For such a specialized task, it shouldn't be hard to whip up some custom-coded OS that doesn't include all the bells and whistles that, say, Vista includes. Or XP. Or Win3.11, even.
But if only the program is transparent and the rest of the code on the machine is not, what's to prevent (for example) Steve Jobs for running for president and including a line of code that tells the MacOS voting machines that he always wins at least 50.1% of the vote?
While I may agree with the sentiments expressed in the article... why on earth do we have an article posted in the first place without a link? Kind of defeats the entire purpose, doesn't it, if there's nothing we can read to verify any of this?
At least one has in a forum where they can be heard on a wide enough scale to raise eyebrows. More likely others have in fact contacted legal help; question is, how many simply talked with an attorney who advised them to keep their mouth shut and follow orders instead of questioning the legality of those orders?
It's entirely possible that people did exactly what they were told, and equally likely that a number are doing the same thing the writer of the letter did, aside from sending letters to the Washington Times. The court is the place to challenge this, not a newspaper, but a letter published like this is the perfect place to raise public awareness of this matter.
I always wanted to work as an electrician but I've been deathly afraid of, you know, accidentally touching a line and the electricity causing my muscles to contract and involuntarily clamping onto a naked wire. Glad to know that's a myth now!
Wait, I still hate heights.
Perhaps it's time for me to pursue a brave new career as a lightning rod!
The gaming industry doesn't want me to make backups of my game to keep the disk from being scratched by overuse. It's infringement after all.
The recording industry won't let me put my tunes on a mix CD because that's a type of infringement too.
Now the government is going to ensure that I'm going to have to go to certain places to file my taxes this year because otherwise that's a different kind of infringement, patent infringement - and it doesn't matter if I read the law myself and saw that this is possible, because some tax firm in the middle of Texas came up with it as soon as the law was passed?
Looks like it's time once again to dust off my old copy of X-Com.
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...and it is that relationships take effort on the part of both the people involved. The lesson is clear: ignore your mate or try to control them and you'll lose them. Everyone has a breaking point.
If you don't know what that point is, then you should reconsider a relationship with that person. If you don't think it exists, you should reconsider a relationship in the first place.
What about those of us who don't have that luxury, as the case may be? I used to ride mine five miles each way back and forth to work; that was great for staying in shape, I highly recommend it if possible.
Then I moved to a city where I'm twice as far from work -- which in itself wouldn't be a big deal if every neighborhood between home and work weren't places you do NOT want to be after dark. Unfortunately that's not the case, so my bike is largely collecting dust as I pretty much work six or seven days weekly, on night shift.
Bitter? Consider how many controllers they're expecting to produce. Millions, if not tens of millions, because over the lifetime of the console you very well might end up selling any number of controllers to a console owner.
If this were to add twenty-five cents to the cost of a controller, it would add up to millions of dollars in the total cost. It's easier to cut out a non-critical feature than to explain why the console the consumer won't buy for five hundred ninety nine US dollars is costing even more for them to produce.
Take some of the cash you're blowing on the special effects and use it to hire writers who are willing to try something new and interesting. You know, like writing a compelling story instead of scribbling about some idiotic teenage puppy love.
Star Wars should have looked like more than what was pretty much just high-tech high school drama and fights.
Maybe, but it sounds almost perfect to me. It's easy to visualize as well, you could probably make a commercial of it on the cheap if you wanted to, if there were an ad campaign against DRM brought into existance.
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So does that mean that the universe is really a Turing machine?
For such a specialized task, it shouldn't be hard to whip up some custom-coded OS that doesn't include all the bells and whistles that, say, Vista includes. Or XP. Or Win3.11, even.
But if only the program is transparent and the rest of the code on the machine is not, what's to prevent (for example) Steve Jobs for running for president and including a line of code that tells the MacOS voting machines that he always wins at least 50.1% of the vote?
While I may agree with the sentiments expressed in the article... why on earth do we have an article posted in the first place without a link? Kind of defeats the entire purpose, doesn't it, if there's nothing we can read to verify any of this?
You know, one of these days, I'm going to post a response that DOESN'T contain an error... argh. No more slashdotting from work for me!
At least one has in a forum where they can be heard on a wide enough scale to raise eyebrows. More likely others have in fact contacted legal help; question is, how many simply talked with an attorney who advised them to keep their mouth shut and follow orders instead of questioning the legality of those orders?
It's entirely possible that people did exactly what they were told, and equally likely that a number are doing the same thing the writer of the letter did, aside from sending letters to the Washington Times. The court is the place to challenge this, not a newspaper, but a letter published like this is the perfect place to raise public awareness of this matter.
And at this point that is exactly what's needed.
Because we want our cars to drive us to work, not get the unique stunt jumps. Doing that on autopilot takes all the fun out of it!
I always wanted to work as an electrician but I've been deathly afraid of, you know, accidentally touching a line and the electricity causing my muscles to contract and involuntarily clamping onto a naked wire. Glad to know that's a myth now! Wait, I still hate heights. Perhaps it's time for me to pursue a brave new career as a lightning rod!
No, I mean 11, the landing was a hoax! Don't drink the water! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy! (Yeah, my goof...)
See also: Apollo 1 and 11.
Sounds like a job for Sealand!
Perhaps I should suggest some lucid dreaming techniques so you might improve things a bit, because you, sir, have some very screwed up dreams.
If you want to fix the election, just make sure the votes go where they belong - clearly they don't at present, anyways. (/sarcasm)
The only time that's in effect is when you've either got a civil war or a foreign army invading that.
...personally I'd be happy if HP would just go back to making printers, the computers with their brand on them are terrible.
Okay, so let me get this straight...
The gaming industry doesn't want me to make backups of my game to keep the disk from being scratched by overuse. It's infringement after all.
The recording industry won't let me put my tunes on a mix CD because that's a type of infringement too.
Now the government is going to ensure that I'm going to have to go to certain places to file my taxes this year because otherwise that's a different kind of infringement, patent infringement - and it doesn't matter if I read the law myself and saw that this is possible, because some tax firm in the middle of Texas came up with it as soon as the law was passed?
Enough is enough, already!
But I thought that was the pricing model that they were going to use for the PS4.
Damn you, Microsoft, you're ahead of the curve here!
Bah, that's what I get for posting at work on the tail end of an overtime shift.
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I think I'll just play the game anyway. It's fun.
Yeah, but not whatever isotope they created - if I read properly, they discovered they'd made it due to the resultant decay it left.
Looks like it's time once again to dust off my old copy of X-Com.
...and it is that relationships take effort on the part of both the people involved. The lesson is clear: ignore your mate or try to control them and you'll lose them. Everyone has a breaking point.
If you don't know what that point is, then you should reconsider a relationship with that person. If you don't think it exists, you should reconsider a relationship in the first place.
What about those of us who don't have that luxury, as the case may be? I used to ride mine five miles each way back and forth to work; that was great for staying in shape, I highly recommend it if possible.
Then I moved to a city where I'm twice as far from work -- which in itself wouldn't be a big deal if every neighborhood between home and work weren't places you do NOT want to be after dark. Unfortunately that's not the case, so my bike is largely collecting dust as I pretty much work six or seven days weekly, on night shift.
Bitter? Consider how many controllers they're expecting to produce. Millions, if not tens of millions, because over the lifetime of the console you very well might end up selling any number of controllers to a console owner. If this were to add twenty-five cents to the cost of a controller, it would add up to millions of dollars in the total cost. It's easier to cut out a non-critical feature than to explain why the console the consumer won't buy for five hundred ninety nine US dollars is costing even more for them to produce.
Take some of the cash you're blowing on the special effects and use it to hire writers who are willing to try something new and interesting. You know, like writing a compelling story instead of scribbling about some idiotic teenage puppy love. Star Wars should have looked like more than what was pretty much just high-tech high school drama and fights.
...might be as to whether or not HE realizes that the rights of military personnel are not the same as civilians.
Something tells me this guy's going to end up doing time, no matter how good his book might have been.
Maybe, but it sounds almost perfect to me. It's easy to visualize as well, you could probably make a commercial of it on the cheap if you wanted to, if there were an ad campaign against DRM brought into existance.