Egonis (155154) wrote: > On one hand, yes.. copying music is breaking the law, but on the other hand... > the levy tax pays the record industry as a whole for their "losses" -- > so there is a half-right and half-wrong to the concept of levies.
Except that in Canada it is legal to copy music for personal use. Not breaking any laws here.
> He asks pointedly "[W]hy do some modern Americans (of course, a small > percentage) want only those immigrant programmers and IT workers who came > during recent times to go back home, yet tend to forget that their parents or > grandparents were immigrants too?"
Because nobody resents new immigrants like old immigrants.
Oh, there are exceptions of course but unfortunately they seem to prove the rule.
> But the sites themselves do not carry the files. They only have > information about the trackers, and are not involved in the actual > distribution or sharing of the files. > > So how do they plan to sue them?
You can sue anyone for anything and, if you have good lawyers and enough resources, you can drag the process until it is cheaper for the other party to give in to your demands than to keep fighting you in the legal system.
Abstract concepts like "justice" or "right" never enter the equation.
Case 1: Alice and Bob invent and create gadget X. The work and effort of both was essential. Who gets the patent?
Case 2: Alice, Bob, Chelsea, David, Emma, Fred, Gail, Howard, Inga and John invent and create gadget Y. The work and effort of all the individuals involved was essential. Who gets the patent?
Case 2: The R&D department of General Motors create gadget Z. The work and effort of countless individuals was essential. Who gets the patent?
> Issues regarding the impact on charities are being analyzed.
So if a group decides that they solicit for a "noble cause"(*) they can bother me whenever they want?
(*) Miracle Max: You got any money? Inigo Montoya: Sixty-five. Miracle Max: I've never worked for so little. Except once, and that was a very noble cause. Inigo Montoya: This is noble, sir. His wife is... crippled. His children are on the brink of starvation. Miracle Max: Are *you* a rotten liar. Inigo Montoya: I need him to help avenge my father, murdered these twenty years. Miracle Max: Your first story was better.
> U.S. scientists have managed to develop a 'thinking cap' which allows a computer to receive commands from the electrical activity of a person's brain alone.
> Meanwhile Canada admits far more immigrants per capita than the United States, > and they're sitting twenty-one places ahead of the U.S. in these rankings.
Take a look at the names of our top students. It's the immigrants that achieve the highest results.
is not the rules, which are pretty straightforward, but the negotiation periods between the moves.
Since the game is designed for 7 people (the "official" rules can accommodate a lower number but less than 5 is not a good idea), there is no luck involved and all the units move simultaneously, you cannot gain an advantage without teaming up with other players.
However, the rules for the "diplomacy periods" are all but nonexistent. You can make pacts, short term or long term agreements. You can announce your alliances or keep them secret. You can keep your end of the bargain or break it. You can play one group against the other, etc.
Contact Google and tell them (politely!) what you think about the changes. Say that you are unhappy about their decision. Mention that you were a heavy user of Google Groups and often clicked on the advertisements. Tell them that because of the removed features you went back to a traditional usenet client and no longer see any of their ads.
When I look for a game review, I am trying to figure out: - Will it appeal to me (male, 30s, non-stellar reaction speed & manual dexterity)? - Will it appeal to my wife (30s, prefers non-violent games)? - Will it appeal to my daughter (7, no gaming experience)? - Can my son (3.5) participate, or at least watch? - Can we play together (in any combination)? - Does the game becomes repetetive (boring) or too-hard (frustrating) as it progresses? - Will the game still be interesting after it is played N times? - Etc.
Are there any game review sites that will provide this information?
> I'd like to see a better reason for tracking students.
Educated people, on the average, are able to think critically. Educated people, on the average, are less swayed by patriotic-sounding FUD. Educated people, on the average, are harder to control.
Ergo, we should keep close tabs on people who wish to get an education. If we know what they study, how successful they are and their personal and financial data, we could decide whether we prefer to use them for our purposes, ignore them or make them quiet. We would also know what leverage to apply.
> If all you know about Microsoft dev tools comes from Visual C++ 6, then give these newer tools a try. You might be impressed.
We were using VC++ 6 at work. Then we migrated to 7.1 (a.k.a.NET 2004). The second thing that I noticed (after spending countless hours to modify the solution and project files so would recognize the source-controlled files correctly) is that the code browser has been severely crippled.
No more "call graph", "caller graph", etc.
Oh yes, the VS team has graciously admitted that the features were removed in the.NET 2003 version and that they "are being considered for a future version". WTF? I need to pay *again* to get some features back?
So, no, I am not impressed.
By the way, if anybody knows of a third party add-on, plug-in or whatever that emulates this functionality? There was one for the previous version (VS.NET 2003) but it does not work with VS.NET 2004, is no not supported and the source is no longer available.
A friend asked me about the possiblility of running games encoded for a different region on his PS2. I told him that a mod chip could take care of it but that was about the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
Later, I did some googling and found a dozen or so mod chips. Some only work with specific versions of the console (there are 12, including the new slim console), some are flashable, etc.
Unfortunately, I didn't find any site that would compare these chips and expand on their relatives strenghts and weaknesses. Nor did I find a forum where the "residents" are knowledgeable enough to answer such questions yet patient enough with people asking them.
> Maybe, moron, because video games are for kids. Plays for adults have been around forever, > so it would make sense that movies for adults would also exist. (In fact, plays/movies > were for adults first and kid-themed performances were added later.) > > Video games are for children. See the difference? Some of these new "games" are almost > like giving codoms out in Happy Meals. It's just not right.
Breasts are also for children, yet a lot of adults like to play with them.
Since I wish to keep my contact to the MIS department (a.k.a "the obstacle") to the bare minimum, I only consider installing software on my work machine which is (a) free (gratis) and (b) has no "non commercial" clauses in its license.
Both Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D have workplace-friendly licenses.
> You really had to read slashdot to figure out that our government > officials don't know or care about what's best for the people who elected them? > > It's all about the $. Constituancies, lobbies, commitees, bribes, blackmail, scandals, > and other distractions that keep the $ flowing...
> Which is the more "demented" form of entertainment: > looking at images/movies of naked people to achieve sexual arousal > or > watching images/movies of people hurting and killing one another with various weapons and by various means.
When a US president announces yet another war de jour he expects some level of popular support.
People who are constantly exposed to violence are more likely to give him that support. After all, they understand war. It's when the good guys beat the shit out of some bad guys with pockmarked faces and bad accents, right?
On the other hand, people who are exposed to sex instead are more likely to tell him to fuck off.
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Egonis (155154) wrote:
> On one hand, yes.. copying music is breaking the law, but on the other hand...
> the levy tax pays the record industry as a whole for their "losses" --
> so there is a half-right and half-wrong to the concept of levies.
Except that in Canada it is legal to copy music for personal use
Not breaking any laws here.
> He asks pointedly "[W]hy do some modern Americans (of course, a small
> percentage) want only those immigrant programmers and IT workers who came
> during recent times to go back home, yet tend to forget that their parents or
> grandparents were immigrants too?"
Because nobody resents new immigrants like old immigrants.
Oh, there are exceptions of course but unfortunately they seem to prove the rule.
(my first first post posted)
> But the sites themselves do not carry the files. They only have
> information about the trackers, and are not involved in the actual
> distribution or sharing of the files.
>
> So how do they plan to sue them?
You can sue anyone for anything and, if you have good lawyers and enough resources, you can drag the process until it is cheaper for the other party to give in to your demands than to keep fighting you in the legal system.
Abstract concepts like "justice" or "right" never enter the equation.
That's the beauty of the system.
Case 1:
Alice and Bob invent and create gadget X.
The work and effort of both was essential.
Who gets the patent?
Case 2:
Alice, Bob, Chelsea, David, Emma, Fred, Gail, Howard, Inga and John invent and create gadget Y.
The work and effort of all the individuals involved was essential.
Who gets the patent?
Case 2:
The R&D department of General Motors create gadget Z.
The work and effort of countless individuals was essential.
Who gets the patent?
> Issues regarding the impact on charities are being analyzed.
So if a group decides that they solicit for a "noble cause"(*) they can bother me whenever they want?
(*)
Miracle Max: You got any money?
Inigo Montoya: Sixty-five.
Miracle Max: I've never worked for so little. Except once, and that was a very noble cause.
Inigo Montoya: This is noble, sir. His wife is... crippled. His children are on the brink of starvation.
Miracle Max: Are *you* a rotten liar.
Inigo Montoya: I need him to help avenge my father, murdered these twenty years.
Miracle Max: Your first story was better.
> U.S. scientists have managed to develop a 'thinking cap' which allows a computer to receive commands from the electrical activity of a person's brain alone.
Is there something that will fork for managers?
I'm losing a mod point but this needs to be said.
> Meanwhile Canada admits far more immigrants per capita than the United States,
> and they're sitting twenty-one places ahead of the U.S. in these rankings.
Take a look at the names of our top students.
It's the immigrants that achieve the highest results.
Examples:
http://www.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/page.cfm?id=NW0407221
http://www.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/page.cfm?id=NW0307162
is not the rules, which are pretty straightforward, but the negotiation periods between the moves.
Since the game is designed for 7 people (the "official" rules can accommodate a lower number but less than 5 is not a good idea), there is no luck involved and all the units move simultaneously, you cannot gain an advantage without teaming up with other players.
However, the rules for the "diplomacy periods" are all but nonexistent. You can make pacts, short term or long term agreements. You can announce your alliances or keep them secret. You can keep your end of the bargain or break it. You can play one group against the other, etc.
And in the end, there is just one winner.
and you will never trust them again.
It is just that 99% of them give the others a bad name.
Don't just bitch on
Contact Google and tell them (politely!) what you think about the changes.
Say that you are unhappy about their decision.
Mention that you were a heavy user of Google Groups and often clicked on the advertisements.
Tell them that because of the removed features you went back to a traditional usenet client and no longer see any of their ads.
Phone them: (650) 623-4000
Email the Google Groups and Press teams.
Email Larry and Sergey at Stanford.
Try to contact the executives.
Post to their usenet group.
And most importantly, do not clisk on any Google ad until they reconsider.
We recently got a PS2 as a gift.
When I look for a game review, I am trying to figure out:
- Will it appeal to me (male, 30s, non-stellar reaction speed & manual dexterity)?
- Will it appeal to my wife (30s, prefers non-violent games)?
- Will it appeal to my daughter (7, no gaming experience)?
- Can my son (3.5) participate, or at least watch?
- Can we play together (in any combination)?
- Does the game becomes repetetive (boring) or too-hard (frustrating) as it progresses?
- Will the game still be interesting after it is played N times?
- Etc.
Are there any game review sites that will provide this information?
> Since our (United States) congress is so out of control in this realm, the only way to stop this nonsense is with a constitutional amendment
And who will pass this constitutional amendment?
The same congress that is "so out of control"?
(Disclaimer: IANAUSCitizen/Resident)
> I'd like to see a better reason for tracking students.
Educated people, on the average, are able to think critically.
Educated people, on the average, are less swayed by patriotic-sounding FUD.
Educated people, on the average, are harder to control.
Ergo, we should keep close tabs on people who wish to get an education.
If we know what they study, how successful they are and their personal and financial data, we could decide whether we prefer to use them for our purposes, ignore them or make them quiet. We would also know what leverage to apply.
There, you have your reason. Happy now?
Oh, yea!
They despise so much that they hired Herb Sutter to work on it.
> If all you know about Microsoft dev tools comes from Visual C++ 6, then give these newer tools a try. You might be impressed.
.NET 2004).
.NET 2003 version and that they "are being considered for a future version".
We were using VC++ 6 at work. Then we migrated to 7.1 (a.k.a
The second thing that I noticed (after spending countless hours to modify the solution and project files so would recognize the source-controlled files correctly) is that the code browser has been severely crippled.
No more "call graph", "caller graph", etc.
Oh yes, the VS team has graciously admitted that the features were removed in the
WTF? I need to pay *again* to get some features back?
So, no, I am not impressed.
By the way, if anybody knows of a third party add-on, plug-in or whatever that emulates this functionality?
There was one for the previous version (VS.NET 2003) but it does not work with VS.NET 2004, is no not supported and the source is no longer available.
couldn't they find a better use for the organs?
People are dying waiting for a transplant.
> PS2 chips, eh?
> Cheap-n-nasty chips - All of these definately violate the DMCA.
Why would I care about the DMCA, eh?
Since, according to your site, you have experience in such matters, which of the flashable chips would you recommend for a v9/v10?
> there a shitpile of mod chips for X-Box, PS-2
Yes, there is.
A friend asked me about the possiblility of running games encoded for a different region on his PS2. I told him that a mod chip could take care of it but that was about the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
Later, I did some googling and found a dozen or so mod chips. Some only work with specific versions of the console (there are 12, including the new slim console), some are flashable, etc.
Unfortunately, I didn't find any site that would compare these chips and expand on their relatives strenghts and weaknesses. Nor did I find a forum where the "residents" are knowledgeable enough to answer such questions yet patient enough with people asking them.
Can you suggest good places to look?
> Never bite the hand that created you
I don't know about you, but most of us were created by a different body part.
> Maybe, moron, because video games are for kids. Plays for adults have been around forever,
> so it would make sense that movies for adults would also exist. (In fact, plays/movies
> were for adults first and kid-themed performances were added later.)
>
> Video games are for children. See the difference? Some of these new "games" are almost
> like giving codoms out in Happy Meals. It's just not right.
Breasts are also for children, yet a lot of adults like to play with them.
AnantTech has a nice article about the Nvidia SLI.
It includes an explanation on how it works, power consumption and benchmarks of several games.
Since I wish to keep my contact to the MIS department (a.k.a "the obstacle") to the bare minimum, I only consider installing software on my work machine which is (a) free (gratis) and (b) has no "non commercial" clauses in its license.
Both Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D have workplace-friendly licenses.
> You really had to read slashdot to figure out that our government
> officials don't know or care about what's best for the people who elected them?
>
> It's all about the $. Constituancies, lobbies, commitees, bribes, blackmail, scandals,
> and other distractions that keep the $ flowing...
So, what are you doing to stop this?
> Which is the more "demented" form of entertainment:
> looking at images/movies of naked people to achieve sexual arousal
> or
> watching images/movies of people hurting and killing one another with various weapons and by various means.
When a US president announces yet another war de jour he expects some level of popular support.
People who are constantly exposed to violence are more likely to give him that support. After all, they understand war. It's when the good guys beat the shit out of some bad guys with pockmarked faces and bad accents, right?
On the other hand, people who are exposed to sex instead are more likely to tell him to fuck off.