They already do. The problem is that mining shits pollutants all over the environment. And my fair state is one of the few parts of the USA that hasn't been completely paved over.
I don't think they are going to make a dime trying to mine Mars as the shipping costs are going to be insane. But I'd rather people mine dead rocks than polute thriving ecosystems.
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They didn't say "developement", they said "adoption". And they are correct. Games only drive the need for faster computers with faster video cards. Games have done nothing for any other technology, not even broadband.
The items that porn has driven into the mass market:
The VCR, especially VHS. Before the VCR you had to go to a porno thatre and sit in a dark room with abunch of other lonely guys doing things you didn't want to know about. With the VCR you could watch your porn in the privacy of your own home. Hell, you could even watch it with your wife, who would rather die than be seen going into a porno thatre. I was there. I saw it happen with my own eyes.
The CR-ROM drive. The first three products that came out for the CD-ROM drive were Bible-search programs, MYST and porn. Porn was the main reason many people bought CD-ROM drives.
DVD players/DVD-ROM drives. These made porn movies even easier to watch than VCRs as the discs were smaller, the image quality better (yay, the pimples on Ron Jeremy's butt are much more visible!) and you can skip to your favorite parts. And as of today, porn is one of the few genres in video to bother using the multi-angle option.
Broadband Internet: What do people use all that bandwitdh for? Porn. More than pirated movies, warez, and music, it's porn. Look around Usenet sometime. The busiest newsgroups are the porn groups in the ALT branch.
Now, none of these technologies were created for the expressed purpose of make, selling, or dispributing porn. And the author didn't say they were. These technologies were first exploited by the porn industry.
You know, after 25 years of using computers, and learning more OSes than most people have ever heard of, I no longer WANT to learn yet another set of arcane CLI commands. "Hmm, was that 'ls', 'dir', or 'cat'? Fuck it. I'll open a damned GUI, thank you very much.
The console is great for many things, but it's not suitable for average users, nor people who just want to get things done. Most people are not power users, hell, most couldn't find their asses with both hands. Any interface that doesn't address the needs of the average user is a niche player at best and a total failure on average.
why not just have one dedicated person [snip] watch the camera feed?
Boredom. You get bored. look at something else, sneeze, go to the restroom, etc... and you miss the whole thing. Computers don't get bored, thirsty, tired, hungry, etc...
Library's don't use fines as an income source. Matter of fact, many librarians will forgive fines if your sob story is good enough or you don't make it a habbit of keeping books too long. Fines exist to give you an insentive to return the books on time. They exist only because many patrons do not uphold their end of the contract without the threat of punishment.
Fines do add up, but, like a state lottery, are not a reliable income source and are not a trustworthy means to fund your library.
Even though I am staunchly pro-choice, I find the concept of harvesting embryos to be morally repugnant for the same reason I find the concept of forced harvesting of executed prisoners' organs (which we do not do, but has been suggested several times by many people) repugnant. It turns human bodies into a resource to be mined. A commodity of meat.
After years of living in large cities I can tell you a basic truth about a great number of people: people will put great effort in stealing what they wouldn't pay a dime for. I've had numerous posessions stolen that I could not have sold at any price, that I could not have given away. Hell, I used to get rid of my old crap by "accidently" leaving it unsecured in places where it looked like I might be back any second.
But you miss Apple's entire point. They don't want people running OSX on any computer save an Apple brand computer. Period. Why is that so hard to understand? Poeple unwilling to buy an Apple computer are obviously not wanting to run OSX bad enough.
Guess what? They don't care. And they don't want to sell you a lisence. They want to sell you a Macintosh computer. They are not intersted in supporting third-party PCs and never have been. Ever.
Why are you opening files? You kill the process and remove the infected executable. The jpegs, gifs, pings, mpegs, and whatnot are none of your concern. How do you know nickyage9_01.jpg" is a kiddy porn pic or a family snapshot? And what business is it of yours?
It isn't. You do your job and you leave the data alone. It's not your job to be an informant for the police.
If you can't respect other people's property rights then you need a job where you never touch anything that belongs to someone else.
If you have to open a door in order to see something it's not in plain sight. If you have to open a folder the contets thereof are not in plain sight.
Having your computer rifled by some tech looking for porn for his own viewing is as much a violation of provacy as is having the plumber rifling your wife's panty drawer.
The fact that the panty drawer wasn't locked means nothing. Your wife's panties were not the problem that needed fixing. The dripping shower was the problem. The plumber has no business looking anywhere but at the plumbing. Period.
The tech has no business looking in folders. His job is to fix the problem. To remove the virus, replace the video card, whatever. Not to snoop around in folders.
Let me ask you this: if this case was about downloaded music would you be so blase'? How is it any different because it was kiddy porn? Does the fact that there might be child porn an each and every computer out there mean that techs have the right to inspect every computer for it? What about downloaded music? Movies? Or anything else YOU might like to look at / listen to that someone else objects to or might be illegal where you happen to reside right now?
Don't give me that crap. Unless the problem is data file specific the tech has no reason to look at anything other than teh hardware and the OS directory.
I used to do tech work and while I never searched other people's machines (because I value my proprty rights and I respect other's property rights) I know a lot of techs that did. And they did it for one reaon: to get new stuiff for their collections. They'd copy off all of their porn, MP3s, etc... and add it to their collections. Their searches had nothing to do with fixing the computer and everything to do with data theft.
It's none of the tech's business what files are on my computer. Unless I specifically say "Hey, I can't open BackDoorSluts9.avi" the tech has no business looking at that, or any other file. Their job is to fix the computer, not to root through my things looking for porn for their private collections.
What the hell happened to professionalism? I used to do computer repair and I NEVER snooped on peoples machines. I addressed the problem as laid out in the service ticket and left the rest alone.
"But kiddie porn is sick!" some of you will whine. Yes. Yes it is. But your job is not to search for criminal activity. Your job is to fix the computer. Stick to your job. Let the police trace the perverts download patterns on the Net.
Would you search his hard drive for illegal music downloads and call the cops because he has that unreleased Fatboy Slim Cd on it?
And to the parent, you need to grow the hell up and learn about property rights. Someone else's computer is not yours. You don't trespass on their data.
And they sold them to whom? Yes, local taxpayers, who ALREADY PAID FOR THEM! Go to any local or state government surplus property auction, everything is pennies on the dollar. The point of government surplus isn't to make money, it is to keep from having to landfill items that still have value to someone.
Yes, the sale was badly thought out in terms of crowd control. They probably never expected a stampede over 4-year old equipment.
Well, it wouldn't be a problem if the heat shields weren't as fragile as empty eggshells. This isn't a problem with the tank or the insulation on it. It's a fundiimental flaw in the design of the orbiter. It's never going to be fixed because there is no way to fix it.
The shuttle fleet should be mothballed and replaced with a workable vehicle.
giving you access to far more nudity and sex than the hot coffie hack
Having seen the video for the Hot Coffee Mod and using the no-blur code on The Sims 2 I call bullshit. Sure, you get to see Sims take a shower or bath, but they have no, what's the polite term... "naughty bits" to see. You get half a point because the Hot Coffee mod has no nudity (at least the video I saw didn't have any). But more sex?
Have you even played Sims 2? I'm thinking you haven't. If you had you'd know that the sex all happens hidden under blankets, under water, or behind the dressing room curtains. And what little that is actually animated is more appropriately described as "tickle fight".
I bought a 12" iBook because it does what I need and I couldn't justify the extra $500.00 for the Powerbook. I use it on the road, not as a desktop replacement. I do my CPU intensive stuff on my G5 Powermac on my desk. For me, and I can't speak for anyone but myself, the iBook was what I needed.
DOOM3 scared the crap out of me until the Alpha Labs. I remember looking at a doorway and knowing that when I walked through it an imp or a zombie would jump out of a locker and bite me on the ass. And when I walked through that door the imp did just that. I realized that every third doorway was going to do that to me. At that point I lost all interest in the game. I got as far as the beginning of the Delta Labs and just gave up.
Another part of this is that for as frightening the environment was, none of it amounted to squat. Those screaming voices? Decoration. The thumping of unseen monsters? Just effects. This was completely unlike DOOM/DOOM2 where what you heard was eventually going to try and kill you. It felt like a Holloween haunted house at a frat house: a lot of sound effects with the occasional frat boy hiding behind the door with a cricket bat waiting to whack you on the ass as you passed.
I'm about as big a fan of DOOM/DOOM2 as you can get. I played both games for five years. I can play E1 and E2 in DOOM1 from start to finish in an afternoon, often without getting killed at all. I never bothered to finish DOOM3. Not even to see my favorite game monster of all time: the Cyberdemon.
That [is], with the change to Intel I think the market has lost something.
What the hell are you talking about? Does the market lose something every time a company switches video chips or memory controllers? Apple is changing one aspect of thair systems. They are not throwing in the towel and calling it quits. They are moving in a direction they think they need to in order to stay competative in order to survive.
A Mac is not the CPU. It is not the video chipset. It is not the memory controller. It is the sum of all of its parts. And those parts are always changing.
And guess what, Sparky? We never did it again. Someone had to be the first, and as the first nation to build one, it fell to us to do so. The telling thing is that they were never used in war again. Everyone saw what The Bomb could do and decided against using them. We could have, we have plenty of enemies and we had plenty of rabid war hawks in Congress who were clamoring for us toi bomb the snot out of Korea and Vietnam. We would be as vile as you seem to think we are if we continued to use them.
I worked for a Credit Union between 1997 and 2001 and I can attest to the amount of work that went into making Y2K a non-issue. We started hitting Y2K bugs as early as the summer of 1997 with credit cards with 3-year life-spans and we keot hitting bugs until summer of 1999. Our software vendor committed an absurd amount of resources to make sure that we'd be fully operational on Jan 02, 2000. To the point that many priomised upgrades had to be pushed back to a later release date.
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They already do. The problem is that mining shits pollutants all over the environment. And my fair state is one of the few parts of the USA that hasn't been completely paved over.
I don't think they are going to make a dime trying to mine Mars as the shipping costs are going to be insane. But I'd rather people mine dead rocks than polute thriving ecosystems.
The items that porn has driven into the mass market:
- The VCR, especially VHS. Before the VCR you had to go to a porno thatre and sit in a dark room with abunch of other lonely guys doing things you didn't want to know about. With the VCR you could watch your porn in the privacy of your own home. Hell, you could even watch it with your wife, who would rather die than be seen going into a porno thatre. I was there. I saw it happen with my own eyes.
- The CR-ROM drive. The first three products that came out for the CD-ROM drive were Bible-search programs, MYST and porn. Porn was the main reason many people bought CD-ROM drives.
- DVD players/DVD-ROM drives. These made porn movies even easier to watch than VCRs as the discs were smaller, the image quality better (yay, the pimples on Ron Jeremy's butt are much more visible!) and you can skip to your favorite parts. And as of today, porn is one of the few genres in video to bother using the multi-angle option.
- Broadband Internet: What do people use all that bandwitdh for? Porn. More than pirated movies, warez, and music, it's porn. Look around Usenet sometime. The busiest newsgroups are the porn groups in the ALT branch.
Now, none of these technologies were created for the expressed purpose of make, selling, or dispributing porn. And the author didn't say they were. These technologies were first exploited by the porn industry.You know, after 25 years of using computers, and learning more OSes than most people have ever heard of, I no longer WANT to learn yet another set of arcane CLI commands. "Hmm, was that 'ls', 'dir', or 'cat'? Fuck it. I'll open a damned GUI, thank you very much.
The console is great for many things, but it's not suitable for average users, nor people who just want to get things done. Most people are not power users, hell, most couldn't find their asses with both hands. Any interface that doesn't address the needs of the average user is a niche player at best and a total failure on average.
Boredom. You get bored. look at something else, sneeze, go to the restroom, etc... and you miss the whole thing. Computers don't get bored, thirsty, tired, hungry, etc...
Library's don't use fines as an income source. Matter of fact, many librarians will forgive fines if your sob story is good enough or you don't make it a habbit of keeping books too long. Fines exist to give you an insentive to return the books on time. They exist only because many patrons do not uphold their end of the contract without the threat of punishment.
Fines do add up, but, like a state lottery, are not a reliable income source and are not a trustworthy means to fund your library.
As a proud owner of a new Stepford 9100SX, I can tell you that you won't be sorry you bought one.
Crap here for the empty reply filter.
Even though I am staunchly pro-choice, I find the concept of harvesting embryos to be morally repugnant for the same reason I find the concept of forced harvesting of executed prisoners' organs (which we do not do, but has been suggested several times by many people) repugnant. It turns human bodies into a resource to be mined. A commodity of meat.
After years of living in large cities I can tell you a basic truth about a great number of people: people will put great effort in stealing what they wouldn't pay a dime for. I've had numerous posessions stolen that I could not have sold at any price, that I could not have given away. Hell, I used to get rid of my old crap by "accidently" leaving it unsecured in places where it looked like I might be back any second.
But you miss Apple's entire point. They don't want people running OSX on any computer save an Apple brand computer. Period. Why is that so hard to understand? Poeple unwilling to buy an Apple computer are obviously not wanting to run OSX bad enough.
Guess what? They don't care. And they don't want to sell you a lisence. They want to sell you a Macintosh computer. They are not intersted in supporting third-party PCs and never have been. Ever.
Why are you opening files? You kill the process and remove the infected executable. The jpegs, gifs, pings, mpegs, and whatnot are none of your concern. How do you know nickyage9_01.jpg" is a kiddy porn pic or a family snapshot? And what business is it of yours?
It isn't. You do your job and you leave the data alone. It's not your job to be an informant for the police.
If you can't respect other people's property rights then you need a job where you never touch anything that belongs to someone else.
If you have to open a door in order to see something it's not in plain sight. If you have to open a folder the contets thereof are not in plain sight.
Having your computer rifled by some tech looking for porn for his own viewing is as much a violation of provacy as is having the plumber rifling your wife's panty drawer.
The fact that the panty drawer wasn't locked means nothing. Your wife's panties were not the problem that needed fixing. The dripping shower was the problem. The plumber has no business looking anywhere but at the plumbing. Period.
The tech has no business looking in folders. His job is to fix the problem. To remove the virus, replace the video card, whatever. Not to snoop around in folders.
Let me ask you this: if this case was about downloaded music would you be so blase'? How is it any different because it was kiddy porn? Does the fact that there might be child porn an each and every computer out there mean that techs have the right to inspect every computer for it? What about downloaded music? Movies? Or anything else YOU might like to look at / listen to that someone else objects to or might be illegal where you happen to reside right now?
Don't give me that crap. Unless the problem is data file specific the tech has no reason to look at anything other than teh hardware and the OS directory.
I used to do tech work and while I never searched other people's machines (because I value my proprty rights and I respect other's property rights) I know a lot of techs that did. And they did it for one reaon: to get new stuiff for their collections. They'd copy off all of their porn, MP3s, etc... and add it to their collections. Their searches had nothing to do with fixing the computer and everything to do with data theft.
It's none of the tech's business what files are on my computer. Unless I specifically say "Hey, I can't open BackDoorSluts9.avi" the tech has no business looking at that, or any other file. Their job is to fix the computer, not to root through my things looking for porn for their private collections.
What the hell happened to professionalism? I used to do computer repair and I NEVER snooped on peoples machines. I addressed the problem as laid out in the service ticket and left the rest alone.
"But kiddie porn is sick!" some of you will whine. Yes. Yes it is. But your job is not to search for criminal activity. Your job is to fix the computer. Stick to your job. Let the police trace the perverts download patterns on the Net.
Would you search his hard drive for illegal music downloads and call the cops because he has that unreleased Fatboy Slim Cd on it?
And to the parent, you need to grow the hell up and learn about property rights. Someone else's computer is not yours. You don't trespass on their data.
And they sold them to whom? Yes, local taxpayers, who ALREADY PAID FOR THEM! Go to any local or state government surplus property auction, everything is pennies on the dollar. The point of government surplus isn't to make money, it is to keep from having to landfill items that still have value to someone.
Yes, the sale was badly thought out in terms of crowd control. They probably never expected a stampede over 4-year old equipment.
Well, it wouldn't be a problem if the heat shields weren't as fragile as empty eggshells. This isn't a problem with the tank or the insulation on it. It's a fundiimental flaw in the design of the orbiter. It's never going to be fixed because there is no way to fix it.
The shuttle fleet should be mothballed and replaced with a workable vehicle.
Well, you lot did chase the Puritans out of England.
Thanks. Thanks a heap. We're better for it. Really.
Having seen the video for the Hot Coffee Mod and using the no-blur code on The Sims 2 I call bullshit. Sure, you get to see Sims take a shower or bath, but they have no, what's the polite term... "naughty bits" to see. You get half a point because the Hot Coffee mod has no nudity (at least the video I saw didn't have any). But more sex?
Have you even played Sims 2? I'm thinking you haven't. If you had you'd know that the sex all happens hidden under blankets, under water, or behind the dressing room curtains. And what little that is actually animated is more appropriately described as "tickle fight".
I bought a 12" iBook because it does what I need and I couldn't justify the extra $500.00 for the Powerbook. I use it on the road, not as a desktop replacement. I do my CPU intensive stuff on my G5 Powermac on my desk. For me, and I can't speak for anyone but myself, the iBook was what I needed.
DOOM3 scared the crap out of me until the Alpha Labs. I remember looking at a doorway and knowing that when I walked through it an imp or a zombie would jump out of a locker and bite me on the ass. And when I walked through that door the imp did just that. I realized that every third doorway was going to do that to me. At that point I lost all interest in the game. I got as far as the beginning of the Delta Labs and just gave up.
Another part of this is that for as frightening the environment was, none of it amounted to squat. Those screaming voices? Decoration. The thumping of unseen monsters? Just effects. This was completely unlike DOOM/DOOM2 where what you heard was eventually going to try and kill you. It felt like a Holloween haunted house at a frat house: a lot of sound effects with the occasional frat boy hiding behind the door with a cricket bat waiting to whack you on the ass as you passed.
I'm about as big a fan of DOOM/DOOM2 as you can get. I played both games for five years. I can play E1 and E2 in DOOM1 from start to finish in an afternoon, often without getting killed at all. I never bothered to finish DOOM3. Not even to see my favorite game monster of all time: the Cyberdemon.
What the hell are you talking about? Does the market lose something every time a company switches video chips or memory controllers? Apple is changing one aspect of thair systems. They are not throwing in the towel and calling it quits. They are moving in a direction they think they need to in order to stay competative in order to survive.
A Mac is not the CPU. It is not the video chipset. It is not the memory controller. It is the sum of all of its parts. And those parts are always changing.
How quickly the lessons of Vietnam are forgotten.
And guess what, Sparky? We never did it again. Someone had to be the first, and as the first nation to build one, it fell to us to do so. The telling thing is that they were never used in war again. Everyone saw what The Bomb could do and decided against using them. We could have, we have plenty of enemies and we had plenty of rabid war hawks in Congress who were clamoring for us toi bomb the snot out of Korea and Vietnam. We would be as vile as you seem to think we are if we continued to use them.
The sounds like a job for Stoppard!
I worked for a Credit Union between 1997 and 2001 and I can attest to the amount of work that went into making Y2K a non-issue. We started hitting Y2K bugs as early as the summer of 1997 with credit cards with 3-year life-spans and we keot hitting bugs until summer of 1999. Our software vendor committed an absurd amount of resources to make sure that we'd be fully operational on Jan 02, 2000. To the point that many priomised upgrades had to be pushed back to a later release date.