The police don't have to break any laws to arrest me for shooting someone. They don't have to trample on my rights to figure out that I did it, or when or where or how. They can even legally find out who helped me with it.
Terrorists are no different. Yes, they have the same rights as every other human. No, they aren't 'free to do as they please'. They are free to do all the legal things they want, just as I am, right up until they break the law. Then they must be caught, just as I must.
But this -can- be done without trampling rights. It has been for much longer than I've been alive and it can continue to be done that way. Just because we suddenly have the technologies to trample rights doesn't mean we should.
Seriously though, it was silly for the car industry and is even sillier for the computer industry. If the car has 4 wheels that are powered, then it's not gonna only have 2 that are on the road. Duh. It's gonna have at least 4. And since there's a positive dearth of consumer vehicles with more than 4 wheels, this is pretty silly. (Dualies don't count since the sets of wheels are connected and act like 1 wheel with wider traction.)
But at least cars have SOME use for the other wheels other than driving power. Steering, stability, etc.
CPUs only have 1 use: Processing. To state that there are 4 CPUs and all 4 process... Pointless.
This obviously ticked me off from the start and I haven't fully vented about it. At least the market either failed to fall for the hype or couldn't figure out what they hell AMD was talking about.
This is modded Funny, but he's absolutely serious. Paypal can and will block your account and SEIZE all of the money in it for any reason whatsoever. Not liking your name is a new one for me, but I've seen plenty of hardship on the web. Newzbin.com, a usenet indexing site, regularly lost thousands of dollars at a time to this practice. They would petition and be re-instated, but lose all their money. It was their main payment method, and most of their customers preferred it, so they kept dealing with it... Until it happened like 3 times in 3 months. They finally called it quits and use other payment methods now.
Paypal DOES suck. And they SHOULD be regulated like a bank. I suspect their business model might have issues if they do, though.
I guess if you count all game systems for all time, even before PC's really had commercial games... That might be true.
But there are some companies that ONLY make PC games. Some of the largest PC games don't have a console version. (WoW and other MMOs, for the biggest example. Quite a few RPGs.)
But then, we all know that 95% of statistics are made up on the spot.
"but the next episode looks to kick things into gear."
I wish this were so. They still have 3 more people to introduce (for a total of 8) until they are ready to get started. And by 'started' I mean 'get on with the introductions. They have only shown 1 aspect of each character and if they write like every other writer in the world (Except Lost, love how they did 1 per show and tied it in) then we'll have a few more eps of people talking about stuff before anything actually happens.
As a side note, did anyone else see the leaked web version from a month or 2 ago? There were a few changes... The painter in the original was convinced he was possessed or something and handcuffed himself to a pole. He pulled his wrist off in his sleep so he could paint that huge atomic-bomb-looking mural. Yeah, off. That wasn't in this version... They just had him thinking it was the drugs. Bleh. Much less cool.
I owned one of these, and they look great. But they are 'fingerprint bonanza' and mine turned yellow after a while. It was also very poorly designed and a serious pain to work on, so I upgraded to a Silverstone TJ06. Not real impressed with it either, but oh well.
Yes, the 'vote and show them your will' campaign... And just who are we supposed to vote for? The people put up for each side are NEVER anyone I would want to vote for. They all have too much at stake to want to help the common person, and their attitude and decisions show it.
And you can say 'well you voted for who would get to be the rep' but then, we're in the same situation... The people that run to be the rep are the same kind of people.
In the end, it comes down to 1 thing... Computer fanatics don't look at the keyboard. They don't look away from the screen at all. If they have to look away to tell what it going on, they are missing something on-screen to do it.
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Kidding aside, I'm LaTeX-deficient. Can you describe the process for this? I am seriously considering one of these readers (wish it wasn't Sony -sigh-) and anything that might correct its possible deficiencies would be welcome. I've access to Windows and Linux PCs both, but would prefer it be under Linux.
I currently use a Palm (that I just bought! argh!) device, and I used a PocketPC before that, so I'm not new to ebooks in general, just LaTeX. (And conversion to PDF.)
You made me question my view of the GPL for a moment, but a quick Google search reminds me what the real spirit of the GPL is: Protection of the code. The GPL does not (and cannot) provide any more 'freedom of the end user' than the free licenses like BSD, etc. I've heard many, many times that the GPL is not a usage license/EULA/etc. It's a distribution license.
Instead, it promises the end user something different: If someone upgrades the software you are using, and distributes it, you are also entitled to the upgrade. This is more aimed at the developer of the original software, though. It keeps his/her peace of mind that the free code he create for the good of the public will remain free and continue being improved (if it's worthy) long after he/she is gone. That nobody can simply take the code, create a better non-free version with it, and not give back anything.
So the spirit of the GPL is really 'free code stays free' and not 'freedom of the end user.'
So with that in mind, how does preventing code from being used where the user wants fall in line with the spirit of the GPL?
That's obviously correct as far as it goes, but think about open source licensing for a moment. Can you think of anyone who is not fanatical about the license they picked? I know I am. At least if not the exact license, then the spirit of that license.
LT has made it pretty clear that the spirit of the GPL v3 is not the same as the v2 to him, and that's his objection. I definitely agree with that, even though I strongly dislike the v2 as well.
I suspect the real reason he has dropped out of the conversation is because he has no interest whatsoever in the direction of the v3 and the FSF has made it VERY clear that they have no intent on changing the parts he hates. It doesn't help him or them 1 iota to stay, so he left. Smart man.
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
There's a price point at which you won't make more money if you sell more items cheaper. Virtual Console games are probably priced right because those who want retro games will gladly pay the $5 or $10, but those who don't want them... There's no price low enough that they'd buy them. No matter what.
My nephews for instance... They are half my age and never owned any console before the PSX. They simply will not care about 99.9% of the games before that point. There's a few series that still exist today (Final Fantasy) that they -may- decide they want to try since they are such good games today. But I still doubt it.
I believe their prices are right on the money. They won't make more money by selling them cheaper.
The Virtual Console obviously wasn't made with you in mind, then. There are -tons- of games that I wouldn't pay the $5-$10 for, but there are those few that I will. And that's all that matters.
It's the same with XBox 360 Marketplace games... Joust was well worth the 400 points to me. Gauntlet, too. But Street Fighter wasn't, so, and here's the surprise... I didn't buy it. -gasp-
Seriously, if you don't like it, don't fret it. If others don't like it either, they won't buy it, and Nintendo will know. But don't start thinking Nintendo doesn't know what they are doing. The price wasn't pulled out of a hat. They did a market study and decided that was the best price. At least for the launch.
Take it 1 step further, though. Sony produces and sells 6 million units. They only sell 1 million games.
Q: What are game producers going to think? A: That either people don't -like- the games or that they are all being stolen. I seriously doubt they'll think the games aren't liked, when they are selling well on the other platforms.
So Sony now has a huge loss on consoles, poor game sales, and game producers that don't want to produce for their console. This approach hurts them in the future as well as the present.
Simply not buying the console only hurts them in the present.
If Sony tries to get smart and stops selling the console, they've added a third problem for the game producers to see... Unavailability.
In the end it doesn't matter, though, because the happy game-buying customers will far outnumber the disgruntled Sony-haters. (Or DRM-protesters, or whatever you want to call them.)
Indeed. The same people complaining about the faults of windows ignore the faults of Linux in their arguments. The old 'bad drivers' and 'updates that break things' happens on Windows and Linux both.
I'm an a Kubuntu zealot now, I admit. I have it on my PC and laptop, and will soon install Ubuntu Server on my server pc. I have it on my PC at work. I converted my Linux friend at work to Kubuntu from Slackware. I really like it.
But it has issues. I have an nVidia card on my home PC. One time, I did a kernel upgrade through Adept's automatic update notice. It trashed the video drivers. Having installed Slackware at one point, I fixed it in about 20 minutes. My family would never have been able to fix it. Another kernel upgrade let the computer unable to boot to the default kernel. And every upgrade after that would have the same problem re-occur. I finally figured out what files to remove and regenerate to make grub not freak out and fixed it... Again, family would have been lost totally.
Windows has had its shared of 'after the update, computer won't boot' issues as well.
In the end, my choice of OS has a lot more to do with intended use than anything else. For web development and other system administration tasks for work, I prefer Linux. For graphics work and gaming, Windows. In fact, it seems to be that for anything technical in nature, I prefer Linux, but for anything entertainment or artsy, I prefer Windows.
OMG that's me. -cries-
I buy them all. I really can't help myself. I fought buying an X360 until only a month ago, but buy it I did. And I'll buy the Wii at launch and the PS3 sometime in the next year, most likely. If I get bored with my x360 and Wii, it'll be sooner rather than later.
Of course, if it never comes out with a game I want, I won't buy it no matter the price.
If they are that careless, no amount of fine would stop them from 'leaving it in a coffee shop'. I'm pretty sure it's legal to charge them like that, if told beforehand, but it doesn't sound very ethical. $1000 could cause someone to lose their car or house if it happens at the wrong time.
No, there are other ways to penalize them that are both legal and ethical. Reduced raise at next review, demotion, termination... A good stern talking-to.
I'm guessing that you've had this problem before and were unable to solve it, eh? Maybe you should choose a different forum to get your answer next time. This one is for 'techs' not 'sex'.
You make a good point, but take it a step further... The same people that can't be bothered to switch from IE to Firefox or Opera won't bother to patch IE with a third-party patch, either, even if they knew it existed! And even as an experienced computer user, I would not install a third party patch to IE without being insanely sure of the integrity of this group.
Where I can understand being disillusioned there, your motivation didn't change. -You- were there for the 'right' reasons. It doesn't matter that they had to pay all those slobs to do the work, you were there and making a difference.
I'm not saying I wouldn't have been disheartened also... It would have taken some time to figure out what to do about it. But in the end, my reasons would have been the same. (I hope... Hope I'm not being a hypocrit here.)
I know this is at least partially true of me because in highschool I volunteered at a computer shop. There was a guy there that got paid and the owner, and they both did work. The owner obviously paid himself, so he wasn't a volunteer. Just me.
I enjoyed the work and eventually got to be better than the paid guy, and maybe better than the owner. I never even asked to be paid for what I did. I just keep doing the work.
There were always perks, of course. I got parts for his price and he usually bought lunch. (Which was sometimes 2 medium pizzas for me alone... I was skinny before that place.) But I never even considered asking for money.
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Maybe 'truth in advertising' has taken an unexpected entry into real advertising. This probably really is literally a 'quantum leap' for memory.
That's so not true that it hurts.
The police don't have to break any laws to arrest me for shooting someone. They don't have to trample on my rights to figure out that I did it, or when or where or how. They can even legally find out who helped me with it.
Terrorists are no different. Yes, they have the same rights as every other human. No, they aren't 'free to do as they please'. They are free to do all the legal things they want, just as I am, right up until they break the law. Then they must be caught, just as I must.
But this -can- be done without trampling rights. It has been for much longer than I've been alive and it can continue to be done that way. Just because we suddenly have the technologies to trample rights doesn't mean we should.
Please run for office. I'll vote for you.
Please.
(Yes, I know you won't... And that's part of the problem... It has been said that those who want to be president are those least qualified for it.)
Wikipedia agrees with you, so it must be right ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_wheel_drive
Seriously though, it was silly for the car industry and is even sillier for the computer industry. If the car has 4 wheels that are powered, then it's not gonna only have 2 that are on the road. Duh. It's gonna have at least 4. And since there's a positive dearth of consumer vehicles with more than 4 wheels, this is pretty silly. (Dualies don't count since the sets of wheels are connected and act like 1 wheel with wider traction.)
But at least cars have SOME use for the other wheels other than driving power. Steering, stability, etc.
CPUs only have 1 use: Processing. To state that there are 4 CPUs and all 4 process... Pointless.
This obviously ticked me off from the start and I haven't fully vented about it. At least the market either failed to fall for the hype or couldn't figure out what they hell AMD was talking about.
This is modded Funny, but he's absolutely serious. Paypal can and will block your account and SEIZE all of the money in it for any reason whatsoever. Not liking your name is a new one for me, but I've seen plenty of hardship on the web. Newzbin.com, a usenet indexing site, regularly lost thousands of dollars at a time to this practice. They would petition and be re-instated, but lose all their money. It was their main payment method, and most of their customers preferred it, so they kept dealing with it... Until it happened like 3 times in 3 months. They finally called it quits and use other payment methods now.
Paypal DOES suck. And they SHOULD be regulated like a bank. I suspect their business model might have issues if they do, though.
Now 24% is a number I can believe, even before the actual figures used to get it. Thanks.
6%? Where did he get that magic number from?
I guess if you count all game systems for all time, even before PC's really had commercial games... That might be true.
But there are some companies that ONLY make PC games. Some of the largest PC games don't have a console version. (WoW and other MMOs, for the biggest example. Quite a few RPGs.)
But then, we all know that 95% of statistics are made up on the spot.
"but the next episode looks to kick things into gear."
I wish this were so. They still have 3 more people to introduce (for a total of 8) until they are ready to get started. And by 'started' I mean 'get on with the introductions. They have only shown 1 aspect of each character and if they write like every other writer in the world (Except Lost, love how they did 1 per show and tied it in) then we'll have a few more eps of people talking about stuff before anything actually happens.
As a side note, did anyone else see the leaked web version from a month or 2 ago? There were a few changes... The painter in the original was convinced he was possessed or something and handcuffed himself to a pole. He pulled his wrist off in his sleep so he could paint that huge atomic-bomb-looking mural. Yeah, off. That wasn't in this version... They just had him thinking it was the drugs. Bleh. Much less cool.
Yeah, it's not like anyone would have an entire page full of them for sale or anything.
I owned one of these, and they look great. But they are 'fingerprint bonanza' and mine turned yellow after a while. It was also very poorly designed and a serious pain to work on, so I upgraded to a Silverstone TJ06. Not real impressed with it either, but oh well.
Yes, the 'vote and show them your will' campaign... And just who are we supposed to vote for? The people put up for each side are NEVER anyone I would want to vote for. They all have too much at stake to want to help the common person, and their attitude and decisions show it.
And you can say 'well you voted for who would get to be the rep' but then, we're in the same situation... The people that run to be the rep are the same kind of people.
And even the third party candidates are a joke.
In the end, it comes down to 1 thing... Computer fanatics don't look at the keyboard. They don't look away from the screen at all. If they have to look away to tell what it going on, they are missing something on-screen to do it.
You know, that was almost funny until you started in on the racial hatred. Almost.
While a cute comment, it had absolutely nothing to do with the previous comment.
"Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter."
Kidding aside, I'm LaTeX-deficient. Can you describe the process for this? I am seriously considering one of these readers (wish it wasn't Sony -sigh-) and anything that might correct its possible deficiencies would be welcome. I've access to Windows and Linux PCs both, but would prefer it be under Linux.
I currently use a Palm (that I just bought! argh!) device, and I used a PocketPC before that, so I'm not new to ebooks in general, just LaTeX. (And conversion to PDF.)
You made me question my view of the GPL for a moment, but a quick Google search reminds me what the real spirit of the GPL is: Protection of the code. The GPL does not (and cannot) provide any more 'freedom of the end user' than the free licenses like BSD, etc. I've heard many, many times that the GPL is not a usage license/EULA/etc. It's a distribution license.
Instead, it promises the end user something different: If someone upgrades the software you are using, and distributes it, you are also entitled to the upgrade. This is more aimed at the developer of the original software, though. It keeps his/her peace of mind that the free code he create for the good of the public will remain free and continue being improved (if it's worthy) long after he/she is gone. That nobody can simply take the code, create a better non-free version with it, and not give back anything.
So the spirit of the GPL is really 'free code stays free' and not 'freedom of the end user.'
So with that in mind, how does preventing code from being used where the user wants fall in line with the spirit of the GPL?
That's obviously correct as far as it goes, but think about open source licensing for a moment. Can you think of anyone who is not fanatical about the license they picked? I know I am. At least if not the exact license, then the spirit of that license.
LT has made it pretty clear that the spirit of the GPL v3 is not the same as the v2 to him, and that's his objection. I definitely agree with that, even though I strongly dislike the v2 as well.
I suspect the real reason he has dropped out of the conversation is because he has no interest whatsoever in the direction of the v3 and the FSF has made it VERY clear that they have no intent on changing the parts he hates. It doesn't help him or them 1 iota to stay, so he left. Smart man.
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
There's a price point at which you won't make more money if you sell more items cheaper. Virtual Console games are probably priced right because those who want retro games will gladly pay the $5 or $10, but those who don't want them... There's no price low enough that they'd buy them. No matter what.
My nephews for instance... They are half my age and never owned any console before the PSX. They simply will not care about 99.9% of the games before that point. There's a few series that still exist today (Final Fantasy) that they -may- decide they want to try since they are such good games today. But I still doubt it.
I believe their prices are right on the money. They won't make more money by selling them cheaper.
The Virtual Console obviously wasn't made with you in mind, then. There are -tons- of games that I wouldn't pay the $5-$10 for, but there are those few that I will. And that's all that matters.
It's the same with XBox 360 Marketplace games... Joust was well worth the 400 points to me. Gauntlet, too. But Street Fighter wasn't, so, and here's the surprise... I didn't buy it. -gasp-
Seriously, if you don't like it, don't fret it. If others don't like it either, they won't buy it, and Nintendo will know. But don't start thinking Nintendo doesn't know what they are doing. The price wasn't pulled out of a hat. They did a market study and decided that was the best price. At least for the launch.
Take it 1 step further, though. Sony produces and sells 6 million units. They only sell 1 million games.
Q: What are game producers going to think?
A: That either people don't -like- the games or that they are all being stolen. I seriously doubt they'll think the games aren't liked, when they are selling well on the other platforms.
So Sony now has a huge loss on consoles, poor game sales, and game producers that don't want to produce for their console. This approach hurts them in the future as well as the present.
Simply not buying the console only hurts them in the present.
If Sony tries to get smart and stops selling the console, they've added a third problem for the game producers to see... Unavailability.
In the end it doesn't matter, though, because the happy game-buying customers will far outnumber the disgruntled Sony-haters. (Or DRM-protesters, or whatever you want to call them.)
Indeed. The same people complaining about the faults of windows ignore the faults of Linux in their arguments. The old 'bad drivers' and 'updates that break things' happens on Windows and Linux both.
I'm an a Kubuntu zealot now, I admit. I have it on my PC and laptop, and will soon install Ubuntu Server on my server pc. I have it on my PC at work. I converted my Linux friend at work to Kubuntu from Slackware. I really like it.
But it has issues. I have an nVidia card on my home PC. One time, I did a kernel upgrade through Adept's automatic update notice. It trashed the video drivers. Having installed Slackware at one point, I fixed it in about 20 minutes. My family would never have been able to fix it. Another kernel upgrade let the computer unable to boot to the default kernel. And every upgrade after that would have the same problem re-occur. I finally figured out what files to remove and regenerate to make grub not freak out and fixed it... Again, family would have been lost totally.
Windows has had its shared of 'after the update, computer won't boot' issues as well.
In the end, my choice of OS has a lot more to do with intended use than anything else. For web development and other system administration tasks for work, I prefer Linux. For graphics work and gaming, Windows. In fact, it seems to be that for anything technical in nature, I prefer Linux, but for anything entertainment or artsy, I prefer Windows.
OMG that's me. -cries- I buy them all. I really can't help myself. I fought buying an X360 until only a month ago, but buy it I did. And I'll buy the Wii at launch and the PS3 sometime in the next year, most likely. If I get bored with my x360 and Wii, it'll be sooner rather than later. Of course, if it never comes out with a game I want, I won't buy it no matter the price.
If they are that careless, no amount of fine would stop them from 'leaving it in a coffee shop'. I'm pretty sure it's legal to charge them like that, if told beforehand, but it doesn't sound very ethical. $1000 could cause someone to lose their car or house if it happens at the wrong time.
No, there are other ways to penalize them that are both legal and ethical. Reduced raise at next review, demotion, termination... A good stern talking-to.
I'm guessing that you've had this problem before and were unable to solve it, eh? Maybe you should choose a different forum to get your answer next time. This one is for 'techs' not 'sex'.
You make a good point, but take it a step further... The same people that can't be bothered to switch from IE to Firefox or Opera won't bother to patch IE with a third-party patch, either, even if they knew it existed! And even as an experienced computer user, I would not install a third party patch to IE without being insanely sure of the integrity of this group.
Where I can understand being disillusioned there, your motivation didn't change. -You- were there for the 'right' reasons. It doesn't matter that they had to pay all those slobs to do the work, you were there and making a difference.
I'm not saying I wouldn't have been disheartened also... It would have taken some time to figure out what to do about it. But in the end, my reasons would have been the same. (I hope... Hope I'm not being a hypocrit here.)
I know this is at least partially true of me because in highschool I volunteered at a computer shop. There was a guy there that got paid and the owner, and they both did work. The owner obviously paid himself, so he wasn't a volunteer. Just me.
I enjoyed the work and eventually got to be better than the paid guy, and maybe better than the owner. I never even asked to be paid for what I did. I just keep doing the work.
There were always perks, of course. I got parts for his price and he usually bought lunch. (Which was sometimes 2 medium pizzas for me alone... I was skinny before that place.) But I never even considered asking for money.