I do. Why not? There will always be 'that guy' who gets a boner by accumulated 30 years worth of music for free. There will always be people who will spend time actively seeking out the illicit downloads, even though a legit one of the same thing is $1.50 and they could get it in less time. These people have massive amounts of disposable time.
Not mention that fact that, when getting torrent'ed files, there's always a risk of malware and whatnot. Of course, there is a marginally risk with legit purchases too, but corporation can be (and have been) successfully censured or sued for doing so. Despite my best efforts I have not been able to serve papers to warexluvrr69 who recent gave me digital herpes.
Allowing NoScript will never happen. Google makes most of its revenue from javascript-presented ads. They are not about to allow something that can block them.
What I am is the father of a son who has lost his sight (for awhile...it returned eventually...long story). When CP came to us in the hospital the dialog when something like this (a condensed version):
Hi! We would like to donate this Nintendo DS to you to make your son's scary and difficult time a little easier!
Gee thanks, but my son lost his vision.
Oh. Um, well....maybe you would like it instead?
It took a tremendous amount of self control not to punch this knob in the face. I mean WTH!? Give me money, food, clothes, pay for my hotel, but for Gods sake! I freaking video game??
Then when I took a look at CP's financing I lost all respect for them:
For the period, 10/01/07-09/30/08, the following amounts were paid by
Penny Arcade, Inc. to the Officers of Child's Play:
Michael R. Krakhulik Salary - $ 179,283.20
Keith G. Holkins Salary - $ 176,903.16
Robert Khoo Salary - $ 159,538.89
Relationship Business Relationship - Shareholders In Penny Arcade
Name 1 Robert Khoo
President
Name 2 Keith G. Holkins
Treasurer
Name 2 Mike Krahulik
Secretary
Relationship Business Relationship - Shareholders In Penny Arcade
For the period, 10/01/07-09/30/08, the following amounts were paid by
Penny Arcade, Inc. to the Officers of Child's Play:
Michael R. Krakhulik Salary - $ 179,283.20
Keith G. Holkins Salary - $ 176,903.16
Robert Khoo Salary - $ 159,538.89
So, yeah....tell em again how this is a grad and noble venture.
The article doesn't say, but is this the unaided eye (e.g. a guy in he space shuttle could look out the window and see it)? Because I could see my house from modern satellite pictures.
I guess the market has not grown because of the tiny percentage of people (not including corporations) using pan/tilt/web-addressable web-cams, most are not really concerned with high-end image quality. They just want to watch birds or use it for home monitoring. A guy in my office has one watching the river behind his house (it floods often). The people who really do want/need the high-end stuff are more than willing to pay big money for it.
But I thought the only people crying for this were the American soccer Mom's and their elected officials. Who cares what other countries do? Regarding defining porn, that is a sticky wicket to be sure. I imagine it would function somewhat like Google search results or spam filtering. The easy stuff would be auto-filtered out, and maybe there could be some kind of toolbar that would allow folks to 'flag' other sites as porn. If enough flags come in, it's blocked until it starts using the xxx.
I think it's the overt, broad-based sexuality that would qualify a site. People get turned on by just about anything (Rule 34), but the lowest common denominator is humans engaged in overt sex acts (with each other, with animals, alone, etc.). Start selling such for money, and it becomes a porn site.
I imagine they would be required to have a redirect so the final landing page would be.xxx. It would make it a lot easier for parents to filter porn home or public libraries to filter it in the kiddie book section. But, like others have already said, who gets to decide on what gets the XXX? What about those nudism advocacy sites that are loaded with naked people? What about viewing Flickr with the 'family filter' disabled?
I always find it annoying how everything one can do on a Hollywood computer makes a sound. Moving a mouse across the screen? Woosh! Enlarging a window? Zipp!
Within 5 minutes of installing the MTX app and allowing it through my firewall, I started getting TrendMicro warnings about mysterious URLS that were attempting to connect to my PC. I run Bittorrent and have never gotten these....is there something untoward going on here?
So how did you ever become not unemployed again? Since you didn't take 'a cent' of government money (and apparently had no social support system) how did you shower? I for one don't want roving bands of angry, unemployed thugs walking the streets and breaking into homes to steal food/money for the day. It takes a level a maturity to save 10% of ones income for such an event. That maturity comes with parental training. And if the parents are 3rd generation povery, good luck.
Let them go get a hot meal at a local missing (government subsidized) or get into some transitional housing. Not everyone can play the 'noble hobo' role. Something as simple as diabetes means refusing government help after a reversal of fortune is a pretty quick death sentence.
I agree on most points. The big thing for me the ability to use add-ons like NoScript to block only the scripts I want, without having to disable JavaScript globally. But IE starts faster and doesn't hog GB's of memory if left up for a few days.
Just to idea that the company that makes the browser also has a vested interest in preventing me from not viewing ads gives me pause. that and the fact that some flagship MS applications (like MOSS 2007) are incompatible (natively) with IE8.
Homeless? What country do you live in? I pay a significant portion of my earning so as to avoid being homeless upon unemployment. I would probably lose my house and car and have to live in some cheap subsidized housing (or maybe with family), but I would never be a sleeping on a park bench somewhere.
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Two words: Courier Tablet
From TFA: "...select games that support all three major desktop platforms: Mac, Windows, and Linux"
That's adorable.
I do. Why not? There will always be 'that guy' who gets a boner by accumulated 30 years worth of music for free. There will always be people who will spend time actively seeking out the illicit downloads, even though a legit one of the same thing is $1.50 and they could get it in less time. These people have massive amounts of disposable time.
Not mention that fact that, when getting torrent'ed files, there's always a risk of malware and whatnot. Of course, there is a marginally risk with legit purchases too, but corporation can be (and have been) successfully censured or sued for doing so. Despite my best efforts I have not been able to serve papers to warexluvrr69 who recent gave me digital herpes.
Allowing NoScript will never happen. Google makes most of its revenue from javascript-presented ads. They are not about to allow something that can block them.
So when is /. going to allow none Latin characters? I cannot even say ! What gives?
What I am is the father of a son who has lost his sight (for awhile...it returned eventually...long story). When CP came to us in the hospital the dialog when something like this (a condensed version):
Hi! We would like to donate this Nintendo DS to you to make your son's scary and difficult time a little easier!
Gee thanks, but my son lost his vision.
Oh. Um, well....maybe you would like it instead?
It took a tremendous amount of self control not to punch this knob in the face. I mean WTH!? Give me money, food, clothes, pay for my hotel, but for Gods sake! I freaking video game??
Then when I took a look at CP's financing I lost all respect for them:
For the period, 10/01/07-09/30/08, the following amounts were paid by Penny Arcade, Inc. to the Officers of Child's Play: Michael R. Krakhulik Salary - $ 179,283.20 Keith G. Holkins Salary - $ 176,903.16 Robert Khoo Salary - $ 159,538.89
That's the feeling I got from the article.
It's a little more like this:
Relationship Business Relationship - Shareholders In Penny Arcade
Name 1 Robert Khoo
President
Name 2 Keith G. Holkins
Treasurer
Name 2 Mike Krahulik
Secretary
Relationship Business Relationship - Shareholders In Penny Arcade
For the period, 10/01/07-09/30/08, the following amounts were paid by
Penny Arcade, Inc. to the Officers of Child's Play:
Michael R. Krakhulik Salary - $ 179,283.20
Keith G. Holkins Salary - $ 176,903.16
Robert Khoo Salary - $ 159,538.89
So, yeah....tell em again how this is a grad and noble venture.
The article doesn't say, but is this the unaided eye (e.g. a guy in he space shuttle could look out the window and see it)? Because I could see my house from modern satellite pictures.
I guess the market has not grown because of the tiny percentage of people (not including corporations) using pan/tilt/web-addressable web-cams, most are not really concerned with high-end image quality. They just want to watch birds or use it for home monitoring. A guy in my office has one watching the river behind his house (it floods often). The people who really do want/need the high-end stuff are more than willing to pay big money for it.
But I thought the only people crying for this were the American soccer Mom's and their elected officials. Who cares what other countries do? Regarding defining porn, that is a sticky wicket to be sure. I imagine it would function somewhat like Google search results or spam filtering. The easy stuff would be auto-filtered out, and maybe there could be some kind of toolbar that would allow folks to 'flag' other sites as porn. If enough flags come in, it's blocked until it starts using the xxx.
I think it's the overt, broad-based sexuality that would qualify a site. People get turned on by just about anything (Rule 34), but the lowest common denominator is humans engaged in overt sex acts (with each other, with animals, alone, etc.). Start selling such for money, and it becomes a porn site.
They seem to have done alright with .mil, .edu, .gov, etc....
But what if one goes to flickr.com and then turns off the filter and searches for '[something dirty]'?
I imagine they would be required to have a redirect so the final landing page would be .xxx. It would make it a lot easier for parents to filter porn home or public libraries to filter it in the kiddie book section. But, like others have already said, who gets to decide on what gets the XXX? What about those nudism advocacy sites that are loaded with naked people? What about viewing Flickr with the 'family filter' disabled?
Unless, of course, they get threatened with lawsuit by a big scary religion/business.
I always find it annoying how everything one can do on a Hollywood computer makes a sound. Moving a mouse across the screen? Woosh! Enlarging a window? Zipp!
....so, yeah: http://www.itworld.com/print/105778
Within 5 minutes of installing the MTX app and allowing it through my firewall, I started getting TrendMicro warnings about mysterious URLS that were attempting to connect to my PC. I run Bittorrent and have never gotten these....is there something untoward going on here?
Finally something worthwhile to use my 50Mbps on! It's legal and everything! Feels good be righteous again.
So how did you ever become not unemployed again? Since you didn't take 'a cent' of government money (and apparently had no social support system) how did you shower? I for one don't want roving bands of angry, unemployed thugs walking the streets and breaking into homes to steal food/money for the day. It takes a level a maturity to save 10% of ones income for such an event. That maturity comes with parental training. And if the parents are 3rd generation povery, good luck.
Let them go get a hot meal at a local missing (government subsidized) or get into some transitional housing. Not everyone can play the 'noble hobo' role. Something as simple as diabetes means refusing government help after a reversal of fortune is a pretty quick death sentence.
There were 30, plus a few 'secret' missions.
I agree on most points. The big thing for me the ability to use add-ons like NoScript to block only the scripts I want, without having to disable JavaScript globally. But IE starts faster and doesn't hog GB's of memory if left up for a few days.
Just to idea that the company that makes the browser also has a vested interest in preventing me from not viewing ads gives me pause. that and the fact that some flagship MS applications (like MOSS 2007) are incompatible (natively) with IE8.
Homeless? What country do you live in? I pay a significant portion of my earning so as to avoid being homeless upon unemployment. I would probably lose my house and car and have to live in some cheap subsidized housing (or maybe with family), but I would never be a sleeping on a park bench somewhere.