To be fair to Metallica, they haven't exactly shunned digital distribution either. Although they were against having their studio albums available on Napster, many of their live shows are available online in DRM free formats, and they've also made several of the shows available free of charge. I know they managed to get themselves a bad reputation, but as far as I can see they've been a lot more friendly to the fans over this issue than most bands have been.
And at least according to the reprap website, the additional parts should only run about $500 or so dollars. They seem to have the instructions for a completed first version up on their website. I'd say that it's definitely worth checking out.
http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapOneDarwin
Sim City Societies is being developed by Tilted Mill Entertainment, not Maxis. What is going on with that game really has nothing to do with the future of Maxis.
"I think that quality was a true innovation on Blizzard's part. Nobody had done that before at that level of play. Because they did that, their game stood out night and day above everybody else's games. What's the biggest mistake? What everybody did without exception -- shoving it out the door.
It's been a few years, but Dark Age of Camelot had one of the smoothest launches of its time. While I'm sure that the company has changed a lot since then (they've expanded massively and been bought out by EA), I'm fairly sure that the same people are running the show and they should realize how much a smooth launch paid off for them in the past.
Can you offer a better alternative? Or, for that matter, can you offer any evidence that truecrypt's encryption is flawed? The link you provided gave nothing besides a bug about a privilege escalation, and while it is somewhat serious, it has absolutely no bearing on whether or not a hidden volume is capable of keeping data secure.
This is exactly the sort of situation that hidden volumes were created for. The government asks you to hand over your encryption keys? "Well sure officer, here's the key to my encrypted volume, but there really isn't anything on there besides some harmless porn (or anything else that might be plausibly embarrassing enough to keep hidden away)" Of course, it's probably only a matter of time before someone decides to make it illegal to possess programs that can create any sort of hidden volume, but that's another issue.
As pointed out elsewhere, the people who would participate are too self-selecting. They would just be too small a segment of the U.S. population.
Which is, of course, a significant change from the current state of affairs. After all, we have such a broad range of people participating in the government today, and we'd hate to do anything to upset the balance.
Seriously, though, the problem isn't that we'd get a narrow group of participants, because we already have a lot of that at the moment. At the very least, we'd tend to attract people who get their news from a much wider variety of sources than the current "Everything that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News says is the gospel truth" crowd that seems so dominant in politics at the moment. The real problem is that it will still be just as heavily dominated by corporate interests as the current system is. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet, corporations are free to just pay hordes of well written people to make sure that the bill shapes up in exactly the way that they want it to. In the current system, at least, we are able to tell who is a lobbyist. In an online setting, I don't think it would be nearly that simple.
Did you actually read the article linked here? The projects that were confiscated were actually interesting and IMHO worthwhile. At any rate, I can see no reason that they should have caused any problems once their identity was confirmed. In case you didn't bother to read the article, here is the relevant section.
Three projects seemed to really bother law enforcement. Critical Art Ensemble was working on a biochemical defense kit against Monsanto's Roundup Ready products for use by organic and traditional farmers. That was all confiscated.
We had a portable molecular biology lab that we were using to test food products labeled "organic" to see if they really were free of GMO contaminant. Or, when in Europe, to see if products not labeled as containing GMOs really had none. We'd finished the initiative in Europe and were about to launch here in the U.S. when the FBI confiscated all our equipment.
Finally, we were a preparing project on germ warfare and the theater of the absurd. We were planning to recreate some of the germ warfare experiments that were done in the '50s (which were so insane that they could only have been paid for with tax dollars). We had two strains of completely harmless bacteria that simulated the behavior of actual infectious diseases -- plague and anthrax. To accompany these performances, we were in the middle of a manuscript on the militarization of civilian health agencies in the U.S. by the Bush administration.
But who is going to do the "hammering out" here? Right now, there are a few large and powerful organizations pushing for stronger copyright enforcement. The people who benefit from fair use, on the other hand, tend to be much more decentralized and unorganized. There are problems with the current laws, but if they sat down to write a comprehensive set of rules, who's going to be at the table besides a bunch of high priced corporate lobbyists?
In general, community colleges in the US only offer two year degrees, whereas universities generally offer four year degrees. However, the courses at many community colleges are transferable, so it is very common for people to spend a year or two at a community college to save money before transferring to a university to get a four year degree. So employers in the United States will obviously care which you graduated from simply because they are different degrees. However, there is generally no distinction made between someone who spent part of the time at a community college versus someone who spent the whole time at a university.
However, you also need to keep in mind that colleges and community colleges are not synonymous in the US. In general, universities tend to be larger institutions with many areas of study (often divided into smaller units called colleges), while there are many smaller institutions called colleges that have a much narrower academic focus. These sorts of colleges usually offer four year degrees as well as advanced degrees, so they are generally comparable to universities in terms of prestige and value of the degree.
The point you're missing here is that the fault is clearly with you, not Linux. For a fair comparison, I'd suggest starting with a single boot linux computer and trying to add windows as a dual boot. From what I've heard, it is certainly going to be harder than the reverse.
Like others have said, there are quick and easy choices, but apparently you couldn't get those either. That's fine, most people just aren't able to deal with installing operating systems and partitioning hard drives, but that is what preinstalled machines are for. However, you seem insistent on setting up lopsided comparisons and creating expectations for Linux that aren't even remotely what you ask for from windows. Those are the sorts of reasons that you are rightly being called a troll.
Not really. For the most part, I Robot showed that the laws tended to work pretty well. Of course, a story where everything always went smoothly wouldn't be particularly interesting, so he wrote about the interesting exceptions and contradictions that could arise. I just don't see how you managed to draw that conclusion from the book.
Anyway, TBP does not host, transmit, or serve as an intermediary for any content. Technically they just link to it, so the above law would seem inapplicable.
The material in question was on bayimg, which does actually host the content.
I think that the character creation system is one of the areas they did well. Also, I think that they did a really good job on the first dungeon. For the most part, the problems don't start until you get out there and run into issues with the leveling system and the bland storyline.
I suppose it really depends on how good the out of box content is. If it is good enough out of the box, that will take a lot of the problem away. People will still bitch about it, but as long as it is a good and complete game from the start it shouldn't be too big a problem.
Yes, but you are presumably already using Linux. And so are most of the other people who like to use the command line to get things done. The point is, making things less reliant on the command line will be essential for growth, because the majority of computer users would rather have a GUI. Most distributions seem to understand this perfectly well. Look at Ubuntu, for your average user, a lot of the average computer tasks can be done purely GUI, and I suspect that this trend will continue in the future.
Honestly, I've never heard any major religions make any claims regarding the presence/absence of non-Earth life. Which is good for them, since given the vast number of planets out there it seems highly unlikely that Earth is unique.
And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to zero.
And you're basing this on what exactly? It could very well be that bipedal bodies are very conducive to the tool making necessary to build a civilization capable of space travel. Then again, it might not be. However, we have exactly one know example of a sentient species, so at the moment anything you could say about such a species is complete conjecture.
no mention on how much energy it takes to run the thing, or how much energy it puts out. it's not of much use if it costs a fraction to just bury the old plastic and make new stuff from scratch.
They claim that it is capable of pulling out enough fuel to have a surplus, but even if it isn't it could still be viable as a means to recycle plastics. I don't know how economically viable that would be now, but the raw materials for plastic are likely to rise, while the price of these machines will likely fall. Even if it is not viable now, who is to say it will never be. All in all, it sounds plausible.
So, you know those prices we told you to pay last year? We were totally kidding about that, it definitely should have been higher then. So go ahead and fork over the rest of the money you owe us.
Seriously, though, how in the heck can a price increase be retroactive?
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To be fair to Metallica, they haven't exactly shunned digital distribution either. Although they were against having their studio albums available on Napster, many of their live shows are available online in DRM free formats, and they've also made several of the shows available free of charge. I know they managed to get themselves a bad reputation, but as far as I can see they've been a lot more friendly to the fans over this issue than most bands have been.
Just like an unsecured wifi network.
And at least according to the reprap website, the additional parts should only run about $500 or so dollars. They seem to have the instructions for a completed first version up on their website. I'd say that it's definitely worth checking out. http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapOneDarwin
No kidding. From what I've heard, it was both delicious and moist.
Sim City Societies is being developed by Tilted Mill Entertainment, not Maxis. What is going on with that game really has nothing to do with the future of Maxis.
Can you offer a better alternative? Or, for that matter, can you offer any evidence that truecrypt's encryption is flawed? The link you provided gave nothing besides a bug about a privilege escalation, and while it is somewhat serious, it has absolutely no bearing on whether or not a hidden volume is capable of keeping data secure.
Truecrypt hidden volumes
This is exactly the sort of situation that hidden volumes were created for. The government asks you to hand over your encryption keys? "Well sure officer, here's the key to my encrypted volume, but there really isn't anything on there besides some harmless porn (or anything else that might be plausibly embarrassing enough to keep hidden away)" Of course, it's probably only a matter of time before someone decides to make it illegal to possess programs that can create any sort of hidden volume, but that's another issue.
Which is, of course, a significant change from the current state of affairs. After all, we have such a broad range of people participating in the government today, and we'd hate to do anything to upset the balance.
Seriously, though, the problem isn't that we'd get a narrow group of participants, because we already have a lot of that at the moment. At the very least, we'd tend to attract people who get their news from a much wider variety of sources than the current "Everything that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News says is the gospel truth" crowd that seems so dominant in politics at the moment. The real problem is that it will still be just as heavily dominated by corporate interests as the current system is. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet, corporations are free to just pay hordes of well written people to make sure that the bill shapes up in exactly the way that they want it to. In the current system, at least, we are able to tell who is a lobbyist. In an online setting, I don't think it would be nearly that simple.
But who is going to do the "hammering out" here? Right now, there are a few large and powerful organizations pushing for stronger copyright enforcement. The people who benefit from fair use, on the other hand, tend to be much more decentralized and unorganized. There are problems with the current laws, but if they sat down to write a comprehensive set of rules, who's going to be at the table besides a bunch of high priced corporate lobbyists?
In general, community colleges in the US only offer two year degrees, whereas universities generally offer four year degrees. However, the courses at many community colleges are transferable, so it is very common for people to spend a year or two at a community college to save money before transferring to a university to get a four year degree. So employers in the United States will obviously care which you graduated from simply because they are different degrees. However, there is generally no distinction made between someone who spent part of the time at a community college versus someone who spent the whole time at a university. However, you also need to keep in mind that colleges and community colleges are not synonymous in the US. In general, universities tend to be larger institutions with many areas of study (often divided into smaller units called colleges), while there are many smaller institutions called colleges that have a much narrower academic focus. These sorts of colleges usually offer four year degrees as well as advanced degrees, so they are generally comparable to universities in terms of prestige and value of the degree.
The point you're missing here is that the fault is clearly with you, not Linux. For a fair comparison, I'd suggest starting with a single boot linux computer and trying to add windows as a dual boot. From what I've heard, it is certainly going to be harder than the reverse. Like others have said, there are quick and easy choices, but apparently you couldn't get those either. That's fine, most people just aren't able to deal with installing operating systems and partitioning hard drives, but that is what preinstalled machines are for. However, you seem insistent on setting up lopsided comparisons and creating expectations for Linux that aren't even remotely what you ask for from windows. Those are the sorts of reasons that you are rightly being called a troll.
Not really. For the most part, I Robot showed that the laws tended to work pretty well. Of course, a story where everything always went smoothly wouldn't be particularly interesting, so he wrote about the interesting exceptions and contradictions that could arise. I just don't see how you managed to draw that conclusion from the book.
I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.
It doesn't even remotely mean that. This attitude is exactly the sort of thing that encourages the "if you have nothing to hide" mindset.
http://www.trussel.com/hf/fifth.htm/
Why the Fifth Amendment by Howard Fast
I think that the character creation system is one of the areas they did well. Also, I think that they did a really good job on the first dungeon. For the most part, the problems don't start until you get out there and run into issues with the leveling system and the bland storyline.
I suppose it really depends on how good the out of box content is. If it is good enough out of the box, that will take a lot of the problem away. People will still bitch about it, but as long as it is a good and complete game from the start it shouldn't be too big a problem.
Yes, but you are presumably already using Linux. And so are most of the other people who like to use the command line to get things done. The point is, making things less reliant on the command line will be essential for growth, because the majority of computer users would rather have a GUI. Most distributions seem to understand this perfectly well. Look at Ubuntu, for your average user, a lot of the average computer tasks can be done purely GUI, and I suspect that this trend will continue in the future.
Honestly, I've never heard any major religions make any claims regarding the presence/absence of non-Earth life. Which is good for them, since given the vast number of planets out there it seems highly unlikely that Earth is unique.
So, you know those prices we told you to pay last year? We were totally kidding about that, it definitely should have been higher then. So go ahead and fork over the rest of the money you owe us.
Seriously, though, how in the heck can a price increase be retroactive?
I know, we could call them governments.