I find it hard to believe that it wasn't much more. Meeting people online is the ultimate way to get new friends. Some of those will be idiots and morons, but they will also appear in the classroom without any chance for you to stop seeing them daily.
Perhaps the solution is that iTunes should bear some of the additional cost of the high amount of traffic their service creates.
They already do that, because they already pay for their bandwidth, and they pay a great deal more than you would pay for the same bandwidth.
Seriously. The only people who should be paying more here are the ISPs and ultimately us, the customers. The ISPs have been overselling bandwidth for years and years, and now that we are starting to use what they claim they have sold us, they can't all of a sudden tell us not to, without either increasing the price a lot, lowering the max speed, or admit to the general public that what they have been selling was not what they claimed it was. Some marketing nightmare there.
So what you're saying is that Debian fucking sucks because they take like, Linus' kernel and GNU compilers and Theo's ssh server instead of developing their own things?
I think you need to take a deep breath and read the GPL and BSD license again.;)
Protecting your art and architecture at the cost of millions of Jewish lives doesn't at all seem worth it.
Humans grow and breed like rabbits. No matter what you do to them, they will always produce more humans. Some medieval plagues in Europe killed off 1/3 to 2/3 of the population, but it merely made a small dent in the population growth charts. Even the Jews, that were so brutally slaughtered in WWII, are now even more populous than before the war, and all that in just 60 years. (Estimated 9 millions before the war, down to 3 million after, and now around 13 million.)
The art and architecture will last for millennia, but if destroyed, these valuable pieces of history are gone for good. I think it's safe to say that they are more important to mankind in large to preserve than than any single human, or any group of humans.
Heh, I fear the mods on this one, but.. yeah well, I have karma to burn.
Without some form of [at least somewhat] verifiable logs, there is no record proving that real users were ever shown the ads.
Great! This would mean that there's no ads on television, because such a model could never work. I guess I stopped watching TV because I'm crazy and see things that doesn't exist then.
As a European, I have the view that Obama is the most trustworthy of them at the moment, and he seems to be the most tech-friendly candidate of the ones that still have a chance to get elected. Do you have any pointers to scandals that can change my view?
I have a gigabit ethernet in my 4 year old Thinkpad X40, where can you connect that to your Air? 10MB/s isn't really state of the art transfer speed these days...
You could begin with Half-Life and continue on through its sequels
Unless you get bored instantly with those shallow shooters.
Everything you say above is relative. I've been playing ADOM for years, and I'm still not bored of it. It doesn't have any illustrations, sounds, or animations at all.
Also, no one says that even if you need all those people, that they have to get paid. I just got hooked on Battle for Wesnoth, a completely free fantasy strategy/tactics game, involving around 400 volunteers doing music, graphics, and code. Very polished.
Finally, it's quite obvious that you can make a lot of money doing video games, involving all these people and paying them good wages, since otherwise we wouldn't have had a flourishing industry for over 20 years, producing a massive amount of games every year, selling them for outrageous prices, in a world of rampant piracy.
what's good for the industry is good for people who play games in that more games can be made
Yes, because bribing politicians for hand-picked regulations instead of making competitive products is always better... or what?
Game companies doesn't necessarily want to create more games, they want money. If they can get that by forcing people to pay more for less by limiting competition in the field, then forming an alliance like this is a good way to do it.
The only thing that bothers me about introducing genetically altered food
These are not modified, they are cloned. The complete opposite.
what happens if some sort of genetically mutated virus/bacteria gets into the food supply
Then we probably are more resistant to them since they have evolved over millions of years to be able to sneak in to us. Any random modification from that, and they would most probably not be as effective anymore.
Screwing around with DNA, when we simply do not completely understand the ramifications can be a little scary.
This is what we used to call "selective breeding", and often results in better crops/animals, but sometimes not, and then they simply die out and we keep breeding the good animals.
what happens if say, "cows" get to the point where they either die off completely, or are "not fit for human consumption"
Then we'll eat something else. Vegetarians seem to manage that, and there are also a lot of other kinds of animals we can eat.
When I was unemployed I had a lot of spare time to code on free software. Now when I have a full time job - not so much.
You don't need an income to contribute to free software, just a computer and usually some sort of internet connection.
However: Notice how I use "free software" instead of "open source" - When the Web 2.0 bubble comes, it doesn't matter if you can just look at the source code from the tool you used after the company went bankrupt. You need to have the legal rights to keep modifying it and/or let someone else do it.
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I find it hard to believe that it wasn't much more. Meeting people online is the ultimate way to get new friends. Some of those will be idiots and morons, but they will also appear in the classroom without any chance for you to stop seeing them daily.
Hm, remind me again, which country are you talking about here?
They already do that, because they already pay for their bandwidth, and they pay a great deal more than you would pay for the same bandwidth.
Seriously. The only people who should be paying more here are the ISPs and ultimately us, the customers. The ISPs have been overselling bandwidth for years and years, and now that we are starting to use what they claim they have sold us, they can't all of a sudden tell us not to, without either increasing the price a lot, lowering the max speed, or admit to the general public that what they have been selling was not what they claimed it was. Some marketing nightmare there.
And what happened?
So what you're saying is that Debian fucking sucks because they take like, Linus' kernel and GNU compilers and Theo's ssh server instead of developing their own things?
I think you need to take a deep breath and read the GPL and BSD license again. ;)
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I think I encoded my 3gp emergency porn with the open source mencoder, or ffmpeg. Maybe the codecs were closed?
Humans grow and breed like rabbits. No matter what you do to them, they will always produce more humans. Some medieval plagues in Europe killed off 1/3 to 2/3 of the population, but it merely made a small dent in the population growth charts. Even the Jews, that were so brutally slaughtered in WWII, are now even more populous than before the war, and all that in just 60 years. (Estimated 9 millions before the war, down to 3 million after, and now around 13 million.)
The art and architecture will last for millennia, but if destroyed, these valuable pieces of history are gone for good. I think it's safe to say that they are more important to mankind in large to preserve than than any single human, or any group of humans.
Heh, I fear the mods on this one, but.. yeah well, I have karma to burn.
I thought it was "Niggers" these days?
I don't fully understand this context. You say it as there was any other possibilities?
So these will be fully equipped with robotic snakes as well?
Great! This would mean that there's no ads on television, because such a model could never work. I guess I stopped watching TV because I'm crazy and see things that doesn't exist then.
As a European, I have the view that Obama is the most trustworthy of them at the moment, and he seems to be the most tech-friendly candidate of the ones that still have a chance to get elected. Do you have any pointers to scandals that can change my view?
I have a gigabit ethernet in my 4 year old Thinkpad X40, where can you connect that to your Air? 10MB/s isn't really state of the art transfer speed these days...
From TFA:
All you have to do is try to [imagine] Slashdot without the moderation system to see what's going to happen to your database.A signed 32-bit integer can not store 2^31, but 2^31-1, which would be 214,748 gold, 36 silver, 47 copper.
Please, someone tell the RIAA and the MPAA...
Unless you get bored instantly with those shallow shooters.
Everything you say above is relative. I've been playing ADOM for years, and I'm still not bored of it. It doesn't have any illustrations, sounds, or animations at all.
Also, no one says that even if you need all those people, that they have to get paid. I just got hooked on Battle for Wesnoth, a completely free fantasy strategy/tactics game, involving around 400 volunteers doing music, graphics, and code. Very polished.
Finally, it's quite obvious that you can make a lot of money doing video games, involving all these people and paying them good wages, since otherwise we wouldn't have had a flourishing industry for over 20 years, producing a massive amount of games every year, selling them for outrageous prices, in a world of rampant piracy.
Apparently you're the one who missed the joke here..
Yes, because bribing politicians for hand-picked regulations instead of making competitive products is always better... or what?
Game companies doesn't necessarily want to create more games, they want money. If they can get that by forcing people to pay more for less by limiting competition in the field, then forming an alliance like this is a good way to do it.
Don't worry, they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
To be honest, that depends on what their marketing division means with a "cycle"...
These are not modified, they are cloned. The complete opposite.
what happens if some sort of genetically mutated virus/bacteria gets into the food supplyThen we probably are more resistant to them since they have evolved over millions of years to be able to sneak in to us. Any random modification from that, and they would most probably not be as effective anymore.
Screwing around with DNA, when we simply do not completely understand the ramifications can be a little scary.This is what we used to call "selective breeding", and often results in better crops/animals, but sometimes not, and then they simply die out and we keep breeding the good animals.
what happens if say, "cows" get to the point where they either die off completely, or are "not fit for human consumption"Then we'll eat something else. Vegetarians seem to manage that, and there are also a lot of other kinds of animals we can eat.
How the hell can they miss Battle for Wesnoth, which is, compared to most others on that list, a truly free game, and very polished.
Then they are broken, not "unpowered".
When I was unemployed I had a lot of spare time to code on free software. Now when I have a full time job - not so much.
You don't need an income to contribute to free software, just a computer and usually some sort of internet connection.
However: Notice how I use "free software" instead of "open source" - When the Web 2.0 bubble comes, it doesn't matter if you can just look at the source code from the tool you used after the company went bankrupt. You need to have the legal rights to keep modifying it and/or let someone else do it.