to get this game. Clearly, this is unreasonable as software resalers should be able to sell this game.
This is not a 'high brow' discussion. This problem is very simple to solve.
BC has been ruled by a socialist government for the past 10 years. People are growing tired of it and they are passing more and more ridiculous legislation. The government hit an all time low in a recent poll ( 13% for them while 65% for the opposition )
A couple of years ago, they passed the freedom of privacy and information act. While I appalaud the effort to restrict access to information to certain third parties, the government went too far. Essentially, it is a crime in BC now to make simple requests such as driving background checks in the context of a court case.
Past legislation aside, this new regulation is the work of one man; Andrew Petter. He is the Attorney General of BC who has taken it upon himself to make this a personal conquest. Surprisingly, the government doesn't totally support him.
Please don't us this as an example. Most BCer's are not socialists and do not want to restrict the use of information. This is the work of one man within a fractus and very unpopular government. Soldier of Fortune is not pornography.
Hopefully, the people of BC can be liberated as there is an election coming soon.
:) Vote BC Liberal.
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I am totally puzzled.
While I made a spelling mistake, you didn't go to the trouble to read my message properly. I wrote a pro-*Canadian* message (we all suffer from typos sometimes).
I doubt you would find my accent laughable. I have friends from California and Washington state and we all speak with the same accent.
There are minor vocabulary differences between US English and Candian English.
Of course we have our Quebec and Newfoundland accents. Mind you most people speak French in Quebec; thus the french accent speaking english. And you have your Lousianna, Mississippi, Kentucky, North/South Carolina, Arkansas and so on...... The worst thing is that these people speak English as a first language.
And the way some people in the US mangle words such as internet (inner-net), roof (ruff) and, route (rout) and many other words.
As soon as you let the government know about this incident, the harassment will stop. The DOJ should know about M$ latest bullying tactics. It could prove useful in any further court action.
HTML is not copyrightable per se but any specific instance of information about company X is.
From a legal course that I took in Engineering (yes, some schools teach engineers law) if they can link your work to their site, they have a case. Otherwise you shouldn't worry. If it is automatically generated code then you can argue fair use and that the copyright holder is not company X but Microsoft, Adobe or whoever wrote the program. Since most of these companies waive any right to this code, then it really is your own.
But then again Amazon is suing Barnes and Noble for something that is unpatentable. As others have said, get a good lawyer.
Like many psycological studies that have come out lately, they don't make a lot of sense. If it isn't child abuse and its relation to smoking, it is some other crazy hypothesis. We must remember that there is very little science in psycology and what science there is is largely ignored. As many people have pointed out that there was a questionaire involved instead of a real study on actual behaviour. That in my opinion botches the whole study but for those people who aren't as skeptical as me, I will continue. There is an effect which is widely discussed in Sociology and Psycology called the Hawthorne effect that states quite simply that if people know they are being studied then they tend to give false results. Case in point, the study was geared toward this result and thus these so-called brilliant PhD's go there expected result. But they ignore their own theory. As other/.er's have pointed out that aggression doesn't lead to violence and to imply that is insane. There are many situations we encounter in the course of our day that raise our aggression level. Why can't we admit that the brain is more complex than we can currently comprehend? Psycology, in my opinion, has done nothing to futher how our brain works. It is widely acknowledged as the easy way to get through University and has had countless theories that have been discounted by biological researchers. Sure Doom, Quake are evil but psycology is too by the same token.
It proves that even fortunate people screw up. Shame on you Phil Katz. There are poor people who would have given everything to be 1/10th of where you were.
I guess some time in the future they will allow you to phone a friend if you don't know the answer. Open book tests are one thing but being able to bring a laptop is another.
A knowledgable individual could bring in the entire course notes, textbook and other useful software tools. With this arsenal, you should be failed if you get less than 95% on a test. What is the point of testing if there is no way to test knowledge.
This is totally absurd. We should encourage the retention and understanding of knowledge rather than the ability to search for it.
Maybe the record companies should consider two things. Instead of trying to watermark or secure a CD, why not make a compelling reason to buy one? How about good cover art, neat inserts and reasonable priced CD's?
$12.99 - $16.99 is an unreasonable price to pay considering a DVD is not much more. As well tapes and other media have plunged in price but stamped CD's seem to be the only thing that goes up in price as quantity increases.
MP3 has caught on like crazy. There is nothing record companies can do about this. All they can try to do is offer the music legally on MP3 if a legal buyer desires it.
If record companies want to curb piracy, make music affordable, the liner notes worth getting and offer the music in multiple formats.
Companies release these benchmarks as to what the actual chip can do when in fact it couldn't do that well. Using flops is a synthetic benchmark, ie it has no real world relievance.
There is nothing preventing Sony from putting a set of completely unrelated set of instructions together to acheive this figure. Don't trust Giga Flops.
The only benchmark you should trust is one such as SPEC. That one tests the all around ability of the chip and is useful since we use a variety of applications.
As well, I don't think that figure is much greater than what an Intel,Alpha or MIPS chip could acheive if the same benchmark was used.
I will play the Playstation but I am not prepared to through away my computer.
Stop arguing and making inflamatory remarks. It will get us nowhere. As Slashdotter's we need to rise above this and look at how ridiculous this claim by Amazon is. Now on with my rant.
How can you patent 1-click technology? If that is so then shouldn't CGI scripting and HTML forms be patented. Doesn't Amazon owe money to the WWW consortium and the writers of Perl if the same logic is used?
1-click is a cascading of events: form fill-in, credit card transaction and any other logging required. Each of these events, to my knowledge, doesn't have a patent nor will it ever. So how do all three together have it? As well, there are numerous types of databases and web servers that are used in conjunction with this process. There is just too much at work here for a patent to apply.
A patent protects the rights of a specific process or item. Algorithms are patentable because they don't change regardless of what programming language you choose. One click changes by what web server, scripting language and event logging system you use. It is just to hard to define to be patentable.
The 1-click name is copywritable but the process is not patentable. The patent office made a mistake on this one.
I find it puzzling that Corel would do such a thing. But it came as no surprise to me. Remember the beta agreement.
There were many Slashdot users who slagged many other users who put up red flags with the beta agreement. No fear, trust Corel. Well they've done it again. Not only does this clause violate the GPL, it makes no sense. It is not like Linux is pornographic material. I guess maybe in some NT circles it is that or maybe it's "forbidden fruit."
Corel needs to re-examine what Open Source software means and they also need to fire a few lawyers while there at it.
Cough, cough. I told you so. Corel is bad for Linux.
This is probably flamebait but is Unisys in financial trouble?
Why did it take them so many years to come after everyone. I recall that LZW compression dates back to the late seventies. Granted Gif didn't exist until the late eighties. Still that is nearly a decade the Unisys hasn't acted.
I can't believe how some people can turn a serious discussion about software which could potential violate juveniles rights into a showcase of bad and racist humour.
I find it disgusting that someone could mock the suffering of millions.
If there ever was a good case for getting rid of Anonymous Cowards, this is it.
Can a test really show whether a child or teen will become the next Jeffery Dalhmer? That is essentially the question these people who wrote this software are asking.
Putting the software and what its intended purpose in that light is quite frightening since we know that no one could have seen Dalhmer and people like him coming. I suggest a different result than the utopian solution that this software professes to provide: typecasting.
As is pointed out by many Slashdot users, this software will lead to possible abuse by school officals to target so-called deviants. In trying to find the next Colombine shooters, the school administration will target countless innocent students who are not 'normal' but who would never contemplate murder. Adolecents go through a lot of changes which are both physical and mental. Some of these changes might result in behaviour that doesn't comply with this software but is no way harmful to the school population.
These people, who are not 'normal' will now be labelled 'troublemakers'. If they didn't suffer from being social outcasts, they will be now. And how do you think a school would eventually deal with this problem child? I suspect that suspension or expulsion would be inevitable. All over a test which deams them not normal. If you don't believe me, then why do many schools in the US have security guards when most students are not violent?
Since most of my comments have scored a one, I don't expect anyone to remember what I have said in the past but I would like to mention one of my previous comments in the following section.
* BEGIN PREVIOUS COMMENT *
Most of these tests stem from the fact the psycology, sociology and psychiatry are NOT sciences. This causes problems. These so-called mental and society professionals are given licence to analyze and predict peoples behaviour when they clearly can not.
We don't know exactly how the brain operates. Until that day comes, we can't say who will be or commit what. Actually, we may not even be able to conclude that in the future since science has found that the brain is quite dynamic in nature.
If you don't believe me and my anti-psych comments, then study Freud. He spent his whole life studying sex and didn't explain or show a whole lot. I guess we have the ediface complex to thank from him. And he was one of the most influential people of the 20th century according to CNN. I still don't think anything useful came of out his works.
* END OF COMMENT *
Finally, I would like to thank the ACLU for taking a stand on this retarded software. While I don't agree with them on everything, they have kept society free and prevented idiots from doing all sorts of things in society. Hopefully, they will prevent these idiots who wrote this software from pigeonholing, stereotyping and labelling these unfortunate teenagers who might become victims of this software.
Office Space is quite a good office movie. It even has a few geeks in it. While the focus of the movie is not completely on us, programmers and the like, the main actors are software engineers. I highly recommend it.
Note: This movie was written by Mike Judge. He is n't exactly a mainstream hollywood type. But there still is hope.
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Note, CD's are normally pressed in the countries they are sold in so export duties can be avoided.
Oh yes, and import CD's that you mention range from $20-30 CDN not $40 US.
I think you mean the Arctic. Not all of Canada is snow. Vancouver routinely enjoys better weather than Seattle which is south of it.
Good note. This is a just one highlight of the circus that is happening at the BC Legislature in Victoria,BC Canada.
While I think it is good to discuss free speech, the banning of Soldier of Forture and other games is an act of desparation by a very unpopular provincal(state) government in BC. They sit around 13% in the polls and are looking for an election cause.
Where the US figured out years ago that low taxes and little goverment interference is the way to go, Canada latched on the tired dogma of socialism. Fortunately, Canada has smartened up in the last decade and is in the process of becoming more competitive. But with all movements, there is always an exception. BC happens to be it.
Please, all those religious and non-religious please pray so that BC can finally get an election.
I normally don't reply to people who swear but I have to as you message wasn't just flamebait.
Not all languages were created equal and I am just pointing out some of the very compelling points of English. You did make some good points. However, ending your message with lame advice that I would never follow hurts your cause rather than helps it.
The jury is still out on Japanese, so neither of us is right. If you would like to see what I am talking about in my message, watch Battlefield on PBS. It very interesting and gives and unbiased picture of WWII.
The message that I responsed to contained some incorrect so-called facts and implications that Winston Churchill was an arrogant snob. If the person who wrote message had read any of his books, he would know that Churchill knew a lot about many parts of the world through his service with the British government. I felt that I had to defend a great contributor to the 20th century.
Note: this message doesn't end with putdowns.
Churchill's comments that appeared in his book are indeed correct. There are many historians who have backed this up and it is very well documented. I suggest reading about history before insulting a great former leader that kept the world free. As far as specific evidence, you need to look no further than Battlefield which airs regularly on PBS. They discuss this communication problem the Japanese had at length.
As far as English itself is concerned, which has little to do with the semantics of programming languages, it is by far the best language available for communication. While it is highly irregular, it is has room to accomidate new things. Other languages don't boast this feature to the same extent.
While English is based in European culture, it doesn't dominate it. English no longer is structured like Kings spoke it in the 1700's; it has changed with the times. I can't say the same about Japanese it is still retains many old words that have historical significance.
But that is isn't single greatest feature of English. The best feature is our alphabet which has little redudancy. Languages like Chinese and Japanese have too many characters that share meaning. This excessiveness clearly presents itself as English requires 26 characters and Kanji,Mandarin, Cantonese,Fuji are in the tens of thousands of characters. Because of this problem, I have found Japanese hard to learn and study.
Just another note. I have studied Linguistics, Pacific and Asian studies and Japanese during my undergraduate degree.
2D/3D, it doesn't matter. The driving force behind a good movie is a good story. Titan A.E. didn't have it. Instead it relied on what most movies do these days: well-known actors, lots of effects (in this case, animation) and a so-called killer soundtrack.
I love technology when it is used well: The Matrix, Jurassic Park. However, I loathe the movie more if it is driven by effects such as Independence Day. There needs to be a balance.
However, there is some hope. Hollywood hates big flops such as Godzilla. Give it time and the market will correct the problem.
I live in BC so I feel the impact of this decision by the BC government. By having Solder of Fortune rated in this manner, I now have to go to an 'Adult' video store to get this game. Clearly, this is unreasonable as software resalers should be able to sell this game.
This is not a 'high brow' discussion. This problem is very simple to solve.
BC has been ruled by a socialist government for the past 10 years. People are growing tired of it and they are passing more and more ridiculous legislation. The government hit an all time low in a recent poll ( 13% for them while 65% for the opposition )
A couple of years ago, they passed the freedom of privacy and information act. While I appalaud the effort to restrict access to information to certain third parties, the government went too far. Essentially, it is a crime in BC now to make simple requests such as driving background checks in the context of a court case.
Past legislation aside, this new regulation is the work of one man; Andrew Petter. He is the Attorney General of BC who has taken it upon himself to make this a personal conquest. Surprisingly, the government doesn't totally support him.
Please don't us this as an example. Most BCer's are not socialists and do not want to restrict the use of information. This is the work of one man within a fractus and very unpopular government. Soldier of Fortune is not pornography.
Hopefully, the people of BC can be liberated as there is an election coming soon.
:) Vote BC Liberal.
I am totally puzzled.
While I made a spelling mistake, you didn't go to the trouble to read my message properly. I wrote a pro-*Canadian* message (we all suffer from typos sometimes).
You totally misssed the point.
I doubt you would find my accent laughable. I have friends from California and Washington state and we all speak with the same accent.
There are minor vocabulary differences between US English and Candian English.
Of course we have our Quebec and Newfoundland accents. Mind you most people speak French in Quebec; thus the french accent speaking english. And you have your Lousianna, Mississippi, Kentucky, North/South Carolina, Arkansas and so on...... The worst thing is that these people speak English as a first language.
And the way some people in the US mangle words such as internet (inner-net), roof (ruff) and, route (rout) and many other words.
BTW: We say about not a-boot.
As soon as you let the government know about this incident, the harassment will stop. The DOJ should know about M$ latest bullying tactics. It could prove useful in any further court action.
The DOJ's case just got a bit stronger. Joe Klein should hear about this. This does relate to their monopoly case.
Since I am a Canadian citizen I don't think I am the appropriate person to submit this information to the Justice Departmant.
This action is clearly strong-arm tactics. Fight the power Slashdot.
HTML is not copyrightable per se but any specific instance of information about company X is.
From a legal course that I took in Engineering (yes, some schools teach engineers law) if they can link your work to their site, they have a case. Otherwise you shouldn't worry.
If it is automatically generated code then you can argue fair use and that the copyright holder is not company X but Microsoft, Adobe or whoever wrote the program. Since most of these companies waive any right to this code, then it really is your own.
But then again Amazon is suing Barnes and Noble for something that is unpatentable. As others have said, get a good lawyer.
Like many psycological studies that have come out lately, they don't make a lot of sense. If it isn't child abuse and its relation to smoking, it is some other crazy hypothesis. We must remember that there is very little science in psycology and what science there is is largely ignored. As many people have pointed out that there was a questionaire involved instead of a real study on actual behaviour. That in my opinion botches the whole study but for those people who aren't as skeptical as me, I will continue. There is an effect which is widely discussed in Sociology and Psycology called the Hawthorne effect that states quite simply that if people know they are being studied then they tend to give false results. Case in point, the study was geared toward this result and thus these so-called brilliant PhD's go there expected result. But they ignore their own theory. As other /.er's have pointed out that aggression doesn't lead to violence and to imply that is insane. There are many situations we encounter in the course of our day that raise our aggression level. Why can't we admit that the brain is more complex than we can currently comprehend? Psycology, in my opinion, has done nothing to futher how our brain works. It is widely acknowledged as the easy way to get through University and has had countless theories that have been discounted by biological researchers. Sure Doom, Quake are evil but psycology is too by the same token.
It proves that even fortunate people screw up. Shame on you Phil Katz. There are poor people who would have given everything to be 1/10th of where you were.
Mr. LafinJack, we have your straight jacket ready.
I guess some time in the future they will allow you to phone a friend if you don't know the answer. Open book tests are one thing but being able to bring a laptop is another.
A knowledgable individual could bring in the entire course notes, textbook and other useful software tools. With this arsenal, you should be failed if you get less than 95% on a test. What is the point of testing if there is no way to test knowledge.
This is totally absurd. We should encourage the retention and understanding of knowledge rather than the ability to search for it.
Maybe the record companies should consider two things. Instead of trying to watermark or secure a CD, why not make a compelling reason to buy one? How about good cover art, neat inserts and reasonable priced CD's?
$12.99 - $16.99 is an unreasonable price to pay considering a DVD is not much more. As well tapes and other media have plunged in price but stamped CD's seem to be the only thing that goes up in price as quantity increases.
MP3 has caught on like crazy. There is nothing record companies can do about this. All they can try to do is offer the music legally on MP3 if a legal buyer desires it.
If record companies want to curb piracy, make music affordable, the liner notes worth getting and offer the music in multiple formats.
Companies release these benchmarks as to what the actual chip can do when in fact it couldn't do that well. Using flops is a synthetic benchmark, ie it has no real world relievance.
There is nothing preventing Sony from putting a set of completely unrelated set of instructions together to acheive this figure. Don't trust Giga Flops.
The only benchmark you should trust is one such as SPEC. That one tests the all around ability of the chip and is useful since we use a variety of applications.
As well, I don't think that figure is much greater than what an Intel,Alpha or MIPS chip could acheive if the same benchmark was used.
I will play the Playstation but I am not prepared to through away my computer.
Stop arguing and making inflamatory remarks. It will get us nowhere. As Slashdotter's we need to rise above this and look at how ridiculous this claim by Amazon is. Now on with my rant.
How can you patent 1-click technology? If that is so then shouldn't CGI scripting and HTML forms be patented. Doesn't Amazon owe money to the WWW consortium and the writers of Perl if the same logic is used?
1-click is a cascading of events: form fill-in, credit card transaction and any other logging required. Each of these events, to my knowledge, doesn't have a patent nor will it ever. So how do all three together have it? As well, there are numerous types of databases and web servers that are used in conjunction with this process. There is just too much at work here for a patent to apply.
A patent protects the rights of a specific process or item. Algorithms are patentable because they don't change regardless of what programming language you choose. One click changes by what web server, scripting language and event logging system you use. It is just to hard to define to be patentable.
The 1-click name is copywritable but the process is not patentable. The patent office made a mistake on this one.
Very sad.
I find it puzzling that Corel would do such a thing. But it came as no surprise to me. Remember the beta agreement.
There were many Slashdot users who slagged many other users who put up red flags with the beta agreement. No fear, trust Corel. Well they've done it again. Not only does this clause violate the GPL, it makes no sense. It is not like Linux is pornographic material. I guess maybe in some NT circles it is that or maybe it's "forbidden fruit."
Corel needs to re-examine what Open Source software means and they also need to fire a few lawyers while there at it.
Cough, cough. I told you so. Corel is bad for Linux.
This is probably flamebait but is Unisys in financial trouble?
Why did it take them so many years to come after everyone. I recall that LZW compression dates back to the late seventies. Granted Gif didn't exist until the late eighties. Still that is nearly a decade the Unisys hasn't acted.
Touche InsomniacsDream.
I can't believe how some people can turn a serious discussion about software which could potential violate juveniles rights into a showcase of bad and racist humour.
I find it disgusting that someone could mock the suffering of millions.
If there ever was a good case for getting rid of Anonymous Cowards, this is it.
Can a test really show whether a child or teen will become the next Jeffery Dalhmer? That is essentially the question these people who wrote this software are asking.
Putting the software and what its intended purpose in that light is quite frightening since we know that no one could have seen Dalhmer and people like him coming. I suggest a different result than the utopian solution that this software professes to provide: typecasting.
As is pointed out by many Slashdot users, this software will lead to possible abuse by school officals to target so-called deviants. In trying to find the next Colombine shooters, the school administration will target countless innocent students who are not 'normal' but who would never contemplate murder. Adolecents go through a lot of changes which are both physical and mental. Some of these changes might result in behaviour that doesn't comply with this software but is no way harmful to the school population.
These people, who are not 'normal' will now be labelled 'troublemakers'. If they didn't suffer from being social outcasts, they will be now. And how do you think a school would eventually deal with this problem child? I suspect that suspension or expulsion would be inevitable. All over a test which deams them not normal. If you don't believe me, then why do many schools in the US have security guards when most students are not violent?
Since most of my comments have scored a one, I don't expect anyone to remember what I have said in the past but I would like to mention one of my previous comments in the following section.
* BEGIN PREVIOUS COMMENT *
Most of these tests stem from the fact the psycology, sociology and psychiatry are NOT sciences. This causes problems. These so-called mental and society professionals are given licence to analyze and predict peoples behaviour when they clearly can not.
We don't know exactly how the brain operates. Until that day comes, we can't say who will be or commit what. Actually, we may not even be able to conclude that in the future since science has found that the brain is quite dynamic in nature.
If you don't believe me and my anti-psych comments, then study Freud. He spent his whole life studying sex and didn't explain or show a whole lot. I guess we have the ediface complex to thank from him. And he was one of the most influential people of the 20th century according to CNN. I still don't think anything useful came of out his works.
* END OF COMMENT *
Finally, I would like to thank the ACLU for taking a stand on this retarded software. While I don't agree with them on everything, they have kept society free and prevented idiots from doing all sorts of things in society. Hopefully, they will prevent these idiots who wrote this software from pigeonholing, stereotyping and labelling these unfortunate teenagers who might become victims of this software.
There is hope, my friend.
Office Space is quite a good office movie. It even has a few geeks in it. While the focus of the movie is not completely on us, programmers and the like, the main actors are software engineers. I highly recommend it.
Note: This movie was written by Mike Judge. He is n't exactly a mainstream hollywood type. But there still is hope.