Sounds like one of their programmers played a bit too much Madden. We need a robot that can climb or descend stairs while carrying an injured person, not tackle them!
And in a stunning reversal, I've changed my mind. Commenters I just now saw have pointed out that this game will be the less-deceptively-named "SimCity: Societies" which seems fine, especially considering, as other commenters have pointed out this is quite likely an attempt to kick-start the creativity that has been so stagnant in the gaming industry for so long, and as such I probably should give it some benefit of the doubt.
But god damn that press release in the original article is so poorly spun.
Next time I will RTFC before I comment. Mea culpa.
"...I do not want to mislead anyone: This SC is not a realistic urban simulation... this SC is its own unique creation."
So why the frak call it SimCity? If you want to make a non-urban-simulation game, come up with your own damn franchise, or at the very least steal a franchise that has something to do with your game. Call it "The Sims: Cities" if that's what you're going for, but don't steal an existing franchise that is based on urban simulation for your non-urban-simulation game.
Let's pretend the government owns the airwaves as a public resource and licenses its use, ie the license to use the airwaves is granted by the government, not anyone's God-given right. Let's pretend a TV station who holds a government license for use of public airwaves sponsored a coup against a democratically-elected government. Let's pretend that coup attempt failed. Wouldn't the rule of law require that the people who attempted to overthrow the government be held accountable? Wouldn't a reasonable repercussion be that the TV station involved in the coup have its license revoked for its attempted overthrow of the government? Wouldn't it even seem especially charitible of the government to refrain from taking special action and simply refuse to renew the license when it came up for renewal?
Because that's exactly what happened here.
I have no sympathy for this station. Freedom of speech, my ass.
Who was hurt? It sounds like everyone involved thinks this law is stupid and unnecessary. Though the opinions of the cafe owner aren't clear, it sounds like they didn't pursue charges.
The law ought to be amended to allow people to legally access intentionally free and open waps, since it's clear this is meant to only protect unintentionally (ie the owner doesn't know how to lock down) open waps.
Everyone else already pointed out why this is stupid: it's already illegal, and the President who has been breaking the law aready will have to sign it, and even if passed there is no indication this will carry any more force than FISA. It's a law just like FISA. If the President has been violating FISA openly why wouldn't he violate this law just as openly?
Courts are only going to be moderately helpful. There's a large chance they will acquiesce to Bush's claims of national security - therefore any such cases cannot be tried. Plus, he had 6 years to install his own appointees that will probably agree with him, including two Supreme Court Justices.
What we really need is an impeachment trial.
Screw download speed, I wand upload bandwidth. I have all the download capacity I need for quite some time, but upload capacity is still on the order of what it was in the days of phone lines.
Because possibly far more often than 1 out of a hundred times the punk or the drunk or whomever is actually innocent. Come on, would you really rather have police come to your house and shoot you on sight for no goddamn reason whatsoever, because they thought you were guilty of a crime and because they can, because we did away with the judicial system, because we were too lazy to do our civic duty?
So the Golden Age, a period of 8 years, is seperated from the Platinum Age, a period of 10 years, by a boundary of 0-1 years? Why no love for December 31st, 1993 to January 1st, 1994?
"What other large electronics chains are left that I can buy at?"
The answer is hidden within your own question. Find an alternative to the large electronics chain.
These guys all tailor their policies to lower prices, and that means treating their employees and their customers like crap. That means failing to provide employees with living wages, insurance or benefits of any kind, or even full-time employment. It means dehumanizing their employees and treating them instead like an expendable resource, it means regular, callous firings such as this in favor of lowering the wages they have to pay. There is no loyalty but to the bottom line.
And now it means an employee has no hope of advancement. Don't count on being an efficient money-maker for the company; you are a dime a dozen. As soon as you demand more than the minimum wage you are out the door.
There is no career to be found in rising up the food chain from the lowest cog at these companies, and that is the injustice that so offends us and the American Dream - hense the/. article title.
But I digress. If, as a customer, if there is a point at which you are willing to be more concerned with how your vendor treats their employees whether than whether they can provide you the lowest price, then the alternative has been staring you in the face all the time. It is the local small business. There are far more to choose from, they may be harder to find and some may also treat their employees like crap, but you can choose to endorse good employment policies by spending your money at those companies that treat their employees well, provide them benefits, a career, and allow them to not only bear the risks but also share in the rewards.
So go reward them. As the consumer you have the final say, go vote your values.
But will anyone who uses this information for their own research follow suit? I strongly doubt this single act of gracious openness will inspire any other big pharmco to do the same with whatever findings they come across using this free information.
I have a hunch they aren't spending a lot of time targeting specific arguments with responses that make sense in context, as opposed to more likely doing some quick and dirty cut-and-pasting that would stick out like a sore thumb due to the way it isn't related to anyone's arguments.
Who's to say that the administration that has been openly breaking the law for years hasn't just created another hidden illegal program and shifted their illegal activity to that?
I'm afraid I don't understand. Why would they be forced to migrate to GPLv3 if they stayed with GPLv2? Why couldn't they simply remain on GPLv2? What would force them to change?
Not really ironic. Microsoft would definitely be singing a different tune if they were in Google's shoes. Take all the examples of when they have been in Google's shoes. When was the last time they open-sourced anything? That's right, they haven't.
I find this very odd, especially because starting a few days ago my Yahoo Mail has suddenly started crashing Firefox. It happens every time I click on a message after using the browser's back button to back out of another message. Yeah, I'm using 1.508 but there's no reason it should suddenly stop being supported.
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A lot of commenters have suggested this is an unimportant story, robberies happen all the time, bigger robberies occur often that aren't covered, etc. But other robberies don't hit as close to home for the Slashdot community as a robbery of a nonprofit that cleans up used computers, installs Linux on them, and donates them. The function that FreeGeek performs is unique and uniquely relevant to Slashdot. It is both a charity that makes computers and the Internet more accessible to those who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it by recycling discarded computers, AND it broadens the Linux user base.
I cannot imagine a charitable cause more worthy of the support of the Slashdot community than this one. Before you post another comment suggesting this isn't an important story, please read the Free Geek mission page
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Sounds like one of their programmers played a bit too much Madden. We need a robot that can climb or descend stairs while carrying an injured person, not tackle them!
And in a stunning reversal, I've changed my mind. Commenters I just now saw have pointed out that this game will be the less-deceptively-named "SimCity: Societies" which seems fine, especially considering, as other commenters have pointed out this is quite likely an attempt to kick-start the creativity that has been so stagnant in the gaming industry for so long, and as such I probably should give it some benefit of the doubt.
But god damn that press release in the original article is so poorly spun.
Next time I will RTFC before I comment. Mea culpa.
"...I do not want to mislead anyone: This SC is not a realistic urban simulation... this SC is its own unique creation."
So why the frak call it SimCity? If you want to make a non-urban-simulation game, come up with your own damn franchise, or at the very least steal a franchise that has something to do with your game. Call it "The Sims: Cities" if that's what you're going for, but don't steal an existing franchise that is based on urban simulation for your non-urban-simulation game.
"I believe what happened is that they thought I would never accept the debate offer"
Since you didn't, the world will never know...
Believe it or not, the rule of law IS a liberal principle.
Let's pretend the government owns the airwaves as a public resource and licenses its use, ie the license to use the airwaves is granted by the government, not anyone's God-given right. Let's pretend a TV station who holds a government license for use of public airwaves sponsored a coup against a democratically-elected government. Let's pretend that coup attempt failed. Wouldn't the rule of law require that the people who attempted to overthrow the government be held accountable? Wouldn't a reasonable repercussion be that the TV station involved in the coup have its license revoked for its attempted overthrow of the government? Wouldn't it even seem especially charitible of the government to refrain from taking special action and simply refuse to renew the license when it came up for renewal?
Because that's exactly what happened here.
I have no sympathy for this station. Freedom of speech, my ass.
Who was hurt? It sounds like everyone involved thinks this law is stupid and unnecessary. Though the opinions of the cafe owner aren't clear, it sounds like they didn't pursue charges. The law ought to be amended to allow people to legally access intentionally free and open waps, since it's clear this is meant to only protect unintentionally (ie the owner doesn't know how to lock down) open waps.
Environmental groups are complaining about ethanol use? Corn prices have doubled? This article is as absurdly FUDdy as it gets.
Exactly.
"One megabyte of hard drive space is 1,000,000 bytes: 106 bytes. Operating systems calculate one megabyte as 220 bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes"
What the hell does that even mean? 106 bytes? 220 bytes?
Everyone else already pointed out why this is stupid: it's already illegal, and the President who has been breaking the law aready will have to sign it, and even if passed there is no indication this will carry any more force than FISA. It's a law just like FISA. If the President has been violating FISA openly why wouldn't he violate this law just as openly? Courts are only going to be moderately helpful. There's a large chance they will acquiesce to Bush's claims of national security - therefore any such cases cannot be tried. Plus, he had 6 years to install his own appointees that will probably agree with him, including two Supreme Court Justices. What we really need is an impeachment trial.
Screw download speed, I wand upload bandwidth. I have all the download capacity I need for quite some time, but upload capacity is still on the order of what it was in the days of phone lines.
Because possibly far more often than 1 out of a hundred times the punk or the drunk or whomever is actually innocent. Come on, would you really rather have police come to your house and shoot you on sight for no goddamn reason whatsoever, because they thought you were guilty of a crime and because they can, because we did away with the judicial system, because we were too lazy to do our civic duty?
Because it's soooo important that I get spreadsheets and slideshows on my PHONE.
So the Golden Age, a period of 8 years, is seperated from the Platinum Age, a period of 10 years, by a boundary of 0-1 years? Why no love for December 31st, 1993 to January 1st, 1994?
"What other large electronics chains are left that I can buy at?"
/. article title.
The answer is hidden within your own question. Find an alternative to the large electronics chain.
These guys all tailor their policies to lower prices, and that means treating their employees and their customers like crap. That means failing to provide employees with living wages, insurance or benefits of any kind, or even full-time employment. It means dehumanizing their employees and treating them instead like an expendable resource, it means regular, callous firings such as this in favor of lowering the wages they have to pay. There is no loyalty but to the bottom line.
And now it means an employee has no hope of advancement. Don't count on being an efficient money-maker for the company; you are a dime a dozen. As soon as you demand more than the minimum wage you are out the door.
There is no career to be found in rising up the food chain from the lowest cog at these companies, and that is the injustice that so offends us and the American Dream - hense the
But I digress. If, as a customer, if there is a point at which you are willing to be more concerned with how your vendor treats their employees whether than whether they can provide you the lowest price, then the alternative has been staring you in the face all the time. It is the local small business. There are far more to choose from, they may be harder to find and some may also treat their employees like crap, but you can choose to endorse good employment policies by spending your money at those companies that treat their employees well, provide them benefits, a career, and allow them to not only bear the risks but also share in the rewards.
So go reward them. As the consumer you have the final say, go vote your values.
It doesn't. Unfortunately for your question, no one has suggested that it should.
Off-topic, I know, but is there any reason the author consistently refers to "GNU/Linux" rather than Linux?
Did you ever think you'd be reading about TPB in Vanity Fair?"
No, because I always knew that if it ever happened, Slashdot would report about it so I would never have to.
But will anyone who uses this information for their own research follow suit? I strongly doubt this single act of gracious openness will inspire any other big pharmco to do the same with whatever findings they come across using this free information.
I have a hunch they aren't spending a lot of time targeting specific arguments with responses that make sense in context, as opposed to more likely doing some quick and dirty cut-and-pasting that would stick out like a sore thumb due to the way it isn't related to anyone's arguments.
Who's to say that the administration that has been openly breaking the law for years hasn't just created another hidden illegal program and shifted their illegal activity to that?
I'm afraid I don't understand. Why would they be forced to migrate to GPLv3 if they stayed with GPLv2? Why couldn't they simply remain on GPLv2? What would force them to change?
Not really ironic. Microsoft would definitely be singing a different tune if they were in Google's shoes. Take all the examples of when they have been in Google's shoes. When was the last time they open-sourced anything? That's right, they haven't.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
I find this very odd, especially because starting a few days ago my Yahoo Mail has suddenly started crashing Firefox. It happens every time I click on a message after using the browser's back button to back out of another message. Yeah, I'm using 1.508 but there's no reason it should suddenly stop being supported.
A lot of commenters have suggested this is an unimportant story, robberies happen all the time, bigger robberies occur often that aren't covered, etc. But other robberies don't hit as close to home for the Slashdot community as a robbery of a nonprofit that cleans up used computers, installs Linux on them, and donates them. The function that FreeGeek performs is unique and uniquely relevant to Slashdot. It is both a charity that makes computers and the Internet more accessible to those who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it by recycling discarded computers, AND it broadens the Linux user base.
I cannot imagine a charitable cause more worthy of the support of the Slashdot community than this one. Before you post another comment suggesting this isn't an important story, please read the Free Geek mission page