Here are the rules:
1) Money is all that matters.
2) If you are not a millionaire, you are a second class citizen
3) You are not allowed to buy from a small company if there is a bigger one available
4) If something a company sells you is crap, well, too bad.
5) If you buy something from a company, they own you
6) Speaking against anyone or anything richer than you is illegal.
7) It is the government of the companies, by the companies, for the companies.
8) Anyone who doesn't go to the Commerce School deserves to be screwed over
Let's see, we're all guilty of...well, pretty much everything.
I closed the window without accepting the licensing agreement. The software was still installed on my computer.
A new trend? What's next: "We don't need to even bother with the EULA, since you don't have to agree to it. We'll just delete any software we think might be illegal..."
nstead see more small bands and independant musicians that are able to make an upper middle class level income by creating new and fresh music which would vastly increase the number of great pieces out there.
In my mind, this is the ideal situation. Members of a band can still make enough money to easily get by (upper middle class life is pretty nice) and we get more good works to pick from. And more importantly, we eliminate the multi-billion dollar industry of what, pressing the CDs and advertising for them?
See, that right there is the number one reason to convert. The satisfaction of killing Clippy! I hate that little bum. I got him disabled, but the idea of him out on the street instead of in my harddrive space is a great reason to convert!! Not that I'm generally for booting people out of their houses, but in the case of Clippy and Dubya, I can make an exception.
I think I remember them only supporting a "primary" and a "secondary" operating system, not all three. Which is kind of sad. but my two would be OSX primary, and Windows secondary.
I wish it was informative. The moderating is sure interesting. More to the point, I really, honestly want to see someone actually try that as a fashion statement,
Re:Feasibility of Panspermia
on
Space Lichens
·
· Score: 1
See, but there are these things called stars, black holes, nebulae, etc. Big, massive, lots of gravity, but not suitable for life. Life would need to land on a solid planet, and the gravity effects of a planet are dwarfed by the nearby star(s). So my point stands. Very low odds of hitting a planet.
Buy some aluminum foil. Take the whole role, and scrunch it into a ball. Said ball will absorb the mind control rays for you. Wear it as a necklace on a plastic string. voila! Fashionable and mind control free accessorization.
Re:Feasibility of Panspermia
on
Space Lichens
·
· Score: 1
My issue is this: Ok, rock leaves planet with life. Via meteor ejecta or whatever. There are a whole heck of a lot of trajectories. How does it ever hit another planet? I mean, the planets in the galaxy must be like a millionth of a billionth of a percent of the volume. And gravity would be working against the meteor with life on it. Even a near miss is useless (or even worse, would destroy some of the life on the meteor, if not the actual meteor).
Essentially, it seems like being spun around blindfold, then told to hit a target in somewhere in football stadium with a gun bullet from midfield (American football, the big stadiums). Its possible to get a lucky shot, but you need billions of rounds. And to me that means billions of pieces of splashed-up rock from meteor strikes, which means the original planet would have been nuked beyond all comprehension long before there were that many ejecta (is that the term?). Sure, it's possible we're a lucky, one in a million shot, but that seems unlikely...
But if there is one smart ISP out there, it'll charge less for extra IPs, then everyone who wants one goes to that company. Since ISP1 wants to compete with ISP2, it'll cut its prices. This'll go on for a while until each IP is really cheap, since the ISPs get them for practically free when there are infinitely many. And there will be that one smart ISP out there, because they'll want the
Yeah, it could work. I'm not denying that. I'm just saying, the password thing beats "autorun" The big complaint I have is that the "details" aren't so hot sometimes.
Personally, I like the "overcoverage" on/. since I think this is symbolic of what we'll have default in 2-3 years if we don't do something. You catch the puppy about to take a dump on the rug, you catch him, and yell, and he learns his lesson and you have a clean rug. If you yell 30 minutes later, he learns nothing, and you have to get the rug cleaner.
We don't land on Sony now, then they'll keep doing it, and the other companies will do it.
When I get a password dialog box, I think it usually has something like "Details", which I usually click. I imagine that clever naming could defeat that, though. It's not foolproof, but it beats "autorun"
If he didn't think they had a shot, wouldn't it have been thrown out already? I mean, isn't there a level they have to meet to even get the case past day 1? I ask this since you seem to be the lawyer
unless it requires an internet connection If they require an internet connection for PS3, they'll lose a lot of sales from people with dial-up (and there are a lot of those left). I don't think we're at that point for this generation of videogames. Maybe next generation.
From TFA: VSDA advised legislators and Governor Granholm that the law could not pass muster under our Constitution, and today's decision - while not a final determination - clearly indicates this law will be overturned.
OK, um no. I am not a lawyer, but the issuing of an injunction has nothing to do with the final verdict. It just means that the judge thinks there is a chance that it could do harm during the trial if it is unconstitutional.
I'd consider what CDs I play and when I play them, as well my IP address, none of their bloody business. As I see it, unless someone has a compelling reason to know, then anything I do is my private business.
Sony is patenting a method for games console discs to be tied to the console unit they're first ran on. No second hand game sales or loaning of games...
Is that legal? I mean, isn't there a right of resale? And isn't this gonna tick off a lot of resellers, like EB Games, Ebay, etc.
Oh well, I'll have fun sending it back as defective when it doesn't work if I bring it to a friend's house.
No, this'll make the hammer faster. If the Chinese gov't employs someone to constantly check "China, negative" or "Taiwan, positive" or "Falun Gong, positive" or something, then they just go to those sites, and nail the people responsible (if the people are from China). This makes a site practical for only 2 or 3 messages, as opposed to working until the authorities were tipped off by informers.
If I want to go out with a phone and nothing else, I don't want to carry that thing. It's a brick, especially when all you want is just a phone when you are going out for the night.
Also, I'd rather minimize my investment in anything that I'm going to carry around with me. If I lose my cell phone, then darn, I'n out $130. If I lose my cell/MP3/camera thing, I'm out like $500. That's way I keep a backup of all my music on my laptop, and I will eventually make a data CD with the MP3s on it, and I'm considering gmailing it to myself. That way, I have my investments covered. If I lose any one thing, I'm not that bad off. If I lose my phone, it's $130. If I lose my iPod mini, well, I either upgrade for $250 or something, or just buy a used one.
AC's post: A serial algorithm means splitting it up is kind of useless because 1-100 would have to be completed *before* you could start working on 101-200.
We're talking about multiplying prime numbers, right? So couldn't I split the list of known primes in half, and give the halves out so that the 3 possibilities are covered by 3 computers. For instance, 1 computer does half A x half B, another does AxA, and the third does BxB. When one of them finds it, I stop them all.
Not really. When I'm a parent, I'm going to be PO'd if I can't keep an eye on what is displayed on my computer. I mean, I'm sure MS wouldn't put erotic ads on the background, but I don't want my kids to see ads for Viagra/Cialis or something. Which, awkwardly enough, are occaisionally on when younger kids I know are watching TV.
Then there's the business angle. If I support a company either by working there, owning stock, or just liking the brand (let's say Coke over Pepsi, just for an example). If I'm a Coke fan, I don't want my computer advertising Pepsi to me, my family, and anyone who uses my computer. If I worked for Coke, I could theoretically get fired for that (very theoretical, but crazy stuff like that has happened elsewhere).
Then there is the processor capacity issue. As I see it, Microsoft "should" (a verb which is meaningless in a capitalistic society) make an Operating System which is as efficient as possible. If I want to use my computer to its maximum capacity, I don't need ads running in the background, and I don't need the ads updating themselves on my bandwidth. Currently, most people have a flat fee for their broadband connection, and most people don't use it to its fullest, but I don't want to start on the road of giving half my connection to companies for them to waste.
Here's what Microsoft would do if they owned the PDF-equivalent:
1) Make it as common as possible 2) Make it unopenable by anything other than their products 3) Refuse to sell "metro", instead only putting it in Vista or Office 2008 or something.
At least with PDF I can read it for free. I don't know what the PDF situation is with Linux, but I bet "metro" won't be readable on Macs or Linux. I'm sure adobe makes a pile on acrobat, but I'd rather have them making the pile then have someone else making the pile by screwing people.
Well the idea is that calling it Windows Defender, and having it work side by side with Windows products, doing a job that Windows should be doing, gives the impression that it is more than third-party software. That may not be copyright infringement, but it is sure confusing. Of course, I play MacSoft games, and never would have attributed them to being commerically related to Macs (they aren't owned by Apple). But the inclusion of "Windows" in a product title will be more and more important as other operating systems take more promenience. If Macs get to about 10-20 percent market share, then any non-Mac-compatible software will have to indicate this. I mean, companies get away with just sticking it in system requirements, but the assumption that Mac support will be implicit in the product will pick up over the next five years, so there will be a need to say "for Windows" or "Vista version"
Slashdot Mirror
Here are the rules:
1) Money is all that matters.
2) If you are not a millionaire, you are a second class citizen
3) You are not allowed to buy from a small company if there is a bigger one available
4) If something a company sells you is crap, well, too bad.
5) If you buy something from a company, they own you
6) Speaking against anyone or anything richer than you is illegal.
7) It is the government of the companies, by the companies, for the companies.
8) Anyone who doesn't go to the Commerce School deserves to be screwed over
Let's see, we're all guilty of...well, pretty much everything.
I closed the window without accepting the licensing agreement. The software was still installed on my computer.
A new trend? What's next: "We don't need to even bother with the EULA, since you don't have to agree to it. We'll just delete any software we think might be illegal..."
I long for the death of the recording industry.
Would it be legal to put that on a t-shirt?
nstead see more small bands and independant musicians that are able to make an upper middle class level income by creating new and fresh music which would vastly increase the number of great pieces out there.
In my mind, this is the ideal situation. Members of a band can still make enough money to easily get by (upper middle class life is pretty nice) and we get more good works to pick from. And more importantly, we eliminate the multi-billion dollar industry of what, pressing the CDs and advertising for them?
But what about American Idol??? We couldn't live without crappy reality TV!!!
See, that right there is the number one reason to convert. The satisfaction of killing Clippy! I hate that little bum. I got him disabled, but the idea of him out on the street instead of in my harddrive space is a great reason to convert!! Not that I'm generally for booting people out of their houses, but in the case of Clippy and Dubya, I can make an exception.
I think I remember them only supporting a "primary" and a "secondary" operating system, not all three. Which is kind of sad. but my two would be OSX primary, and Windows secondary.
I wish it was informative. The moderating is sure interesting. More to the point, I really, honestly want to see someone actually try that as a fashion statement,
See, but there are these things called stars, black holes, nebulae, etc. Big, massive, lots of gravity, but not suitable for life. Life would need to land on a solid planet, and the gravity effects of a planet are dwarfed by the nearby star(s). So my point stands. Very low odds of hitting a planet.
Buy some aluminum foil. Take the whole role, and scrunch it into a ball. Said ball will absorb the mind control rays for you. Wear it as a necklace on a plastic string. voila! Fashionable and mind control free accessorization.
My issue is this: Ok, rock leaves planet with life. Via meteor ejecta or whatever. There are a whole heck of a lot of trajectories. How does it ever hit another planet? I mean, the planets in the galaxy must be like a millionth of a billionth of a percent of the volume. And gravity would be working against the meteor with life on it. Even a near miss is useless (or even worse, would destroy some of the life on the meteor, if not the actual meteor).
Essentially, it seems like being spun around blindfold, then told to hit a target in somewhere in football stadium with a gun bullet from midfield (American football, the big stadiums). Its possible to get a lucky shot, but you need billions of rounds. And to me that means billions of pieces of splashed-up rock from meteor strikes, which means the original planet would have been nuked beyond all comprehension long before there were that many ejecta (is that the term?). Sure, it's possible we're a lucky, one in a million shot, but that seems unlikely...
But if there is one smart ISP out there, it'll charge less for extra IPs, then everyone who wants one goes to that company. Since ISP1 wants to compete with ISP2, it'll cut its prices. This'll go on for a while until each IP is really cheap, since the ISPs get them for practically free when there are infinitely many. And there will be that one smart ISP out there, because they'll want the
Yeah, it could work. I'm not denying that. I'm just saying, the password thing beats "autorun" The big complaint I have is that the "details" aren't so hot sometimes.
Personally, I like the "overcoverage" on /. since I think this is symbolic of what we'll have default in 2-3 years if we don't do something. You catch the puppy about to take a dump on the rug, you catch him, and yell, and he learns his lesson and you have a clean rug. If you yell 30 minutes later, he learns nothing, and you have to get the rug cleaner.
We don't land on Sony now, then they'll keep doing it, and the other companies will do it.
When I get a password dialog box, I think it usually has something like "Details", which I usually click. I imagine that clever naming could defeat that, though. It's not foolproof, but it beats "autorun"
If he didn't think they had a shot, wouldn't it have been thrown out already? I mean, isn't there a level they have to meet to even get the case past day 1? I ask this since you seem to be the lawyer
unless it requires an internet connection
If they require an internet connection for PS3, they'll lose a lot of sales from people with dial-up (and there are a lot of those left). I don't think we're at that point for this generation of videogames. Maybe next generation.
From TFA:
VSDA advised legislators and Governor Granholm that the law could not pass muster under our Constitution, and today's decision - while not a final determination - clearly indicates this law will be overturned.
OK, um no. I am not a lawyer, but the issuing of an injunction has nothing to do with the final verdict. It just means that the judge thinks there is a chance that it could do harm during the trial if it is unconstitutional.
I'd consider what CDs I play and when I play them, as well my IP address, none of their bloody business. As I see it, unless someone has a compelling reason to know, then anything I do is my private business.
Sony is patenting a method for games console discs to be tied to the console unit they're first ran on. No second hand game sales or loaning of games...
Is that legal? I mean, isn't there a right of resale? And isn't this gonna tick off a lot of resellers, like EB Games, Ebay, etc.
Oh well, I'll have fun sending it back as defective when it doesn't work if I bring it to a friend's house.
No, this'll make the hammer faster. If the Chinese gov't employs someone to constantly check "China, negative" or "Taiwan, positive" or "Falun Gong, positive" or something, then they just go to those sites, and nail the people responsible (if the people are from China). This makes a site practical for only 2 or 3 messages, as opposed to working until the authorities were tipped off by informers.
If I want to go out with a phone and nothing else, I don't want to carry that thing. It's a brick, especially when all you want is just a phone when you are going out for the night.
Also, I'd rather minimize my investment in anything that I'm going to carry around with me. If I lose my cell phone, then darn, I'n out $130. If I lose my cell/MP3/camera thing, I'm out like $500. That's way I keep a backup of all my music on my laptop, and I will eventually make a data CD with the MP3s on it, and I'm considering gmailing it to myself. That way, I have my investments covered. If I lose any one thing, I'm not that bad off. If I lose my phone, it's $130. If I lose my iPod mini, well, I either upgrade for $250 or something, or just buy a used one.
AC's post: A serial algorithm means splitting it up is kind of useless because 1-100 would have to be completed *before* you could start working on 101-200.
We're talking about multiplying prime numbers, right? So couldn't I split the list of known primes in half, and give the halves out so that the 3 possibilities are covered by 3 computers. For instance, 1 computer does half A x half B, another does AxA, and the third does BxB. When one of them finds it, I stop them all.
Not really. When I'm a parent, I'm going to be PO'd if I can't keep an eye on what is displayed on my computer. I mean, I'm sure MS wouldn't put erotic ads on the background, but I don't want my kids to see ads for Viagra/Cialis or something. Which, awkwardly enough, are occaisionally on when younger kids I know are watching TV.
Then there's the business angle. If I support a company either by working there, owning stock, or just liking the brand (let's say Coke over Pepsi, just for an example). If I'm a Coke fan, I don't want my computer advertising Pepsi to me, my family, and anyone who uses my computer. If I worked for Coke, I could theoretically get fired for that (very theoretical, but crazy stuff like that has happened elsewhere).
Then there is the processor capacity issue. As I see it, Microsoft "should" (a verb which is meaningless in a capitalistic society) make an Operating System which is as efficient as possible. If I want to use my computer to its maximum capacity, I don't need ads running in the background, and I don't need the ads updating themselves on my bandwidth. Currently, most people have a flat fee for their broadband connection, and most people don't use it to its fullest, but I don't want to start on the road of giving half my connection to companies for them to waste.
Here's what Microsoft would do if they owned the PDF-equivalent:
1) Make it as common as possible
2) Make it unopenable by anything other than their products
3) Refuse to sell "metro", instead only putting it in Vista or Office 2008 or something.
At least with PDF I can read it for free. I don't know what the PDF situation is with Linux, but I bet "metro" won't be readable on Macs or Linux. I'm sure adobe makes a pile on acrobat, but I'd rather have them making the pile then have someone else making the pile by screwing people.
Well the idea is that calling it Windows Defender, and having it work side by side with Windows products, doing a job that Windows should be doing, gives the impression that it is more than third-party software. That may not be copyright infringement, but it is sure confusing. Of course, I play MacSoft games, and never would have attributed them to being commerically related to Macs (they aren't owned by Apple). But the inclusion of "Windows" in a product title will be more and more important as other operating systems take more promenience. If Macs get to about 10-20 percent market share, then any non-Mac-compatible software will have to indicate this. I mean, companies get away with just sticking it in system requirements, but the assumption that Mac support will be implicit in the product will pick up over the next five years, so there will be a need to say "for Windows" or "Vista version"